Ignoring his wife’s pleas to be careful, the man stepped out of his car holding a flashlight. He pointed it at the incredible machine drifting slowly over a nearby mountain. It carried many lights like a “theater marquee.” Though scared, the observer was also intensely curious.
Was this amazing UFO from another world? Were there intelligent people aboard? There was only one way to find out.
The man blinked his light in a deliberate and simple code – three long flashes and one short. Instantly, the huge lower lights of the UFO flashed bright and dimmed in the same code – three long flashes and a short one. Excitedly, the man signaled them again, and they responded five times.
It was March 6, 1967, and a red-letter day in the life of Forest Kerstetter of Shamokin, Pa. “What do you know?” he said to his wife. “Somebody aboard that weird flying machine said hello to me!”
In UFO lore to date, this is one of the crudest and simplest exchanges of “messages” between flying saucer occupants and earth people. There are a handful of other cases where lights of some kind were blinked off and on and were repeated in answer by UFOs, indicating beyond doubt that intelligent creatures were aboard.
What other kinds of messages, of a more meaningful nature, have come to us from the mysterious saucermen?
Outside of “contactees” and their very voluble friends from other worlds – which we will discuss later – UFO messages of any type are quite sparse. The flying saucers not only try to avoid being seen but are also very closemouthed in communicating with earth. And many of their messages are in unknown codes or “hieroglyphics.” We will deal with the various reported “messages” or communication attempts by UFOs in categories.
Written Messages
There are a fair number of UFO messages written in English. Many of them are trivial (and dubious), promising such things as returning again, or giving simple greetings to earth. But other saucer messages are more significant, as in the case that occurred in Russia in 1960.
A woman parachutist during a practice exercise jumped from a plane – but did not come down until three days later. She explained that she had been snatched up in mid-air by a swooping UFO. They treated her well for those three days and gave her a ride into space, showing her the thrilling sight of earth.
Upon releasing her – again dangling from her parachute – she found herself once more over the exercise field. When she finally got down to the ground, she claimed she had a special written message for top Soviet authorities and turned the sealed envelope over to the police chief of Saratov. However, no further news of what was in that message, or whether the Soviet leaders ever saw it, has leaked through the Iron Curtain.
Two other items presumably written by saucermen are of a more sensational nature.
One is a book claimed to be found under and in Venezuela, in 1967. The contents seemed to be in diary form, partly in English, partly in Russian, and some of it in an indecipherable code. It seemed to be the “log” of a flying saucer. Many startling things are revealed in the book, including how saucers fly, how far from earth they came, and how they manipulate “radiations” in uncanny ways.
One intriguing portion of the book goes into cosmology and states that all intelligent beings in the universe came from the same stock and are thus all humans. If true, anthropologists and biologists on earth should be shook up, for they would have to give up all theories of non-humans or monster-men that might inhabit other planets.
The second case also deals with a book but one by an earthman, Dr. Morris K. Jessup, who allegedly killed himself in 1959. Before his untimely death, Jessup had written several scholarly books on UFOs, including The Case For the UFOs. When it appeared in paperback form in 1955, Jessup was called into the office of Naval Research in Washington. To his astonishment, they showed him a copy of his book they had received by mail from an anonymous source, with strange notations written all over the margins.
The “notations” were written in three different-colored inks and initialed by three separate persons, who wrote as if they were saucermen and not earthmen.
For example – “It seems quixotically reliable of humans to wait until they themselves know of flight, and think now of space flight, before admitting that others, too, have flight …” The notation goes on, sarcastically comparing clumsy earth planes and rockets with “their” superb flying saucers.
The Navy seemed to take the affair seriously, and one of their researchers listed dozens of phrases that an earthman – if it was a hoax – would be quite unlikely to think of: such things as force-fields, sheets of diamond, force cutters, magnetic nets, clear-talk telepathing, and other bizarre terms that seemed to hint of a great science-technology far beyond that of earth’s.
