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4 4 PRJECT SIGNAL FOUND PRJECT SIGNAL FOUND PROJECT SIGNAL information on UFO landing reports. Brief Pwllheli, North Wales. PROJECT SIGNAL FOUND details would be updated on a web site as we Ref 2 FOUND progress (not yet available) and of course the occasional publication of some of this research David Thomas was walking home that in the various UFO publications that are night. It was four and a half miles and it was By Philip Mantle currently available. We firmly believe that this three in the morning. There was a sprinkling of By Philip Mantle is an area of research that has been sadly snow on the ground that evening and the 19 neglected down the years and we hope that year-old David had just spent the evening with individual UFO researchers and organisations friends. He'd been walking for about 20 minutes alike will recognise the importance of such a when he thought he could still hear that nights study and cooperate accordingly. Similarly we rock music pounding in his head. He stood still hope that witnesses to these events will also for a while but there was no sound, it was an offer their cooperation. eerie silence. There was no sound of the breeze, Just to give you an idea of the type of no rustle of the grass, no sound at all. But David UFO landings cases we are looking at I am then could make out a faint humming sound going to feature a few in brief for you now. See almost like an electric generator of some sort. how many of these you are familiar with. They David knew this area well and knew there were come from around the UK and Ireland and are no generators anywhere that would make such a featured here in brief in no particular order. noise. David followed to where the sound seemed to coming from up ahead. Leaving the February 1979: road he walked up a small dirt track that Easingwold, North Yorkshire, England. bordered the field. There in the field to his Ref 1 amazement was an object the like which he had never seen before. A domed disc-shaped object Phil Sherpherdson’s drawing of the UFO It was a cold February morning in l979. complete with antennae and stabilizers was and entities. Courtesy York Evening Press Phil Shepherdson was riding his motorcycle sitting in the field. It had drawbridge-like along the winding country lanes near hatchway and windows along the top. There Easingwold when he came across something was no obvious lighting but David said that the Project SIGNAL FOUND is that was to change his life forever. Hovering in object seemed to have a dull fluorescent glow to collaboration between Philip Mantle and the the corner of a field was a black triangular- it. former Director of Investigations for the British shaped object. There appeared to be one entity David's attention was caught by UFO Research Association, and Nick Pope, the in a type of 'cockpit' with two other entities movement off to one side. Turning his head he man who investigated UFOs for the British standing in the field next to it. All three entities saw a group of humanoid figures making there Ministry of Defence. This long-term study turned to stare at Mr Shepherdson and he way towards him across the field. His project looks entirely at UFO landing cases in believed some kind of 'contact' was made. The immediate reaction was to turn and flee. the UK & Ireland. The idea behind it is simple. craft then suddenly flew off with no sign of the Turning around to get out of their David's way Most UFO researchers argue that the vast entities remaining. Shepherdson stated that "I was blocked by one of these humanoid figures. majority of UFO sightings can be explained in turned to look in a field to my left and what I David felt a hand-like grip on his arm and conventional terms. It is the contention of this saw just blew my mind. There was a black suddenly he was being propelled forward project that UFO landings should be more triangular-shaped object in the field in total towards the object in the field. His feet never difficult to misidentify than 'ordinary' UFO silence. At the top of this object was a cockpit of seemed to touch the ground and he is not sure sightings. Philip Mantle will lead the project some kind and there was a figure inside it. All I how this happened but he was now inside the with Nick Pope acting in a consultancy capacity could see was a black-shaped helmet and some object. The humanoids were there and David offering advice and assistance. Nick Pope had sort of black overall. The entity began to turn described them as wearing octagonal shaped the following to say about this new venture: "I and look in my direction, I was transfixed. At helmets, which were featureless apart from two support Philip Mantle in this new initiative. the side of this craft were two figures, which dim lights positioned where their eyes should Information overload is a big problem in UFO appeared also to stop what they were doing and have been. They wore grey clothing with gold- research. There are tens of thousands of cases look in my direction. For several moments I was coloured belts and straps that looked similar to and sometimes you can't see the wood for the just spellbound, I was shaking. There was braces, black knee boots and gloves. trees. This project should help researchers focus complete silence as we looked at each other. I There is a lot more to this particular on those cases most likely to involve physical certainly had some form of contact; I just don't encounter as David later described a full-blown evidence that might help take forward our know what it was. I just had an intense feeling abduction event. When interviewed by UFO understanding of the UFO mystery". of some connection. I could not move and I researchers David was able to remember For example it is assumed that UFO could not think. I was rooted to the spot. everything without the use of any form of landing reports are made by witnesses at close Suddenly my mind did not accept it anymore regressive hypnosis. When interviewed by range, thus reducing the risk of and I got on my bike and took off to work". He myself it was quite clear that the event did have misidentification. In the UK & Ireland there are went on: "I forgot about it almost as if I was told quite a profound effect on him and many years no statistics anywhere of exactly how many that it was something I should not be after the events is still terrified him. alleged UFO landing reports have been made. witnessing." There is therefore no information on the At the time Mt Shepherdson worked as a Project SIGNAL FOUND Continued on Page 5 geographical location of such reports, no chemical technician at Rowntrees. He cannot information on whether entities of any type remember what time he got to work that day were also reported or any physical marks left although he knew it was later than usual." I Join Rob McConnell, in The ‘X’ Zone behind in the environment. I'm sure we are all don't know how long I was there. I have no Monday to Friday from 10 pm - 2 am aware of a certain few UFO landing cases in the idea". He did not tell his work colleagues or Eastern / 7 pm - 11 pm Pacific live and around the world through our braodcast UK but there is no repository where all such anyone else of his encounter. He blanked it out affiliates across Canada, the United States, reports can be accessed, even in brief detail. of his mind. Shepherdson claims that since that the Caribbean, Central America, South This is where PROJECT SIGNAL FOUND event nothing has grown in the field where the America, the Pacific Rim and now in 20 begins. object was observed. His final comments on Asian countries on Satellite Agila 2. Visit It is our hope an intention to liase with what he may have observed: "Not in a million The ‘X’ Zone Radio website at UFO researchers and organisations throughout years was that an aircraft." www.xzoneradio.com or watch and listen at the UK & Ireland and of course witnesses www.xzonetv.com. DARE TO BELIEVE! themselves to bring together a database of 8th February 1985.