JM Notes & Studies
Title
JM Notes & Studies
Text
=== Page 1 of 103
JEFFREY MISHLOVE
3103 WASHINGTON STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115
(415) 346-7770
July 22, 1977
Millie Miller
635 Paul Avenue, Apt. # 1
San Fransisco, CA 94134
Dear Millie,
I have recently received two communications from Ted Owens which were sent by you. Since I can't write directly to Ted, I am sending this letter to you and ask you to pass it on to him.
I am very disturbed by Owens allegation with reference to me in the letter of July 17, which states, "Jeffrey Mishlove and his company of government agents refused to let this message get to the public."
The statement is blatantly untrue, for the following reasons:
(1) I published material about Ted Owens in Psychic Magazine with his picture in the company of several distinguished scientists.
(2) I put Ted on the radio in Berkeley, where several thousand people heard his state that he could control the drought.
(3) I helped arrange another radio interview for Ted on KFAT.
(4) I loaned Ted $300, out of my educational budget, when he needed money. This allowed him to come to San Francisco.
(5) I arranged another $150 grant for Owens--for which he had to do nothing in return.
(6) I arranged for Owens to meet with Milan Ryzl, a psychic researcher.
(7) I arranged for Owens to meet with Alan Vaughan, the editor of New Realities magazine.
(8) I notified over 70 scientists and government officials of Owens UFO demonstration from November 7 until February 7.
(9) I notified them all of the preliminary results of that research, which included one major UFO sighting, one UFO abduction case and one power blackout.
(10) I am still working, with Jo Ann Partridge, on a high-quality scientific paper which will discuss the details of that experiment.
=== Page 2 of 103
(2)
(11) I arranged for Ted to have the use of a house in Sonoma County for eight days, when he had no place to stay.
(12) I introduced Ted to numerous other people in the hope that they might be able to help him obtain his base in Oregon.
(13) I don't have a "company" of any sort and furthermore, none of my friends, acquaintances, or associates are government agents. Frankly, I would have no objection at all if some of them were--but this is simply not the case.
I have no idea what sort of impulse led Ted Owens to make such an unfair attack on me. In fact, I genuinely am sorry that he wasn't able to reach some of the right people with his message. If I had had more advance notice of his arrival I might have been able to do more for him. However, neither I nor any of my associates did anything at all to prevent Owens from getting his message to the public--quite the opposite.
I suppose Ted thinks that he knows these untrue things about me through his psychic abilities--in spite of all the above mentioned evidence to the contrary. It's unfortunate if he does, because he is wrong. Perhaps there are some government agents in my company that I am not aware of. This is highly unlikely, but not impossible. Even so, the thrust of his attack is essentially misguided.
Last January, Ted predicted an assassination attempt against Carter's life during the inauguration. This never happened. Later Ted wrote and told me that he must have actually been picking up on the Hanafi Muslim terrorism in Washington, D. C. So, his accuracy in these things is often partial.
In the meantime, I am very angered by his attack on me and have no motivation whatsoever to continue to work in Ted's behalf until he corrects his unfortunate mistake.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Mishlove
Jeffrey Mishlove
=== Page 3 of 103
Washington Research Center
3101 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
April 29, 1980
Dear Ted,
I've been thinking about you and your situation lately, so I thought I would drop you a letter to share some of my thoughts with you.
As you know, I've been receiving your information about shutdowns at nuclear power plants lately and I think that this is very interesting. Of course, I have no background statistical data base regarding these events, and as I've told you many times, this is necessary to make any logical evaluation of your demonstrations. However, as I recall, you originally stated that this one was not for the scientists.
Back in 1976, when we first met and I started following your career, it was my intention to help you then establish some credibility for your work in the eyes of the larger public. My attempt was in terms of well-written, logical letters--and the scientific report on you. The impact of this has been largely minimal. I think there are several reasons for this, which I shall list as follows:
(1) Probably most important, what you have done is mind-boggling. Many people are simply not willing to accept that weather control or prediction is even possible. In fact, they are not even willing to seriously examine data, such as the report, which suggests such a possibility. It is too much of a challenge to people's belief systems.
(2) There are a number of people, however, who accept the reality of psi. They don't exactly disbelieve your powers, rather they dislike your flamboyant style. It will be to your advantage if you can understand their point of view with sympathy, even if they cannot understand or sympathize with your position. To many of these people you seem evil and dangerous (injuries, plane crashes, forest fires, droughts, accidents, storms, deaths, etc.). To some people you seem crazy, with your insistence on exorbitant (or at least unrealistically negotiated) fees for your services. To some you seem paranoid in your belief that government agents are out to destroy your career, with apparently little thought with how you yourself interfere with your own best interests. To others you seem, at times, like a braggart and egotist--even if your abilities are real. From my point of view, frankly, you are all of these things and also none of them. I think you understand me.
Now that I have finally received my doctoral degree, I am in a position where what I have to say is given greater legitimization and credibility. I have the ear of the newspapers, wire services, the business world and the academic world--at least to a larger extent than before. So, to a degree, the first objection that I mentioned above is being overcome. This leaves the second one for us to deal with, if we wish to achieve mutual goals.
=== Page 4 of 103
217 Connecticut Rd. Union, New Jersey 07083
# Peter Jordan
8/21/79
Dear Jeff:
Your letter brought me unexpected shock and disappointment.
I have always been of the opinion that, when an offer is made, it is fulfilled. Although I greatly admire the work of Scott Rogo, I feel as though you have dealt me an undeserved hand. To pass Rogo the same offer originally made to me is, I feel, cold and unethical.
John Keel once advised me of the instability of the Fortean field, and cautioned me against involving myself in its "seamy" activities. He told me it was his experience that many of the investigators, writers, and researchers within the field have little regard for each other, and generally are manipulative, cold, self-serving, and immature.
I doubt very much that such brash, descriptive adjectives could be applied to your character, but it is increasingly becoming my opinion that traditional codes of honor have no place or meaning in this unfeeling world.
I hope you succeed without sacrificing your spirit.
Yours,
Peter A. Jordan
=== Page 5 of 103
Jeffrey Mishlove
Washington Research Center
3101 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 346-7770, 668-0482
August 24, 1977
Peter A. Jordan
217 Connecticut Road
Union, New Jersey 07083
Dear Peter:
I have received your letter of August 21, expressing your disappointment regarding the book with Owens. Let me clarify the situation as I see it. Your letter implies that I originally made an offer to you to write this book with me, which I then in a "cold and unethical" manner abruptly withdrew. I'm sure that if you review our previous correspondence, you will discover a different story.
You originally proposed to me the possibility of co-authoring a book about Owens, based presumably on my years of research with him. My response was twofold: (1) I believed that a book on Owens should be done, and that my editor at Harcourt would be interested; and (2) I was concerned about both your writing experience in handling such a difficult project, and the possible conflict of interest if you attempted to simultaneously write about Owens and conduct research. I can see that my response may have raised your hopes, but it can hardly be considered an "offer" which I was not ready to make without further interaction with you.
Frankly, in your second letter to me, you avoided dealing in a substantive way with the issues I had raised in point (2), except to make an offhand remark that you had published some articles in FATE magazine. Frankly, I do not feel that I have violated any "traditional codes of honor" in dealing with you. However, I believe that in your accusations that you have violated some traditional codes of clarity. If this situation repeats itself, there can be no basis whatsoever for any continued cooperation with you on the Owens research.
Owens has forwarded to me copies of your letter of 8-14 to him about research and his responses to that letter. He has asked that I mediate in the organization of further experiments. For your information, I am enclosing a suggestion by Eisenbud for an experiment which has caught Owens' imagination. If you are seriously interested in initiating research with Owens, I suggest that you contact some biochemists about setting up the protocols and equipment for this experiment in cooperation with the ASPR or PRF. Owens is also interested in fogging photographic film simultaneously. He believes that he will require about two weeks to complete the experiment, concentrating on the target apparatus for about eight hours a day. Everything must be set up with the strictest experimental controls, so that if results are obtained Owens cannot later be accused of fraud.
Furthermore, Owens is interested in this research for scientific purposes. He is not seeking popular acclaim if he succeeds; nor does he desire any public announcements should he fail to succeed in controlled experiments of this sort--which, after all, will constitute a new effort for him.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Mishlove
=== Page 6 of 103
| 1-11-77 | 10:10 am | I return Owens' call |
|---|---|---|
Trying to keep demonstration as scientific as possible.
Something he must tell me, can't keep it to himself.
"When I got irked, I did a bad thing."
Dictated notes into tape recorder. Looked at map and hit it with a couple of sledgehammer blows in my mind."
Promised never to it again. Dec. 31st!
I'm going to hit SF with all the power I can hit it with.
On tape he says he forbids me to do the book, but he apologizes for that now.
=== Page 7 of 103
Ted Owens
3:07 pm
1-19-77
Serious attempt to kill Carter in next two weeks. Local militants.
Using same man used to kill JFK. Short, red hair. An "ace" at killing. 1 team & back-up team. Doesn't know motive.
He trains teams.
Tomorrow or in next two weeks. It won't succeed if we can tip them off & alert them.
Code name, "Apple"
Diversion that they would use with a woman so they can hit at Carter.
Some weapon pistol or rifle.
Schmidt, Mueller, Scott, Bill
Underground militants, revolutionaries
- led by "aces" outside US
- Germany
- Noon & 3 pm - planned for inaug.
- flexible plan.
- "I'm very excited about it."
- "They bought off some people to get near President Carter, bought off guards (secret service)"
=== Page 8 of 103
- doesn't have complete security.
- because he can't be controlled!
- S. Cal. based
- (for fun) Michaels, Michelles
- One or more women involved
- at a ball or party.
- attempt to blow whole place up with grenade or mortar.
- wipe out everyone
=== Page 9 of 103
Ted Owens
6 UFOs in a circle around SF.
1 over SF
EM effects between them.
Radius 100 miles
"time is short for the world"
Power blackouts EM
streetcars running backward
lightning
Millie Miller
635 Paul Ave., Apt. 1
467-7456
Send Ted a map
Dr. Dierkins, Brussels, Belgium
England Carol Stebbing
804
331-2999
EM Grid over Frisco
Radio & TV interference
Ted Owens
Uri Geller 1st third
Owens 2/3 of Spectrum
PK on people who kill without needing
=== Page 10 of 103
Feb 9 8:00 am Ted Owens
higher plane
"I know what I could do"
I once gave an earthquake demonstration around the world for scientists in Phila.
Time is short for US - nuclear shootout with Russia.
SIs want a big negative dem. so that he can get backing to direct nuclear war.
"I can't see it that way. One little child wouldn't be worth it."
Put on demonstrations for Russia's benefit.
__________
Richard Austin $\rightarrow$ 387-8190 461-4012
Cal. Inst. Asian Studies
__________
Birth Data
__________
Lon
__________
send Rauty
__________
Dorothy Gundling - MPI
- music & physiology
- 5 min each, diff types of music
- 3 aura readers
__________
Human Targets for remote viewing
=== Page 11 of 103
Dec. 31, 2:20 p.m. - Ted Owens
Professional gunman
hired bodyguard
========== equiv. of shooting a 45 magnum at target
- "psis never lied to him"
- "something rough will happen"
- "all hell is going to break lose in this area"
- "I'll give you hell in that area."
----------
12:30 p.m. Ted Owens 1-1-77 - apologize
- Idi Amin: "I'm not allowed to hit a person."
- an area, not people
========== each person has a pattern: I can't interfere.
- "I don't complete every pass."
- just enough to win games enough
- Over 300 demonstrations
- not all completely the way I wanted
- 4 pts. out of 6
- like a good quarterback
- Amin: the only thing I missed in years.
- UFO Saga. Quite
- from military:
- knocked out Fla. radar.
=== Page 12 of 103
②
- article says Owens "tampered with by UFOs"
- Owens has choices, can be wrong.
- BIs say that they have fulfilled the sightings
- FBI, NASA, SS, NSA
- dossiers on Owens
- indep. of the others
- UFO reports squelched!
- write to people again, ask if anything!
=== Page 13 of 103
1-8-77
51's told Ted to call and tell me to
1. pass the word on
2. forget $1,000,000 in Swiss Bank
3. States of Cal. & Oregon to obtain top of hill in Oregon for Owens & family.
- [x] Cave
- [x] tourist attraction
- [x] cafeteria in cave
- [x] Hotel
- [x] legend of bear, bush, hole, cave
- [x] use as headquarters
- [x] with employees
- [x] everyone else off the hill
- [x] $25,000 for a year
they will end drought over Cal & whole USA
take MENSA test!
Carter -- tell him about MENSA
-- get together the best psychics as US Gov't team
=== Page 14 of 103
November 29, 1977
Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove
Dear Jeffrey:
Received your letter of Nov. 25, for which, thank you. Your book outline looks very good. Would recommend "The UFO Connection" (singular). Also, I am quite amenable to the terms which you outline, and when your co-worker sends the contract I shall sign it and return it. In the interests of accuracy... see Chapter V...I have never, ever, "psychically attacked you"... nor would I, or will I, ever. I felt an extraordinary friendly warmth toward you when we first met...and this has never changed. Sometimes I get angry...but friends can and do get angry, sometimes, but remain good friends nonetheless. At any rate, I will never throw any OD mechanisms your way...and you have my sacred oath, word, on it...and the SIs are witness to it.
I haven't gotten anything out for a long while...because my electric typewriter was inoperative. Thankfully Henry (Dr. Monteith) made me a gift of a beautiful, brand-new, manual Royal typewriter. So now I can perk. The Selectric had blinding speed; I did over 100 wpm on it...can only do about 20-30 wpm on this Royal...but at least, it will not break down every other week like the Selectric.
When we hit town here we were riding in a busted U-Haul and didn't have a dime. Had to pawn a whole bunch of stuff (which is still in pawn at Liberty Loan) just to get up a month's rent so we could move in some place quickly and unload the truck. It's been like that ever since...last week was down to $13, and nothing coming in. Am explaining this to you so that you will realize that I have been unable to get together any money to send to you to repay your loan. As soon as something good happens financially, I will take care of it, you can rest assured.
Through Henry (Dr. Monteith) I discovered that the scientists and government agencies in this area are absolutely venomously hostile toward me. He even tipped me off that they were planning a PR attack on me in the newspapers, attacking my credibility. The SIs instructed me to disengage myself completely, then, from Henry as a scientist...from the other scientists and govt. people in this area. They told me my job had been completed...what they had led me here for and literally forced me down here for. (I
=== Page 15 of 103
2
was forced to set down in this area...and forced to even take this particular mobilehome in this particular small town, 17 miles from Albuquerque...out in the country...filled with Mex and Indians.) Evidently the SIs wanted to know if I would be accepted by, and treated well by, the scientists and govt. agencies in this tremendously sensitive government area. I was not..so they found out what they wanted to know. Henry is an incredible chap...he doesn't lie, no matter what. He told me some of the bad things which some people were saying about me...even some of my regular contacts, when he checked with them about me. When I asked him if my phone was tapped, he admitted that it was. Came right out with it. He told me that if he had the base money for Oregon, personally, he'd give it to me...just to see what I could do. He told me that the 'hostiles' local govt agencies had published that letter in the News relative to my working to produce UFO phenom in this area within 60 days...in order to embarrass me. He said that even if a UFO did appear...they would pay me nothing...that they would insist that I prove that I was connected with the sighting. I've never met a scientist like Henry. And both the kids and I are extremely fond of the man. He is colored, you know. A most brilliant man. He is a physicist...his hobbies are theoretical physics and the study of UFOs and paranormal phenomena. In Chap. V of your outline you describe the difficulty of conducting and analysing such experiments...that is what Henry brought up. He told me to move things on a table, like the French lad. He said that if I were such a hotshot at PK, as I claimed, then I could do a little thing like that. I pointed out to him that I had already done that...30 years ago, already...in 1946, for Dr. Rhine, his wife Louisa, Dr. McMahan and Dr. Humphreys at Duke...when Dr. Rhine set up scissors on a table, 8-10 feet away, and asked me to knock the scissors down with my mind. And I did so. (You can check with Rhine...he is hostile toward me, but if he is truthful, he will admit it.) Well, Henry argued, he and other scientists had to have something out of me that they could measure...and if I could pull 1,000 pounds then surely I could pull an ounce. The SIs comm'd and told me to tell Henry that they had given me the brain of Future Man...and they did not want me to back up 30 years to
=== Page 16 of 103
3
where the human scientists are now...instead the SIs want the scientists (or whichever of them are capable) to progress forward to where my mind and my work are...which is far, far ahead. They want the scientists to try and understand other-dimensional mechanisms and how they work; how they affect Nature, etc. To do that, the scientists must come to where I am. Nothing is gained for the SIs if I must regress 30 years to do something some other humans are doing now. Do you understand? They told me to tell Henry...if I have taken 30 years to learn how to pull 1,000 pounds, I would be an idiot now to pull an ounce. Henry told me, "Ted, I thought I was a rebel...but you're more of a rebel than I am!" Coming from Henry, that's a compliment. Now to a few inaccuracies in your outline, again...Chap. VI... "One researcher has diagnosed him as clinically psychopathic." Let's look at that. If I were paranoid, as is inferred...then I would have delusions of grandeur and persecution. (Remember, my major at Duke in 1946 was psychology...and even at that age I was an expert at abnormal psychology...the subject of.) All right. I have never had 'delusions of grandeur'. I have been poor; have remained poor; have never had any illusions of being grand, rich, or however you could define it. I do not identify with a king; Jesus; or anyone else. I have been, and am, Ted Owens...a human with lots of faults and weaknesses...who has goofed all over the place at times. The only 'grandeur' you could attach to me, is that I claim that I work with UFOs who can make lightning strike targets at times; UFOs who will appear at times where I say they will; UFOs that will change the weather; UFOs that can tear up military exercises; UFOs that can heal people, etc. Well, my documented files indicate surely that all of this has happened. Look at the affidavit from Dr. Fogel, for whom I had a UFO appear in a certain area of Virginia, under certain conditions, at a certain time. Look at the affidavit from Margulies, partner in the huge law firm of Cohen, Shapiro, Berger, Polisher and Cohen in the PSFS Bldg. in Philadelphia...to the effect that I caused a lightning bolt to hit a specific target that he pointed out (after challenging me) from the tall building there. Look at the newspaper column confirmation of
=== Page 17 of 103
4
Stan Hochman, of the Philadelphia News...who challenged me to go with him and Bill Shefski to a pro football game and demonstrate the power of the UFOs to control a game. I did go, and did so demonstrate...100% successful. Where was the delusion in any of these things? Then plow through dozens...hundreds...of like demonstrations, affidavits...and you get the same answer. No, there was never any 'delusion'. It happened. While working for Cohen, Shapiro, etc., in Philly, I told the lawyers there that I would cause, with UFO help, a major power blackout on the East Coast (this in 1967). You should have seen their scared, white faces when the lights went out and phones went dead and typewriters went dead...when it happened just as I had told them it would. No 'delusion'. It happened. All power knocked out in five States, on the East Coast, before June 21st, as I had said I would cause it to happen.
Delusions of persecution? Ha ha ha. Hundreds of people no doubt were accused of that...when Nixon was in power. Now, after the fact...we all know that hundreds or thousands of innocent people were in fact surveilled, phones tapped, mail opened. But never mind them. Henry, who speaks for the scientists in this area, has already admitted that my phone is tapped. So do I imagine that? In Cairo, Egypt...I was followed and surveilled by both British and Egyptian intelligence agents. Imagination on my part? My pro guide, Abo...told me that Egyptian intelligence were tailing me. I knew that already (see my file on it) but it amused me. As for the British...one of their agents sat at a table with me in the Hilton Restaurant, let me know who and what he was. Do you think I imagined that? Thus my phone is tapped; I am followed; my mail is checked (I found out there was a mail cover on me in Philly in 1968 when the Postmaster mistook me for a govt. Agent and gave it away, by accident.) Add to this the fact that I have received innumerable phone calls and letters...threatening my life because of what I do (I have one such call on tape...threatening to cut my brain out.) Any wonder then that I walk wary...and remain on the defensive? Henry himself pointed out how the govt. agencies here were planning to persecute me, through PR means. So where is my 'delusion'?
=== Page 18 of 103
5
There is no question of my being 'normal'. No member of Mensa could be 'normal'. But a "psychopath"? It is to laugh. Do I carry weapons? Sure I do. I have already explained why...the threats, etc. Remember that I am a special person to the SIs... they have taken ages to find and develop me...they have caused me to learn boxing, judo, quick-draw...to protect myself for their work. It figures.
And my personal philosophy is...if some freak out of the woodwork comes at me with a gun...I do not intend to stand there and be butchered like a hog. I intend to go down shooting at him, or them. I will have that much satisfaction, at least. Remember, I am not Jeffrey Mishlove. How many people want to kill you? I am PK Man...and religious fanatics and just plain kooks all over the United States have expressed a desire to eliminate me by violence. I do not intend to just sit or stand while they do it. And even if they get in the first shot or blast...I intend to try, at least, to take them with me. Try to get your mind in gear with this.
On July 19, 1977, after the kids and I had left your friend's cabin and headed down through an isolated area of northern California...the SIs let me know for sure, concretely...what they had telepathed to me for years. THEY WERE INDEED WITH ME. 28 of them overhead, within hours. One huge one, just over my head where I could bounce a rock off it. And they stayed there for hours, too. And Beau watched them, too. Me deluded? Ask Beau. So at last I knew the tremendous power that I have...within a rock's throw at any time, I imagine. If you'd have been there, you'd have been scared witless. For years I took the SIs pretty much on faith...through the miracles that they supplied me with. But on this "haunted night" as Beau and I call it...they simply put themselves, and their power, right in front of my eyes, to see! Tell you what...if you have any doubt...hook a phone up to an PSE outfit (psychological stress evaluation) and call me and ask me to tell you all about it. Ask whatever you want. You'll get an accurate readout. Talk to Beau, too. All I ask is...be on the level...not one of the govt. agencies dirty tricks boys on dallas style..and print the results in your book! That night...was the highlight of my entire life. Can you imagine your seeing three Big Foot creatures
=== Page 19 of 103
6
and 28 UFOs overhead...in one night, Jeffrey? Think about it.
And remember...both Beau and I...saw them.
In Chap. VII..."Filled with paranoid visions (I resent that very much) he blames secret government agents for hindering his efforts.." Not so. As a matter of fact...the SIs have let me know that in fact GOVT. AGENTS HAVE AT TIMES HELPED ME. That letter you got from Millie...was Millie's own thought...had nothing to do with me, that crack about govt. agents...and I did apologize for it. This sentence is completely out of line. Then it goes on.."and declares all out war on the United States." Not true. I, Ted Owens, did not declare all out war on the U.S. -- the SIs did and told me, their spokesman (just as Henry is here for the scientists) to report it. I am the man in the middle, Jeffrey. Then the SIs kicked the bejesus out of California. Not me. I have no such powers.
(Oh, you can check with the Cape Charles police...some "dark skinned men" tried to break into my house there at 1:30 at night by cutting the glass on my bedroom window for entry...and the next-door neighbors saw them and yelled and ran them off. It was reported to the police it is in their records. But this was only one of three attempted "hot-prowl" entries into our house. Add this paragraph to the 'paranoid delusions of persecution' part of this letter.)
Incidentally, I wish you the best of luck...all good things... on your getting your PhD, Jeffrey.
In closing, you mention 'apparent poltergeist effects' centered on the files of materials about me. Ha! We had those in our house in Cape Charles...but here it is even worse! Two weeks ago, after I had put Teddy to bed in his own bedroom...I heard loud, savage, leopard-like growls coming from his room. I thought that somehow he was making the noises, and told Beau about it the next day. But last week, one night...about 4 in the morn, I was wakened in my own bedroom...by loud, savage, animal growls, at the foot of my own bed. I got up, checked the room with a flashlight...but nothing there. Next morning when I got Teddy up... first thing he said was, "Daddy, something was growling real loud in my room last night!" I.e., he and I had both heard the loud, horrible growls (that would raise the hair on your head.) Also at
=== Page 20 of 103
Timothy Leary
San Diego
get police report
"insulators"
- 4" square article
insulating-like
- Santa Cruz police were called in.
- Man went to get friend
friend saw it just receding
- 3 am,
- landed on Pacific & Laurel
Sentinel, Santa Cruz (last week)
11-17
=== Page 21 of 103
This sighting discussed with Nick Herbert & Jim Harder.
- Harder suggests that in letters to the police, I not mention Owen's name - but say that a computer made the predictions.
Note: this sighting in Oct '76 - witness unreliable.
=== Page 22 of 103
Ted Owens 3-29-77
Last night being taught by some man in my sleep.
- [ ] 10 commandments being given to aliens.
- [ ] Podgorny: wake up in sleep all night
- [ ] gone to Africa from Russia
- [ ] Dynamite.
=== Page 23 of 103
US Govt not to try & shoot down and interfere with UFOs.
__________ "let them alone"
=== Page 24 of 103
K.H. Newton
Denny Pulis x3487
Ralph Fairchild x3136
Outages every day
80,000 meters
PG&E News Bureau
77 Beale St.
S.F. 94106
=== Page 25 of 103
Bodega Susan, Chairman of Art History
12 years ago, Upstate NY
Poughkeepsie
band of black on the bottom of the sides
larger than plane on sides
not luminous when I saw it
Oakland
12-11-76
Stephen Poleskie
Carl Sagan
=== Page 26 of 103
Shorter Paper in mail tomorrow!
stockholder suit
SF Foundation
Exxon Foundation
Media Support
Bright light on black mountain.
North Marin Water Board
Esalen
Dianne Vaughan
=== Page 27 of 103
6:10 p.m. 9-28-80
Ted Owens
Wants to do demonstration for T.V.
Chew up all pro-football teams. Rhine seeing psychiatrists a result of his work.
Working with Greenpeace
__________
Knows what Russia are doing
Af. is a start, jigsaw puzzle
__________
Judged this is time to start.
Perhaps in W. Germany.
1000 fires for Russia - make moves.
=== Page 28 of 103
TED OWENS BIOGRAPHY
He claims that at the age of three he was abducted by the saucer intelligences (SI's) who performed some sort of brain surgery which modified the left hemisphere to enable him to establish instantaneous two way telepathic contact with these beings. He claims to have mastered some fifty different skills in his life and credits the modification for this flexibility. For over ten years, he has created "demonstrations" of unusual abilities ranging from apparent feats of psychokinesis, healing, geological and atmospheric disturbances of massive proportions and causing the appearances of UFO's.
Although vague about the exact relationship between himself & the SI's, he projects the image of both liaison between the SI's and humans and the image of a forceful character whose interests are mainly for personal gain.
His personality, as he admits, is abrasive and straight forward. He speaks with undertones of resentment towards the skeptical scientific and scholarly community. Self contradiction is the predominant factor in his philosophy of governing the ethical use of his alleged psychic abilities. He has come under attack by psychics and scientists, not only for the possibility of fraud (as he has failed polygraph tests) but also for the destructive use of his alleged PK ability.
Owens has been very vague about his personal code of ethics and his plans for the future use of his alleged powers. However, throughout the years, virtual mountains of documented information in the form of clippings, affidavits, letters and articles have been amassed about this controversial figure and his exploits throughout the world.
MAJOR EVENTS
14 November 1969 Apollo 12 -- Owens notified NASA that the SI's were angry due to lack of his recognition and that they were going to sabotage the moonshot by striking the craft with a bolt of lightning. Owens arranged with the SI's to have the attack before the craft lifted off to avoid injury. The Apollo 12 was struck 36.5 seconds into lift-off, however NASA ordered the astronauts to continue the mission. No lasting harm was done and the lightning was explained as the result of the rocket piercing a rain cloud.
It should be noted that in 1964 and 1965, Owens warned NASA of this same attack and it was ignored. A sworn affidavit testifying to Owens' prediction was signed by two court reporters and a secretary on this date.
? ? 1967 Philadelphia -- Owens and two witnesses, Charles Ray and Kenneth Batch, tried another lightning experiment in which City Hall was the first target. Within minutes of the moment when Owens pointed his hands, three bolts in succession struck on or about the City Hall building. A second target was chosen some minutes after in a different section of the sky. Again within minutes, lightning appeared in that section and not anywhere else. It should also be noted that between the choosing of the targets no lightning struck anywhere at all. Both witnesses signed sworn affidavits on 12 August 1967, both were of high integrity judging from their occupations.
=== Page 29 of 103
Business / TM
Dramatic positive
Intuition Natural motivation
A good feeling for Gigi's career
Dream Music comes forward
=== Page 30 of 103
May 3, 1996
A 'Knockout Blow' to be delivered against the skeptics of psi.
My work moves congenially, effectively to highest levels of society - broadest levels.
Long, healthy life
=== Page 31 of 103
University Extension
University of California
Berkeley
EIGHT-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM
CONDUCTED BY JEFFREY MISHLOVE
# Parapsychology and ESP Learning
July 11-September 2
Mishlove is one of the major catalysts in the field, a student, supporter and synthesizer who suggests connections others are simply less equipped to see as possibilities. I have worked in this area for more than 25 years, and I know it well. But I know of no one today with as good a grasp of the many facets of this most fascinating of all fields.