If genuine, what was the purpose of the alien note-writers in sending the annotated book to the authorities? They never made further contact with the baffled Navy scientists, and Jessup himself could shed no light on the mystery. The matter has since been engulfed in the obscurity to which the authorities consign all UFO clues and riddles.
So much for the types of written communications from UFOs.
Verbal Messages
We will examine here the rather brief verbal contacts made by various witnesses with the occupants of landed saucers. There are a mounting number of these cases. A few of the typical and some of the outstanding ones follow:
A Mexican chauffeur named Salvador Medina states that on August 20, 1953, he was driving two Texas tourists to Laredo, when a tire went flat. The tourists began hiking to find a hotel. Meanwhile, Salvador began to change the tire.
Suddenly, a four foot tall creature appeared, dressed in an odd outfit including a diver’s helmet and a belt with tiny flashing lights. Later, a taller man appeared and they engaged Salvador in conversation for most of the night, speaking good Spanish.
The two men claimed they were from a far-off world and gave many details of their life there. Salvador was skeptical and suspected a hoax or prank until they invited him to walk over the hill where a disc-shaped craft was sitting. They invited him aboard but Salvador ran in fright. He then saw the UFO rise and shoot away at tremendous speed.
Now he believed their “fairy tale” and reported his experience to the police, stubbornly insisting (to this day) it was all true.
Carroll Watts, a farmer of Wellington, Tex., had a similar experience in March 1967. While driving home one night, Watts stopped in surprise when he saw a vehicle 100 feet long near an abandoned barn. A door opened into the lighted interior, filled with strange instruments, and a saucerman smilingly invited Watts aboard for a “physical” examination. If he passed, he would be given a fantastic ride in the flying saucer. But like Salvador, Watts thought escape was the better part of valor, and the UFO soon darted away.
Of course the saucerman spoke perfect English, while Salvador had heard perfect Spanish. Judging by the many reports from foreign countries of talks with UFOnauts in the witnesses’ native tongues, the saucermen must indeed be versatile linguists.
Or else, as some UFOlogists believe, they may simply communicate via telepathy and the witness then “hears” it in his head as his own language. However, both Salvador and Watts, and others, have insisted they saw the saucermen’s lips move and heard actual verbal sounds. But then, if the flying saucers have been around earth for thousands of years, as seems likely, why shouldn’t they have learned many if not all languages, even dead ones?
Except that as usual with UFOs, we immediately run into a paradox, for dozens of witnesses claim that the UFOnauts they met spoke in “unintelligible garbles” and were equally baffled at earth speech. The visitors usually gave up trying to get their message across, whatever it was, and zoomed away in their saucers, presumably in disgust.
Not all witnesses are farmers or other “untrained” persons whose testimony is of “low credibility.” On November 17, 1966, police officers A. G. Huskey and Charles Hutchins of Gaffney, S.C., were on a routine early-morning cruise. They suddenly came upon a spherical UFO with a rim around it (the “Saturn” type).
Events escalated from the fantastic to the unbelievable as a little man, four feet tall and dressed in a gold suit, descended from a ladder and confronted the two dumbfounded policemen. In a friendly manner, the small humanoid spoke in good English like a “college graduate” and asked questions such as why the two men wore the same uniform, and other curious queries about life on Earth.
The conversation lasted some three minutes after which the alien mini-man zipped away in his 20-foot saucer, leaving the two officers gaping and wondering if they had dreamed it all. But upon revisiting the spot the next day, they found clear-cut footprints of “child’s size” where the undersized creature had stood – undeniable proof to them that it had not been a dream or delusion. Dutifully recording their experience on the police blotter, they were subjected to the usual ridicule and a skeptical third-degree interrogation, to the point where one officer was forced to resign, while the other clammed up and refused to discuss the matter any further.
Here we have two reliable witnesses trained to observe things carefully, to never be taken in by false appearances, and sworn to report any event in factual, unadorned detail, just “like it was.” Can such solid, mutually-supporting testimony be denied?
If a hoax is suspected on their part, what motive could prompt them into concocting such a wild tale, since they knew from similar cases that they could only invite ridicule and official displeasure?
