Men In Black, An Investigation
by BoB Oechsler
Men In Black
11-11-93
Among the attachments included here are responses to
questions submitted regarding CURSE.TXT, Guardian, "Original
Guardian", Alien Liaison book reference authored by Timothy Good,
etc. and the following file listings.
11] Biographical Information Sheet - BoB Oechsler
12] Guardian Investigation - UFO Video Case (February 1993)
13] Insider's Report - Investigating the Guardian Enigma
The latter is an indepth report on the investigation through
May of 1993. There have been other interesting revelations and
discoveries since then that again tend to support more of
Guardian's claims reported as "preposterous" by Robert Stack on
the "Unsolved Mysteries" broadcast of 2-03-93. My personal
experience indicates that this one case has been subjected to
more diversified scientific scrutiny than any other UFO case.
Much of that is no doubt due to the fact that there exists such
an abundance of tangible evidence to work with, both tactile and
corporeal. With that stated, I'll start by responding to the
questions in order of number received.
I ) Unspecified Guardian question ... (Lee)
[RES] ... Refer to attached [2] & [3] above.
2) Was Bob approached by an MIB? ... (Leslie)
[RES] ... While I have researched the MIB (Men In Black)
phenomenon for several years and recently investigated a possble
MIB incident in Maryland, I cannot confirm that I've ever been
directly approached by anyone or anything fitting the common
description. Suggested reading: The UFO Silencers, Mystery ot
the Men In Black authored by Timothy Green Beckley, Inner Light
Publications 1990 New Brunswick, NJ.
3) Was Bob's house broken into & was a (tape) stolen? (Leslie)
[RES] ... There has never been any evidence of my house being
"broken into". However, there was an incident in 1989 during the
course of several field investigation trips to Gulf Breeze,
Florida wherein several audio taped interviews and two very
important computer disks mysteriously vanished from my somewhat
less than perfectly organized home office. I should point out
that we did find overt evidence of mail tampering between myself
and Ed Walters including undelivered packages of photographic and
mapping materials. The evidence was submitted to postal
authorities and an investigation initiated which stopped the
illegal practice at least for six months.
4) Did Bob ever meet with the Guardian? What did he learn?
(Dave)
[RES] ... In November of 1992 while on location shooting part of
the "Unsolved Mysteries" segment with the Cosgrove-Meurer
Production Company, we received a telephone call at our hotel in
Kanata, Ontario from an individual who professed to know the
identity of Guardian. I stayed an extra aay after shooting just
to meet with this individual who was providing numerous contact
names, addresses and phone numbers for corraboration including
that of the individual he claimed was Guardian.
The person that I met with was a local college student who
had known Guardian for 17 years and claimed to be long time
friends. He reported an incident where his friend had shown the
Guardian video tape along with other tapes, documents and
photographs to a group of six people including himself. The
incident was fresh in his mind because he thought all of this UFO
stuff was nonsense and he remembers falling on the kitchen floor
laughing in hysteria. His friend was so adamant about the
veracity and authenticity of the material that he assured him
that he was the Guardian and that it was all true. It wasn't
until he heard and saw local news reports of eyewitnesses to the
events and that NBC was in town filming that he realized there
may be more to it than he first thought.
I called the number he gave me for the Guardian and tried to
arrange a meeting by leaving a message on an answering machine.
Guardian called his friend back and left a message for me on his
machine basically denying any knowledge or complicity. The more
the friend challenged him, the more remote he became. However
during the course of my investigation it became abundantly
evident that this individual was in fact the Guardian of whom I
was searching. Only forensic evidence is yet to be collected for
final proof. Nonetheless I an quite convinced that I know who
Guardian is and an awful lot aDout nim and tne events nhne has been
involved in for many years. I never believed it was necessary to
expose him because all of the other witnesses and landing
contamination effects was sufficient. to validate the case. The
bottom line is simply that not one of Guardian's rather
outrageous claims has been disproven and quite a number of them
have so far been completely validated.
5) Is the Guardian the same one as "original guardian" described
in CURSE.TXT? ... (Peter)
[RES] ... A review of CURSE.TXT reveals that "orginal guardian"
referenced is an executive with the motion picture. My suspect
is clearly not involved in that field. The so called "incident"
occurred in a city east of Toronto, that is a rather large area.
The video taped landing incident that I investigated occurred
about 30 miles west of Ottawa, which is some 200 miles east of
Toronto. The Guardian involved in the case I investigated was
clever enough to put his fingerprint on the label of video tapes
he sent out. That makes them unique in as much as it certainly
cuts down on Guardian claimants and that's why we featured that
issue on the "Unsolved Mysteries" and "Sightings" segments. The
Guardian documents that I investigated referred to a roll of 35mm
film of alien images that was submitted by an anonymous
photoarapher to NRC (National Research Council) in Ottawa. We
have not to date been able to verify if such a roll of film was
received at that repository, but it does seem to coincide to a
certain degree with the "original guardian" reference. In
summary, there does appear to be some possible similarity in the
two cases but there is insufficient detail in the CURSE.TXT
report that I have to draw even the slightest parallel or even to
determine if there exists a mergence of the two. It is difficult
to give much credence to reports that are warranted by unsigned
individuals and even more difficult to find rationale to prompt
research and investigation.
6) Was Bob ever taken to an off-shore research platform by the
Gov't and shown an anti-gravity chamber? ... (Mike)
[RES] ... As reported in the hardback book Alien Liaison -
The Ultimate Secret authored by Timothy Good and originally
published by Random Century Ltd, London 1991 (47 weeks on the
London Times Best Seller List) and subsequently in paperback by
Arrow Books Ltd, London 1992 and now available in the U.S. under
the title Alien Contact published by William Morrow Comipany, NY
1993, the chapter called Cosmic Journey refers to a project which
I was involved in under commercial secrecy contract to Kenneth
Feld Productions Special Development Group out of Orlando,
Florida. The project was sanctioned by the White House Office of
the National Space Council and by NASA (National Aeronautics and
Space Administration), the latter of which I was a former
employee during the mid-seventies. I was retained for the
project due to my robotics expertise and involvment in the
adaptation of the manipulator arm for the Shuttle Project as well
as my expertise in innovation of RF remote control systems, and
all of that not withstanding my UFO research credentials.