MICHAEL SCRIVEN, Ph.D.,
Professor of Philosophy and Education, UC, Berkeley;
President-Elect, American Educational Research Association
Research in parapsychology has been advancing for more than 100 years. Since 1969 parapsychology has been officially recognized as a branch of science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The use of psychic abilities in business, medicine, crime detection, archaeology, scientific exploration, and personal growth has been widely reported. Unfortunately, perhaps, there has also been resistence to training in psychic development. Civilization has yet to provide comprehensive models for psychic training comparable to the well-developed programs and incentives in athletics, music, science, and art. Recently, however, Milan Ryzl, Charles Tart, and others, have scientifically demonstrated that some individuals can learn to use their ESP abilities.
This eight-week intensive program deals with the latest research in parapsychology and ESP learning. It is divided into four credit courses and individual and group sessions. Participants learn of the latest research findings; receive training in increasing their skills in hypercognition (mental processes extending rational thought, such as relaxation, concentration, and visualization); join in laboratory and field studies using ESP; explore their own ESP potential talents; and become familiar with research design and methodology in parapsychological research.
The eight-week program meets from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday each week, with the series of evening lectures each Wednesday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. A complete daily schedule will be sent upon request.
**Parapsychology X 109.3 (3)**
Study of psychic phenomena and transpersonal psychology. Use of meditation and biofeedback to enhance and comprehend altered states of consciousness. Parapsychology in medicine; Zen, Tibetan, alchemical, and shamanistic systems of transpersonal psychology; psychic events in hypnotic, psychedelic, and psychotic episodes; psychokinetic phenomena, and work with psychics.
**Analytical and Experiential Approaches to the Study of Hypercognitive Skills X 106.5 (3)**
Hypercognitive skills are mental processes--other than strictly rational thinking--for perceiving, knowing, and acting. These processes involve relaxation, concentration, creativity, and self-awareness. This course familiarizes participants with the literature on hypercognition, demonstrates hypercognition training techniques, and help in discriminating between legitimate uses of these techniques and their abuses for fradulent or unethical purposes.
**Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation X 106.4 (2)**
This course provides experiences as subjects in parapsychological experiments, and critical tools necessary for the evaluation of experimental reports in the literature. It deals with principles of experimental methodology and technique, the differences between field investigation of spontaneous ESP experiences and the experimental exploration of ESP, and the issue of repeatability and ESP learning. Please note: A separate evening section is available to those who cannot enroll in the entire program.
**New Research in Parapsychology X 106.3 (2)**
A series of evening lectures by researchers involved in experimental research and evaluation. Topics and speakers:
July 13 Factors affecting ESP performance--JOHN PALMER, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UC, Davis
July 20 Remote-perception of natural targets--HAROLD PUTHOFF, Ph.D., and RUSSELL TARG, Ph.D., Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park
July 27 Ganzfeld studies and psychokinesis--EDWIN MAY, Ph.D., Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Aug. 3 Hypnosis and ESP learning--MILAN RYZL, Ph.D., formerly with the Czechoslovakia Institute of Biology, Prague
Aug. 10 Psychic integration counseling: ESP and mental health--ELEANOR CRISWELL, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, California State College, Sonoma
Aug. 17 Learning to use extrasensory perception--CHARLES T. TART, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UC, Davis; President, Parapsychological Association
Aug. 24 Physical properties of Psi phenomena--ELIZABETH RAUSCHER, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, UC, Berkeley
Aug. 31 Philosophical overview of parapsychology--MICHAEL SCRIVEN
Please note: The lecture series is open to enrollment apart from the entire program.
**Coordinator and Instructor: JEFFREY MISHLOVE**, Ph.D. candidate, UC, Berkeley, and author of *Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation Through History, Science and Experience*, published by Random House/Bookworks, 1975. For the past nine years he has led courses and workshops on psychic exploration, mysticism, and consciousness development at colleges throughout the United States. He has produced more than 300 radio programs that approach psychic consciousness from the scientific, experiential, humorous, social, and artistic perspectives.
The eight-week program has been developed as a whole, and enrollment may not be made for individual courses, except for the Wednesday evening lecture series "New Research in Parapsychology" and a section of "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation," which will be given on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
**Prerequisite:** upper division standing or consent of the instructor. If you are enrolling for the entire program, please submit with your enrollment form a résumé of your interest and experience in parapsychology and a statement of why you wish to take these courses. Enrollment is limited.
**Dates:** July 11-Sept. 2; Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wed., 7-9:30 p.m. for the entire program. Evening courses: "New Research in Parapsychology," July 13-Aug. 31; Wed., 7-9:30 p.m.; and "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation," July 12-Sept. 1; Tues. Thurs., 7-10 p.m.
**Location:** All sessions meet in International House, Piedmont Avenue and Bancroft Way, Berkeley, with the exception of "New Research in Parapsychology," which meets in 155 Dwinelle Hall, UC, Berkeley campus.
**Housing:** Rooms are available at International House for this period. Housing information will be sent upon request. Please write to Dept. SBHS, University Extension, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720, or call (415) 642-1064 in Berkeley.
**Credit:** 10 quarter units in Psychology for the entire eight-week program; 2 quarter units each for "New Research in Parapsychology" and "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation."
**Fees:** $450, entire program (edp 105304); $55, New Research in Parapsychology lectures (edp 105312); $7.50 individual lectures, available at the door, space permitting; $75, Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation (edp 105320)
**For Information:** write Continuing Education in Behaviorial Sciences, University Extension, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; or call (415) 642-1064.
To enroll: complete and return the form on the reverse side of this announcement.
----------
=== Page 32 of 103
# ENROLLMENT FORM
Please mail to: Dept. B, University Extension, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
Name __________ __________ __________
last first middle
Address __________
number and street
__________ __________ __________ __________
city state ZIP daytime telephone
Social Security number (Please note, if you are enrolling for credit: Your Social Security number is the basis on which records are kept. Pursuant to the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, disclosure of this number is mandatory. This record-keeping system was established prior to January 1, 1975, by authority of the Regents of the University of California under Article IX, Section 9, of the California Constitution.)
I enclose $ .......... to cover ..... enrollment(s) in the following:
- [ ] edp 105304 Eight-Week Summer Program Conducted by Jeffrey Mishlove, $450
- [ ] edp 105312 New Research in Parapsychology X 106.3, $55
- [ ] edp 105320 Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation X 106.4, $75
Please make check payable to The Regents of the University of California, or if using BankAmericard give:
__________ __________
your account number date card expires
__________
and your signature to authorize charge
Please use a separate sheet giving above information for others covered by this enrollment.
As required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (45 CFR 86) the University of California does not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission to or employment in the educational programs and activities that it operates. Inquiries concerning Title IX may be directed to the Assistant for Legal Affairs to the Vice Chancellor, Administration, 228 California Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, or the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. 20203.
=== Page 33 of 103
Ted Owens
Box 1171
Libby, Montana
59923
Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove
190 25th Ave.
San Francisco, California
94121
=== Page 34 of 103
Schneider leaves
Rick Schneider, publisher of The Western News, this week announced that he is resigning his position. He has been replaced by H. Markley McMahon, president of Cabinet Publishing Co., the firm which owns The Western News. Schneider, who has been with The Western News for four years, including 16 months as publisher, said that he will leave Libby with regret, but that he had an opportunity in Alaska too good to pass up. McMahon also announced that he was naming his wife, June, as editor of The Western News. She has more than 30 years of newspaper experience, including five years as co-publisher of the Humboldt Sun, a semi-weekly newspaper in Nevada. McMahon, who brings 38 years of newspaper experience to the job, has spent the past 20 years as publisher and co-publisher of newspapers in Nevada and New Mexico. He said that his appointment and that of his wife's were temporary, pending finding a permanent replacement for Schneider.
"Saga", Mish/Rogo book; several TV + radio talk show hosts w/ me.
February 23, 1983
SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS
The above may simply be one of those famous 'coincidences' connected with me which Dr. Hynek has attributed to me. But then again, it might not.
Do you remember, in the early 1970's, when Saga Magazine did five different big articles about me and my work? Just afterward the Editor responsible for the Otto Binder articles was fired...a new Editor Brought in...and Saga from that time on studiously ignored me and my work...IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE FIRST EDITOR INFORMED OTTO BINDER THAT THOSE ARTICLES ABOUT ME BROUGHT SAGA MORE MAIL FROM ITS READERS THAN EVER BEFORE IN SAGA HISTORY! Logic would demand...why, with the bringing in of a new Editor, would I then be blacklisted, in effect, with Saga.
D. Scott Rogo and Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove wrote a brilliant book about my work and it was purchased by a famous publishing house in New York, which provided thousands of dollars in advance money. Suddenly, what do you know, the Editor who chose the book mysteriously resigned and a new Editor came in and rejected the book.
Back again to the newsclip up at the top of this sheet. Schneider, the publisher of Western News, suddenly departed and a new publisher came in...immediately after a very large article appeared in the Western News about me and my work.
Not only the above 'coincidences' happened...but through the years I appeared on numerous television host-talk shows and radio host-talk shows. In one instance I appeared on a Philadelphia TV show and the host was a negro. The very next day he was fired from the television station. In Norfolk, Virginia, I appeared on a radio show and the very next day he was fired from the radio station...he called me in Cape Charles, Virginia, and said "would you believe it? It was because I had you on my show!" There have been these and other similar 'coincidences' as Dr. Hynek loves to apply the situation to me. It is quite obvious that one or more government agency is stalking me...keeping me "in a box"...and punishing those who "let me out of the box" albeit temporarily. A policewoman, Scarlett, secretly came to my home in Libby with her mother and gave me valuable information from inside the Sheriff's Dept. (She had been 'taken' by a UFO here, at night.) Within days she was off the force...and she and her mother vanished from Libby. Friend
=== Page 35 of 103
UFOs Sun Attack G Reis 3/9/83
# Weather forecasting
# A long way from perfect
The art of forecasting still has quite a ways to go. Economic forecasts of recent years are noted more for being wrong than being right. Recent forecasts of electricity demand turned out to be so far off that they helped trigger the near downfall of the Washington Public Power Supply System. And, to add to the list of "misforecasting" achievements, we have the weather.
Last fall, weather experts checked their isobaric maps, ocean temperature gradients and charts of the jet stream and other pertinent data and announced that the prospect was for the coldest winter in years. A consensus of meteorologists, quoted in U.S. News and World report last October, said the United States "was heading for a brutal winter, perhaps the coldest of the century."
Ominous signals abounded. Autumn weather began two to four weeks ahead of schedule, with record lows for September reaching as far south as Alabama. Dust from the Mexican volcano El Chichon was expected to shield the earth from warming sunlight. Peter Leavitt, vice president of Weather Services Corp., a commercial weather-forecasting company, noted that the high-altitude jet stream did not make its usual shift to the Arctic. That meant large parts of Canada and the Eastern United States never really warmed up during the summer.
Then there were measurements of a slight decrease in the energy Earth receives from the sun, which could have devastating effects on the planet. Norton Strommen, chief meteorologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, concluded: "When you combine winter trends over the last few years with this fall's chilly temperatures, it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than this is going to be a long, hard winter."
This winter isn't over yet, but so far it has been noted for its extreme mildness. Here in the Northwest, this January and February rank as among the warmest on record. In the East, energy experts report that many billions of dollars in fuel costs have been saved because of generally warm temperatures.
While many meteorologists are willing to go out on a limb with long-range forecasts, the National Weather Service has adopted a highly cautious attitude. Donald L. Gilman, chief meteorologist there, observes that a forecast for the coming winter made in September is probably "no more accurate than the flip of a coin." And that comes from one of the nation's top weathermen.
For the rest of us, it fortunately is not necessary to have a track record for accuracy in order to be able to talk about the weather. We can continue to talk about the weather and can continue to do nothing about it for as long as we like.
March 9, 1983
SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS
I told you well in advance of the above information, of course, that my UFOs were going to deflect the sun's rays onto Earth...causing the center of the Earth to gradually increase in heat-intensity also causing weather anomalies on the face of the Earth.
The UFOs are also causing the "intelligence" of the Sun to attack the Earth. You will read above: "Dust from the Mexican volcano El Chichon was expected to shield the Earth from warming sunlight." Obviously those experts were not aware of the Sun attack my UFOs are inflicting onto Earth.
Also, above, you will note that all of the experts predicted an almost-record cold winter...and what they got was record heat in many places and a warm winter. Caused by the work of my UFOs, of course!
The UFOs Sun Attack seems to have affected Australia the most, first; I have written to the Prime Minister, as you now know...and if they contract with me to give me the Base if I, with my UFOs, produce enough water for them...then the UFOs Sun Attack will be removed from its effect on Earth...after my UFOs and I get that Base.
Owens
=== Page 36 of 103
Date: 2/28/83
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
A few years ago Ted Owens (PK Man) sent me documentation to the effect that he was working on ending a terrible drought in Australia at that time; following documentation indicated that he and his UFOs had indeed ended the drought in Australia.
Then Owens informed me that he had been insulted by an authority in Australia who had been closely cooperating with him, sending him maps and documents, etc., but that, after he, Owens, had ended the drought, the man in authority had rudely broken off their connection without even a word of thanks from the Australian government.
Owens told me at that time that, to redress this wrong, he would bring back an even greater drought in Australia, a drought ten times worse than the drought he had ended.
Owens has requested that I supply him with a notarized affidavit of the above facts and I am doing so.
George E. Delavan
George E. Delavan
Des Plaines, Illinois
Joan H. Citro
Notary Public
=== Page 37 of 103
UFOs Sun Attack
# Australian brushfires controlled; 69 killed
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Fire brigades fought brushfires around Melbourne on Thursday but controlled most of the conflagration that has swept across Australia's southeast coast like "a panzer division." Police said at least 69 people were killed.
"It was like a giant flame thrower," said one weary firefighter.
"The wind was like it came from a huge hair dryer," said a man who lost his house -- one of 3,000 homes destroyed in seven towns that were consumed by wind-driven flames Wednesday and Thursday.
"A panzer division going through could not have caused so much damage," said Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser after an inspection tour.
More than 4,000 firefighters had most of the fires under control by Thursday. The flames, fanned by gale-force winds, devastated 2,600 square miles of drought-stricken farmland, forest and scrub along a 500-mile stretch of Australia's southeast coast in the states of South Australia and Victoria.
Exhausted firefighters were still battling outbreaks late Thursday in the hills around Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city. Elsewhere, they remained on guard.
Police said 69 bodies had been found. With 46 bodies already found in Victoria and 23 in the state of South Australia, police expected the total to exceed the 71 killed in Victoria in 1931 in the worst brushfire in Australian history.
Some died in their automobiles, trapped as they tried to flee the flames.
About 900 people were reported injured. Officials estimated property damage at more than $400 million.
With the Southern Hemisphere's summer at its height, the worst drought in Australian history spawned brush fires that 60-mile winds from the central desert whipped through the Adelaide Hills and down the south coast past Melbourne into the Dandenong Ranges.
Foreign Minister Tony Street, whose election district in Victoria was badly hit, said the winds were so strong they sent the fire truck in Airey's Inlet "sailing down the road" even though the fire chief "had his foot on the brake and the handbrake jammed on."
