by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
In 1986, Jim Speiser of Fountain Hills, Arizona, got the urge to create an electronic forum dedicated to a discussion of paranormal topics. He started a BBS (bulletin board system) using six personal computers located at various locations in the U.S. and Canada linked together with a Fidonet system. People would dial a number that would access a computer through a modem, and they could read and post messages and access files. Speiser called his new BBS “The ParaNet.” In the summer of 1991, there was a “spin-off” of ParaNet named the Multi-national Investigations Cooperative on Aerial Phenomena, and ParaNet published a magazine called Continuum to get their investigations reports out to the public. The first case in the Volume 1, Number 1, September 1991 issue involves an investigation of a simple crop circle in a cornfield in Iowa that led researchers to other reports of strange activity in the area. The case became far more complex than a simple crop circle report, and this has ended up becoming a two-part blog. In the first part, we’ll look at the investigation and three witness accounts, and in the second part we’ll look at one more account, the conclusions, and the aftermath, which included poltergeist activity reported to have been experienced by one investigator at his home. Read more
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In 1975, after the Travis Walton Incident on November 5, because of the attention it received in the press and among the UFO community, there were two flaps in Florida that fell through the cracks and have all but been forgotten. The first one was in the area of Miami- Dade County that started on the same day as the Walton incident, and the second was a little over a month later around 50 miles south of Jacksonville in the small farming community of Hastings. The Miami-Dade reports received a good amount of local press, as did the Hastings reports. The Hastings reports were looked into by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, and there is an 
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I learned a few things while getting to know Jonathan over these last few months, prior to interviewing him. First of all, he is a no-nonsense type of person. He is highly intelligent, well read and articulate. The most important thing I learned is, he wants nothing to do with those involved in UFOlogy, nothing to do with the press of any type and it was very uncomfortable for him to recount what happened in 1997. He told me ahead of time that he had nothing to add to the first interview, and he was right. I did ask him some details, and he shared a few of them. One; it was the very first mission of heading out on a mission to check on a crashed craft, possibly friendly airplane. Two; there was a being’s arm hanging out of a cockpit? door. Three; the one positive thing he got out of it is, “I am still alive”. There was a time when he did not think he was going to live.
On March 30, and 31, 1993, reports of a UFO over Southern England came in to the Ministry of Defense. Nick Pope was manning the “UFO desk” at the time, and he described that “the phones were ringing off the hook.” He posted a