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This part of an FBI file holds a July 1967 letter sent to Director J. Edgar Hoover by a reporter for UFO Contact, the journal of the International Get Acquainted Program (IGAP), along with a copy of the magazine, dedicated to George Adamski. The magazine includes an editorial praising Adamski, an open letter to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and Ronald Caswell's account of contactee Fred Steckling's European lecture tour and his film of a UFO formation. The file also contains AFSCA newsletter items and an advertisement for AFSCA's 1966 Reno convention.
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messages to trusted UFO workers on Earth, and for other specific purposes. Most of us have read accounts written by people claiming to have received messages, both garbled and clear, from the Space Brothers via ham radios, tensor-coll experiments, etc., or of seeing spacemen or other unidentified phenomena on their television screens. There was one amusing story of a man who fell asleep while watching a late, late movie on television and awoke several hours later to find himself staring at a strange, other-world face on his TV screen! He was so scared, he snapped off the TV set and sold it the next day! Then there are cases of people hearing messages and celestial music on their tape recorders. Only recently, Fate magazine published a letter received from Myra Dee Hina of Sacramento, California, in which she stated that while attempting to record a new song she had created with the help of numerology, i.e., notes forming the vibration of each word, on a brand-new tape bought at a local store, she proceeded to pick the notes out on an organ and sing them on to the tape. She goes on to say: "I then want to turn off the tape recorder and found it had stopped. I reset it and played the notes over again. When I returned to the recorder to stop it, some sort of a force field seemed to appear. I could see it and feel it with my hands. It gave me the same sensation as if I held two repelling magnets. Wondering why such a condition existed, I stood and let the machine run on. When I no longer felt the force field, I ran the tape back to replay. My voice was clear, the notes were clear — but I was shocked beyond words when a beautiful orchestra began playing the very theme I had created. It lasted a long period, over 35 minutes. It is possible that the recorder somehow picked up music out of the air. There was no other instrument in the house, the tape was new and I ran it around 12 o'clock midnight. I've tried to repeat this strange incident several times, but nothing has happened. In addition to the music on the tape, a voice speaks in language I never heard before. Several persons who have listened to the tape say they have a weird feeling while it is playing. ## A Warning Via Ham Radio. While, even with an open mind, we cannot understandably, vouch for the veracity of all these claims, we can quote a couple of experiences of this nature which happened to our founder, the late Wilbert B. Smith, during his long and intensive study of the UFO Mystery. WBS, as most of you now, was first and foremost a scientist, and he never accepted anything without careful checks and cross-checks and only by this method was he reasonably sure of his ground. But undoubtedly, he received clear-cut messages and confirmations on a variety of scientific and philosophical matters from his space friends, the Boys from Topside, through a number of different media. One of these sources was a local ham radio operator who must be clearly stressed, knew little if anything about Mr. Smith's work or scientific experiments and most of the messages he received for Wilbert Smith, on an unidentified waveband, were completely unintelligible to him - although they made a lot of sense to WBS. By this means and with the usual, requested confirmation from other sources, Wilbert Smith received a lot of invaluable guidance in his scientific work. The most dramatic incident, however, occurred when WBS and a small working party of the then Ottawa Flying Saucer Club were preparing to test out an experimental machine they had built. Just prior to this test, the Boys from Topside broke into the ham radio operator's listening, blanking out all other stations and repeating insistently that they had an urgent message for Wilbert Smith which the operator was to pass on to him without delay and this he did. The message, couched in scientific terms, might be translated into layman's language as saying that a certain flywheel in the experimental machine would not stand the stress of the ram.p. about to be placed on it and that it would shatter under the strain; precaution should be taken. Heading this advice, WBS and his co-workers built a protective wooden covering around the machine, after which they set it in motion and, as predicted, the flywheel shattered, embedding the wooden boards with its shrapnel! ## Intervention on a Tape Recording. Another strange experience occurred during an exchange of tape recording letters between WBS and another UFO worker in the U.S. At the time, WBBS was in possession of certain scientific data which the Boys from Topside had asked him to keep confidential for the time being. Inadvertently, WBS, more by implication than direct statement, let slip a few clues to this scientific problem in a tape-letter to his colleague. A week or so later, he received the tape back from his friend, with a message asking if he would fill in the blank spaces on the tape. Puzzled, WBS examined the tape carefully and played it over, only to discover that in the places where he had let slip the tell-tale clues, the sound had been neatly erased and there was a slightly sticky substance on the tape in these areas! The only possible conclusion he could reach was that it was the work of the Boys from Topside. Here then, are two authentic cases of the Space Brothers using our electronic equipment for a specific purpose. Recently, the English magazine Week-End carried the following article, and while it is written in a humorous, tongue-in-cheek vein, Its writer may have been a lot closer to the truth than he imagined! To quote: Tonight you will probably sit down ## Use of Television.
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.