The activities referred to in the question relate directly
to my involvement with a former astronaut and Air Force General
Officer in the U.S. Intelligence establishment at the Pentagon.
On a project trip to the Houston area, I was taken along with a
group that filled three unique helicopters to a NORAD (North
American Defense Command) facility located on an off-shore
platform off the Gulf Coast between Mobile, Alabama and
Pensacola, Florida. We were flown from Ellington and were on the
platform little more than an hour at most. Refer to one of the
above books for details. During the same visit to the Houston
area I visited a facility southwest of Houston referred to as the
Micro-Gravity Research Center. It did not involve to my
knowledge the swimming pool facility which I believe is located
at the Johnson Center complex and did not involve the famous
airplane rero gravity airborn project. This facility housed a
micro-gravity chamber which was encompassed in a room
approximately 20' x 4O' and housed several dozen if not hundreds
of experiments, protein crystal experiments being one of the most
notable to me. A small scale model of the manipulator arm on the
shuttle was previously arranged and set-up for me along with a
computer simulation for modeling modifications. The purpose of
my visit was to install design changes with limiter stops and
axis weight changes for adaptation to a gravity environment for
the full scale model for the Cosmic Journey Project. I believe
the micro-gravity environment was effected by an unusual lighting
system installed in the ceiling. The effect was analogous to
what it might be like if one could stand inside a florescent
light tube. For more information, again refer to the above
referenced books.
7) Was the space tracking station (off-shore research. platform)
on the "fence" off the SC coast? ... (Peter)
[RES] ... The facility was not on the Atlantic Seaboard, see
question six above for location. I am not familiar with the
reference "fence". The off-shore facility was not to my
knowledge a research center. It was an on-line NORAD monitoring
facility with capabilities far exceeding ordinary space tracking.
8) What was Bob's position at NASA? What does (position) mean?
... (Mike)
[RES] ... My NASA credentials are referenced in the book
Alien Update authored by Timothy Good and published in the U.K.
et.al. by Arrow Books Ltd 1993. The photo section depicts my
original NASA identification photo badge with security number in
black and white, the original is in color. My position was
titled Mission Specialist which is a catch all reference given to
about half of the employees at the Goddard Space Flight Center,
the rest were referred to as Operations Specialists. My job
entailed project engineering, documentation and sub-mission
appraisal. Some of the projects that I worked on included the
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (docking collar latch mechanism), the
IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer), the manipulator arm
connecting mechanism for the Shuttle Project and several DOD
(Department of Defense) missions. I had no interest or knowledge
of the UFO phenomenon during my tenure at NASA and have
repeatedly announced my failure to recognize the connection to my
work at NASA and my subsequent UFO research other than as it has
applied to the Cosmic Journey Project. I continue to be amazed
at the wild conspiracy theories and the constant speculation
about my supposedly working as some kind of a mole for the Gov't.
My position has always been that if the Gov't doesn't know what
UFO researchers have discovered, then they ought to know and
probably do know a great deal more than all of the researchers
combined.
9) I'm still wondering how he managed to go from doing freelance
research (under NASA auspices) on some video tapes taken by a
contractor to being able to order a military polygraph for a
Canadian official that was alledgedly taken against her/his
will aboard an ET craft, ... (Bob Perse)
[RES] ... Since you're wondering, perhaps I can shed some light
on the issues for you. Actually I prefer interested individuals
to ask this sort of question rather than blindly speculate.
First let me clarify the "freelance research on some video tapes"
issue. As a video and photographic analyst, I was very
interested in the depiction at close range of a UFO craft in
flight shot by Ed Walters in Gulf Breeze, Florida on December 28,
1987. The moving images afforded an opportunity to evaluate the
fundamental operational physics of the craft and since I had been
cited by the United States Chamber of Commerce for my work in
field applications technologies in robotics there existed a
natural interest in deterimining the prospects of the video taped
object being a remote controlled model. Therefore I was asked by
several groups including "Unsolved Mysteries" and the Fund for
UFO Research to have a look at it. I was looking for an
independent lab whwre I could conduct my analysis in privacy and
without commercial expense. Since I have several former
associates still working at GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center)
within thirty minutes of my home, including the local MUFON
(Mutual UFO Network) director of investigations, it was natural
to inquire of the possibility of conducting my work in their
rather well equipped studios during off-peak hours. Arrangements
were made with the section director at GSFC TV Studios to move
the necessary equipment into one of their editing studios. There
was no official inquiry on the part of NASA HQ nor GSFC hierachy
since the station which is closed circuit was operated by Bendix.
Therefore the work I was doing was clearly NOT under th "auspices"
(look it up) of NASA.
The second and independent issue which does not appear
connected in any way that I can imagine relates to the Guaraian
Case. The Canadian Official initially contacted me anonymously
by mail, but included enough information that I was able to
locate the individual due to my knowledge of the landing area.
The individual claimed to be having explicit memories relating to
the landing event depicted on the "Unsolved Mysteries" broadcast.
I did not learn until later that this individual had significant
credentials within the Canadian Government. The clainis involved
witnessing the landing event, being taken onboard the craft and
interacting with not only the alien entities depicted on the
program but also a human being of a specific nationality as being
in charge of the operation involving the craft and entities.
There was never any allegation regarding being taken against
anyone's will since no invitation was extended or refused.
The issue involving the taking of a polygraph examination of
the claims was raised due to the sensitivity of the witness'
position within the Canadian Government. Since the witness was
not acting on behalf of any agency of the Canadian Government and
the onboard events did not directly involve same (in other words
the witness was not onboard as a representative of the Canadian
Government), there existed a need for specific anonymity in order
to avoid the appearance of a potential international incident.
For clarification it should be noted that the witness' voice
and/or likeness would be readily recognized at any Canadian
Embassy throughout the world. Therefore in order to establish
credibility for the claims of an anonymous witness, it was clear
to all interested parties that a polygraph exam of the witness
claims would be required for the record to be included as a valid
contribution to an already complex case. I did not order a
military polygraph, I selected a polygraph examiner in Canada who
had been trained by the U.S. Military. Dr. Bruce S. Maccabee
(Ph.D. Optical Physics and Exec. Dir. of FUFOR) assisted me and
the polygraph examiner in developing the questionaire strategy in
consultation with skeptic Jerry Black who arrariged the polygraph
for Travis Walton, Allen Dallas, etc. just before the 1993
release of "Fire in the Sky". We wanted to be sure that any
positive polygraph result could not only be supported, but
subjected to review by other examiners.
It seems to me that this last question poses some important
points that should serve these inquires well. We need to be very
careful about jumping to conclusions.It does not seem fair to
me that just because someone excercises care and diligence in
investigative technique, that somehow this correlates with heavy
handed old fashioned CIA tactics. Or somehow suggests that the
analyst or investigator is secretively intrenched iri some covert
government plot. I do recognize that conspiracies have and do
exist, but my experience suggests that such activity is vastly
overstated in UFO research activities. It's really not needed
here as most researchers in this field tend to bicker and debate
so much that precious little actual research ever gets
acomplished much less accepted. When it comes to establishing
public opinion the tabloids win hands down it seems simply
because they are so well financed.
Hope this proves helpful and doesn't bore anyone to tears.
Thanks very much for the questions. I believe the Guardian Case
will eventually make for a good book and could serve as an
excellent template for future investigations of this nature. If
you think writing a book is going to make anyone rich, I suggest
you try getting something published. It always amazes me when
skeptics try using the old rich and famous explanation to attempt
to discredit witnesses and researchers/investigators. It is
quite a naive ploy in the eyes of the informed.
Thanks again,
Cheers.
BoB Oechsler
BoB Oechsler: Pronounced X-ler
Former NASA Mission Specialist
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
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International Television exposure:
NBC - "Unsolved Mysteries" (Regular Consultant)
ABC - "America's Best Kept Secrets"
ABC News - With Science Editor Jules Bergman
CBS - "UFOs: The Best Evidence" (Award Winning Documentary)
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Invented process for converting nighttime Polaroid images
into almost daylight conditions for easy analysis.
professional Expertise: Robotics Field Applications Technologies
Electro-gravitics Research
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G U A R D I A N I N V E S T I G A T I O N
UFO Video Case
February 1993
The Ottawa, Ontario UFO Landing reported by the anonymous
Guardian has resulted in a year long active field investigation.
I believe it to be a landmark case which involved the complete
cooperation of several agencies in Canada including the
Department of National Defence. DND has participated actively in
the investigation to the extent of providing an alert team ready
to respond to any continued helicopter harrassment activity at
the site and witness residence. Although we have interviewed
several witnesses to this helicopter activity, we have yet to
identify the perpetrators inspite of several photographs taken at
times of intrusion.
Transport Canada has been quite cooperative in providing
classified radar data at the site location. The National
Research Council has been receptive to my investigation of
Guardian claims, classified helicopter research activity and has
provided access to CSIS, the Canadian Secret Intelligence
classified radar data at the site location. The National
Research Council has been receptive to my investigation of
Guardian claims, classified helicopter research activity and has
provided access to CSIS, the Canadian Secret Intelligence
Service. Energy, Mines and Resources have provided aerial
photography for the research area. Canadian UFO author Arthur
Bray and researcher Graham Lightfoot have provided invaluable
assistance in the investigation. CUFORN, the Canadian UFO
Research Network has been helpful in providing me with a
background on Guardian's prior UFO report for 1989 and original
materials they received from Guardian including photographs and
video tape.
Scheduled broadcasts of the investigation by network
television include NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" (February 3rd) and
Fox's "Sightings" (February 12th) clearly achieve Guardian's
implied interest in widespread exposure for alien UFO activity in
the Ottawa Valley area. Television attention of this caliber
should give significant credit to the investigation and open the
door for those reluctant to come forward for fear of ridicule.
These broadcast provide the first international exposure for this
case which centers around the events instead of the anonymous
Guardian who video taped the extraordinary landing event.
Guardian began reportiny UFO incidents in the area where the
landing occurred as far back as November of 1989. The landing
was video taped without the knowledge of other witnesses to the
event on August 18, 1991. We discovered the landing site and
witnesses on May 10, 1992 and began an investigation based on
contamination evidence suggesting an extraordinary event which
affected the site. I have testimony of several experts in
diversified scientific fields which strongly argues against human
technological involvement in the event.
The size of the craft was approximately 20-25 feet in
diameter as determined by correlating field tests. The flares or
PYrotechnic activity at the site has been determined to be of
unknown origin, not compatible with any universally known
compounds. The craft depicted in the video apparently left
residue elements identified as not being indigenous to the site.
Acoustics analysis of the video tape correlates with the
geography and particular topography of the investigated field
site. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) from a Digital Audio Tape
(DAT) taken from an original Guardian supplied copy of the video
detailed no evidence of electrical fields, repeating pulses or
oscillations within the detection frequency range of the
recording equipment used, yet all ambient sounds typical to the
senario depicted in the video including the distant sounds of
barking dogs, wind noise, insects,camera operator bieathingand
walking as well as camera equipment noise in close proximity to
the microphone were all identifiable. No unknowris could be
attributed to the object or pyrotechnics depicted in the video.
NBC invested in excess of $115,000 unsuccessfully attempting
to duplicate the effects in the Guardian video and concluded that
to fake what was observed in the video would have taken a
sizeable investment and would have been virtually impossible to
Pull off without the cooperation of the residents in the
neighborhood, some of whom have agreed to polygraph examination
in order to refute that possiblity. Even NASA's JPL was unable
to find evidence of hoaxing the event depicted in the video.
After five research and investigation trips to Canada, the
task is not yet complete. The final conclusions niay only be
reached upon meeting the anonymous Guardian who holds the keys
and answers to many questions. The single most important
question that remains to be answered is: "How did Guardian know
that the craft was going to land at that time and place?".