And two men simply cannot share the same hallucination. Obviously, they did meet and converse with an unearthly little man, thus making tenable all other reports of aliens speaking in earth languages.
Other verbal contact cases are often of a trivial nature, such as the UFOnauts asking what time it is, or seeking directions to some city, or even asking if they can have a dog to take away. But a goodly portion of the spoken messages tell of strange faraway worlds and reveal scientific “secrets” that only puzzle the witnesses.
But the next category brings in some real brain-teasers.
Radio Calls
“Stendec!” came a loud clear voice over the radio. It had burst in at the end of a routine message from the British airliner Lancaster Star Dust in 1947, flying toward Santiago, Chile. And after that “alien” word was spoken, the plane completely vanished with its five crewmen and six passengers. No wreckage or bodies were ever found.
Was Stendec some word in an other-world language, meaning “seize” or “capture”? Only the saucermen may know.
West Virginia, always a hotbed for UFO reports, came up with a new mystery in early 1967. Strange voices began cutting into all police-call channels and CB (Civilian Band) wavelengths. Baffled people reported that the voices sounded like “speeded-up phonograph records.”
Then in August 1966, in Minnesota, a strong voice cut into several commercial channels with a dramatic statement – “Stand by for a message from outer space!” The message never came. If it was a hoax, the prankster must have spent an awful lot of money for a 250,000 kilowatt transmitter able to drown out powerful commercial radio stations for that brief sentence.
From the above, one wonders at times if the UFOs have not been trying for years to make radio contact with us, only to be ignored, tuned out, or passed off as hoaxes. A case that points this up occurred in 1964 near Holloman Air Force Base at White Sands, N.M., the U.S.’s great missile range.
Two UFOs were spotted by radar, first. Then the radio shack crew was astounded to pick up standard FAA recognition signals. Apparently, the UFOs had mastered the highly complex transponder system needed to transmit precise signals in code. Earth code, that is. Were the UFOnauts anxious to get a “recognize” response followed by the “interrogate” signal, ready to release some vital information to the Air Force base?
You can readily guess what happened – signals ignored, contact not initiated, objects declared “weather anomalies” in the radarscopes and over the radio-sensors.
How many messages by radio from UFOs is the world missing?
It’s hard to say, but one UFO researcher succeeded in establishing two-way contact. Dr. George Hunt Williamson, archaeologist and author of UFO books, hooked up a radio-telegraphy unit in 1952 and claimed steady intercommunication thereafter with various UFOs high above earth, even out in space. Long return messages and much information came through in answer to his questions, he states, revealing many facets of the UFO phenomenon.
However, the transmissions Williamson received were in a peculiar code that rendered the translations rather obscure at times. Williamson has interpreted them to his own satisfaction but says each person would have to find his own meaning.
Messages from Mars have occasionally hit the headlines through the years, going way back. In 1899 the famed electrical wizard, Nikola Tesla, constructed a giant apparatus like a radio receiver (before radio came) and recorded a series of enigmatic codings that he firmly believed came from intelligent beings on Mars, or somewhere in space.
In 1921, Marconi, the father of radio, picked up strange signals aboard his yacht and was convinced they came from Mars. And of course, one favorite theory of UFOlogists is that, even if Martians do not exist, the UFOnauts from outer stellar space might have bases on Mars.
In more modern times, 1955, five expert shortwave radio hams picked up unidentified signals from a powerful transmitter that used the 49-meter waveband and an “SR” call sign. Expert cryptologists were unable to decode the rhythmic signals which remain a mystery today. For that matter, amateur radio hams constantly report unidentified signals they pick up from odd points all over earth and above earth, often hearing strange “voices” speaking a language never heard on earth before.
In 1954, John Otto, an electronics engineer as well as ardent UFOlogist, devised his own infrared audio-amplifier with which he claimed to pick up code signals from outer space, also “syllabic voices,” one high-pitched and feminine, the other deeper and masculine. They spoke, he said, an utterly unfamiliar language that had no possible connection with earthy speech. Whether the messages were directed to him, or whether John Otto happened to accidentally “eavesdrop” on transmissions between UFO ships, he does not know. All he knows is that they were utterly “alien” voices from nonterrestrial throats.