"He ended up in a ditch and got up and ran for his life," said Street. "Another man was driving down the road and saw a complete roof of a house pass him about 12 feet up."
Twelve volunteer firemen were incinerated Wednesday at Cockatoo, 31 miles from Melbourne, when flames surrounded their two trucks. But 120 children in a Cockatoo school were spared when two men sat on the roof hosing down the building while the children huddled under wet towels.
February 23, 1983
SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS
You may or may not recall that several years ago I worked on ending the then terrible Australian drought. I was actually approached, through the mails, at that time, by a person of authority in Australia, requesting that I take that action, which I did. The man sent me all sorts of huge maps of Australia and government books showing the drought, month by month...and I brought in huge rains all over Australia and wiped out the drought. To my amazement the man then wrote me and said that all correspondence must cease...I must not write to him again. In short...once I got the job done they didn't want to know me...evidently for fear the fact would get out that PK Man, with UFOs, had worked on ending their drought. Well, I informed Mr. George Delavan, computer specialist and close friend of mine...that I would restore the Australian drought "ten times worse than the one I ended." Australia is in that drought now. As you can see above it is "the worst drought in Australian history." (I always keep my word, if humanly possible.) When an area incurs my wrath (Australia, England, Texas, etc.) then God help it.
CALIFORNIA
Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens
=== Page 38 of 103
Schneider leaves
Rick Schneider, publisher of The Western News, this week announced that he is resigning his position.
He has been replaced by H. Markley McMahon, president of Cabinet Publishing Co., the firm which owns The Western News.
Schneider, who has been with The Western News for four years, including 16 months as publisher, said that he will leave Libby with regret, but that he had an opportunity in Alaska too good to pass up.
McMahon also announced that he was naming his wife, June, as editor of The Western News. She has more than 30 years of newspaper experience, including five years as co-publisher of the Humboldt Sun, a semi-weekly newspaper in Nevada.
McMahon, who brings 38 years of newspaper experience to the job, has spent the past 20 years as publisher and co-publisher of newspapers in Nevada and New Mexico.
He said that his appointment and that of his wife's were temporary, pending finding a permanent replacement for Schneider.
"aga" mesh/Rogo book; several TV + radio talk shows note w/oe.
February 23, 1983
Ted Owens
Box 1171
Libby, Montana
59923
Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove
190 25th Ave.
San Francisco, California
94121
on numerous television host-talk shows and radio host-talk shows. In one instance I appeared on a Philadelphia TV show and the host was a negro. The very next day he was fired from the television station. In Norfolk, Virginia, I appeared on a radio show and the very next day he was fired from the radio station...he called me in Cape Charles, Virginia, and said "would you believe it? It was because I had you on my show!" There have been these and other similar 'coincidences' as Dr. Hynek loves to apply the situation to me. It is quite obvious that one or more government agency is stalking me...keeping me "in a box"...and punishing those who "let me out of the box" albeit temporarily. A policewoman, Scarlett, secretly came to my home in Libby with her mother and gave me valuable information from inside the Sheriff's Dept. (She had been 'taken' by a UFO here, at night.) Within days she was off the force...and her mother vanished from Libby.
=== Page 39 of 103
Partly Cloudy
High 70, Low 48
Details, Page A2
The Virginian-Pilot
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, Virginia, Thursday, March 10, 1977
112th Year, No. 110
Price 20 Cents
# Muslim Terrorists Seize 3 Buildings, Take Scores Hostage in Washington
Two hostages released from B'nai B'rith headquarters wait in a rescue vehicle.
By WALTER R. MEARS
WASHINGTON (AP)--Terrorists invaded the headquarters of a Jewish organization, a Moslem religious center, and Washington's City Hall Wednesday, killing a radio newsman and seizing scores of hostages.
The gunmen held their captives into the night in buildings ringed by police, who sealed off sections of Pennsylvania Avenue, close by the White House, and Massachusetts Avenue, in the heart of Embassy Row.
Police are in contact with the terrorists, seeking release of the hostages.
The apparent leader of the four invaders at the B'nai B'rith headquarters, a Jewish service organization, demanded and got cancellation of the premiere of a motion picture, "Mohammed, Messenger of God."
The gunmen demanded that five men convicted of the 1973 massacre of seven Hanafi sect Moslems in Washington be brought to the building.
As the takeovers unfolded, at least 11 people were shot, stabbed, or beaten.
A city councilman was shot in the chest and the mayor of Washington was, for a time, barricaded in his office against the intruders.
The man known killing was at the District of Columbia Building. Radio station WHUR said the victim was Maurice Williams, 22, a staff reporter.
Police said there are two gunmen holding hostages in that building.
A police spokesman said the invasions are the work of Moslems, apparently members of the predominantly black Hanafi sect, and were coordinated. Victims of the 1973 slayings were members of the same sect. J. E. Sarner, a police spokesman, said the gunmen talked to each other on the telephone.
At nightfall, four intruders were holding more than 100 hostages at the B'nai B'rith building.
They made the public demands.
"I'm a Muslim, that's it," one of the gunmen told a radio reporter who telephoned from WBE in Boston. "Now get that straight or I'll hang up on you. . . Do you remember they killed my family in 1973? . . . Now we are fighting for our lives because we are not going to let this picture be shown in this country." The intruder told an Associated Press reporter that the film tries to make a joke of his religion.
In New York, Irwin Yablans, U.S. distributor of the movie, said it had been ordered out of American theaters. He said people were asked to leave theaters where the film was showing in Los Angeles and New York. At the Rivoli Theater in New York, the film was halted during showing, and about 1,000 patrons got refunds or rain checks.
Aside from the apparent quest for retribution and the insistence that the movie be cancelled, there were no clear demands. Police negotiated with the gunmen by telephone and by shouting through office-building stairwells.
"We're asking what their demands are and they said we'll find out later," Sarner said.
The three invasions happened within hours. First came the strike at B'nai B'rith, headquartered seven blocks north of the White House. Then at least one gunman invaded the Islamic Center, a mosque on Embassy Row, taking 15 hostages. Then came the shootings at the District of Columbia Building.
(See Terrorists, Page A7)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The invaded buildings are all within 1 1/2 miles of the White House.
# U.S. to Ban Saccharin Soon Because of Cancer in Animals
WASHINGTON (AP)--The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is banning saccharin, the only artificial sweetener approved for use in the United States, because it causes cancer in laboratory animals.
Acting FDA Commissioner Sherwin Gardner said that it will take at least until July to complete the administrative requirements before the ban goes into effect. But he called on manufacturers "to discontinue use of saccharin as soon as possible, even while we are drafting the documents needed to accomplish this action."
The FDA said that it will not order a recall of the many soft drinks and foods that contain the sugar substitute since tests "do not indicate an immediate hazard to public health."
A similar ban was announced simultaneously by the Canadian government, whose scientific studies were the basis for the U.S. action.
Under the FDA's order, it will take 30 days for the agency to draft the ban. The FDA then will allow 60 days for comments from interested parties. The agency will then take another 30 days to make the rule final, making July the earliest month the ban could take effect.
Americans eat or drink more than 5 million pounds of saccharin a year, about three-quarters of it in diet soft drinks and the rest in coffee, tea, and diabetic foods such as canned fruits, gelatin desserts, jams, ice creams, and puddings.
It also is used in some mouthwashes, cosmetics, and over-the-counter drugs.
The Canadian study involved feeding 100 rats a diet of 5 per cent pure saccharin during their entire lives, from conception until death. Fourteen of the rats developed cancerous bladder tumors compared to only two such tumors in a group of 100 animals given no saccharin.
In order to consume an equivalent amount of saccharin, a person would have to drink 800 12-ounce diet sodas a day for a lifetime, the FDA said.
The FDA order was denounced by an officer of Sweet 'N Low, a large saccharin user.
"Any call for a ban of saccharin is an outrageous and harmful action based on flimsy scientific evidence that has absolutely no bearing on human health," said Marvin E. Eisenstadt, executive vice president of the company.
"It is an action that provides no public benefit, and indeed, could cause great harm to the millions of Americans who need an artificial sweetener for medical reasons and as an aid in weight control."
The federal law under which the FDA acted prohibits the use in food of any ingredients shown to cause cancer in animals or humans.
Gardner said that he could not assess the economic impact of the FDA's decision but said that it will be "substantial, no question about it."
# Confirmed
The Senate, after days of heated debate, has confirmed Paul Warnke as President Carter's chief negotiator for strategic arm talks with the Soviets. Warnke also was confirmed as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Story is on Page A7.
# Apology on Chile Not Policy: Carter
WASHINGTON (AP)--President Carter said Wednesday that a newly recruited American diplomat's apology for past U.S. action in Chile was "inappropriate," and the State Department promptly announced that the envoy was being called in for "consultations."
Brady Tyson, deputy leader of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, expressed regrets in a speech Tuesday "for the role some government officials, agencies, and private groups played in the subversion of the previous, democratically elected Chilean government."
Carter told a nationally broadcast news conference that he did not have advance notice of Tyson's remarks, which he characterized as "a personal expression of opinion by that delegate."
Carter also spelled out some of his thoughts on a possible Middle East settlement, announcing that he soon will begin exploring his ideas with Arab leaders. And he announced that he is lifting restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia effective March 18.
Saying that Tyson's words did not reflect government views, Carter said Senate investigators found no evidence that the United States was involved in the 1973 overthrow of the Chilean government of Salvador Allende.
Shortly after Carter's meeting with reporters, a State Department spokesman said Tyson had been called into the department for a review of his speech. The State Department also said "the procedures for coordinating U.S. policy" will be reviewed in the consultations with Tyson.
The State Department said the action does not represent a recall of Tyson from Geneva, because Tyson was planning to return to the United States on Wednesday, anyway.
Carter's apparent candor on the superpower arms race and on the Middle East of his free-wheeling disclosure at his first news conference Feb. 8 of proposals for conducting arms-related negotiations with the Soviet Union--an action that surprised many conventional U.S. diplomats.
At the broadcast news conference, Carter said he can foresee a Middle East settlement in which Israeli forces might be permitted to go beyond that country's established boundaries to provide protection against any sudden Arab attack.
He also talked about the possible use of international forces to police a demilitarized zone that might extend, he said, for 20 kilometers or more.
Having met here this week with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Carter said, "I will be meeting in the next few weeks with representatives of the Arab countries when they come." Carter plans to consult with leaders of the Arab nations most directly involved by mid-April.
The President acknowledged that the search for a Middle East settlement "will be a long, tedious process." But he pledged "to mount a major effort in our own government" to bring the parties to a Geneva conference in the last half of the year.
Carter also:
* Said the United States is concerned about human rights under the present Chilean government.
(See Carter, Page A7)
# In Today's Pilot
| | | |
|---|---|---|
| Ann Landers | | D4 |
| Bridge | | A25 |
| Business | | B5-7 |
| Classified | | C9-19 |
| Comics | | B2 |
| Dr. Thosteson | | A14 |
| Editorials | | A10 |
| Movies | | C8 |
| Obituaries | | A12 |
| People Column | | A14 |
| Sports | | C1-7 |
| Tidewater Living | | D1-7 |
| TV-Radio | | B4 |
| Weather | | A2 |
# Today's Chuckle
Little boy's description of his baby sister: "She has some teeth, but her words haven't come in yet."
# Friend's $153,000 Bequest Stuns Beach Couple
By GEORGE BRYANT
Virginia Beach City Editor
VIRGINIA BEACH--"My husband and I just kind of looked at each other to make sure we weren't dreaming," the wife of a Virginia Beach man said this week after being informed that her family will inherit an estimated $153,000 from a family friend.
"We knew his father left him some money but not to the extent of this," said Mrs. Jerold A. Goldy as she reminisced about her husband's Navy buddy, who died in September.
In a will probated in Ohio last month, retired Corpsman Robert Edward Lee, 49, named the Goldys beneficiaries of his entire estate, which lawyers estimate is worth $133,000 in cash and property before taxes.
The Goldys said Lee, who never married, "just kind of adopted us as his family."
Goldy met Lee seven years ago while stationed at Oceana.
"He was a good friend," Goldy said. "He enjoyed the same things we liked."
For several years Lee "lived with us on and off. He was kind of like a built-in boarder," Mrs. Goldy recalled, "a permanent resident of our sofa."
Lee referred to the Goldys' three daughters, aged 12, 13, and 16, as his girls, she said.
When an Ohio attorney notified the Goldys of the will they couldn't believe the amount. But the fact the Goldys were beneficiaries was not completely new.
Lee's sister, Mrs. Mary M. Brown of Akron, told the Goldys shortly after Lee's death that they were the beneficiaries of his $20,000 Navy insurance policy. But the rest was a complete surprise.
Lee died of a heart attack on an Akron street corner on his way back to Virginia after a 10-day visit, his sister said. His sister and friends were unaware he had heart trouble, though Lee apparently knew, because relatives found unfilled prescriptions for a heart ailment in his personal belongings.
Goldy said Lee once mentioned in passing that he was going to look after the children, but never said any more about it.
Mrs. Brown said this week that her brother had few friends, but the Goldys were special. "Their family was his family."
Lee was a small, shy person who "was never one to make friends," Mrs. Brown said, "but he would always do anything for anybody."
Despite his shyness, Mrs. Brown said, her brother would give a beggar on the street $100 if the mood struck him. "And that was just the kind of person he was."
The Navy was Lee's life.
"When he got out . . . he never did go to work. He just didn't seem to have a life afterwards, except for the Goldys, his sister said.
She speculated that Goldy's active-duty status was Lee's link to his 20-year Navy career.
"The ironic thing is we couldn't even go to his funeral," Mrs. Goldy said. Her husband was at sea at the time and she and her children could not afford the plane fare.
"I had airline tickets reserved for the girls and myself," Mrs. Goldy said, "but I knew I couldn't afford it."
Goldy has had part-time jobs and his wife has worked most of the 18 years they've been married, but they still have to make an occasional extra.
But Lee spoiled her daughters, Mrs. Goldy said. "It was nothing for him to hand them a $10 bill to go roller-skating when all they needed was a dollar," she said.
Lee even offered to buy 16-year-old Angela a car for her birthday but the Goldys put their foot down on that.
"It hurt his feelings but I didn't feel that a 16-year-old needed to be given a car," Mrs. Goldy said.
But Angela said Lee told her in a phone conversation the night before he died that he would figure a way to get her that car when he got back to Virginia.
"He was good to us," she said.
It will be a year under Ohio law before the Goldys actually receive the proceeds of the estate, but they have no immediate plans except to fulfill a promise Lee made to take the children to Disney World and possibly send them to college.
Beyond that, they hope their good fortune won't change their way of life, and they're already leery of those who might have 'good deals' for them.
=== Page 40 of 103
# Terrorists
Continued from Page A1
lumbia Building, within sight of White House grounds.
Police said they believe eight to 10 hostages are being held at the District building, with an undetermined number of workers barricaded in their offices. Mayor Walter E. Washington was for a time locked in his own office before he was able to escape the building.