My remaining efforts will be focused on establishing a
dialogue with Guardian. His decision to remain anonymous is in
my opinion prudent. Removing public anonymity can only put the
dialogue with Guardian. His decision to remain anonymous is in
my opinion prudent. Removing public anonymity can orily put the
focus on his credibility and integrity instead of the incredible
event itself. My objective will be to encourage his cooperation
upon confirming his identity and ascertain the rationale to his
methodology and determine the level of veracity of his claims.
BoB Oechsler
T H E I N S I D E R ' S R E P O R T
By BoB Oechsler
Investigating The Guardian Enigma
NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" airs video of lanaed UFO craft.
FOX's "Sightings" features this landmark UFO landing case.
A strange series of events unfolded during the summer of
1991 in a rural area about 20 miles west of Ottawa in the Ontario
Province of Eastern Canada. Out of the rolling hills and heavily
wooded swamp lands of West Carleton Township, residents were
reporting surrealistic screams, excruciating cries of tormented
agony that warned off all attempts by residents to investigate.
Those that went to the edge of the forest land to look into the
matter were met not only with silence at first, but an eerie
permeating sensation of fear that seemed to hang over the area.
The strange silence was penetrated by a startling screanm like no
other sound experienced before. Even the dogs would not venture
into the area as their keen senses warded them off ahead of their
inquisitive masters. This was but one of a pattern of unusual
events that rained down on this sparsely populated residential
former farming estate community that summer. One individual now
known publicly as Guardian had the courage to investigate and
report his unique findings of unusual activity.
Guardian began reporting in late 1989 to UFO research
organizations in Canada that American and Canadian Security
Agencies were engaged in a conspiracy of silence. He anonymously
claimed that UFO sightings in the Ontario region had intensified
in the 1980's (specifically around nuclear power generating
stations) and that on November 4, 1989 Canadian Defense (sic)
Department radars picked up a globe shaped object travelling at a
phenomenal speed over Carp, Ontario. The UFO, Guardian reported,
abruptly stopped and dropped like a stone. He claimed that the
ship landed in deep swamp in a rural area of West Carleton Twp.
While monitoring satelites traced the movements of the alien
occupants, two AH-64 Apache choppers and a UH-60 Blackhawk
helicopter descended on the area the following night. Guardian
says they carried full weapon loads and were part of a covert
American unit that specialized in the recovery of alien craft.
Independent UFO investigations revealed no less than three eye
witnesses confirming the hovering craft over the swamp area,
sounds of explosions, military vehicles and personnel with no
identification marks blocking off a main access road to the swamp
area. Guardian reported the recovery of "three reptilian fetus
headed beings" listed as Class I NTEs (Non Terrestrial Entities)
identified as muscular, grey-white skinned humanoids.
Guardian's rather elaborate report details a matrixed
dielectric magnesium alloy craft driven by pulsed electromagnetic
fields generated by a cold fusion reactor. He reveals that the
craft was of a military nature and coldly calculates a mission
designed to pit human speciesagainst humari species in an
ideological war to further strain east-west relations. His
expressed knowledge of alien installed human implants, military
operations, high technology EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) weapons
and ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) waves calibrated to the sam.e
wavelength as the human brain to subliminally control test
subjects all suggest an extraordinary intimate involvement in
these events. If his assertions are correct, then we humans are
in for a tough time regardless of the official secrecy
surrounding these issues. Guardian warns of an impending hostile
invasion much like the concerns expressed numerous times by
former President Ronald Reagan about a potential "Force from
outer space". He reports that data aboard the recovered sphere
explains why the aliens are so comfortable on our world. They
preceded humans on the evolutionary scale by millions of years
and that their civilization was destroyed 65 million years ago
during an interdimensional war forcing them to leave the earth.
Now they have chosen to attempt to reclaim what was once theirs.
Guardian was not the only one to report evidence of UFOs and
alien entities in the township of West Carleton. Alana Masters
(pseudonym) reported to the local presJ in September 1989 that
her daughter had been making drawings of a ghost with big black
eyes and spoke of unusual dreams and visitors at night. One
evening before retiring, Alana was drawn to a winnow looking out
over her back yard by a bright light. Concerned about the
unusual shape of the object idling silently out back, she went to
check on her two and a half year old daughter. Upon opening the
door she was startled to see two beings that had really dark eyes
and glowed a whitish yellow color. One of the entities turned
toward Alana and the next thing she remembered was waking up on
the sofa the next morning. Alana's neighbor reported seeing a
glowing creature of like description appearing to be taking
ground samples from the back yard and another in her house. She
said she never would have mentioned the event were it not for
Alana's report. The Canadian National Research Council reported
over 100 UFO sightings reports during the same period.
In February of 1992 a video tape and several constructed
documents arrived at my mailbox postmarked from Ottawa, Ontario.
There was no return address, but the video tape was cleverly
labeled with the name Guardian accompanied by an inked finger-
print as a unique identifing reference. The documents eontained
a map of the same area as reported in the 1989 UFO landing event,
but referenced a newer landing and retrieval occurring on August
18, 1991. The cover document was fabricated with a DND
Department of National Defence) stencil, a maple leaf watermark
and two photocopies of Polaroid flash pictures depicting events
in the video. Other documents resembled typical FOIA (Freedom of
Information Act) responses involving deleted classified data
using a black "majic" marker. The documents contained the same
ideology referred to in Guardian's 1989 report, but seemed to
focus more on theology and Nostraaamus type apocalyptic
proclamations. Had it not been for the exceptional video tape
Guardian's reports would have no doubt been dismissed as the
ravings of a misguided ideologist. Psychologists that I
consulted reviewed the material and concluded that while there is
evidence of pathology (perhaps sociopathic) as it relates to the
source's interpretation and explanation of the senario, there
exists no evidence of schizophrenia or other similar disorders.
Guardian is clearly literate in some areas of ufology, but may
lack the ability to discriminate extremiist and conspiracy
theorists viewpoints from traditional rationalists.
In April of 1992, I completed a preliminary video analysis
on the case. The video appears to be a series of edited takes
from a longer video. This was determined as a result of several
stops and starts with the observance of technical changes in the
setting. For example in earlier sequences there appear to be
several flares burning with billowing smoke rising from that
general area, in later sequences it appears that the flares had
burned out yet the remnants of smoke are still visible. The
individual segments may however just be a product of starting and
stopping the camera in order to conserve battery power. Guaraian
may have missed the initial landing due to late arrival. If he
was influenced by the intelligence aboard the craft, he may have
been affected in such a way as to inhibit filming of the
departure of the object.
The first segment that I examined depicts a wide angle
nighttime fiela of view with a series of bright reo fires or
flares burning on the left side of the screen with smoke
billowirig up and to the right of the frame reference and an
eliptical bright white light to the right of the frame on an
approximate horizontal even plane with respect to the red lights.
The luminosity of the flare activity is great enough to expose a
tree line or forest area in the background not far from the
lumination source. The segment depicts a variation of zooms in
and out of the scene with slight panning action to the right and
left. At the fully zoomed setting the camera is far enough away
from the total scene so that both the left scene and right scene
are still simultaneously visible, except during gross panning of
the camera. The right side scene with the eliptical white light
also exhibits a flashing blue strobe light vertically aligned
above the primary light source. Residual light smearing is
evident below and slightly bleeding to the right of both primary
scenes. On the left scene the smear is red and on the right the
smear is green with a centralblue. This is typical of nighttime
electronic photography and eyewitness reports typically confirm
that smear color is reflective of the actual naked eye color
observed in the prime light source. This segmient runs 2 minutes
and 20 seconds.
The second segment commences with the photographer walking
closer to the scene of the strobing lights, apparently at the
full zoomed in setting or perhaps the view that exhibits only the
flashing lights is such that the actual disc is initially
obstructed by the terrain horizon on approach. During the
initial frames smoke is visible which is apparently luminated by
light from below the frame horizon. The smoke continues to be
visible throughout the segment. Through a series of zoom
sequences, apparently while the photographer is still walking, a
clear image of what appears to be a disc shaped object is visible
especially when examined frame by frame. There appears to be two
flares or red colored fires at the left front leading edge of the
disc but at least separated from the disc which does not appear to
be damaged or on fire.
The center of the top of the disc builds into a triangular
shape or turret area. The flashing lights depicted in the
previous segment resolve to a blue strobe that is oscillating
about the outer portion of the top of the turret and each flash
reflects off of the curved portion of the top side of the disc
below. The strobe seqence is approximately 7.5 flashes per
second and rotates vertically as opposed to typical horizontal
strobes on emergency vehicles and aircraft. The luminosity
intensity characteristics of the strobe are variable with high
intensity flashes followed sequentially by low intensity flashes.
On occasion during single frame analysis a square flash of light
could be observed as the source of the strobe. On at least one
frame it is conclusive that a squared light pattern was observed
sourcing from amidships the turret area as opposed to the top of
the turret and well above the area of ohserved reflection.
Additional features apparent in this segment include a
series of vertical slats, appendages or ridges that appear on the
outside of the disc equidistant from each other. These features
are luminated by the plasmatic like light source emanating from
the underside of the craft. It would be easy for the casual
observer to view these features as windows or square porthole
like features due to the shadowing effect caused by the
distortion of light distribution as a result of the protrusion of
the vertical slats around the disc's leading edge.
Another observed anomaly in this segment involves what
appears to be a secondary moving strobe seen at times well above
the primary strobing light. This is probably a product of the
electronics in the form of a continuous ghost roll of the strobe
that constantly repeats itself strobing from the bottom of the
frame to the top much like a horizontal roll characteristic.
It maintains a constant vertical alignment to the strobe and is
consistent with experiments conducted using a vertical strobe.
The segment runs for forty seconds.
The third segment depicts the disc at an intermediate
distance without change in zoom reference. There is still
evidence of flares burning near the left front of the disc. It
is the most significant segment for measuring the strobe
frequency characteristics. As a side reference, an interesting
correlation exists between the 7.5 strobe frequency in this video
and the 7.5 oscillation observed in the video of a flying craft
taken in Gulf Breeze, Florida in December 1987. It should be
noted that a tripod is never used by the photographer. All
segments are hand held and attention is not always given to the
viewfinder for frame referencing. This segment shows no evidence
of the signal flares depicted in the first segment so it is not
possible to develop an actual chronology regarding these segment
sequences. The segment runs for two minutes and seven seconds.
The forth segment proved to be more of a challenge to
analyze. The segment commences with a close-up hand held shaky
view of the upper strobe area without depicting the reflection
area on the top side of the disc surface. It depicts a
disembodied rising strobe feature which we were able to
duplicate in laboratory tests. As the segment unfolds, it
appears that the photographer is walking toward a crest in
topography exposing the full disc with strobing features at a
wide angle much the same as in segment two, absent the back-
lighting effects of the luminated drifting smoke from the
pyrotechnics activity. The photographer then zooms in closer to
expose previously observed details of the disc and immediate
surrounding terrain. It appears that the two flares at the front
left of the disc have burned out, assuming the photographer's
orientation to the disc is similar to previous segments. This
segment runs for one minute and six seconds.
Additional segments on the source video depict a variety of
freeze frames related to the final close-up frames of the disc
where a blue beam of light was apparently aimed directly at the
camera from the disc itself. The tracking quality for most of
the segment is quite poor. The bulk of the subject matter
appears to relate to images of either photographs or actual video
frames of an alien entity(s) of the generically typical gray
(grey) variety with almond shaped black eyes. The facial features
contain a dominant protrusion or snout which an eyewitness
described as "pig nosed". Sequential images show one eyelid
closing and other changes in facial features. The entity(s)
appear to be self luminating as no external light source is
evident capable of luminating the hands and facial features.
Guardian sent one researcher an 8 x 10 black and white print of
such a creature posed in the terrain depicted by the Polaroid
prints with the foreground luminated by flash. These final
segments run just over 26 minutes duration.