This brings us to a separate category of radio calls of special importance.
Astronaut Radio Pickups
Certainly any radio calls intercepted by America’s astronauts, while exploring and flying through space, should be the last word in authenticity, backed up by NASA (when it is willing to talk).
First of all, it is a matter of record that UFOs have been detected during most of our space shots. One or more UFOs were spied by our astronauts in all 12 of the Gemini flights. Photos were obtained in several cases that neither NASA or the spacetrack system could positively identify as earth satellites.
On June 1, 1966, the launch of Gemini 9 was suddenly scrubbed due to “interference” within the radio hook-up. NASA then amazingly and probably reluctantly released a statement, presented over nationwide TV, admitting that genuine UFOs or “unknowns” had been seen by astronauts more than once.
But there were more than mere glimpses of UFOs in space. There were also mysterious radio messages.
Way back during the Mercury flights, Gordon Cooper in the Faith-7 (MA-9, May 15, 1963) heard weird voice transmissions during his fourth pass over Hawaii. He called it an “unintelligible foreign language” but the puzzling part was that it cut in on the VHF channel reserved exclusively for spaceflights and no nation on earth would violate that international agreement.
It soon proved it was not a foreign language but an alien language, for tapes of the “bootleg” voices, “queer gruntings” were replayed over and over for NASA linguist experts. They threw up their hands in defeat, though they could have analyzed any language in history, including ancient Sanskrit. This one they simply could not analyze at all. The transmissions repose in NASA’s files, never solved or translated.
Apollo 8, the first round-the-moon flight, also resulted in the sighting of a disc-shaped UFO by astronauts – Lovell, Anders, and Borman. Not only that, but “intolerable high-frequency noises” came roaring into their radios and a “blinding light” shone into their eyes. Later, at the point of injection into lunar orbit, the UFO again harassed them with a wave of internal heat within the spacecraft, plus more brilliant light-beams. The spacecraft even began to pitch and yaw unaccountably before the three men were able to regain control of their vehicle and finish their mission.
Much of this was suppressed or deleted by NASA in the public broadcasts of the flight, but radio hams with top notch equipment caught the full reports by direct pickup from the astronauts. The Apollo 8 tribulations sound very much like UFOnauts attempting to prevent our astronauts from rounding the moon. Why? Perhaps to keep human eyes from spying on the hidden lunar bases that the saucermen reputedly have. Oddly enough, all the manned Apollo moon flights ran into similar or worse troubles.
During the second moon-circling mission (Apollo 10, May 1969) bursts of strong “static” intermixed with a weird garble periodically plagued the astronaut trio during their radio transmissions to mission control on earth.
Then, everyone knows how the ill-fated Apollo 13 flight met disaster on their way to the moon, when their service module blew up. Radio hams again reported they had picked up an astronaut report of a UFO pacing them. Had it deliberately sabotaged the Apollo craft with some sort of “explosive” ray?
Skipping back to the great moon-landing flight of Apollo 11 (July 1969) it seemed to go smoothly “by the book” as far as TV-viewers were concerned. But behind the scenes that epic journey to another world also had its UFO bedevilments.
Suddenly, during the approach to the moon, noises like a “fire engine” surged through the radio link-up with earth, to the point where mission control asked in perplexity, “You sure you don’t have anybody else up there with you?” (NASA was caught unawares and didn’t splice that one out.)
Later radio noises included sounds like a loud siren and a buzz-saw, plus “giggles” in a high-pitched tone. Even a “train whistle” and “chugging engine” reverberated through the earphones. By the third day, mission control was concerned and jittery enough to keep interrogating the astronauts as to their equipment. Was it faulty? But tests proved nothing wrong with it.
The meddling noises came from a source outside the spacecraft. And since sound cannot travel through airless space, the sounds had to be broadcast radio signals. But who or what would be broadcasting in those empty reaches stretching for 250,000 miles between the earth and moon?
Though Collins, Aldrin, and Armstrong did not report seeing a UFO, this might have been blocked out of their radio reports by a sensitive and worried NASA, afraid of alarming hundreds of millions of people all over the world who were tuned in to this tremendous moon-landing feat that rivaled if not exceeded the voyage of Columbus.
It is known definitely that NASA, despite its protests at never “censoring” the voice transmissions of astronauts on public networks, has indeed trimmed out significant snatches of conversation that might have dealt with UFOs sighted in space, especially on the moon flights. Furthermore, the astronauts have been admonished, ever since Cooper’s UFO report, never to blurt out a flying saucer sighting on the public radio channels, but to reserve it on tapes for private review by NASA later.
And the most vital deletion by NASA occurred on the moon itself after the landing – if the following undocumented story is true. Certain sources with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA broadcast outlets, claim there was a portion of earth-moon dialog that was quickly cut off by the NASA monitoring staff.
It was presumably when the two moon-walkers, Aldrin and Armstrong, were making the rounds some distance from the LEM that Armstrong clutched Aldrin’s arm excitedly and exclaimed, “What was it? What the hell was it? That’s all I want to know.”
There followed further snatches of gasping interchanges between the two astronauts, with mission control also chiming in frantically.
“What’s there? … malfunction (garble) … Mission control calling Apollo 11 …
“These babies were huge, sir … enormous … Oh, God, you wouldn’t believe it!” (Apparently referring to parked UFOs in the distance).
“I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there … lined up on the far side of the crater edge … they’re on the moon watching us …”
There has, understandably, been no confirmation of this incredible report by NASA or any authorities. We cannot vouch for its authenticity but if true, one can surmise that mission control went into a dither and then into a huddle, after which they sternly advised (ordered!) the moon-walkers to “forget” what they saw and carry on casually and calmly as if nothing had happened. After all, an estimated 600 million people around the world were hanging on every word spoken by the first two men to leave footprints on the moon.
This staggering proof of UFOs, and especially the existence of a saucer base on the moon as long conjectured by UFOlogists, simply could not be allowed to be broadcast to such a large segment of listening humanity. When and if we’ll ever hear the truth about this alleged incident is anyone’s guess.
That NASA had wind of strange things it does not reveal to the public is substantiated by a statement made by Woodrow Derenberger of Parkersburg, W. Va., who in November 1966 met saucermen and subsequently had many contacts and conversations with them.
Quite unlike other ignored or ridiculed contactees, Derenberger was called to Cocoa Beach, Fla., by NASA officials. In a secret meeting, he claimed they questioned him in meticulous detail about all his UFO experiences.
Now, hold onto your hats. They then, astoundingly, showed him a star map and said they knew more about it than he did. They even pointed out a certain star they believed the saucermen came from.
Derenberger returned with pictures and scientists never explained the unbelievable anomaly of Mariner lingering eight minutes too long behind Mars – something “impossible” in celestial mechanics.
Ted Owens and His Psi Relationship With Space Intelligences (SI)
• Ted was not using only American space vehicles as sitting ducks. On March 1, 1965, Russia’s Cosmos 50 satellite astoundingly burst into several hundred fragments in orbit – because Ted had sent up a “PK bomb” a week before.
• On March 12, 1965, Ted notified George Clark of the CIA that he was using some “mighty unusual PK” on the tense situation at Selma, Ala., during the notorious racial conflict there over voting rights. His particular targets were Sheriff Clark and Judge Thomas, both alleged to be racists.
“What should develop,” Ted told the CIA, “is a miraculous change of heart on the part of those (persons).”
Three days later on March 15th, the Washington Star headlined – DRAMATIC CHANGE OF HEART. The story went on to state that Sheriff Clark of Selma had relented and decided to allow a pro-rights African American march, and that Federal Judge Daniel Holcombe Thomas of Mobile had apparently suffered a complete change-of-heart. Judge Thomas rendered a verdict that pleased even Martin Luther King and swept aside all former Alabama regulations, thereby allowing black Americans to register and vote without hindrance.
One must admit that it is uncanny indeed that Ted Owens used that very phrase – “change of heart” – three days before the headlines. That is documentation hard to explain away.
• May 6, 1965. The Russian Zond or Mars probe was destroyed by a PK “bomb” from Ted, predicted in his letter the day before. This was another space surprise that baffled all Soviet scientists. Instrumentation said all systems were “go.” But their telemetry failed to tell of Ted’s PK bomb arriving and messing everything up.
• August, 1965. Ted had put a PK hex on the Gemini 5 flight, calling for a power failure, and promptly on August 22nd, its fuel cells malfunctioned. NASA authorities debated whether to bring the manned ship down and abort the mission.
But the SIs (Space Intelligences) communicated with Ted and said they would, on their own, return the power as a gesture of “good will” to the President of the United States. And the next day full power magically returned to the Gemini craft, although the fuel cells were still faulty according to telemetric data. Ted calls this another “on the button” feat in partnership with the SIs.
• January 18, 1966. Ted warned government officials and the weather bureau that the SIs would produce record-breaking winter storms across America. The storms started almost immediately, and on January 27th the weather bureau proclaimed the “Blizzard of 1966” the worst in 33 years. By January 30th, most major cities in the north reported record-breaking cold waves, plus crippling storms of sleet and snow.
• When the launch of the OAO-l (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory) was postponed four times in April 1966, NASA’s desperate excuses included high-altitude winds, fuel-valve failures, and various vexing “technical” problems.
Ted Owens had a different answer – his PK working to abort this particular project.
The vehicle was finally launched into a 500-mile orbit on April 8th and scientists rubbed their hands in glee. They were soon wringing their hands on April 10th, when all power abruptly shut down, and the OAO-1 went into space history as a dismal dud.
They should have peeked in Ted’s diary where he stated that even though his first PK force had not prevented the launch but only delayed it, his second and more powerful PK “shot” would disable the OAO completely, up in space.
Ted’s PK power had overcome all scientific power. Scientists were quoted as saying, “They had no idea what went wrong.” If all systems were working perfectly, as they claimed, what did stop the OAO? We can surmise that Ted was home chuckling.
• March, 1966. All the nation was aroused at the UFO sightings reported by coeds of Michigan State University, as well as many other witnesses. When Dr. J. Allen Hynek announced his ill-famed “marsh gas” explanation – but only at the “urging” of the Air Force – all the faithful in UFOdom were enraged.
Among them was Ted Owens. In a letter dated March 26, 1966, he gave the CIA the bad news. The SIs, in retaliation at this utterly irresponsible and deceitful way of debunking UFOs, were going to “spank” the U.S. Air Force and give them a “lesson they would never forget.” It would last through the year.
What form this “lesson” would take soon became clear in a series of disastrous USAF plane crashes. Among the most spectacular was the “collision” of the Air Force’s giant experimental SB-70A sweptwing bomber and an F-104 chase plane. Ironically, the pilot who died aboard the F-104 was Joseph Walker, famed pilot of the X-15 rocket-plane in which he had soared over 50 miles high and where he reported and photographed flying saucers (never released by the Air Force). Heads rolled over this ghastly “accident” and the whole Air Force was shaken up.
Before and after this major calamity, Ted Owens and the SIs chalked up dozens of adverse events against the Air Force – trouble launching the Gemini 9 … three disastrous fires at Air Force bases, including the tremendous loss of Elgin AFB in Florida … serious injury to another test pilot of the experimental M2F2 craft … and an extraordinarily high rate of training jets falling from the sky for unknown reasons.
It was a bad bad year for the Air Force, all for hoodwinking the American public.
One extremely significant incident occurred at the very start of this chastisement of the USAF. On March 27th – the day after Ted wrote his “spanking” letter – a huge UFO hovered over Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. This happens to be the Air Force’s center for saucer investigations, home of Project Blue Book.
• One of Ted’s most remarkable “prognostications” came on October 27, 1968. Friends from Canada were visiting him and asked for some SI demonstration to come. They were in a restaurant and Ted used a napkin to draw a sketch, clearly showing that a circular area in the center of the U.S. was in “danger” from some natural catastrophe. He even drew a skull-and-crossbones within the circle to emphasize the major proportions of this coming debacle.
