AIR FORCE VS. ROSWELL: UPDATE

The U.S. Air Force has launched a new offensive aimed at ending persistent reports that it recovered the remains of several aliens and their spacecraft from a crash site near Roswell, N.M. in 1947. Clearly, unhappy with the growing number who believe the story, the Air Force issued a new report in September purporting to document that the famous wreckage was, in fact, the remains of a top-secret high-altitude balloon project called Project Mogul which was intended to detect Soviet atomic tests.

The report, which appears to have put the Air Force to considerable trouble, was prompted at least in part by the efforts of Rep. Steven Schiff, R-N.M. to get the Pentagon to declassify its documents relating to Roswell.

Depite its extensive nature, though, the report does not explain the hieroglyphic characters on the wreckage observed by several witnesses, nor does it address many other details in the accounts of credible witnesses.

It seems unlikely that the Pentagon has finally succeeded in putting the matter to rest.

ARCHEOLOGY ON MOON & MARS

Extra terrestrial archeology is taking new strides toward respectability here on Earth. Eighteen experts from across the scientific and professional spectrum gathered at Cody, Wyoming in September for a Moon/Mars Forum to discuss evidence for alien architecture on Mars and the Moon, as well as other controversial topics. In the process, the group created quite a stir. Area papers provided front-page coverage, treating the event as more-or-less serious news and making no attempt to cast aspersions on the revolutionary findings of many of the conferees.

Richard Hoaglund, best know for his book, The Monuments of Mars, which argues that NASA photographs reveal ancient artifacts of civilization in the Cydonia region of the red planet, told conferees that the time for a privately funded mission to the moon is near. The idea would be to uncover evidence suppressed by NASA of exotic structures including a seven-mile high tower supported by a geometric matrix. Hoaglund says such a private mission is not only practical but preferable (to a government funded mission).

Attendees also heard Dr. Eugene Malove report on the progress of Cold Fusion technology. It turns out, that, notwithstanding rejection and ridicule by the American scientific establishment, new research is now vindicating the work of Drs. Pons and Fleischman, the two Utah chemists who in 1989 startled the world with the announcement that they had achieved by relatively simple and inexpensive chemical means the holy grail of high-energy physics, atomic fusion. Researchers in France with Japanese backing report a 107% return on the energy invested in the process.

The weekend conference was open to the public and drew hundreds to its programs including many students from the local high school who learned early in life that there are indeed many possible explanations for the mysteries of the world we live in.

GODDESS OF THE HIGH ROCKIES

Did ancient North Americans create a giant geoglyph (1,287 long and 330 feet wide) in the Paradise Valley of southwestern Montana? Dr. Robert Cartier, a California archeologist says he believes they did. If he's right, it would be the largest pre-Columbian man-made structure yet identified in North America.

The figure, which Cartier discovered in a high-altitude U.S. government photo, appears to have a long torso, short legs, a rectangular head, earrings, and a long train along its body. He thinks the figure is the work of Avonlea Indians over 1,500 years ago and he thinks it represents a mother deity called Changing Woman.

Other archeologists say it's all just a natural configuration of rocks placed by volcanic and glacial activity.

NEW AGE "MGM"

One of Hollywood's top producers has joined a major effort to launch what has been described as a kind of metaphysical MGM. Robert Watts, whose credits include most of the mega-hits created by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas including Star Wars and all of the Indiana Jones movies, has joined forces with some top industry insiders to form North Tower Films. The company, presently in development, seeks to produce movies aimed at raising the planetary consciousness.

Other principals are veteran film financier Steve Staples, ex-Zoetrope CEO John Peters, Director Walter Murch, and ex-astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell.