Alien Mail
After I posted yesterday’s blog-story concerning the so-called “Bowen Manuscript,” and how the same manuscript had appeared in the mailbox of UFO researcher Timothy Cooper, I received - as you may have seen - a comment from one “BenDover,” who wrote: “What a crazy story. And it makes me wonder; since Nick is a big name in the field of ufology/cryptozoology/general weirdness, what strange things, if any, has HE been sent? Hmmmmmmmm.”
Well, “Ben,” I figured I might as well answer that question in today’s post - hence the title above of “Alien Mail.”
Most of my mail, I’m sorry to have to say, is pretty much the usual fodder that we all get: bills, bills and more bills, and piles of junk mail that I throw away the minute it arrives. But there have been a couple of intriguing moments.
Back in 1994, someone sent me a photograph - anonymously, of course - of what was purported to be an alien. Personally, I’m sure the whole thing was a bit of fun on someone’s part and nothing else.
Indeed, I concluded that a couple of kids had gone out into the woods (the background was all trees), one had donned an alien mask, and they horsed around for a while thinking how they could pull a prank on a ufologist.
But for those who have a yearning to learn more about this less-than-breathtaking affair, here’s the photo in all its glory. Be afraid! Be very afraid! As you’ll note, it was very nice of Mr. Alien to patiently pose while the photographer carefully lined up his camera and snapped this crucial piece of earth-shattering evidence…
Then there was the time around 1997 or 1998 when I received a small envelope in the mail that contained a solitary piece of paper folded tightly that read something like (I forget the exact wording now, but this is pretty close): “The Men in Black are going to slice off your balls.”
Well, since I’m still intact, I can only conclude that this covert special-ops mission to have me sliced and diced was evidently cancelled by MJ12, Project Aquarius, or whoever. Or, some loony with too much time on their hands and no life decided it would be fun to try and pester me by writing bizarrely pathetic threats in colored ink. I rather think the second scenario is the correct one. Hopefully, his mommy has now taken his colored pens away from him and he’s living out the rest of his days in a nice padded room, and with plenty of mood-altering pills for company…
Needless to say, Mr. Loony-Tunes’ letter was soon relegated to the rubbish bin.
Genial pranks and nutters aside, I have received a couple of genuinely intriguing items of mail sent via anonymous sources. One (received in the late 90s) was a copy of a 1960s NASA paper titled “Concepts for Detection of Extraterrestrial Life.” What was interesting, though, was that the copy I received had a stamp on it which showed it had been sent to the Weapons Research Division of the AV Roe Company at Woodford, England. Precisely what the WRD of AV Roe were doing with a NASA paper on ET life I never learned.
The second item, received a few years back, was an impressive number of reels of microfilm (that, I was able to determine, had been made at the National Archives) packed with declassified military documents on the early years of the White Sands Proving Ground. I’m still to go through much of this material; however, what I’ve gone through so far has already shed some light on what the Government was up to with respect to then-classified aerial projects in 1940s New Mexico…
There have been 3 or 4 other things too that made their way to me, that I’m still researching, and if anything significant comes of it, I’ll let people know.
So, all in all, maybe 7 or 8 items that could be considered comical, bizarre, or intriguing reached my mail box courtesy of sources unknown. Whoever knew that Ufology could be such fun?!
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Nov 27 2007 
November 27th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Strange… that picture looks like Dangermouse minus the eyepatch
November 27th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Who ever knew the Pillsbury doughboy was from outer space?
And I guess you are too young a lad to have been the lucky recipient of correspondece sent by the gentlemen of planet UMMO back in the 60s-80s, eh Nick?
November 27th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
That was a nice blast from the past seeing Truthseeker Mags name there. Question, were the White Sands’ reels anonymous and if so, wouldn’t anonymous be scratching their head about now, or is it not that big of a deal?
November 27th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
While government (any government) probably gets up to more sinister secret activities than we suspect, rather than fewer, I’d guess the reason the NASA ET paper got sent to AV Roe/WRD was that some scientist there was interested and requested a copy.
After all, nerds will be nerds.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Alien Contactee:
Yes, I never knew the name of the sender of the reels.
An address *was* listed on the package (an address in Salinas, California), but when I tracked the people down at that address, they knew nothing about it at all and were both surprised and concerned that someone had used their address.
So, clearly, someone was covering their tracks by putting a real address on the package in case they were required to do so by the postal service they used, but not *their* real address.
Although, it *was* definitely mailed from the city (Salinas) where the address was situated. That was evident from checks I made with the postal service.
I know for certain they were originally obtained at the National Archives because they all came in small, square green boxes with the NA stamp on that are the sort that NA sends their reels out in if you order copies of their files by mail.
On one of my trips to the NA about 2 years ago, I took one of the boxes with me and showed it to one of the guys who worked in the reading-room there.
He confirmed it was one of theirs, checked the file-numbers on the reel and confirmed they had been declassified in 2000, but claimed they couldn’t (or more likely wouldn’t) tell me who had ordered them.
There were 13 reels - which would have cost quite a bit to purchase - and I’d say anywhere from about 300 to 500 pages per reel.
“Anonymous” may indeed be scratching his or her head; however, until I get to go through them all, and try and determine which of the documents - if any - is of significance, it will be difficult to know the motivation behind sending them.
And there’s the possibility that the motivation might have been to draw my attention to certain people names in the files, rather than their content.
If they’re reading this, maybe they can give me more of an idea what I should be looking for in the files!
One thing I did wonder about was the fact that they were mailed from Salinas.
Timothy Cooper claimed to have got some of his leaked documents from a source named “Salina.”
I did wonder if the fact that they were mailed to me from Salinas was an indication that someone was trying to tell me it was the same person.
That’s admitted speculation, however, and I have nothing at all to really base that on aside from the similarity.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
RPJ:
Yes, I was a mere kid when the UMMO craze was at its height! LOL. So, no: never a recipent of Ummo material, unfortunately.
Ummo was definitely an interesting issue though, and not unlike the APEN puzzle that circulated around UK Ufology in the 70s and early to mid 80s.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Victor:
Could be. That’s the biggest hassle with getting things anonymously: motivations and the full story always seem to elude us.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:58 am
That alien looks rather like Howard the Duck.
November 28th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Graylien:
I’d have to say that Howard the Duck looked far more real! LOL.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Wow, to think my post was the impetus for a Redfern entry- I’m flattered. What got me to wondering was, I recently read the Jenny Randles book about MIBs and she goes into detail about the whole APEN affair. I would have thought/hoped “On the Trail of the Saucer Spies” would have generated some APEN type weirdness.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Ben:
Nope, no APEN-style MIBs knocking on my door…
Not yet anyway!
Mind you, we live in a tiny 3rd-floor rented Dallas apartment that is only accesible by a gated, entrance point with a coded lock. So, that may be helping keep the pesky MIBs away.
If the MIBs are as bad at working coded locks as they are said to be at eating jello, I’ll be ok.
But if they do come knocking, be assured I will make a blog piece out of it the next day!
November 29th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
If they don’t scramble your head with their NEURALIZER, that is!