Three weeks later on November 18th, headline screamed – QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES IN MIDWEST AND SOUTH! The epicenter was in southern Illinois, precisely the center of the “circle of danger” Ted had sketched. One newspaper’s map of the quake area was in the shape of a jagged circle that matched Ted’s exactly.
How many people would dare to make such a precise prediction of a coming disaster area and delineate it so firmly, hoping for it to come true by sheer luck? Try it yourself sometime, choosing any area in the U.S. or on earth, then sit back and wait for the headlines to bear you out. You will sit a long time.
It’s easy to deny that Ted Owens has any supernatural powers bestowed upon him by the SIs. But then we’re left holding the bag of how to explain his eerie “hits” made so consistently. Either Ted’s off his trolley – or we are.
• Equally baffling is the event that began in October, 1968, when Ted wrote the National Hurricane Center at Coral Gables, Fla., and said frankly that for the first time in five years he had not successfully demonstrated his “control” over hurricanes. But to make up for this lapse he would see to it that at least one more storm arose and, he added, “even if it had to come forth after the hurricane season is over. ” He then said his target date might be as late as February.
The hurricane experts must have rolled on the floor with laughter at that one. Didn’t Ted know that no hurricane had ever come that late? No, probably Ted didn’t know. But why should that stop him?
Headline of February 15, 1969 – HUGE STORM, TORNADOES RIP FLORIDA. The weather bureau people, quoted by newspapers, tried to pass it off as something other than a full-blown hurricane, calling it merely a “severe winter storm.” But when winds roared up to 90 miles per hour, they had to lamely admit that “winds in excess of 74 miles per hour are considered of hurricane force.”
Thus, Ted had done the impossible in meteorological terms – produced the latest hurricane ever known in the U.S. and if you think that Ted has perhaps secretly studied weather phenomena so thoroughly that he is able to simply forecast unusual storms (without actually creating them), then you’ll be balked by his diary and private papers covering his entire life. Not one word about studying meteorology: he just makes his own storms.
• During August, 1968, Ted and his family were invited to Maine for a two-week, all-expenses-paid vacation by a group of Maine businessmen. They were interested in Ted’s “hurricane hexes,” possibly seeing it as a big “cane-busting” enterprise involving the dollar sign. If Ted could make hurricanes “turn” into the coast at will, he could obviously make them tum away if he wished (which Ted had been tirelessly telling the government all along).
But wanting more proof of his PK powers and his alleged contact with the all-powerful SIs, they asked Ted to have at least one UFO appear over the area in those two weeks, spectacular enough to make the local papers.
Before the two weeks were over, nine flying saucers were sighted by Ted and many other witnesses, one of which received huge headlines. He had simply signaled an “SOS” to the SIs, asking them to “put up or shut up” in his behalf. Acting for Ted, the SIs certainly did put up – and the businessmen shut up.
But ironically even in the face of such a startling demonstration, the business group, for some unknown reason, gave up their plan to utilize Ted’s hurricane-taming powers.
Just how does Ted Owens’ PK power work? It is a most fascinating and complex picture. Throughout his diary are “technical” notations about using “16 units of white PK,” “1,000 red units,” and sometimes enormous jumps into “one million black units.” Elsewhere he lists the various kinds of PK units and their specific uses.
These are far too abstruse to go into, but it seems that white PK units are for protection, green units for healing, red units for creating storms, and black units for blocking anything he wants to fail. These “units” are the amount of power put into any single PK feat.
Then there are the types of PK powers themselves – Space PK, Missile PK, Hurricane PK, Healing PK, and so on. Ted, who once did psi-experiments for Dr. J. B. Rhine at Duke University, has evidently carried on his own researches into psychokinesis far beyond the elementary Rhine tests where PK merely controls the roll of dice.
