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On March 4, 1968, about two hundred yards southeast of the previous area, a B-52 bomber appeared above the tree line. As it headed west, a brilliant flash of light emitted from its underside, illuminating the terrain below. “The bright cone-shaped lights flashed twelve times in three-sequence increments,” Jim believes. Presumably, photographs were being taken.

The following night, at the same location, a car driven by a man with a woman beside him pulled up alongside Jim. The man asked Jim what he was doing out there. “Do you believe in flying saucers?” retorted Jim. The woman snickered, but the man sat there silently. “I pointed in the general area where I had watched a B-52 rise above the tree line over there [pointing], and I thought the crew had taken pictures of something on the ground….”

“The area you're talking about is the Canada Ranch, where I live,” the man volunteered. “I'm Ben Canada.” And at that moment, the Air Force B-52 appeared again above the tree line. Again, brilliant flashes of light illuminated the ground in the same sequence.

Jim asked Canada if he'd been missing any cattle recently. “Come to think of it,” he responded, “last week I found a young heifer, a healthy animal, standing out in the middle of the pasture. How she managed to get out of the high, well-built pen that I had her in that night was beyond my comprehension.” He added that large numbers of animals had recently
been unaccounted for, and that many farmers and ranchers from the area and the St. Cloud area had had meetings with the Cattlemen's Association to try and solve the problem, without success.
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On the evening of March 20, 1968, Jim felt compelled to go outside—“drawn” to the front of his mobile home. A disc, roughly two feet in diameter, was hovering outside the living room windows.

“A flashing blue light emitted from a thin rod atop the disc, perhaps an eighth of an inch in circumference, two or three inches long, and positioned near the outer edge of the probe. The blue light pulsed at a slow steady rhythmic rate, and the flashing rate reflected off the disc's dull burnished metallic surface…. Suddenly, the disc shot away and out of sight [and then] reappeared to the right of the cypress trees behind the trailer and headed in a northeast direction until I lost sight of it.”
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Six days later, while visiting his parents in Orlando, Jim was struck suddenly with a bad headache and a simultaneous compulsion to leave the house. He got in his car, heading for a 7-Eleven store to get some pain-killers. On returning to the car, he heard his full name called out, loud and clear—in similar vein to the communications reported by Carl Anderson (Chapter 7).

“A case could be made that I was ‘hearing voices,' the skeptic might say,” Jim acknowledges, “but I know the difference between hearing voices in my head and having my name come through in a clear audible tone…. I headed east on Virginia Avenue, all the while wondering what was going on, [then] realized the headache had stopped. Moments later, I rolled to a stop at the Bumby Avenue and East Colonial Drive intersection [and] felt compelled to look out the window and up. The remote disc hovered above the traffic signal, its signature blue light flashing with a steady rhythm. I turned right and twenty minutes later turned left onto State Road 419 [and] spotted the disc as it glided along above the field [and] began moving slowly until it disappeared into the stand of trees that it had vanished into on March 18.”
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One of the most interesting events occurred during the night of September 15 that year. Jim, together with his mother Naomi, niece Michelle, and Bendix electrician Larry Kelly and a friend, were standing by the big metal gate at the usual observation post when an amber cone-shaped beam
of light appeared a hundred feet above the orange grove. “I proceeded to run as fast as I could through the sandy open lane that extended north through the middle of the grove,” said Jim. “Moments later, Larry and his friend had caught up with me. I took off, running west over the white sandy trail…. Suddenly, I stumbled headlong into a pile of cast-off tree debris, [followed by] Larry and his friend.”

By now, Jim's eyes had adjusted to the darkness. Fifteen yards away could be seen the faint outline of a cigar-shaped craft which “blended almost seamlessly into the dark terrain. Faint phosphor-green patches of light flickered and danced around the ship's midsection.” An eerie stillness permeated the immediate surroundings and a “strange energy” seemed to emanate from the hovering craft. “I was ready to bolt—then vehicle headlights unexpectedly illuminated the darkness.” The dark blue or black vehicle headed toward the craft.