City Council President Sterling Tucker, first reported a hostage, later was found to have eluded the gunmen. But Councilman Marion Barry was shot in the chest, underwent surgery, and was reported in stable condition.
At B'nai B'rith, Daniel Thursz, the executive director, said the gunmen apparently released about 20 hostages who were not Jewish.
President Carter ordered the FBI into the case.
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley said Carter ordered the bureau to investigate "all violations of federal law involved in the terrorist-type activities being perpetrated in the Washington, D.C., area."
The terrorists struck as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin concluded a three-day visit to Washington. Departure ceremonies near the Washington Monument were canceled abruptly, and Rabin's motorcade sped without stopping to his waiting airplane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
At all three buildings, police cordoned off the streets. Police riflemen and special weapons units stood at the ready.
"We're just sitting and staring at each other," said a woman barricaded in her fifth-floor office at the B'nai B'rith building. She said there were five coworkers with her. "We're fine. We're barricaded in," she told a reporter by telephone.
At the B'nai B'rith, a gunman who identified himself as Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis demanded withdrawal of the movie and said the invaders want retribution for the 1973 murder of the seven members of the Hanafi sect.
The Hanafi group is a predominantly black sect of the Islamic movement in the United States, independent of the much larger Black Muslims. The Hanafis are thought to number about 1,000.
In January 1973, seven sect members, five of them children, were killed in Washington in a house owned by professional basketball star Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Five men associated with the Black Muslim mosque in Philadelphia were convicted of the murders and are serving long sentences.
Here is how the three episodes unfolded:
Photos by The Associated Press
An unidentified woman peers from a fifth-floor window of the B'nai B'rith headquarters.
* At B'nai B'rith headquarters, at midday four men entered the white-brick building in a downtown area of offices and embassies.
They carried weapons gangland style, in what looked like guitar cases.
When police arrived, they found the door lashed shut with chains. They cut their way in, and officer William Stansbury said a half-dozen people were lying on the floor, along with two bayonets and a pistol.
"There was blood on the floor," Stansbury said.
He said a hail of gunfire ricocheted from above when police started climbing the stairs. The police retreated, escorting out the people they found in the lobby.
Police said the intruders had rifles, two of them automatic, apparently carried some pistols, and were armed with knives and a machete as well.
At least eight people were shot, stabbed, or beaten.
The takeover began on the fifth floor. A woman employe there said she and six others locked themselves in their office after staff members shouted warnings.
Another employe said the warning came at about 11:10 a.m. EST. "And about a quarter of 12, we heard three shots. . . ."
Office workers barricaded their doors with chairs, desks, and bookcases, and waited it out.
The terrorists took no more than 20 hostages at first, but captured more as they moved to two other floors, finally taking up positions on the eighth floor. Police said they used rollers to paint over rear windows in the building, apparently to block the view of police sharpshooters.
Steven Hurwitz, a B'nai B'rith official in Richmond, Va., said he was talking by telephone with Dr. Sidney Clearfield at the D.C. headquarters when he heard a commotion over the line.
He said he heard a voice, and while he isn't sure of the exact words, they amounted to "Up against the wall or we'll blow your head off." Clearfield didn't return to the phone.
Thursz, B'nai B'rith executive director, said "there was blood and glass all over the place" when he went into the building with police to set up an operations center in the lobby.
Thursz said he and B'nai B'rith President David Blumberg were on their way to lunch with Rabin when the takeover occurred.
By nightfall, the four gunmen were holed up in a cafeteria on the top floor, and police said they had more than 100 hostages.
Khalifa did most of the talking, telling newsmen who telephoned his stronghold that the film "Mohammed, Messenger of God" is offensive to his faith.
"Tell everybody we don't want that picture playing, trying to make my religion into a joke," he said.
He also posted the demand for the murderers of the Hanafi Moslems, and said at one point that the gunmen want the slayer of Malcolm X brought to them.
* In the second invasion, police said one and possibly two gunmen walked into the Islamic Center mosque on Washington's plush Embassy Row during the lunch hour and seized 10 to 15 hostages.
No shots were fired and no injuries reported.
Among the hostages is the director of the center, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf, a traditional Moslem religious official in Washington. Dr. Rauf lives at the mosque with his family.
Also seized was an unidentified Chilean student who was with a group touring the mosque, and the tour director, the Rev. Robert Teasdale of New York City, president of the World Association for Travel Exchange.
John Ashton of Fredericksburg, Va., who was among more than 40 members of the tour group who escaped at the outset of the incident, said he first noticed something was wrong when he saw a mailman suddenly drop his bags and flee the building.
Outside the mailman told a policeman there was a man with a gun in the mosque, Ashton said.
Ashton then warned members of his group and also fled.
Within half an hour after police first learned of the seizure, about 50 officers converged on the scene. Traffic was blocked off along a three-block section of Massachusetts Avenue, a heavily traveled four-lane street lined on either side by foreign embassies.
The mosque serves as a religious and social center for Moslems from several embassies as well as Americans of that faith.
* At about 2:15 or 2:30 p.m. two men armed with a shotgun and a handgun entered the District Building, rode an elevator to the fifth floor, and opened fire, according to accounts by witnesses.
They killed Maurice Williams, 22, a black man employed for the last 18 months by Howard University's radio station, WHUR-FM. The gunmen wounded Councilman Marion Barry and two guards.
By nightfall the invaders were holding about 15 hostages. Mayor Washington remained for several hours in his office in the building, under police protection, then went to police headquarters.
Barry, interviewed later at Washington Hospital Center, said the shot that hit him apparently was a ricochet. "The doctors say if it had been a direct hit I wouldn't be here talking to you," he said.
A hospital spokesman said doctors removed a bullet from Barry's chest, where it had lodged a quarter-inch from his heart.
Barry said guards warned him of trouble when he entered the District Building, and two of them rode up with him on an elevator.
On the fifth floor, he said, "I heard two shots and my instinct was to hit the floor and move out of the way."
Then he heard a third shot, and felt a burning sensation in his chest. Knowing he was hit, he stumbled into the City Council room, where a sparsely attended hearing was in progress on the economic development of the district. Barry said he waited 20 to 25 minutes before medical help arrived, and heard intermittent gunfire during that time.
=== Page 41 of 103
WASHINGTON STREET RESEARCH CENTER
3101 WASHINGTON STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94115
Ted Owens Research Project
Preliminary Proposal for Continuing Investigation
Project originator Jeffrey Mishlove proposes to continue research and development work on the case of Mr. Ted Owens along the following lines:
(1) Continued collection and analysis of documents relating to Owens' demonstrations.
(2) Collection of statistical data bases regarding phenomena symptomatological to the Owens effect; such as lightning, UFO sightings, hurricane activity, tornado activity, drought, rain, and power blackouts.
(3) Interviews with individuals associated with previous demonstrations by Owens.
(4) Medical and neurological studies relating to Owens' claim that the "SIs" have surgically operated on half of his brain. Some records may be available from tests done at the Mayo Clinic.
(5) Hypnotic regression of Owens, if possible, to periods relating to his alleged actual physical contact with the "SIs."
(6) Personality tests and in depth clinical interviews of Owens for the purpose of elucidating the relationship between his psi abilities and his psychological makeup.
(7) Analysis of Owens' PK techniques in order to determine whether these apparent skills can be learned by other individuals.
(8) Experimental projects designed to test Owens' alleged ability to control weather in ways beneficial to people, i.e. causing rain in drought stricken areas.
(9) Experimental projects designed to test Owens' alleged ability to produce UFO appearances, or other forms of contact, under circumstances where physical measurements can be made.
The duration of the proposed work will depend on specific project objectives and on availability of personnel, facilities and funding.
The Washington Street Research Center (WSRC), can accept tax exempt contributions through its affiliation with a sponsoring tax-exempt public foundation, the Regional Young Adult Project, or can accept non-exempt contributions directly. WSRC is committed to maintaining high technical and ethical standards in the conduct of its research programs, and encourages communication between research associates and funding sources, through regular reports and through informal discussion as needed.
=== Page 42 of 103
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF EVENTS WHICH SUGGEST
THE POSSIBLE APPLIED PSI ABILITY
OF MR. TED OWENS
Jeffrey Mishlove
3103 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
December 1977
=== Page 43 of 103
Note: This factual report is one of the most unusual documents, non-fiction or fiction, that you are likely ever to have read.
The author would appreciate readers monitoring their personal, psychological reactions to this report as well as their critical comments.
=== Page 44 of 103
Introduction
Mr. Ted Owens--currently of Bernadillo, New Mexico--is an individual who purports to be in telepathic contact with other dimensional beings which he calls Space Intelligences (SIs). For many years, Owens has supported this hypothesis by making written predictions regarding a variety of unlikely events which he claimed the SIs would be instrumental in causing. These events have included UFO sightings, hurricanes and storms, lightning striking pre-selected targets, mishaps on NASA spaceflights, power blackouts, earthquakes, and anomalous radar sightings. The present investigation with Ted Owens utilizes two methods: (a) collection and evaluation of documents relating to Owens' demonstrations during the past ten years and (b) observations from a ninety day, pilot demonstration during which Owens attempted to have the SIs produce a variety of unusual phenomena in the San Francisco area.
History of Owens' Demonstrations
The data upon which this historical evaluation is based has been gathered from the files of Dr. Leo Sprinkle, of the University of Wyoming, Laramie, whose correspondence with Owens begins in 1970; and Dr. Harold Puthoff and Mr. Russell Targ, of SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, whose correspondence with Owens dates back to about 1974. Owens has been sending his predictions to these researchers, at their request. Some of the items in the files go back as far as 1966, but were apparently sent to these researchers years later.
These files document Owens' financial difficulties, his family life, his religious speculations, and his many conflicts with the outside world. Many of the records contain instances in which Owens seems to be taking credit for events which one would not reasonably think he predicted in advance. In other instances, Owens' predictions are clearly inaccurate. Often the events which Owens predicted occurred nearly, but not exactly, as he claimed they would. When the events did occur as Owens
=== Page 45 of 103
2
predicted, it is often difficult to determine whether the prediction was actually psi-mediated rather than being the result of informed intuition, or perhaps misleading or even fraudulent documents. Finally, when the dramatic probabilities suggest an actual psi-mediated event, we are often unable to distinguish SI intervention from PK or precognition.
In reviewing 144 claims by Owens, I have arrived at a preliminary judgement that over 73 of these cases would suggest paranormal functioning to a rational person who is already willing to accept this as at least a possibility. 42 cases exist which are not likely to support Owens' hypothesis and another 29 cases are clearly disputable. These judgements have emerged from a sympathetic, but critical, theoretical orientation. Others are likely to differ in both directions.
The following highlights from Owens' career are selected not always for their evidential nature but also because they provide interesting information about Owens and his work. These cases have not been personally investigated with the thoroughness than a criminologist might apply.
**March 10, 1966:** In a letter to Lyndon Johnson, Owens warned that "our forces will be lucky if they even manage to escape from Viet Nam with their lives...regardless of all our military might." Owens also told LBJ that the SIs will bring rain to end the five year drought on the East Coast. He warned that after the drought has ended, if he is still ignored by the U. S. government, then the SIs will create something even worse.
Newspaper clippings from May 1966 through July 1967 show continuing rain on the East Coast, and in fact many floods in 1967. Clippings from **U.S. News and World Report**, July 7, 1967, indicate that experts did not then have a handle on the reasons for the drought or its end in massive rains. Contrary to the indications provided by Owens, the rains of 1966 alone were insufficient to end the entire drought although conditions did substantially improve.
**June 13, 1966:** In a letter to Mr. George Clark of the Central Intelligence Agency, Owens warned that the SIs will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe,
=== Page 46 of 103
3
or a carrier catastrophe, by September of 1966. Owens also predicted a "serious blow" to the White House.
None of these events happened within the specified time limits. However, on November 10, 1966, the U. S. nuclear submarine Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. On October 26, 1966, the U. S. aircraft carrier Orinsky was struck by a fire which killed 44 men. Two other submarine accidents and four other carrier accidents were reported during September, October and November of 1966. Also in November of 1966, LBJ received surgery in both his throat and abdomen--possibly a serious blow to our seat of government. The Owens files are periodically confounded by the fact that unusual events which Owens predicted seem to have occurred just beyond the specified time limits. Owens believes that this is because the SIs operate from a different dimension of time.
**May 8, 1967:** In a sworn affidavit, Sidney Margulies, partner in a Philadelphia law firm, states that Owens caused lightning to strike the Camden Bridge, a target preselected by Margulies. Lightning struck within minutes after Owens pointed his hand at the target. Margulies states that there was no other lightning either before or after the experiment. Other affidavits testify to similar lightning demonstrations. The logic of this experiments suggests psychokinesis.
**August 1970:** Science writer Otto O. Binder published an article about Owens in Saga based on files which I have not seen myself. One prediction mentioned by Binder is of interest:
"On October 26, 1965, a telegram sent to George Clark, CIA, Washington, D.C., held this alarming statement: 'A rare warning. They (the SIs) will unleash a terrible catastrophe within 10 days.' Signed: 'PK man' (Owens).
A little more than ten days passed without incident. But on November 9, 1965, the Big Blackout hit seven northeastern states and parts of Canada, plunging 30 million people into darkness."
**January 1971:** Owens published his predictions for the year in Saga. He states, "President Nixon will not finish his term. Something most unusual will occur and he will either resign or be forced out of office." This may be the earliest Watergate prediction on record.
**March 23, 1971:** In a letter to government agencies and scientists unnamed,
=== Page 47 of 103
4
Owens stated that the SIs want earthlings to "get your earth back into good condition before you even think about outer space." Owens warned that the SIs would attack space shots and cause death to astronauts.
May 9, 1971, newspaper clippings indicate a disappointing failure in the NASA Mariner 8 Mars launch. "Officials reported after studying radio data that the second stage began to deviate from course about 20 seconds after ignition and that it tumbled out of control at an altitude of 92 miles."
On May 12, 1971, in a letter to NASA officials Owens specifically warned against sending up the Apollo 15 moon shot. On June 16, 1971, minutes after scientists put the moonship through a mock launch, the umbilical tower next to the rocket was struck by lightning damaging power units that had been knocked out by lightning the previous day. In his letters, Owens refers to previous undocumented demonstrations where he had caused lightning to strike "lightning proof pads" at Cape Kennedy. The Apollo 15 shot was, nevertheless, eventually successful. On
May 20, 1971: In a letter to Larry Maddry, an editor with the Norfolk Virginia Pilot newspaper, Owens stated that he will use his PK to save farms and villages from being destroyed by molten lava from Mt. Etna which had then erupted in Sicily. Copies of this letter were sent to three scientists. Newspaper clippings from May 20 indicated that thousands of villagers in Sant' Alfio and Fornazzo lived in the path of the lava flow.
