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1989 UFO Landing and
Government Intercept
Hi there. My name is Ed Sanborn and I'm the
MUFON State Director for Mass. I received the following in the mail from a
member of the LIUFON on Friday Nov. 24, 1989: LONG ISLAND U.F.O. NETWORK
P.O. BOX 232 Center Moriches, New York 11934 HOTLINE (516) 286-3212 A NON-
PROFIT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION.
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE COPY
The Long Island UFO Network, Inc., a
non-profit research organization based on Long Island, announces to the
media of the Metropolitan area and the Nation that we have evidence that
on September 28, 1989 the United States Armed Forces attempted to recover
a disabled, or landed UFO. The incident occurred on the Dune Area of
Smith's Point Beach near the entrance to the Moriches Bay.
Military and Suffolk County Police
Helicopters were involved in an apparent attempt to monitor the craft on
the Beach. A second object estimated to be 574 feet to a thousand feet
long was observed hovering over the Bay. It was composed of six
tremendously large lights.
The helicopters (six involved) were
composed of four military helicopters and two Suffolk County Police
Helicopters. These helicopters surrounded the large object (commonly
referred to as a mother ship) in a circular rotation passing around
this object in a counter clockwise flight, the helicopters would then
fly over the second downed object in the dunes.
As this manuever was completed, the
area would be illuminated by the helicopters searchlights in an
attempt to illuminate what was on the ground.
Long Island UFO Network, Inc. has
interviewed the eyewitnesses to this event. The family lives in Center
Noriches Long Island. The husband, wife, and their adult son observed
the large object from their backyard in response to military
helicopter overflights of their home.
The husband and son drove to the
Union Ave. dock and for two and a half hours observed the
operation.
The witnesses described the
operation to LIUFON investigators' under the provision their
identities and address be held in the strictest confidentiality. For
their protection they were interviewed on tape under fictitious
identities and addresses. The husband's taped interview is available
to the media for examination with permission of the witness.
The case is under further
investigation by LIUFON investigators. As more information develops it
will be released to the media. The case will be discussed at our
forthcoming conference on October 29th in Middle Island, NY at the
Artist Lake Condominium Center.
There exists 48 photographs of this
occurrence taken by the eyewitnesses. They have been impounded by
LIUFON for scientific evaluation. As soon as tests are finished they
will be presented to the public on the Joel Martin Cable TV Show on
cablevision at a date to be announced.
We call upon the FAA, Suffolk County
Police and the United States Government to comment on this. Did they
have UFO's over Moriches Bay on Sept. 28, 1989 between 8:45 P.M. to
11:30 P.M. and were they monitoring it? LIUFON demands to know, the
public demands to know and the World demands to know.
For further information contact the
Long Island UFO Network, Inc. at the Hotline No. 516-286-3212. ---
msged 1.952S ZTC
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THE
ORDEAL OF JOHN FORD by Elaine Douglass
Date: 96-12-25 04:15:07 EST
The arrest June 12 of Long
Island New York UFO activist John Ford is deeply troubling. Founder in
the mid-80s of the Long Island UFO Network (LIUFON), Ford became known
for his relentless investigations of UFO events and for his startling
allegations that alien craft had come down on Long Island three times
in recent years and been retrieved by federal and local authorities.
The Suffolk County Long Island Police Department is one of the
agencies John accused. John said the police helped recover a fiery
object witnesses told John came down in Long Island's Southhaven Park
in 1992. John made this claim at public meetings up and down Long
Island, and he held a demonstration at Police Headquarters.
About a
year ago scary things started happening to John Ford. He repeatedly
phoned friends and said someone was harassing him and maybe, he
thought, trying to kill him. Was there a campaign to destabilize John
Ford?
If so, it reached its climax June 12 when John was arrested in a
sting operation involving phone taps and a "wired" paid
informant. Police charged John with conspiracy to murder and
possession of radium without a license. Suffolk DA James Catterson
told news reporters John Ford planned to murder an individual by the
name of John Powell, head of the Suffolk County Republican Party, by
putting radioactive radium in his toothpaste.
An improbable charge, to
put it mildly. Nonetheless, the DA seemed unable to restrain himself
in the media following John's arrest. He sponsored two press
conferences, compared John to the unibomber, and made additional
charges against John for which no indictments were subsequently
returned. Amid a flood of sensational news, John's bail was set at
half a million dollars. Naturally, he hasn't been able to raise it.