In order to estimate the actual distance of the disc from
the camera,I conducted a field test using niy Sony CCD 4 Lux 8x
Zoom video camera. A 1000 foot course was laid out at 100 foot
intervals. I then recorded wide angle and zoom variations of an
ordinary highway road flare in like nighttime conditions to that
of the source video. The comparative results suggested that the
disc shaped craft in the source video, at it's closest point,
would be approximately 500 to 700 feet from the camera assuming
an object of 50 feet in diameter. A 25 foot diameter craft would
place the camera at 1000 to 1200 feet at closest approach. The
latter proved to be the most viable following a field investi-
gation which located the site where the video was taken.
It was immediately apparent when comparing the nighttime
video sequences from both cameras that the source video was taken
with a field production quality camera probably costing tens of
thousands of dollars. The color retention is extraordinary even
from the perspective of my own personal experience with broadcast
quality field production camera systems. Considering the ultra
high luminosity characteristics of the bright white light
emanating from the bottom of the disc structure, it is surprising
that the camera was able to retain the red coloring of the
flares. The flares or flare mix in pots are exhibiting a
significant amount of smoke giving indications of an active
localized thermal environment with a wind velocity and direction
that would later prove consistent with meteorological reports for
the date and time period reported. My tests with ordinary road
flares did not exhibit the same amount of smoke, nor did my
camera retain the red color as that of the source camera. Test
conclusions tend to validate that a high technology camera was
used and that the pyrotechnics were no less than military grade.
PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS
(Prior to Field Investigation)
The evidence suggests the depiction of a real event. It can
not be determined at this time whether the source is providing
credible information relative to the depicted events in the video
tape. Nonetheless I am convinced at this time that the events do
not appear to represent a fabrication or hoax in the form of
scale modeling. An actual field event seems to be unfolding in
the video segments. It would appear unlikely that the photographer
just happened onto the scene with at least six packs of Polaroid
film (assuming there in fact exists 60 Polaroid prints of the
scene as inferred from Guardian's documents) and a field
production quality video camera accompanied by the requisite
power source equipment. Subsequent field investigation supported
this conclusion due to sight limitations in surrounding
topography.
In spite of the quality of the camera, the photographer does
not appear to be experienced with the equipment. It should also
be noted that there is no evidence that the source sender of the
written and video materials is the photographer. It is surprising
that no tripod was used, rarely are cameras of that quality
carried without the optional use of a tripod.
The disc appears to be active throughout all segments and is
static (not moving relative) to the environment. The disc is not
on a perfect horizontal plane to the camera but is tilted
slightly rising to approximately five degrees on the right side.
This position might be a product of the topography of the terrain
where the disc appears to be resting.
The appearance of the disc could be likened to an upside
down frying pan without the handle and with a conical shaped
turret at the center top. It has vertical ridges or protruding
flange elements at equidistant intervals around and extending
beyond the leading edge of the disc. The underside appears to be
quite hot in terms of light temperature. There should be
significant evidence of physical effects relative to this light
frequency phenomenon at the landing site where this event
occurred.
Initial evaluation of the entity images on the video and
other photographic material suggested that it might be easy to
fake such images using a protective fencing or hockey face mask
and black jumpsuit costuming. If the entity images were faked
however, a dichotomy in logic would exist if in fact the video of
the disc is authentic. A more intensive analysis of the entity
images detected obvious changes in facial features that are not
consistent with the mask hypothesis. And the apparent self
luminosity characteristic infers a strange complexity associated
with the images that would have to border on a Hollywood level
make-up job.
THE FIELD INVESTIGATION
Satisfied that the video segments of an active landed disc
were potentially authentic, the next step was to attempt to
locate the exact site where the event occurred. The map that
Guardian supplied did not identify the specific site where the
disc landed, but did narrow the scope to an area of approximately
four square miles. On May 9, 1992 I arranged to meet several
field investigators from the Toronto based Canadian UFO Research
Network (CUFORN) at a prearranged location in Carleton Place not
far from the area outlined on Guardian's map. Graham Lightfoot,
who had conducted one of the investigations at the area based on
Guardian's 1989 report, agreed to be our local guide.
That first day was spent mostly trying to get a feel for the
area and unsuccessfully attempting to locate a radar site
depicted on Guardian's map. Using various magnetic compass
devices we attempted to locate magnetic Matrix lines drawn on
Guardian's map. Most of the area that we searched was heavily
wooded bush country much of which was under a foot or less of
water, typical Canadian swamp land. The team had split up into
three groups by day's end and eventually regrouped at a
restaurant in Carp some fifteen miles away from the search area.
My son and I had decided to venture deep into the forest swamp
attempting to locate evidence of the 1989 landing event
previously reported by Guardian and hoping to find a clearing in
the woods large enough to accommodate the video tapea landing of
1991. We were fortunate enough to find our way out of the swamp
about an hour before dark. The other teams had left notes on the
windshield of my truck with directions to the restaurant.
Although we were unable to find any evidence of the events
reported in 1989, we did locate an area whose topography appeared
capable of containing the sequence of events depicted in the 1991
landing video tape.
Following dinner discussions, the rather large contingent
from Toronto had to make the return trip back home that night and
were unable to pursue further involvement in the field
investigation. Having narrowed the search to the clearing we
discovered that evening, Graham Lightfoot returned the next
morning to join us in visiting the property owners to ask for
permission to inspect the lower field. The clearing area I had
seen the day before from an opening in the swamp area was
surrounded by tree lines on three sides and invisible from nearby
roadways as the property sloped up to a higher elevation. The
residence overlooking the lower fields was situated at the crest
of a rolling hillside which sloped steeply back down to the main
roadway. We called on the owners at mid-morning that Sunday and
met Mrs. Labenek and her three children. Dr. Labenek was toiling
away on the riding mower cutting the vast expanse of grass on the
front hillside and was unaware of our arrival at the time.
Graham Lightfoot reintroduced himself to Mrs. Labenek whom
he'd met more than a year earlier during his investigation of the
1989 Guardian report. Mrs. Labenek had been one of the three
witnesses along that sparsely populated stretch of roadway who
confirmed the sighting of an unusual bright light hovering over
the swamp area in 1989. We asked Mrs. Labenek if she'd seen
anything unusual down in the field the previous summer. Her
uneasiness with the question was quite evident as she reluctantly
suggested that there was a bright light over the field, but
hesitated a t giving any further details recounting the subtle
ridicule, she received from giving testimony on the subject she
observed over the swamp in 1989. Not wanting to press the issue
at that time, we requested permission to inspect the lower field
which was granted without hesitation.
It was apparent that at one time the property was broken up
into three separate fields with the remnants of stone pilings for
fence posts leaving mute testimony. The fields extend 2,000 feet
from the crest of the hill where the residence stands to the
treeline which is fenced off from the back edge of the property.
The lower field is a valley which in May was quite soft with
about three inches of water covering approximately thirty percent
of the surface area. Much of the field was covered in dense two
feet high bush grasses and generously populated with hardy
juniper bushes and a few small saplings. Spring growth was just
coming up all over the area. Looking for evidence of the flares
activity, my thoughts were that if this was the site, there
should be some remnants of the slag from the red pyrotechnics
unless flare pots were used. It figured that if we could find
even microscopic evidence of the pyrotechnics activity, then it
should be easy through laboratory analysis to determine if the
event could possibly have been a secret military operation.
Much to my surprise it was unbelievably hot under the May
sunshine in Canada that day as we hauled the video camera case
and other photographic equipment and sample retrieval supplies
down into the field. We were immediately drawn to an area in the
middle of the lower field that seemed to be devoid of the dense
growth pattern common to the rest of the field. As we scouted
this area it was immediately apparent that something very unusual
had occurred there affecting a roughly circular pattern
approximately fifty feet in diameter.
All of the plant life in this one local area appeared to
have been subjected to some level of microwave frequency
exposure. The grass plants had all of the pigment bleached out
and were completely dehydrated but not scorched. Outside that
area the same species had turned brown through natural perennial
cycles. Some of these bleached white colored grass plants had
strange black sooty deposits on the surface which we collected
along with unaffected control samples. Subsequent laboratory
analysis proved the deposits to be of Titanium residue which was
not indigenous to the site and not of any known pyrotechnics mix.
More than a dozen juniper bushes were found inside the
circumference of the affected area. All had evidence of gross
wilting, total loss of foliage and total dehydration. It
appeared as though the cellulose had been softened allowing
gravity to force the plants to lie flat on the ground, apparently
at which time they became quickly dehydrated and brittle. Just
outside the affected area were numerous healthy juniper shrubs
that stood in stark contrast to the barren waste only several
feet away.
Although all of the plant life within the circle had
perished due to some form of exposure, the effects were
apparently not permanently toxic to the soil. Spring growth of
various forms was already beginning to sprout in the affected
area. No evidence of the flare activity was ever found at the
site in any of the several dozen samples taken from the entire
field on two expeditions for that explicit purpose.
Developing lines of sight from the affected circle area, it
became evident that while the event was clearly in plain view of
the Labenek residence, the neighboring properties had an
obstructed view of the area due to the specific topography and
surrounding tree line. Since the Guardian video showed specific
changes in elevation on approach to the event, we were able to
limit the angles of view and camera orientation of objects
visible in the video. Locating the direction from which the
camera video taped the event would prove useful in comparing
subsequent eyewitness testimony.
Discovering the actual landing site would not in itself
Prove that the video tape depicted an authentic alien landing
operation, but decreased the possibity of a simple staged event.
The extraordinary gross physical effects suggested that a
significant event had occurred involving a vehicle of high
technology. If the event was the result of some top secret
military aircraft, there existed no evidence whatsoever to
support even an attempt to clean it up. There were no vehicle
tracks in the area, no latent footprints in the soggy ground and
no evidence of military pyrotechnics all of which should have
been easily detectable. Clearly the site had not been touched in
the nine months since the event occurred.
After our preliminary field investigation we stopped back
at the house up on the hill to call on Mrs. Labenek once again
before leaving the area with our equipment and samples for
analysis. Convinced that an actual event had occurred on the
Labenek property, we informed Mrs. Labenek that a video tape of
the event had been taken. We asked if she had ever heard of the
name Guardian to which she genuinely seemed uninformed. The fact
that a video tape of the event existed appeared to set her more
at ease and she began to open up to us about what she had seen
that night in August of 1991.
She was just putting her three young children to bed and had
walked into her upstairs bedroom where the windows provide a
panoramic view of the lower field. There was no need for privacy
shades which would only spoil the rustic view. As Mrs. Labenek
crossed the room, she couldn't help but see the bright flicker of
red fires deep in the field below. She went to the window and
threw up the sash for a closer look. She said there was a lot of
smoke and a lot of light from the cherry red fires but they
didn't seem to be catching the brush or moving toward the forest
swamp area and so she hesitated about calling the fire department
so late on a Sunday night. There was a substantial fine for
calling in false alarms and she sensed that they might burn
themselves out before the fire trucks could arrive so she stayed
at the open window to keep a close watch.
The Labenek boys were watching from their bedroom on the
opposite end of the house while Dr. Quarrington, living in the
house next door, was sitting in his den watching television when
he saw what appeared to be red lightning over the Labenek field
next door. He got up to go to the window to investigate but
could only see the flickering glow of red light over the horizon
from his vantage point. As he stepped outside to investigate
further, he saw a tremendously bright elliptical white light with
a golden aura descending over the trees out of his view into the
Labenek field.
Mrs. Labenek and her two boys were independently watching
from the upstairs windows as the disc shaped object moved over
top of the red fires and settled to about ten feet above the
ground in front of and to the right of the red flare like fires.
There was no sound except for the barking of a dog(s) ana none of
these witnesses could see any movement of people in the field.
There was so much light coming from the craft that it was easy to
define it's structural shape which was highlighted by a bright
flashing blue light on top which luminated a cone shaped central
hump on the disc shaped object. After several minutes the object
began to rise and then disappeared as if someone had turned off a
light switch.
Meanwhile on an opposing side of the field through a short
stand of trees, Sarah Janille's (pseudonym) dog began excitedly
pacing back and forth from an open living room window to the den
where she was watching television. When the dog began barking at
the front window, Sarah got up to go check on the disturbance.