“I turned and ran as fast as I could toward the big gate. I could hear Larry and his friend right behind me running as fast as they could to keep up with me and put as much distance behind them and what they too had observed…. My mom and niece obviously sensed that something was not right and both headed for their car.”

Jim speculates that the dark sedan driver was most likely a government, military, or NASA official sent to rendezvous with the spacecraft in “a sparsely populated nondescript dot on the map named Bithlo…. During the Apollo program, the ETI [extra-terrestrial intelligence] took full advantage of the perfect meeting place, situated between the back end of fenced-in orange groves, with ‘No Trespassing' signs and near the shoreline of a pristine kidney-shaped body of water named Lake Pickett…. After each meeting, the human officials and ET emissary/emissaries had exited the open wire gate west of the main gate, turned right, driven several miles, intersected with Highway 50, another left turn, and from there proceeded to their destination—the Cape and/or Kennedy Space Center….

“Whatever ‘agreements' have been made between the extraterrestrial intelligence and United States Government and NASA officials, we may never know. The fact that ‘agreements' did take place is known, and surely the extraterrestrials waited and watched from a distance as the historic lunar event unfolded on July 20, 1969, as Neil Alden Armstrong and Edwin
Eugene Aldrin, Jr. became the first humans to land on the Moon….”
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Apollo 11

In
Apollo 11: The Untold Story
, a British documentary first shown in July 2006, “Buzz” Aldrin revealed that their spacecraft had encountered a UFO during its flight to the Moon. “There was something out there that was close enough to be observed, and what could it be?” he began. “Mike [Collins] decided he thought he could see it in the telescope [and] when you made it real sharp it was sort of bell-shaped….

“Obviously the three of us were not going to blurt out, ‘Hey, Houston, we've got something moving alongside of us…. Can you tell us what it is?' We weren't about to do that, because we knew that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and, who knows, somebody would have demanded we turn back because of aliens, or whatever the reason….” The event remains unexplained, as confirmed by Dr. David Baker, Apollo 11 Senior Scientist.
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I happened to be touring the USA with the London Symphony Orchestra at the time and, together with my colleagues, sat spellbound as we watched the live transmission in Chicago. I recall hearing one of the astronauts refer at some point to a “light” in or near a crater during the transmission. According to an Associated Press report, the astronauts sighted strange lights inside a crater near the point where their lunar lander was due to touch down the next day. On their first orbit around the Moon, Armstrong described a mysterious bright light on the inner wall of the crater Aristarchus, located north of their flight path. “It seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence to it. The area in the crater is quite bright,” he reported to Houston. “That area is definitely brighter than anything else I can see,” confirmed Aldrin. “There doesn't appear to be any color involved in it. It looks like an eerie sight [site?].”
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Two former NASA employees, Otto Binder and Maurice Chatelain (the latter a former chief of NASA communication systems), confirmed that Apollo 11 encountered “other” landed spacecraft on the Moon.

“These babies are huge, sir … enormous,” Mission Control was informed by the astronauts, according to Binder's sources. “Oh, God, you wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there … l
ined up on the far side of the crater edge.”
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The Soviets were the first to publicly confirm the incident. Physicist Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, a professor of mathematics at Moscow University, stated that Neil Armstrong relayed a message to Mission Control that “two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the lunar module.” This and related messages were censored by NASA. Another Soviet scientist, Dr. Aleksandr Kazentsev, claimed that Buzz Aldrin had taken color movie film of the spacecraft from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside. The alien craft departed shortly thereafter.
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All the original Apollo film material is located in NASA's Film Archive (Building 8), located in the Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston. In 1970–71, Donna Hare worked for Philco-Ford, a NASA contractor, in the photo lab at Building 8 and in different areas of the company, both on- and off-site. On one occasion, she told Steven Greer's Disclosure Project, she entered a restricted area of the lab (she held a Secret clearance) unrelated to her work with Philco-Ford. A friend there directed her attention to a mosaic of photographs taken from a high altitude—possibly via satellite.

“In one of the photo panels I saw a round white dot,” she related. “And I said to him, ‘What is that—a dot on the emulsion?' And then he's grinning and says that dots on the emulsion don't leave shadows on the ground. And there was a round shadow at the correct angle with the sun shining on the trees…. I was pretty startled because I had worked out there several years and had never seen anything like this. And I said, ‘Is this a UFO?' And he's smiling at me and says, ‘I can't tell you that.'”

The man told her that photos of such objects were always airbrushed out prior to being distributed publicly.

From another employee at JSC, Donna Hare learned that some of the astronauts who wanted to talk about their experiences with UFOs had been threatened and coerced into signing statements agreeing not to do so, on penalty of losing their retirement pay. “One gentleman that I knew very well was in quarantine with the [Apollo] astronauts [following their return from the Moon]. He said that just about every one of them had seen things when they went to the Moon. In fact, one said that craft were on
the Moon at the time of the landing [Apollo 11?].”

Hare also met a security guard who claimed that one day some soldiers in fatigues had ordered him to “burn a lot of UFO pictures.” Although forced not to look at them, he was tempted to glance at one, showing a UFO on the ground. “Shortly thereafter,” Hare reports, “he was hit on the head with a gun butt, and he still had the scar on his forehead.”
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In
Inside the Space Ships
, George Adamski describes his second flight in a spaceship in 1953, during which he was shown parts of the Moon. “In some of these places, there was still a very small growth of vegetation perceptible,” he commented. “Part of the surface looked fine and powdery….”
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Which is precisely how Neil Armstrong described it during his first steps on the Moon in July 1969: “The surface is fine and powdery.”

During another flight to the Moon, in August 1954, Adamski was shown (through a viewing screen) parts of the other side, featuring a temperate section which included a number of thickly timbered mountains, as well as lakes, rivers, vegetation, and even a city.
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Though these claims were ridiculed at the time, photographs of the other side taken by Apollo 8 and 10, for example, clearly show what looks like moss, or vegetation of some sort. I purchased a large print from Hasselblad of the Schmidt crater (taken from Apollo 10) which displays a pronounced dark green surrounding the crater—itself a mixture of white, fawn, and pink colored areas.

In
Above Top Secret
, I cited the testimony of a friend of mine who had participated in a NASA conference in Italy in June 1984, during which she learned from Neil Armstrong that “other” spacecraft were on the Moon when they landed. At the time, I was not permitted to include either the name of my source nor many other details. However, since she passed away a number of years ago, I am now able to do so.

My source was Pamela Handford, who had served with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). I once asked about her background in the clandestine organization. “Bearing in mind that I am still firmly bound by the Official Secrets Act,” she explained, “all I can tell you is that I trained with the School of Military Intelligence, in those days at Maresfield Park, and did my parachute training with the London 21st. I was trained for the Russian front, learned Russian, and came under MI6's umbrella. Because o
f the sensitivity of the field work, I can tell you nothing more….”
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The NASA conference was held at several venues, including the old castle Maschio Angioino in Naples and the Europa Palace Hotel in Anacapri. Some astronauts attending were staying at the Vittoria Excelsior Hotel in Sorrento, Pamela said. Her impromptu presentation was entitled “Man: An Extraterrestrial Experiment.”

“It was only a very short stop-gap, and I probably scribbled the gist of it on a piece of hotel writing-paper,” she explained. It so happened that Pamela's suite (Room 131) adjoined that of Neil Armstrong (Room 132). At one point during the conference, Pamela overheard a conversation in the next room between Armstrong and a Professor Herbert Schwartz, the gist of which went as follows: