Issue 02 - May 2, 2002

Editor: Jenny Hoppe

In this issue:
1. Famous Autopsy
2. Pancake Day in the Superior Uplands
3. We Believe
4. The Nosey Pyramid
5. ETH - Extraterrestrial Hypothesis

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Famous Autopsy

Thanks to Ray

Pancake Day in the Superior Uplands

Thanks to Steve

Website: www.geocities.com/heavenlykey2002/index.htm

If there was ever a case that looked too crazy to be real, it was the Joe Simonton UFO encounter. Crazy? The trick here is to think about the UFO phenomenon in terms of it being a deliberately contrived phenomenon. What is going on in the UFO phenomenon owes nothing whatsoever to coincidence. Like everything else in this game, the only thing that the observers are seeing is what extraterrestrial intelligences want them to see.

"A man will meet you, carrying an earthen pitcher of water".

"Joe Simonton, a master plumber from Eagle River, Wisconsin, received four 'pancakes' from the hands of one of the occupants of a UFO that hovered over his yard. Simonton tells of hearing a sound, on April 18, 1961, like "knobby tyres on a wet pavement" before seeing a silvery object like "two wash bowls turned face to face" just a few inches off the ground. When he approached, a six-foot-high hatch opened and he saw three "men" inside. They appeared young and about five feet tall with dark hair and hairless dark faces. One of them handed Simonton a silver-coloured jug with two handles and indicated with a motion that he wanted water.

Simonton filled the jug and handed it back. He then saw a man "cooking" on some kind of flameless stove. Seeing a stack of small, perforated cookie-like objects next to the "griddle", Simonton motioned that he wanted one. An occupant picked up four of the "pancakes" and gave them to Simonton. Then the UFO took off at a 45-degree angle, creating a great rush of wind that bowed over the pine trees nearby. Simonton ate one of the cookies. He said later that it "tasted like cardboard". He kept a second one and gave the remaining two to various UFO investigation committees. The group from North Western University apparently said that the cookie they had checked contained "flour, sugar and grease".. (From the 1982 Reader's Digest book, 'Mysteries of the Unexplained', pages 231 & 232, from 'The Encyclopaedia of UFOs', Ronald D. Story, ed., pp.107-08; 'The Humanoids', Charles Bowen, ed., pp.161-63)

On the face of it, this story sounds quite preposterous. After all, it would be a remarkable quirk of fate to find some alien cooking pancakes in his spaceship whilst it's hovering in your own back yard. Not only that, but the food itself provided no evidence, as it could have been produced by anyone, anywhere. Looking at it from another direction, however, I would suggest that there may have been some unspoken reason why this activity should been shown to Simonton. Indeed, there is a religious emphasis in 'Pancake day' (Shrove Tuesday), as it is the day before 'Ash Wednesday', which, in turn, is the first day of 'Lent'. Tradition has it that 'Lent' is a period of fasting and penitence that lasts from Ash Wednesday until Easter eve. In other words, the action was quite deliberate and entirely symbolic.

I would, therefore, hypothesize that Simonton was being shown the connection between extraterrestrials and religion, not simply aliens cooking an 'Earth like' meal to aid them on their long journey. If that's not enough, the date of the encounter (April 18, 1961) provides another clue. As a matter of fact, 'April 18' (a possible, but hardly constant, date for the celebration of Easter) converts to 4+1+8, which equals 13 (6+7). At one and the same time, 1+9+6+1 equals 17, where 7-1 equals 6. Indeed, adding all the digits in the date provides yet another clue, as (4+1+8)+ (1+9+6+1) equals 30, where 3+0 equals 3.

With regards to the human participant, there is some appropriate symbolism to be found in his name. Firstly, the name 'Joe' (shortened version of 'Joseph' [Hebrew]) means: 'He shall add' and, rather appropriately, the name features in both the Old and New Testaments. Secondly, Simonton told of hearing a sound like "knobby tyres on a wet pavement" and, also rather appropriately, the name 'Simon' (also Hebrew) means: 'He Who Hears'. Further to that, Simon (called Peter), and Simon (the patriot) were two of the twelve apostles named in Matthew 10:2.

This list can also be found in Mark 3:16, 17, 18, & 19, Luke 6:14 & 15, and Acts 1:13. Examining other biblical references, and with respect to my observations regarding Shrove Tuesday, I noted that the name 'Simon' had an exceedingly direct link to Easter. Indeed, Mark 27:32 states:

"As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene named Simon, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus' cross".

This character is also spoken of in Luke 23, which states:

"[26] The soldiers led Jesus away, and as they were going, they met a man from Cyrene named Simon who was coming into the city from the country. They seized him, put the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus.".

This was a very interesting case, further complicated by the fact that the name 'Joe Simonton' is composed of two biblical names. Having found links to Easter through the name 'Simonton' (Simon), I also noted the potential connections provided through the name 'Joe' (Joseph). As with the name 'Simon', there are many references in the bible to people named 'Joseph'. For example, John 19:38 states:

"After this, Joseph, who was from the town of Arimathea, asked Pilate if he could take Jesus' body. (Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but in secret, because he was afraid of the Jewish authorities.) Pilate told him he could take the body, so Joseph went and took it away."

(Other statements regarding this episode appear in Matthew 27:57-61, Mark 15:42-47, and Luke 23:50-56.)

With regards to the business with the jug of water, I noted that John 2:7 to 2:10 provided a reasonable connection, as it states:

"Jesus said to his servants, "Fill these jars with water." They filled them to the brim, [8] and then he told them, "Now draw some water out and take it to the man in charge of the feast." They took him the water, [9] which now had turned to wine, and he tasted it. He did not know where this wine had come from (but, of course, the servants who had drawn out the water knew); so he called the bridegroom [10] and said to him, "Everyone else serves the best wine first, and after the guests have had plenty to drink, he serves the ordinary wine. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

But perhaps more aptly, Luke 22 provides a direct Easter-time link to a man carrying a jug of water:

Snippets from Luke 22: 'Jesus at Gethsemane'

"[22:7] And the day of unleavened bread came, in which the Passover was to be killed. [22:8] And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat [it]. [22:9] But they said to him, where wilt thou that we prepare [it]? [22:10] And he said to them, Behold, as ye enter into the city a man will meet you, carrying an earthen pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he goes in; [22:11] and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?

[22:31] And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, to sift [you] as wheat; [22:32] but *I* have besought for thee that thy faith fail not; and *thou*, when once thou hast been restored, confirm thy brethren. [22:33] And he said to him, Lord, with thee I am ready to go both to prison and to death."

Needless to say, the four pancakes couldn't possibly provide incontrovertible evidence for alien contact. Indeed, a pancake would, by technical default, be a pancake wherever it was produced, even if it did taste like cardboard. As I have shown, my argument about this case didn't depend upon the non-earthly nature of some edible matter, but upon the cultural background determining their consumption.

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We Believe

Thanks to Rosie

We believe that UFOs are very real and they come [from] another galaxy other than our own.

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The Nosey Pyramid

Thanks to Jim Aho

In 2000, brother and sister Jean Kirschner and Jim Aho both saw pretty amazing UFOs. They were both very similar looking pyramid objects, but one was seen in Wisconsin and the other was seen in Pennsylvania. Could the fact that they are brother and sister mean that the same aliens were watching them both despite the hundreds of miles between them?

Jim's Account
On July 15, 2000 I had my first spectacular UFO sighting. The object I saw was a triangular shaped craft. When I observed it through a pair of binoculars I could see that it had three lights at the corners - blue, purple and green - and a faint blue outline. When I first observed it, the object was stationary in the middle of the sky. A ball of light approached the triangle from the right, and when it got near the triangle the light changed both course and appearance, going from a ball of light to two lights: one red and one flashing white. In fact, after it changed its appearance it could have even been mistaken for an airplane even though before it changed you could see that it obviously wasn't an aircraft.

The following drawing pretty accurately depicts what I saw:


After about 5 or 10 minutes, the triangle craft started moving in a tumbling motion like it was almost rolling away to the right. Have you ever seen a four sided dice? It's like a pyramid with three sides and a bottom. That's what it looked like. When it did start moving I could see for the first time that it was three dimensional. The strangest thing is the feel that I got from the object. It definitely wanted to be seen, and it also seemed like it was watching me. I also got the distinct feeling that the color of the lights - purple, blue and green - meant something. I didn't sleep well at all that night, but wasn't tired either. Even the next day it seemed almost like I was still processing information that it downloaded to me, or something like that. It definitely was an odd feeling, but that's the best I can describe it.