Newspaper clippings from June 9, 1971, indicate that while the lava caused $8 million in damages, destroying about 50 buildings, the villages of Sant' Alfio and Fornazzo narrowly missed destruction. Priests called it a miracle.
July 18, 1971: Mr. Bill Bell, a placekicker with the Atlanta Falcons signed the following sworn affidavit:
While the Russian cosmonauts were up in orbit, and everything was going perfectly, I phoned Owens at midnight on Friday, June 25, 1971, and asked him why the UFOs had not killed the Russian cosmonauts up in orbit. He answered that he was sure the UFOs were curious about what they were doing; would watch them carefully until the end of their experimentation, and then "clobber" them with it came time for them to come down. He said he did not know for sure what the UFOs would
=== Page 48 of 103
5
do to the cosmonauts, but that it would be "drastic." He further stated adamantly that the UFOs never said anything they did not mean; that they were always deadly serious; and if they said they would kill humans from now on in orbit or outer space...well, that's what they meant.
Several days later I told some of my friends of Owens' dire prediction concerning the Russian cosmonauts.
On Wednesday, June 30, 1971, I was amazed to hear that the Russian cosmonauts had been found dead.
January 22, 1972: In a letter to Otto Binder, Owens speculated that his PK operates subconsciously, which is why he believes several people who "double crossed" him have been mysteriously killed.
January 29, 1972: The following handwritten statement is signed by Juan Jose Arenas, M. D., Post 16 N, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico:
Last night, Friday night, Ted Owens sat with my son, Kevin, and I on our veranda overlooking the mountains, and I requested that Owens make a flying saucer (UFO) appear over our house! He said that he would communicate with UFOs, and try to bring one over our home. For quite a long while we waited. The sky was absolutely clear. Then peculiar clouds began to fill the sky directly in front of us, until our immediate field of vision was obscured. I went in to bed. Shortly thereafter my son, Kevin, rushed in to tell me that a UFO had in fact appeared. I went out to the veranda, with binoculars, and observed the UFO carefully. It was standing above a line of trees, on a mountain top. It had the appearance of a brilliant star (but seemed to have more brilliance than a star). It kept changing color from red to gold to blue to yellow. It also kept moving, slowly, in an erratic manner in a slight zig-zag direction. It rose upward slowly and then moved horizontally across the sky to another point some distance away, where it stayed, but still moving about erratically.
At this point I, being a physician and having put in a very hard day at my clinic, decided to go to bed, which I did. However, I am making an honest, true, and accurate statement of facts as they occurred: Ted Owens told us that he would try to make a UFO appear, following which a UFO did in fact appear, observed by me, my son Kevin and Owens.
March 7, 1972: In an apparently sworn affidavit (no notary stamp and confusion of dates), Otto Binder made the following statement:
My name is Otto Binder. I am an author. Last night, Sunday night, February 27, 1972, Ted Owens called me long distance from Cape Charles, Virginia. The time of the call was approximately 8:00 PM.
He told me that it was his intent to stop the Jupiter shot at Cape Kennedy, which was forthcoming about an hour later and that he would do this with his mind...the power of his mind. He explained that the UFO intelligences had given him a new technique to use...which he had
=== Page 49 of 103
6
used the past week to obtain earthquakes on the West Coast (which he had documented with scientists several months past). He also informed me that he had telephoned the city editor last night at the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, and left the message for Larry Maddry, columnist, as follows: "Jupiter rocket going up tonight. Will not allow success."
What followed, factually, was that around 8 PM (the same time, approximately, as Owens' call) all power facilities around the Jupiter rocket at Cape Kennedy went utterly dead. Without power the rocket could not go up, and did not.
I am confirming these true and accurate facts at the request of Ted Owens, who keeps a file of such things, I understand.
In order to maintain a semi-scientific approach to all this, I have telephoned the Virginian-Pilot editor, and actually confirmed that Owens did indeed make the other call and left the message that he would make the shot unsuccessful with the city editor. So all is in order.
I swear that this is a true and accurate statement of facts as I know them.
In his own remarks on the Jupiter shot, Owens noted that the newspapers attribute the power failure to a storm over the area two hours before. Questioning this interpretation, Owens asked why the power failure didn't occur earlier at the time of the actual storm.
Double Space
**April 19, 1972:** In a letter to six scientists who have been interested in his demonstrations, Owens discussed his purported PK control of the Apollo 16 moon shot. Owens claims that he telephoned Otto Binder and J. Allen Hynek on the evening of April 15, 1972, the day before the flight and told them the following:
I am going to give this NASA Apollo space shot fits. Will try to knock out power before it goes up. Failing that, will pursue it with my mind, my PK mechanisms to cause it all sorts of troubles and difficulties. Give them fits. I will build into the intelligence of this PK attack that it not injure or kill the astronauts. I will do whatever I can to make the mission a failure for NASA. The reason for this is that the government has not cooperated with me; neither has anyone else. Therefore their reason must be that they do not think I have any such power. I will do what I can to show them I do indeed have such power.
There is nothing in the files from Binder or Hynek to support Owens' claim that he did, in fact, notify them in advance of the flight. There is only a copy of the "PK Map" which Owens drew with the rocket as his target, and also copies of telegrams Owens sent to Binder and Hynek after the flight which state, "I have done exactly what I told you I would do."
Newspaper clippings subsequent to the flight indicate that an unusual number of problems occurred. The insulation on the outside of the lunar landing module was torn into shreds. An errant electrical surge confused a spaceship computer and caused
ut
=== Page 50 of 103
7
it to send commands which locked the guidance system of the spacecraft, wiping out the basic references needed to for the craft to steer itself in space. Mission control later indicated that the electrical surge which flashed through the craft was as if it had been struck by lightning in space. Communications systems were dropping out because the lunar command ship, Casper, was spinning slowly in space and the antenna was pointing away from earth three times an hour. This happened when Casper's steering mechanism failed to work. It was the first failure in space of the command ship's main propulsion system.
Problems also occurred with the astronauts. Orange juice seeped into their helmets and dried like glue, preventing the helmets from being unlocked later on. Several major scientific experiments were lost as the astronauts stumbled over power cables and failed to throw crucial circuit breakers. Later reports indicated that the astronauts were exposed to radiation from the first solar flare ever to occur during a manned moon mission. Finally after the mission had safely returned to earth the space capsule's fuel tank exploded causing damage to the capsule and blowing a hole through the roof 250 feet above.
In his letter Owens gladly took credit for all of the mishaps involved, including the fact that, in spite of the difficulties, none of the astronauts were injured. I could imagine that, after his failure to stop the Apollo 15 flight, Owens was hedging his bets on Apollo 16 and therefore failed to insure adequate documentation of his intentions before the flight. I have no evidence which directly suggests that Owens, himself, has ever been dishonest regarding his demonstrations.
April 27, 1972: The National Tattler received the following prediction from Owens, which he had actually made the previous month for Warren Smith: "George Wallace will be assassinated in time ahead. Shot."
On May 15, 1972, Wallace was shot.
April 30, 1972: In a letter to John Kerr, vice-president of the Virginia Squires basketball team, Owens predicted that he was going to use his PK powers to cause Kerr's team to lose its ABA playoff series against the New York Nets. At the time
ens
=== Page 51 of 103
8
the letter was written, the Squires were ahead 3-2 in the seven game series. Owens stated in his letter that he was angered when he received a call from a representative of the team asking him to help out also--but refusing to pay him a fee for his service. Furthermore, the Squires had hired a "PK Master" called "The Great Kahuna" to help them win the series (and to entertain the audience at halftime).
Newspaper clippings indicate that the Squires lost the next two games and thus the series. One article states that in the final game the Squires missed 57 of 91 shots and made the fewest number of points since moving to Virginia two years previously.
There are dozens of similar cases in the files where Owens has used his PK abilities to affect the outcome of basketball and football games with apparent success. Sportswriters have generally received Owens' claims favorably and presented him as something of a hero opposing the big business management of the teams. His exploits have even received coverage in several national sports magazines.
**May 30, 1972:** In a letter to six unnamed scientists, Owens stated that he was going to embark on a demonstration in the Cleveland-Akron area in order to teach a lesson to the people who mistreated him during a recent visit to that city. Owens stated that he would produce the following phenomena:
Power blackouts there...big ones.
More than the usual number of fires.
All kinds of electrical disturbances.
Lightning storms...with lightning striking many places.
Planes being forced down; power failure, etc.
Ships sinking just offshore.
Blazing hot drought.
The people in the area behaving peculiarly more than usual.
Odd animal behavior (dogs, cats, etc.).
Possible epidemics.
60-90 mile-per-hour winds.
In a sworn affidavit, Otto Binder states that Owens told him personally in June of 1972 that he would also "hit" the Cleveland Browns football team with his PK mechanisms.
Newspaper clippings indicate that the Clevela
=== Page 52 of 103
9
nd area was hit with an unusual heat wave in July of 1972. One article states that the heat caused the city streets to buckle and manhole covers to "blow their tops." Another article in the Cleveland **Plain Dealer**, dated July 23, 1972, stated that crackpots were swarming to City Hall to see the mayor:
The flow of those claiming to hear the voice of God, receive messages from outer space or be secret agents on secret missions started to climb last Monday and remained at a high level all week.
Other articles discuss lightning striking which killed three people and caused power blackouts. The heatwave, combined with pollution blanketed the area with a rotten egg smell for four days. Cars were stalling and failing to start
=== Page 53 of 103
10
in the heat. In Akron, over a million pounds of garbage went uncollected by July 25 in the heat as municipal workers went out on strike on July 10. Residents were dumping their garbage in the city parks. Another article stated that Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns was hospitalized for surgery on July 13 after walking through a sliding glass door at his New York home.
In subsequent letters about his Cleveland demonstration, Owens made a number of interesting points. Owens had appeared as a guest on the Pete Franklin show on Tuesday, May 23, 1972, where he felt publicly insulted and walked out of the studio "sizzling mad." The next day there were two major power failures in the downtown Cleveland area. When Owens returned to Virginia on Monday, May 29, and shortly thereafter a newspaper clipping reports power blackouts throughout the Norfolk area. Owens suggests that the strong emotions he felt triggered these blackouts-something like a super RSPK effect. Owens also sent to his scientific correspondents a UPI clipping, dated August 9, 1972, documenting an enormous sunspot which according to a scientist at Boulder, Colorado, was "sort of like getting snow in Atlanta in July." Owens points out that the concentration technique he was using during the Cleveland demonstration involved an intensification of the sun's energy onto the Cleveland area. The sunspot, he suggests, may have been caused by his mind.
June 29, 1972: In an apparently sworn affidavit (no notary seal) Bill Richards, a radar expert from Cape Charles, VA, stated that Owens' description of a radar experiment was accurate in every way. Owens' story is as follows:
Yesterday afternoon (June 26, 1972), the UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and told me to get to a radar screen and try to demonstrate phenomena on a radar screen....So I phoned a man I know who by chance is a radar expert....The upshot of it was last night I wound up in a huge radar setup, sitting before a radar screen with my friend sitting beside me. This was not done through official government channels....
First my friend explained what was what, patiently. Then mentally I called the SI's to appear on the radar screen. Then a strange ring of objects appeared on the screen, in a concentric circle. My friend, who is a top expert, would not identify these objects. He could readily point out ships, airplanes, etc. After a bit the ring of strange objects faded out and vanished. Then after a bit, they reappeared again. Before my
=== Page 54 of 103
11
session was over another ring of strange objects appeared inside the first ring.
But the big result was this: I'd been concentrating for about an hour on the screen when suddenly what my friend called "spokes" or "strobes" began to appear. These were heavy, straight lines of light revealed when the sweeping arm went over them. My friend explained that sometimes these spokes could be seen at sunup or sunset, but never at 10 to 11 PM at night (when we were working on this demonstration). My friend got very excited at these spokes which began to appear at different points of the circle. After checking he stated that these spokes were caused by something very powerful RIGHT OVER THE RADAR DOME WHERE WE WERE OPERATING!
...I used my regular excitatory technique, same as I use on TV screens to control pro football games, exuding PK power from my brain, backed by verbal exclamations. AS SOON AS I DID THIS CLUSTERS OF SPOKES APPEARED CLEAR AROUND THE CIRCLE, IN EVERY DIRECTION! Up until I used this PK "attack" technique, there had only been a spoke here, a spoke there. But immediately when I began to exude PK force, psi-force, the spokes appeared in multiples, everywhere. This lasted for a brief time, then the spokes vanished entirely. The radar expert told me that he had never seen this phenomena in all his years of radar work.
The above quotation is taken from a letter by Owens to J. Allen Hynek, which in his affidavit Richards stated is accurate. The affidavit continued to add further details regarding the experiment:
Furthermore, Owens told me personally the night that he did his radar screen experiment that the technique which he was using on the screen could probably result in immediate rainstorms, because he was using on the radar screen lightning coming from his fingers which was the same technique that he used to make storms at other times. (And weather was clear.)
Last night, the night following the experiment, there was a huge rainstorm here in Cape Charles, Virginia, then again today, two days later, there was yet another rainstorm; rather two, one in the afternoon and another tonight.
Furthermore, on Monday night Owens told me that as a result of his use of psi-force over the radar screen ships might sink and planes might crash in the Chesapeake Bay area (which the radar screen denoted). Tonight a Navy Phantom Jet airplane crashed in the Chesapeake Bay area (this is Wednesday night, two days later after Owens prediction). And furthermore, Owens told me on Monday night to watch the television and newspapers for just such a happening! This news of the plane crashing appeared on local television tonight! (June 28, 1972)
I swear that all of these statements are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.
Subsequent to Richards' affidavit, the files indicate a number of other crashes and accidents in the Chesapeake Bay area. Up to three inches of rain was reported
=== Page 55 of 103
12
in some Tidewater locations on June 28 and there were also many power outages throughout the area. On June 29, a newspaper clipping reports a variety of unusual "gremlin" type phenomena interfering with a Navy change of command ceremony for the Vice-Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk. Also a Navy jet was almost lost near the Chesapeake Bay when a wheel dropped off the jet was flying. Only tremendous flying skill got the plane down without crashing.
On July 10, 1972, a fire aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal caused some $12 million dollars in damages. A sailor who was caught setting one small fire was charged with arson and newsclips mentioned a possible death penalty. On August 6, Owens wrote a lengthy letter to the attorney defending this sailor suggesting that he, Owens, was responsible for the fire as a by-product of his radar demonstration. The attorney's reply indicated that while he was very interested in Owen's argument, it would hold no weight at all in a court of law.
On July 28 a small twister hospitalized two people and damaged several motels and automobiles in Virginia Beach. July 29, 1972, lightning struck and killed two people in Norfolk, VA. On August 1, a civilian pilot was killed in a crash near Zuni, VA.