If PK from the human mind can make a pair of dice come up with certain numbers (as Dr. Rhine has proved in countless “runs”) why can’t it affect other and bigger things? Things such as the tumultuous air-currents that make up hurricanes, or the powered flights of missiles.
Apparently Ted so reasoned, and gradually developed his PK powers to range in many directions, accounting for his amazing repertoire of PK feats, most on a grand scale that would make Dr. Rhine gasp.
Yet parapsychologists like Dr. Rhine have never stated there is any limit to PK power, only that they have not yet tapped them. Ted has tapped them, however, and has made a quantitative jump forward in utilizing PK power.
But none of this would be possible, as he himself quickly admits, without the aid of the SIs, who specifically chose Ted Owens as their spokesman and have, Ted believes, “operated” on his brain to charge it with the enormous PK power he exhibits.
Even more complicated than the PK units of power are the “PK boxes” that Ted uses. These seem to be box-like containers that Ted visualizes in his mind, that emit not only PK forces but other paranormal miracle-working powers. He lists a bewildering array of such PK boxes – Weather Control Box, Universal Mind Box, Poltergeist Box, Wisdom of the Ages Box, and, skipping far down the line, the Angel Box.
This last is intriguing in context with the “change-of-heart” feat in Selma, Ala., as described earlier. Ted has a significant note in his diary for March 12, 1965: “I started to hit Selma cops … Sheriff Clark, Wallace, etc. … with a black PK. But something told me to put in Angels … 100 … and a small magic cross on each of those people. Now I know what Jesus meant by love your enemies!” Ted meant that loving your enemies is not just a pious platitude but can work wonders on them that direct opposition cannot achieve.
Ted works hard at his PK “spells.” In his diary he often mentions being “played out” the next day, or extremely nervous and agitated, and is sometimes forced to stay home from work to recuperate.
The honesty and integrity of Ted’s diaries are a potent factor in backing up his claims. For instance, Ted at one time felt gnawing doubts about getting messages from the SIs, and felt crawling fears that he was going mad and conjuring up hallucinations. But the SIs expelled his doubts and fears.
It is quite impressive to look over Ted’s list of “PK feats accomplished” and see that many are marked as occurring in “three days,” “five days,” or “nine days.” Some are even overnight, while others take a month or more. But the numerous close-hitting cases compel one to seek a paranormal rather than a “chance” or a “luck” explanation.
One question remains. Is Ted unwittingly using pure precognition and only that? That is, does he have the power (miraculous in itself) to peer into the future and see coming events that turn out true 85 percent of the time? The SIs and his contact with them could then be sheer mental “window dressing” out of his subconscious mind, as it somehow delves with uncanny accuracy into the future. This would mean too that all his so-called powers are imaginary – that he does not control or make hurricanes, and has never spoiled a space shot with a PK shot.
He would, in short, be foreseeing those events by his purely prophetic powers, and nothing more, with his subconscious imagination supplying the rest. But, because of his overwhelming list of “hits,” that would still make him the greatest seer of all time, far above Jeanne Dixon or any others today, and even dwarfing the feats of the biblical prophets or the Oracle of Delphi.
Explaining a fantastic phenomenon by one even more fantastic is hardly a rational way of solving a riddle.
Dr. Rhine would be the first to snort at this explanation, for his precognition experiments with ESP cards have revealed no such enormous prophetic powers in the human mind or psyche. Thus, with the precognitive theory, there is nothing to explain why Ted Owens should alone be able to read the future like a book – unless God himself has lent him divine powers.
The other explanation gives us something more rational as a method – that other-dimensional beings with their super-science have given Ted PK powers to perform feats he merely announces in advance.
And one other strong point backs up Ted’s SI-contact claims. There are flying saucers seen all around earth (unless you are a last-ditch skeptic). If the UFOs exist, then the people who fly them exist. Certainly they cannot be ordinary humans but must be far beyond us in intellectual power.
Thus, there is no great assumption to make as to the very probable existence of the SIs that Ted claims to talk to. Nor does his contact by ESP – now a well-established phenomenon – in any way stretch the imagination.
Excerpt from Sagas UFO Special Vol. 3 1972