Little did I know that less than six months earlier, my sister had seen a similar object. But she saw hers hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania.

Jean's Account
It was January 26, 2000. I was on my way home from school in Scranton and traveling south on highway 81. The trip is about 15 minutes on the highway, so the whole incident probably lasted over about half of that. When I was about half way home which is around the airport in Avoca, I noticed what looked like a plane coming in. Since I have this fear that a plane is going to crash on me when I am in that area, I kept my eye on it. Then I noticed that it was moving really slow and that it had different color lights on the corners of it. As it slowly moved closer I saw that it was not a plane at all, but a pyramid shaped object.

Jean's Drawing Of What She Saw


Around the same time that I noticed this someone in a Blazer started tailgating me. Since I was more interested in the object in the sky, I slowed to about 40 mph (this is on an expressway), but the blazer wouldn't pass me, and there was plenty of room on the highway to do that. So I kept driving at about 45 mph. The pyramid was so large in the sky that if I straightened my arm out they shape would be larger than my hand at arms length. I was surprised that no one else on the highway seemed to see it. The whole time I was getting this strange feeling that it was watching me. This did occur right after my brother informed me of some things that had happened in his life, but he hadn't described any UFO's to me, so I think they were checking me out to see my connection to him.

Anyway, this guy or whatever, behind me was very annoying and the pyramid was just hovering about a mile away it seemed and I had the strangest feeling that they were connected, so I tried to get rid of the tailgater and I sped up and passed a truck just before my exit. The blazer stayed on the highway, I guess because he didn't follow me off it. But when I looked up the pyramid was moving really fast to the south (which is where it came from). I know it wasn't a plane because why would a plane turn around and why would it hover and how could it move so fast? A couple of times in the next month I would see a ball that looked like a star to the west and when I looked back it would be gone. Then it all stopped.

Monn's Perspective
We also have another very interesting perspective on the whole thing. When Jim saw his UFO in Dundee, there were about 10 or 12 other people who also witnessed this event. Some of them were from The Lightside UFO study group out of Appleton Wisconsin (www.thelightside.org). They have an extraterrestrial contact called Monn who they talk with regularly. It's not often that you get some insight into why a craft was here and where it was from, but they took the opportunity to ask Monn about it and here's what she said:

The Lightside (TLS): Monn, can you give us any insight into that blue craft that we saw at Benson's at Long Lake?

Monn: Let me put it to you this way, it was not one of ours (says this warningly).

TLS: Well, I think we knew that. I think we sensed that.

Monn: It belonged to a group that belongs to the Sirius system that we do not work with. You know, it's hard to explain. I mean, your planet has a variety of people, but the universe has a wider variety of people. Don't get me wrong, they're not negative beings. They are observers. In other words, they don't want to participate in the helping of your planet but they aren't necessarily evil either.

TLS: Strictly observers?

Monn: As far as we know, at this point, yes.

TLS: Why would they show themselves?

Monn: Because by showing themselves they got to see the reactions of people.

TLS: See reactions?

Monn: See and feel the reactions of the people.

TLS: Monn, for what purpose?

Monn: To try to observe and understand better. We've been observing you for a long time and still don't understand. I think everyone needs to see and feel another species. Look at how you go to your zoos to see species and to observe them.

I chatted with Monn about the incident at a later date, and she said that the two ships were from the same system, but were not the same ship.

Conclusion (so far)
I don't know, I still think there was a definite connection between the objects that my sister and I saw. Maybe I'll learn more in the future. If I do, you'll see it posted here. - Jim

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ETH - Extraterrestrial Hypothesis

Thanks to Geoff

Subscribe to ETH [Extraterrestrial Hypothesis]. Longtime UFO buff. Refer members have a look at Leonard G Cramp's "A.T. Factor". Continuing piece to a jigsaw. I am skeptical about paranormal incidents. Regards. Geoff

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