An accident occurred with a Navy Blue Angels Phantom jet on August 3, 1972, in Kingston, N.C., which was within the 150200 mile range of the radar demonstration. On August 10, another Navy jet crashed at the Ocean Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach after returning from field carrier landing practice at Fentress Air Station in Chesapeake. The pilot was killed. Another Navy jet crashed off of the Virginia coast on September 14, 1972.
On September 21, 1972, an empty barge, drifting in high winds and heavy seas, slammed into the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, heavily damaging the structure and forcing it to close. A survey showed no fewer than 30 impact points. The bridge was closed for about three weeks. Owens claimed that this bridge was actually the
=== Page 56 of 103
13
main focus of his PK radar demonstration. The storm which occurred at the time of the accident which was the worse in that area in over ten years.
**October 25, 1972:** In a letter to "my six scientists," Owens states that he will create a giant psi-force demonstration with the help of his UFO friends:
I propose to CREATE summerlike weather this winter--warm, pleasant weather, little or no snow or cold. In this manner the fuel shortage need not happen, and people in the U.S. will not suffer.
To do this I am going to communicate with my four huge giant UFO's and arrange for one (or two) on the far side of the earth to reflect the sun's rays onto THIS side of the earth, these rays to then be reflected downward onto OUR side of the earth by the one or two huge UFO's on THIS side.
Whether my understanding of the sun is correct or not, I am going to use the four huge UFO's positioned around this earth to furnish heat to the U.S. this winter! So that the U.S. can have one of the warmest winters in its history.
Newspaper clippings from the winter of 1972-1973 reveal that it was, indeed, a warm winter. Norfolk, VA, reported 73º sunshine on December 5, the warmest weather for that day in 47 years. An AP story dated January 21, 1973 shows that New York City set a new record high for the day of January 18 with a temperature of 66º. The City of Washington, D.C. set a new record by going without snow all winter according to a UPI article dated February 14, 1973. An article dated March 20, 1973, in the Philadelphia Inquirer states that that city "logged an interesting 'first'--its first winter with no measurable amounts of snow." The fuel shortage never did manifest during the winter of 1972-73, however it did get very cold in parts of the western United States and in February 1973 the southeastern states were blasted with the worst snowstorm in a century. Newsclippings show that Governor Jimmy Carter's home in Plains, GA, was buried under two feet of snow.
In a letter dated March 27, 1973, Owens noted that it snowed in the south for about a week where it hadn't snowed in ten years. This, he said, was nature's way of maintaining its delicate ecological balance.
**January 22, 1973:** In a letter to his six scientists, Owens made the following
=== Page 57 of 103
14
claim:
Since no government takes me seriously and just a few scientists are even interested, they (the SIs) deem it necessary to give a demonstration of their powers further in order to prove that they are real and that I am indeed a living link with them, as no other human being is.
This last year was called "The Year of the Flood" (a special television show to that effect, outlined the many floods and heavy rainfall, which I had in fact predicted in Brad Steiger's book, "What the Seers Predict for 1972" a year ahead of time).
All right. Ahead is NOT the year(s) of the flood. But the REVERSE. The SIs are going to produce world-wide drought, intense heat, and LACK of rainfall and water.
Otto Binder once asked me, "Ted, which plague are we in now?" The above is it.
Newspaper and magazine articles document terrible drought conditions in 1973. Owens' plan was to use his powers to end the droughts in various countries when the various governments would ask him to do so. None asked. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle dated June 14, 1973, states that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations listed 28 countries stricken by drought that year. "The prolonged series of dry spells, the worst in 25 years, has killed cattle and reduced crops in wide areas of Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East." "'Too many countries have had droughts simultaneously,' said Anthony Leeds, of FAO's basic foodstuffs service. 'They came at a time when there has been a big drop in grain production in the world.'" An article in Newsweek dated June 4, 1973, called 1973 "The Year of the Famine." Newspaper clippings stated that Britain, famed for the moistness of its climate, had its lowest rainfall since 1749. China, the Soviet Union and Australia were all effected. Africa had the worst drought in 60 years.
November 9, 1973: The following letter, written on MENSA letterhead stationary is signed by Max L. Fogel, Ph. D., Director of Science and Education for Mensa:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet," and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFOs and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25,
=== Page 58 of 103
15
1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973.
Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owens' letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place.
Interestingly enough, one of the two witnesses of this sighting was Marion Owen, the Chase City police radio dispatcher who first sighted the object after noticing an unusual light reflection on the window of the police station. Ted Owens, in later correspondence, claimed that the similarity in names is a signature from the SIs to acknowledge that the sighting was, in fact, one of his demonstrations. There are several other instances in the files where this name similarity seems to occur.
Actually, in Owens' original letter to Fogel, he stated that he would cause UFOs to appear all over Virginia. He would almost have to make such a large claim as the country was already in the middle of a major UFO flap in October of 1973--having been triggered by the famous Pascagoula, Mississippi, case. Owens, in his correspondence, took credit for having caused the entire wave of UFO sightings throughout the country--although he admitted there was no documentation to support this claim other than in his personal notes.
February 12, 1974: In a letter to Ed Busch, of Radio Station WFAA, Dallas, Texas, Owens--who had been on Busch's radio program the week before--made the following prediction:
If you recall, on the program itself you requested that I make it snow instantly, and your colleague wanted heat. All right. The SIs have given their permission. This is not for "funzies." I will notify the scientists who are observing my work, thus it will be a large-scale demonstration.
There are four, huge, giant UFOs circling our earth (on your show, we didn't even scratch the surface of all that could be brought out) and I am going to utilize them to reflect heat back onto earth, the bullseye being Dallas, Texas. This will cause freakish weather and, of course, heat. Normal summer heat, coming up, should be amplified tremendously, perhaps to break a record. You will have great storms, lightning attacks, etc. Built into this will be the intelligence not to cause death or injury to Texas people, but to show how I, and the UFO entities, can control the weather anyplace in the world.
On February 16, 1974, newspaper clippings record that an earthquake centered
=== Page 59 of 103
15
in the Texas panhandle shook parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The tremor registered between 4 and 4.5 on the Richter scale. On March 20, 1974, a storm developed over Texas and moved rapidly to the northeast. By the time it arrived in Georgia, winds reached up to 100 miles per hour. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service said, "It's the strongest wind I've ever seen in the continental United States." Large areas of Texas were under tornado watch and at least two were reported on the ground. No injuries were reported. On March 24, unexpected freezing rain glazing the roads of north and west Texas, "and the resulting auto accidents brought deaths to the highways." Midland, Texas, recorded a record low temperature for that day of 28°.
All of the above news items were clipped by Owens, who didn't have access to Texas newspapers, from the Virginian-Pilot. In a sworn affidavit, dated May 7, 1974, Ed Busch made the following statement regarding the Texas demonstration:
...Owens sent me a letter, stating that he, working with the UFOs would produce a "major demonstration" of weather control over Texas. Following Owens' letter Texas was struck by an earthquake, 4.5 on the Richter scale. Then Texas was struck by high winds and tornados. Then Texas had the coldest weather ever in its history. Then Texas was struck by hot winds that destroyed half of the Texas wheat crop.
I am submitting this statement of fact to Owens at his request. It is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Whether Owens had any connection with the above weather phenomena, I do not know; perhaps it was mere coincidence. But I am stating the plain facts as they occurred, at Owens' request.
**April 4, 1974:** In a letter "TO THE SCIENTISTS," Owens presented a very intimate story of his psi abilities interacting with a personal relationship:
I am writing this special, very sad, report...because I am collaborating with a scientist actively in the search for Truth as pertains to the UFO enigma. Thus, it is more important, in the matter of values...to bring out the Truth as I know it...since I am part space-intelligence, and work for and with them. Believe me when I tell you...this is one report I do not wish to send you.
Several weeks ago, after I had been challenged by Ed Busch, of Radio WFAA, in Dallas, Texas, to produce freak weather in Texas...the SIs produced first an earthquake; then a tornado attack; then unexpected cold that broke the Texas record. I had informed Mr. Busch in advance...that the SIs would do so. But the SIs were making their point...they could
=== Page 60 of 103
17
produce tornados!
Now it is necessary to go back to early March. The SIs communicated with me then (or was it late February...somewhere in there) and told me that they were sending a female to me, for a purpose. They told me what the purpose was...and I wrote it down on a slip of paper and put it in my wallet. I told no one of this.
Weeks later a girl called me from California, named Judy. She was in danger and did not know what to do...and she had my disc. (Ed note: Owens sells these SI charged discs at a nominal price.) During her call the SIs communicated and told me that this was the female. So I told her to come to Cape Charles and I would see that she was protected until the danger was over. Several days later she called from Phoenix...she'd changed her mind and was going back home to Los Angeles; had written me a letter to that effect, but was calling anyway. I told her that it was a great mistake; to come ahead. She did, changing from bus to airplane...and arrived at Norfolk airport, where I met her. During the first hour of meeting her, over coffee at the airport, I told her that the SIs had informed me a month earlier of her coming...and showed her the slip of paper containing notes re their communication, from my wallet. I was also very angry, because I thought that the SIs had made a ghastly mistake. This female did not resemble in the least...what they said they were sending. I told the girl this, and she cried.
The general purpose of the SIs sending the female, as of that moment as I knew it...was to save my life. I have pointed out before that the SIs regard me, PK Man, as priceless to them...and to their plans to save the human race. But, known only to myself, and the SIs...my will to live had been getting lower and lower with each passing year, until this year, 1974, it barely flickered.
By the next day...I discovered that the girl wore a disguise. (Dress, hair and make-up.) True. And she was in absolute fact...what the SIs had promised me. And I fell deeply in love with her, as I have never loved another female in my lifetime. (But I had to...as it turned out, because the SIs had planned it that way. And evidently they had been able to pick out this one female...perfect for me...an absolute stranger to me...and motivate her to come to me. Which can give you some inkling of the infinite intelligence, and powers, of the SIs.) All right. She was to stay in Cape Charles for a month, under my protection. I had fallen deeply in love with her in 24 hours (sooner, really). And for several days all I could do was watch her move around and talk, speechless myself with the wonder of it all...absorbing her warmth and personality. For years it had been my habit to drink Scotch, whenever I felt like it. She lectured me about that. She showed me how to cook vegetables and cut my food bill in half. Then...came the shock.
Remember, for years and years and years...each day has been like the next day. Suddenly, like a flower blooming in the springtime...I am deeply in love...and long-fading feelings, deep feelings...are fanned within me to a lovely, roaring blaze.
Also remember...PK Man has a brain. A powerful brain. The most powerful brain, in fact, in the whole world. Most of you are familiar with the hundreds of miracles I have CAUSED to happen...if not, I can show you the documentation. What kind of brain...would it take, think
=== Page 61 of 103
18
you...to cause those kind of miracles? So...what would be an ordinary human emotion in an ordinary male...strong human emotion...would be magnified god knows how many times in PK Man. I.e., as I have long told my friends, when PK Man gets angry, trees fall down. Quite unlike...the ordinary human. And also remember...the SIs had gone to a great deal of trouble to bring this female to me...and nothing they do is trifling. Whatever they do, has tremendous significance. So, the SIs thought they had arranged it...to extend my lifespan by ten to twenty years.
The shock: several days after she arrived, the female...well, it happened like this. Each day I slept late, until ten in the morning...before driving far out to her motel to bring her into Cape Charles. But on Saturday morning the SIs woke me early in the morning...about 7:30...and warned me to go to the female quickly. I got dressed and drove out to her motel. She was dressed, and in the lobby. We went to the coffee shop. I was puzzled, but said we'd have breakfast before going into Cape Charles for the day. Then she dropped the bomb.
"Would you be upset," she asked me, "if I left today?" I just sat and stared at her. Now, at this point...I only knew that the SIs had brought her, and why. I thought to myself, oh, no....and I'm in love with her...and the SIs are monitoring...and she's leaving the SI plan! (You see, human choice is most important to the SIs...they cannot force humans to carry out their wishes; just set up their plans, and hope that the humans follow through.)
So I thought to myself...my God, will the SIs be upset! She told me that she'd already booked a plane in Norfolk, to fly away. So I drove her to the Norfolk airport, and saw her onto her plane. Her previous long distance call to me from Phoenix, as I have described...had been an error on her part...but she'd taken my advice then and come ahead. I knew...that this decision on her part to leave abruptly...was an even greater error....
On Monday following her departure...the SIs communicated and told me they'd sent the female, having picked her from all other females, knowing full well that I would fall in love with her...and that the result would be eliminating my drinking Scotch and beer which, they said, was due to shorten my life considerably ahead. (They can see ahead; precognition.) She also had another, much more important function...but that will be in confidence. But I could sense, from the tone of their communication...that they were disturbed. The SIs do not emote as humans do...but since I am half-SI, I share and sometimes sense...what they are "feeling". And...they were disturbed. Their plan...an excellent one...had been sabotaged by the female's decision to leave just a few days after arriving. And now the reason for the writing of this report...after the necessary background.
On Wednesday, yesterday, April 3, 1974....tornados struck in eleven of the U.S. states. The radio said that it was the worst tornado attack in the history of the United States. I wondered...on hearing this...about the coincidence...of my SI tornado demonstration just several weeks ago in Texas...to prove a point there. Could there be any connection?
Today, Thursday...the SIs communicated with me...said they had done it on purpose. To demonstrate their intense anger over the shattering of
=== Page 62 of 103
19
their plan...and to show you scientists, and the government...what very serious powers they have. They said that I am no joke; I am so important to them...they must keep me alive and well and happy and healthy...yet they cannot get humans to subsidize me and my work with them, and provide situations where they, the SI s, can keep me alive, happy and well. And the massive, enormous tornado attack...was their signature to the "letter" of their Texas demonstration of several weeks past. I.e., if they could make a few tornados in Texas to prove a point...then they would produce and eleven state tornado attack to prove a point as well. The record tornado attack was the SI equivalent of a small child stamping its foot in a rage of frustration. Why, you say...if they are so infinitely intelligent...yes, I say, but they do not think like humans. And in their communication today...they reminded me of years ago...when they deliberately burned up three astronauts on the pad at Cape Kennedy...because the night before, a killer tried to wipe out me and my family in our apartment in Philadelphia by setting fire under us, and we barely escaped. At that time they were furious...because I wasn't being given ample protection by the government, or somebody...being as important to them as I was...their only link with the human race.
The reason for the female being here...was just as important...to save my life. But it was not her fault for wanting to leave...and the SIs knew it. But they also know...I cannot go on much longer as I have been going on...financially supported mainly by the help of one man, George Delavan, in Illinois...who has been sending me several hundred dollars a month, sometimes more...to help me keep my head above water. They know my life-flame has burned too low (will to live) because of the unemotional, dull life that I lead (hence bringing in the female). Something has to give...and the eleven-State tornado attack was a SI warning...that whatever has to give, it had better not be PK Man.
With this letter is a copy of the Virginian-Pilot dated April 5, 1974, with the following headline story: Death Toll From Tornadoes Mounts -- Injured, Homeless In the Thousands.