In
the meantime, the UFO community, unused to investigators being
arrested and charged with crimes, has met this unsettling drama with a
stunned silence. Nor has John, on advice of his attorney, issued any
statement in his own defense other than his plea of not guilty.
Not
mentioned in the newspapers was John's claim of harassment, of himself
and others in LIUFON: auto accidents (too many), vandalism of cars,
and a physical attack on LIUFON member Joe Mazzuchelli, who was
arrested with John June 12. Mazzuchelli says last winter 4 men dragged
him out of John's truck, beat him up, and warned him to "stay out
of our business."
Such are the allegations in this case. What is
the truth? Is UFO investigator John Ford a potential murderer? Or is
John the victim of a political arrest? Was he set up by people local
to the Island or higher--people who got a little tired of John Ford's
incessant allegations?
What were John's allegations? As anyone
familiar with John knows, they were radical. For example, John
believed that in 1989 Americans forced down an alien craft over
Moriches Bay Long Island. He believed that in 1992 an alien craft
crashed in Southhaven Park on the Island. And he considered the
possibility that in 1995 another mysterious object came to earth in
the Pine Barrens area of the Island and that "diversionary
fires" were set to distract public attention.
John claimed the
technology used to down the alien craft in 1989 came from Brookhaven
National Laboratory on the Island. Based on his sightings
investigations, John concluded UFOs were making regular flights over
populated Hudson Valley and Long Island, much to the consternation of
the coverup, which decided to do something about it. John further
believed the Long Island police, fire, parks and other local agencies
were commandeered by the federals to assist in these emergency
operations and then, naturally, gagged.
John claimed he had
"sources" in the Police and Fire Departments who privately
told him information on which he built his cases. And there were
non-confidential witnesses, members of the public, who told John, for
example, about a fireball coming to earth in Southhaven Park, about
fire trucks and police cars that night, and that the Park was closed
afterward. Yet the Fire and Police Departments denied it and the Park
director said the Park was never closed. The details of John's cases
are too numerous to cover here, but one treatment of the Moriches Bay
case can be found in Len Stringfield's Status Report VI.
The thing
about John was he wouldn't shut up. He went all over Long Island
talking about a coverup of UFO events in which local authorities were
deeply implicated. John founded LIUFON about 1985. From then on, he
maintained a hot line. He investigated sightings and abductions. He
held public meetings. He talked to the press. He sponsored
conferences. He held demonstrations, he published a newsletter, he
leafletted. John was tireless. I know John Ford, and he is the most
determined UFO investigator I ever met.
He also has flaws, plenty of
them. He is stubborn, for example. Yet John Ford's friends all attest
he lived a moral life and never, as far as anyone can remember,
threatened another person with bodily harm. According to John's
attorney, John Rouse of Central Islip, "You can't believe how
many people have called me to say they can't envision John Ford
killing anyone, or even conceiving the intention."
Murder wasn't
in John's character, people say, and breaking the law wasn't John's
style. John Ford was a law and order advocate who spent most of his
career as a Court Officer in the Suffolk County court system. John
knew the law and how to use it. John was litigious, not violent. If
John Ford had a gripe against you, he'd sue you in a minute.
Nor is
John stupid. Even the Suffolk DA called John a "mastermind."
If John was going to kill someone, would he use radium? It hardly
kills people fast. Readers will recall the famous radium dial painters
of the 1920s who licked radium paint brushes for 40 years before they
got cancer.
Yet the DA would have us believe that John's "murder
weapon" was radium. Toothpaste goes fast in a household of 4
people, like that of alleged murder target John Powell. Was Ford going
to break in and put radium in Powell's toothpaste every week for 40
years until Powell got cancer?
And would an individual who thought
people were watching him leave illegal radium in the back of a pickup
truck in front of his house? I repeat, John knew the law.
The charges
against John strain credibility, but that didn't seem to embarrass the
DA. As I mentioned, Catterson was so eager to incriminate John that he
made several serious charges at his press conferences for which no
indictments were returned. "This," says attorney John Rouse,
"is called poisoning the jury pool."
Catterson's overstep
raises questions: Did the DA believe he had more evidence against John
than he ended up with? How good is the remaining evidence? Is it
possible the DA never thought he had evidence to convict John of
anything, and that instead the purpose of the arrest is simply to ruin
John Ford's reputation and wipe him out financially with legal bills?
The purported case against John rests on the taped conversation made
in John's house the night of his arrest. According to police, the
wired informant engaged in conversation with John and Joe Mazzuchelli
about doing away with Powell and another local politician via the
radium in the toothpaste route. After this the police, who were
waiting outside, burst in and arrested John and Joe.
The tape has now
been released on discovery. "It's unintelligible," says
Preston Nichols, John's friend in LIUFON. "All I can clearly hear
on that tape," Nichols says, "is the informant talking and
John laughing like whatever they're talking about is a big joke."
Attorney John Rouse doesn't disagree. He's waiting for an
"enhanced" version of the tape to see if the conversation
becomes clearer. Rouse warns, however, that John's situation is
serious. If a jury believes the DA's charges, John Ford could get
25-75 years at an upstate NY prison.
As for the radium, it was
allegedly found outside in John truck. Outside is where the police
were, waiting and listening to the informant talking with John and
Joe. Could the police have planted the radium?
And finally, unless
John was to be encouraged and entrapped, why use an informant at all?
If the police believed John was plotting a murder, why not bug his
house for a couple of weeks and get the whole scoop? The answer might
be that the purpose of the informant was to lead the conversation in
an incriminating direction.
I have in my files a letter from the
Suffolk County Police Department, dated April 1993. I wrote to them,
at John's request, complaining about police violations of LIUFON
members' civil rights. They had been leafletting near Southhaven Park
and going house to house looking for witnesses--constitutionally
protected activity. The police stopped them and ordered them out of
the area. This was the kind of thing John did, and this was the kind
of response he got from the Suffolk Police, as far back as 1993.
There
is plenty of reason to think the Suffolk Police were "out to
get" John Ford. And no member of the UFO community can be
confident they understand the arrest of John Ford if their only source
of information is the sensational media reports orchestrated by the
Suffolk DA. That is why John's colleagues, including myself in
Washington, DC, LIUFON vice president Steve Iavarone, and Tony West,
Richard Jones, Preston Nichols, and Joe Zuppardo in New York, Don
Jernigan of Ohio, and Kelly Freeman of Florida, have organized the
John Ford Defense Committee. Our purpose is (1) to give people true
information on the arrest of John Ford, and (2) collect funds and
other resources essential for John's defense.
My support for John
Ford, and the support of the other members of the Defense Committee,
is based on our conviction that John did not, would not, and could not
conspire to murder anyone. On this point our support is complete and
total.
As for John's allegations, I speak only for myself and not for
other members of the Defense Committee. I always found John's
allegations hard to believe but impossible to dismiss--because John
had evidence and what he claimed was perfectly possible. Taken as a
whole, what John Ford's claims suggest is a low intensity military
conflict between the United States and the aliens. Is that possible?
Yes it is.
Would the US government like to shoot alien craft down?
Yes. Has this country had 50 years to work on a weapon that might
accomplish that? Yes. Would the government be particularly anxious to
stop UFOs from flying low over Hudson Valley and Long Island? And in
event of an exigency, would local authorities have to be involved to
hold the lid on? Yes and yes.
Just because John's allegations
"fit" doesn't make them true. But the fact is, John had
evidence. John claimed 3 events on Long Island. Even if he was wrong
on 2 of them, if he was right on only one, John had a tiger by the
tail. If so, it's no surprise somebody would try to destroy John Ford.
And there's that curious coincidence about Moriches Bay, which more
than a few persons have pointed out. Moriches Bay is where John said
the United States brought down an alien craft in 1989, and Moriches
Bay is where TWA flight 800 mysteriously crashed in August. The cause
of that crash, readers are aware, has so far eluded federal
investigators, and in particular investigators are unable to explain
the reports of more than 20 persons who say they saw an unaccountable
light streaking toward flight 800 before it went down.
John Ford is
the first UFO investigator to be seriously persecuted by the
authorities. Shall we sit idly by while our colleague's life is
destroyed? If John Ford is silenced, who is next? Contact the John
Ford Defense Committee at web site http://www.iwaynet.net/~pic
or email elaine26@juno.com.
The Committee needs funds for John's legal defense
and donations of several kinds: a psychiatrist expert witness;
professional audiotape analysis; and a Long Island-based legal
investigator. Please also write personal letters to: John Ford
(8-29-48), Suffolk County Jail, 100 Center Dr, Riverhead NY 11901.
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