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Local Interim Report – August 1999

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Local Interim Report

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GREETINGS:

Hello again from SMiles & Austin MUFON,

I hope this email finds you doing well and staying cool during this long hot Texas Summer. Its been quite a couple of months; I recently had the opportunity to move closer in town and get the valuable Austin MUFON Reference Library out of harms way (my last residence was in a flood plain).

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MEETINGS:

The August meeting is this Saturday the 28th at the usual time and place: downtown at the Austin History Center, 9th and Guadalupe, the O’Henry room from 1-4 pm. There will be much to discuss, especially regarding MUFON’s  renewed vigor after recent drafts of a five year plan to revitalize its activities and membership, as well as news of Walt Andrus’ coming retirement and his would-be successor’s filling of the position and the relocation of MUFON’s headquarters.

Last month’s meeting we were graced by a visit from friends Joe Juliano and Andy Abercrombie. Andy told us all about the July MUFON Symposium held in Virginia which featured Budd Hopkins, Jenny Randles, Joe Firmage and more. A good time was had by all and much information was exchanged.

So please join us this Saturday for more discussion on all areas ufological.

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AUSTIN MUFON GALLERY:

Also, please be sure to visit the inaugural installment of the Austin MUFON
Gallery at our Capital of Texas Chapter web site at this url:

http://www.elfis.net/austin/mufon/gallery.htm

Here you will find a couple of pictures from the aforementioned MUFON
symposium. These were taken and sent to us from Mr Abercrombie and feature past
Austin MUFON leaders Ellen and Monte Stuart as well as a picture of them with
Budd Hopkins and another friend.

The Gallery also features a few pictures from the 25th Annual MUFON
Symposium held here in Austin back in 1994. Pictures include Walt Andrus, Linda
Cortile, Karla Turner and more.

If you have pictures from other local MUFON activities please feel free to
send them to us for posting in the Gallery.

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CONSTANCE CLEAR:

The other day I was lucky to catch San Antonio’s own latest addition to the
UFO community, author and hypnotherapist Constance Clear. Clear was in Austin at
Bookpeople promoting her first UFO book Reaching For Reality. She describes it
as a book to help abductees cope with their experiences. Reaching For Reality
details the experiences of seven abductees who all live within 200 miles of the
San Antonio, Texas environs.

Constance Clear, M.A. M.S.W., is more than qualified to point out the
sanity of her patients. She formed an Abductee Support Group several years ago
in San Antonio which still meets regularly. Her book has been positively
received by San Antonio author/experiencer Whitley Strieber as well as abduction
researcher John Mack. Clear also reported that she has already appeared on both
the Art Bell and Jeff Rense radio shows and expects to return to the airwaves
soon, time permiting.

Constance Clear spent nearly two hours engaging the twenty to thirty
attendees at the free book-signing in rapt dialogue on the subject of alien
abduction. When we exchanged insights related to our both having led abduction
support groups the dialogue continued and increased in its depth. However, many
things were left unanswered, as is usually the case with all things ufological.

If you missed this book-signing or would like to see Constance Clear speak
again . . . check her out in San Antonio at the 36th Annual National UFO
Conference! Details below.

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NATIONAL UFO CONFERENCE:

36th National UFO Conference – San Antonio, Texas
The Anomalist Hosts the 36th National UFO Conference

The world’s oldest UFO conference will be hosted in San Antonio, Texas, this
year by The Anomalist. Dates are Saturday and Sunday, September 25 & 26, 1999.
Location is the Seven Oaks Hotel & Conference Center, 1400 Austin Highway, San
Antonio.

Speakers and subjects are as follows:

Walt Andrus: The Disappearance of Frederich Valentich in Australia

Jim Moseley (Conference Chairman, MC, editor and publisher of “Saucer Smear”):
Weird Personal Experiences of a Skeptical Believer

Patrick Huyghe (Co-editor of The Anomalist): The Alien Horde: A Field Guide
Approach to the Unknown

Karl Pflock: Behind the Flying Saucers: A New Twist on Aztec

Constance Clear (“Reaching for Reality”): Abductees: Human Ambassadors or Lab
Rats?

Tom Deuley: MJ-12 & the El Indio-Guerrero Crash

Linda Corley: An Intimate Conversation with Major Jesse A. Marcel, Sr. (Marcel’s
last interview.)

Joe Firmage: The Truth and the International Space Sciences Organization

Kevin Randle: The Abduction Enigma: A Scientific Analysis

Whitely Strieber: Why Do We Deny It? (Including new video.)

Special Guest: East Coast literary agent Cherry Weiner. Make an appointment!

$45 advance, $60 door. Rooms $45, suites $75.

For room reservations, call 1-800 346-5866 and be sure to ask for the above
Conference rates.

Advance registrations should be made payable to Dennis Stacy and sent to PO
Box 12434, San Antonio, TX 78212.

E-mail dstacy@texas.net for a Conference flyer and speaker schedule.
Include your snail mail address or send a long SASE to the above address.

Hope to see you there!

Dennis Stacy
http://www.anomalist.com

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FORTFEST’99

From the Entity formerly known as Phyllis, the ChairPerson of FortFest

When: Nov. 5-7 (party only on the 5th)
Where: Holiday Inn, College Park,Md  Phone 301-345-6700  ReservationBlock #
3107   $79/ night includes parking
Cheap Airfares are available if ordered before Sept. 2 from Metrojet ,
Southwest, USAIR, Air Canada from Toronto, Midway from Chicago, and Virgin
from UK ( They don’t check:) I have more specific info for  your area. e-mail
offlist as needed.
Who : John Michell
Bud Hopkins
John Keel
Dr. Michael Grosso NDEs
Dave Walsh, Near Drunk Experiences (Don’t really know, yet)
Ivar Zapp, Atlantian origins of Alphabet
Antonio Hunees, FATEs UFO man Soviet Sightings
Doug Skinner , Scientific Method (With Rubber Chickens added
knowing him)

Includes Sat. Lunch, and banquet
Sunday Breakfast Buffet

Prices and more speakers will be posted Sept. 8

Puca
forteana elist

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MISC NEWS:

*UFO MAGAZINE

Check out the August issue of America’s UFO MAGAZINE wherein ufo stalwart
Richard Hall resigns, The Excluded Middle’s own Greg Bishop writes on Remote
Viewing, articles on mind control and military abductions are abundant. There is
also a tribute to military mind control saavy abduction researcher Dr. Karla
Turner. Check out the following web addresses for more:

Richard Hall’s unplubished goodbye-
http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/1999/aug/m07-018.shtml

Greg Bishop’s The Excluded Middle-
http://www.primenet.com/~exclmid/

Tribute to Karla Turner-
http://www.ufomag.com/archive/karla.html

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*FORTEAN TIMES

Checkout the new Fortean Times which has a cover article based on
revelations from the upcoming release (in America) of the latest Remote Viewing
revelations book: Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. Within
this book much is told of the connections between Andrija Puharich, Uri Geller,
Ira Einhorn, Gene Rodenberry, Lyal Watson and the channeled messages of The
Nine. Read part of the article on-line…

http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/126/nine.html

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*LOREN COLEMAN

A Short Tale of Slag, “Explosives,” and the Loch Ness Monster – or, Mr
Coleman visits Steamshovel Press’ Kenn Thomas (who has investigated the Maury
Island Slag UFO incident) and proceeds to get ‘sniffed’ for bombs at the
airport.

Steamshovel Press’  “Previous Last Words”
http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/lword5.htm

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Previous Interim Reports:

Dear Austin MUFON members (and non-members),

Greetings from your new local leader. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Stephen Miles Lewis. As of last month I am officially the State Section Director for Travis and Williamson counties. My nomination and acceptance puts me in the shoes of the two fine UFO enthusiasts / researchers who came before me; Ellen Stuart and Lemoin Pitman. It is with great respect that I attempt to follow in their footsteps and do my best to take up where they left off.

Our local group has seen good times and hard times. We’ve seen local members come and go; some from lack of interest and others taken from us by fate. However, throughout these times there has been a sense of camaraderie illustrative of the best in our community. I hope to rekindle this element within our local community through high profile monthly speakers to be featured at the FringeWare bookstore and other venues.

At our February Austin MUFON meeting Lemoin Pitman “passed the gavel” to me in a momentous occasion wherein our past State Director Ellen Stuart and her “better half” Monte Stuart surprised us with a visit. By the end of this meeting nearly twenty people showed up to voice there opinions and congratulations on my recent appointment.

During this meeting the decision was made by all in attendance that the Austin MUFON Newsletter would be discontinued, at least temporarily. As this is what most people feel there local dues were paying for I have no problem if members who weren’t at this meeting want to voice there opinion as to whether this is alright. In trying to boost attendance at these functions as well as local Austin MUFON chapter memberships I am asking all past and present Austin MUFON members for feedback.

If you have any questions please feel free to call, write, or email me at the following addresses.

Sincerely,

Stephen Miles Lewis

State Section Director for Travis and Williamson Counties

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