As she peered through the open window, she noticed a peculiar
array of red lights glowing through the trees across the street
which she assumed were fireworks in the Labenek field. As she
continued to watch, she saw a set of colored lights rise up over
As she peered through the open window, she noticed a peculiar
array of red lights glowing through the trees across the street
which she assumed were fireworks in the Labenek field. As she
continued to watch, she saw a set of colored lights rise up over
the treetops and angle off at about forty five degrees before
instantly vanishing. After waiting a while to see if there would
be more, she returned to the den to ponder the event. She
thought it was strange that the fireworks didn't make any sound
and didn't explode into an umbrella of light like normal fire-
works displays.
Out of curiosity she decided to venture outside onto her
driveway to catch a closer look. Suddenly just above the trees
in front of her was a most awesome sight of swirling colored
lights which defined a strange looking object like nothing she'd
ever seen before. As the object descended in front of her, she
almost collapsed in panic attempting to retreat closer to the
house. The Labenek dogs could be heard barking up a storm in the
distance.
While the cylindrical object hovered, two occupants whose
skin glowed a yellowish white came out of the vehicle and opened
a panel on the side exposing a tremendous amount of white light.
As the one "pig nosed" entity worked at the open panel, the other
motioned sort of a hurry up signal as he pointed over the roof of
Sarah's house. She recalled feeling quite concerned as the
creature struggled to close the panel on the side of the craft
and seemed to be moving as though in water or molasses in trying
to reboard. The next thing she remembered was being back on the
couch startled at the roaring sound of a helicopter bearing down
low over the roof of her house. In a somewhat groggy state she
ran back to the window, but could only hear the helicopter
hovering and flying around the Labenek field. She was relieved
that it didn't crash into the trees across the street.. Weeks
later she recalled in explicit detail being on board the craft
ecalled a car with it's headlights turned off racing by in front
of her house just after the helicopter flew over the trees
descending into the Labenek field. Perhaps it was Guardian
fleeing the area and trying not to be detected.
Following a well documented pattern of helicopter
harrassment activity of the witnesses at the site, an
investigation of the origin of the helicopters was launched with
the cooperation of the Canadian Department of National Defence.
The publicly stated conclusion by DND was that the helicopters
did not originate from Canada. That conclusion has been debated
by other Canadian Agencies whose investigations suggested that
DND was more aware of the situation than what was publicly
acknowledged.
SOME FINAL CONCLUSIONS
What actually happened in the fields of West Carleton? Was
it an elaborately staged hoax? Was it some kind of Top Secret
military vehicle landing on private property? Or was it powerful
evidence of visitation by beings of non-human origin? Since
witnesses have agreed to take polygraph exams, we can probably
eliminate them from complicity in any hoax hypothesis. NBC's
"Unsolved Mysteries" Production Company invested between $115,000
and $250,000 attempting to recreate the events depicted in the
Guardian video yet were unable to meet the criteria. Even NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory optical film analyst Dr. Robert Nathan
was unable to find any evidence of a hoax related to the video.
Therefore we can comfortably set aside even an elaborate hoax
hypothesis as an answer for these events.
The lack of any physical evidence at the site of the flare
or pyrotechnics activity became the single biggest mystery in the
case investigation. Video analysis eliminated the possiblity of
misinterpretation of the pyrotechnics activity as camouflaged
electrical lighting with companion cosmetic smoke canisters.
According to top experts in pyrotechnics chemistry, there would
be no way to hide or extract the long term residual effects of
the primary pyrotechnic residue ingredients pouring over the
field in the form of smoke from the red flare activity. There-
fore we can conclude that whatever form of pyrotechnics used
during the event, they do not conform to known military or any
human known compounds that academicians say would be required for
red colored flare type pyrotechnics. Added to the gross physical
evidence of Titanium residue from the craft, the apparent
microwave exposure of the plants, the helicopter response and
eyewitness verification confirming the exact location of the
site, this pyrotechnics mystery would appear to be the smoking
gun UFO researchers have been in search of for decades.
Few conclusions can be drawn about the enigmatic anonymity
known publicly as Guardian. Did he too befall the same fate as
Sarah when the blue beam from the craft was pointed at the
camera? Our investigation has located a strong suspect as to
Guardian's identity. There appears to be absolutely no evidence
to suggest that Guardian has distorted the facts in any way. His
choice to remain anonymous has greatfulIy forced us to focus on
the evidence presented instead of challenging his credibility.
It seems most UFO investigations tend to focus so much attention
on the level of veracity and motives of the messenger that we
often misplace our objective priorities. In this case the
scientific analyses have proven to be the reaI tools of
investigation. Nonetheless, our thirst for answers to the
Guardian mystery will remain unquenched until he at least
anonymously can fulfill the myriad of inquiries about his
knowledge of the event and the entities he apparently
encountered.
THE AFTERMATH
As I prepare to return to West Carleton Township for the
seventh time in this expanding investigation, more evidence has
surfaced with regard to the apparent alien presence there. On
February lOth following the local broadcast of "Unsolved
mysteries", another sighting was reported on the same property.
The event apparently completely overwhelmed an elderly lady who
had not witnessed any of the previous events. And again on may
the 12th of this year at 8:30 PM just before dark, another report
came in. This time a red-orange disc hovering directly over the
previous landing spot lifted off slowly and instantly vanished
upon clearing the treetops in the field below. There has been
talk of an alien camp nearby and helicopters that descend into
the forest where no roads have been found to access. Further
still there are claims of strange looking footprints along the
banks of a nearby stream. And so the investigation will
continue...
For those who would like to keep abreast of the continuing
investigation, a video taped presentation has been prepared. It
includes the Guardian video footage of the craft and aliens as
part of an extended presentation on the UFO Indoctrination of
America, our next insiders report. Additional video updates will
be available by mail order. To order a copy send check or money
order ($35.00) to BoB Oechsler at 136 Oakwood Road, Edgewater,
Maryland 21037. Canadian orders send a postal money order (US
$40.00). All proceeds are used to support continuing research
efforts.
BOB OECHSLER
Invesligations Analyst
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