**July 23, 1975: The following letter from Owens:**
SCIENTISTS....
In this file you will find some strange documentation re the Kennedy airplane crash. I was returning from Egypt, from Cairo via Rome...and showing my Saga magazine writeups to the stewardesses and others...particularly the page where the artist has my face looking up into the sky...where an airplane is being struck by lightning...and on the page are the words "Tornado Winds Rip Area." Then my plane began its approach to Kennedy Airport and the pilot told everyone to buckle seatbelts for landing. But the plane, going down, veered off...circled over the ocean...went to another airport for a while...then returned to Kennedy and landed. When I went through customs the customs officer looked at my flight ticket...said, "You are lucky to be here. You know that don't you?" I asked what he meant...and he told me that the plane ahead of ours had been struck by lightning; had crashed. Words to that effect.
All of the action, move by odd move, is on my "crash" tape....
=== Page 63 of 103
20
The other material is self-explanatory. There were so many military plane crashes IN THIS AREA that the government grounded those type of planes everywhere. It was caused by my radar demonstration of some time ago. The power is still active here.
To bad the government will not subsidize my work.
In the file with this letter is a newspaper clipping about the airplane crash at Kennedy Airport, dated June 25, 1975. The article states, "More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U. S. aviation." "At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plowed into an area of parkland north of the airport." Owens includes a xerox of his flight ticket for TWA flight 491 into JFK airport on June 24 from Cairo. A copy of the Saga article and illustration is shown, as Owens described it in his letter. In a newsclipping of June 26, 1975, winds are now cited as the cause of the airline crash. One one other time in U.S. aviation history has there been a case where lightning has been cited as the cause of a crash. And never had lightning destroyed the airframe or damaged it to the extent that the plane couldn't fly, according to a spokesman from the National Transportation Safety Board.
Then follow a series of articles about two more jet crashes in the Virginia area and the Navy grounding all 139 of its multimillion dollar F14 fighter planes because of suspected engine problems.
A number of other miscellaneous articles follow including one which states that "Kenya Asks for Soccer Sans-Witch--Black Magic Blackballed." "Medicine men who claim they make the ball disappear or cast a spell on opposing players with animal or bird charms are especially active in soccer, officials note."
OCTOBER 8, 1975: In a letter to Mr. Doug Dahlgren, Radio Station
=== Page 64 of 103
214
WCFL, Chicago, Illinois, Owens told some stories about his past and promised another demonstration:
...Shortly thereafter a stranger sent money to me to move to Colorado. So we packed up and drove to Colorado. But once there things went wrong as far as this stranger was concerned, so we drove towards Florida, at the direction of the SIs. A UFO followed us overhead all the way. We would get out and look at it, and it would go into a cloud...wait until we drove on...then emerge from the cloud and keep following us. When we reached Dothan, Alabama, we parked for the night on top of a high hill, and I spread some blankets on top of the station wagon and slept up there. I was wakened by a blinding flash of light...then a loud crash nearby our car. Strangely I simply went back to sleep. In the morning a car came rushing up to our car...and a man leaped out and asked if we had seen an army helicopter. I pointed over to the side of our car and said, there it is. He shouted for us not to go near the copter, because it had secret equipment in it...leaped in his car and drove away. I sauntered over to the copter and a negro in uniform leaned out the window with a .45 in his hand and cheerily told me to stay right where I was because he had orders not to let anyone approach the copter. I asked him what had happened. He said the copter had flown down over our car and turned their searchlight on us...and at that exact instant all the power in the copter went dead. Lights, radio, everything. He couldn't even radio out for help...and the copter of course crashed.
Then a whole fleet of cars, officers, and heavy equipment arrived to try and extricate the copter. I showed the army officers my book re UFOs...and warned them not to buzz my car again, because the UFO that had followed us from Colorado had evidently thought we were being attacked by the copter, and had downed it....
Now, to the business at hand. You have requested that I give a UFO demonstration over Chicago. I can do much better than that...and have cleared it with the SIs by direct communication today.
Please note in the March 1971 Saga Mag article, "Ted Owens - Flying Saucer Missionary" by Otto Binder. In this article is described one of my 300 miracles...causing all sorts of weird things to happen in and around Norfolk, Virginia...as well as the appearance of a UFO over Norfolk.
I am going to duplicate this miracle, with some embellishments, for the benefit of Chicago. And I will spell out what I am going to do, and then notify my scientists, so that they can observe.
UFO appearances...will ask the SIs to appear outstandingly in and around the Chicago area, and possibly do some very strange things to accompany the appearances.
EM phenomena...I will cause electromagnetic changes in the Chicago area. This will cause power blackouts and various forms of magnetic and electromagnetic anomalies. It should also cause many lightning strikes, violent storms and high winds.
Poltergeist phenomena...I will send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area...to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings. This will cover, of course, the O'Hare Airport and the stadium in which the Chicago Bears play football. I will especially request that the
=== Page 65 of 103
22
poltergeists not harm anyone, or make any planes crash. But the football games of the Bears in that Stadium, in the months ahead...should be wild, freakish, and downright funny. And all sorts of strange things should happen at O'Hare Airport. Instruments going crazy; tires blowing out; etc. Not to mention human error by the bushelful.
The Grid...I will set up an other-dimensional grid over the Chicago area. Won't tell you what it will do...but you'll see the results.
Now...I have never yet failed in a demonstration on this huge scale. Never. But the difficulty here is...to try and minimize the effects so that no one gets hurt. In short...I have far too much power for such an experiment. Sort of like using a shotgun to shoot a fly in a barrel. This will not make too much sense to you, but believe me I know what I am talking about....
P.S. The time element on this: will set it all up today. Things should start popping within days or weeks. The entire demonstration should cap and climax within 90 days. It could well be the wildest 90 days in the history of Chicago!
An extensive assortment of newspaper and magazine clippings accompanies the file of Owens' Chicago demonstration. The Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1975, reports that "A Mysterious radio signal apparently coming from the Michigan Avenue bridge has caused occasional brake failures on new buses operated by the Chicago Transit Authority and the United Motor Coach Co...." A Chicago Tribune article of October 15, 1975, states that, "Police are investigating the possibility that the recent slaughter of two calves and the beheading of a rabbit in an area 50 miles Northwest of Chicago may have been the work of a mysterious "UFO" group reportedly traveling across the country from Oregon."
A letter to Owens from Doug Dahlgren, on December 1, 1975, states, "We even had the UFO sightings within the prescribed area. We tried to call the parties who were involved but they refused to talk to us."
A Newsweek article of December 22, 1975, reports on unusual traffic jams that have occurred recently at O'Hare Airport. A Tribune article of December 13, 1975, states that there have been four near collisions between commercial jets flying to or from O'Hare field in less
=== Page 66 of 103
23
than two weeks.
The October 14 Tribune states, "After a month of below-normal temperatures, the mercury hit 88 degrees breaking the old mark of 83 set nineteen years ago. The following day also set a record high temperature. A Tribune article of November 10, 1975, ran the bold headline, 75-mile winds pound city. Several tornadoes were also reported. While early November was the warmest in Chicago history, the November 28 Tribune reports "The worst Thanksgiving Eve snowstorm in Chicago history." Again on December 1, the Tribune reported high winds and tornadoes across northern Illinois. A Tribune article of December 2 states that November 1975 was the "second warmest November in 100 years" and the warmest since 1931.
A series of Tribune articles on Bear football games seem to bear out Owens' prediction. On October 13, "Lions ax Bears in 'laughter' 27-7." Coach Jack Pardee is quoted as saying, "This is the first teach I've ever been associated with where we were so bad the opposition laughed at us on the field." October 20, "Steelers crumple bumbling Bears." October 29, "Vikes' TD a Freak," referring the the play when the Bears had only 10 men on the field. In the Tribune of October 29, 1975, columnist Jack Mabley remarks on Owens' demonstration as follows:
**The Bears Are Bugged:** I've come across an interesting theory about what's happening to the Chicago Bears. Poltergeists. From flying saucers. When a team lost a close game because on one play they had only 91 per cent of their team on the field, you've got to look for more sophisticated reasons than bad coaching or missed signals.
The poltergeist theory is contained in an "I told you so" letter from one Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, Va., who calls himself "The UFO Prophet," to one Doug Dahlgren of WCFL.
Apparently Dahlgren challenged Owens to produce UFO phenomenon in Chicago. On October 8 Owens announced he would "send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area...to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings."
He says he has connections with the occupants of the flying objects,
=== Page 67 of 103
22
and set this up with instructions that nobody was to get hurt.
..........Of the caliber of the Bears' play I'd say the poltergeists had some of their greatest moments Monday night when the Bears had only 10 men on the field as Tarkenton tossed the winning touchdown, I could almost see the little men sitting in their saucer over Soldier Field with the lights out, hugging their sides in mirth. What's cooking for the next game, fellows?
On November 3, "Have mercy...don't laugh at Bear comedy." November 17, "Bears can't win for fear of losing."
January 30, 1976: Owens' letter:
TO MY SCIENTISTS
I am giving you notice well in advance...of major phenomena that I am going to cause...over the State of California....
Last night over TV the evening news showed a stricken California. No water. "The worst drought in 72 years." "Only three times in the entire history of the State of California...has such a drought appeared." Crops are dead and dying...and the animals are in pitiful condition.
Now I, Ted Owens, PK Man...will change all of that. Within the next 90 days from the time of this letter...I will pour and pour and pour rains onto and into the State of California...until it is swimming in water, and the dangerous drought is completely over. There will be storm after storm, lightning attack after lightning attack, and high winds....
A UPI clipping from February 1, 1976, confirms Owens statement about drought.
"The cost of a California winter-drought has mounted to about $310.5 million Saturday, and dried-out Kansas wheat lies vulnerable to wind erosion." "Ten more days of drought could precipitate an emergency in the livestock industry. But there is little moisture in sight."
However by February 6, 1976, the headlines changed: San Francisco Snowed by a Record Snowfall. "...the biggest snowfall in exactly 89 years hit the city and surrounding areas." "The storm also featured lightning and sleet. A giant television tower on Mt. San Bruno, south of San Francisco was hit by lightning about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday knocking several TV stations off the air."
The following newsclip was sent to Owens by Dr. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ from SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, who had received Owens prediction only days earlier. From the Palo Alto Times, Thursday, February 5, 1976:
Rare snowfall ends drought on Peninsula. "The unexpected and unfamiliar weather was at odds with a forecast Wednesday that the dry spell would
=== Page 68 of 103
25
continue in the Bay Area." "Not since the morning of Jan. 21, 1962, have Mid-peninsulans awakened to find their homes blanketed with snow."
Puthoff and Targ wrote Owens the following note with the clippings, "Ted--Just as you predicted in your letter of January 30. Kinda makes me stop and wonder." The Oakland Tribune of February 5 goes on to state that the storm brought with it "nearly every phenomenon in the weatherman's book throughout the Bay Area." "Snow, hail, sleet, light rain, thunder and lightning hit the Bay Area after weeks of dry, Balmy weather." "Varying amounts of rain fell upon the lower two-thirds of the state..." "In northwestern California, there are gale warnings..."
On February 10, a UPI story states, "The rainy season continued in California for the sixth consecutive day. Some mountainous regions of the state have received 6 to 8 inches of rain and coastal areas have measured 3 to 4 inches."
The San Mateo Times of January 31, 1976, reports that several nights earlier "half a dozen law enforcement agencies reported a cigar shaped object with flashing lights leaving what looked like a vapor trail in the sky over southwestern Nevada and southeastern California." A San Francisco Chronicle reports a UFO sighting in Siskiyou mountains of northern California on February 8 and 9 by Tom Gates, director of the De Anza College Space Center, and Paul Cerny, mechanical engineer for an electronics firm. Both of these men were investigating earlier sightings reported in December for Northwestern University's Center for UFO Studies when their own sighting occurred. On March 10, 1976, a large power failure hit state government offices in downtown Sacramento. The lights went out shortly after 1:30 p.m. and remained out all through the rest of the afternoon. On April 19, 1976, a giant fireball was reported near San Jose. On April 8, massive outages affected more than 600,000 electricity customers in California from two to ten minutes.
With regard to the April 8 power blackout, Owens told an interesting story. In a letter of April 9, 1976, Owens wrote:
TO MY SCIENTISTS:
=== Page 69 of 103
246
A most astounding thing has occurred: The SIs...my UFO connection...have "spoken"... in their own inimitable way...before I could even get the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, off to you! I typed ten copies of the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, Wednesday afternoon...then had to desist because I had the flu...also was shook up by the IRS agents...and was so angry that I could have cussed. Matter of fact...I did cuss. (This emotional response of my part is important in your understanding of what follows.)
All right. Wednesday night late...about 3 AM Thursday morning, really...all power went out on the West Coast from Portland, Oregon, down to almost Los Angeles, California...for from 3 to 7 minutes depending on where you lived there. (Millie, my San Francisco friend and scout...called me long distance on Thursday and told me about it...said that it was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper...and I will document it later in my last file on the "California Miracle.") That's "one."
Also...in that same time-frame...there was an earthquake in California...approximately 5 on the Richter scale...reported here in Virginia on our TV set. That's "two."
I.e., the SIs...UFO connection...en rapport with the "alien" half of my brain (belonging to them) (Ed. note: Owens claims that his brain was operated on by the SIs. He does, in fact, have an unusual groove in the back of his head where he says the incision occurred.)...picked up my distress caused by the Wednesday IRS agent happening...and decided to show the United States government, on a small scale, what they could do. They did it to California because that is where I am putting on a UFO-connection demonstration at the present time. (If they had knocked out the power and put an earthquake anywhere else in the U. S., it would have had little meaning with regard to me and my demonstration in California.)
Enclosed with his April 9 letter is a letter dated April 7, which describes several incidents of apparent harassment and makes a number of dire predictions. In the April 7 letter, Owens stated:
Anyway, I want you to know...that I am being harassed...and I can tell you...that the SIs...my UFO connection...will be greatly angered by this. Because they feel...that the U.S. Government is my "host government"...i.e., I am their ambassador to the human race, residing in the United States. So that...anything bad...that befalls their "Ambassador"...they will retaliate...in their own, UFO, way.
I myself first learned of Owens, shortly after his California demonstration, when Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ eagerly shared with me the snowstorm story. This sort of phenomena was outside the boundaries of their experimental investigations, however they hoped that someone, like myself, would follow up on the case.
A news brief in Psychic Magazine of April 1976, mentioned Owens apparent
=== Page 70 of 103
28
success with this demonstration. This news item led to Owens being invited to end the drought in Britain. It should be noted that, in spite of the unexpected storm following Owens' prediction, the drought continued in many areas of California. By February 27, 1976, Governor Brown had declared 29 of the state's 58 counties as economic disaster areas due to crop losses.
**May 10, 1976:** Owens wrote the following letter to Susanne Stebbing in Kent, England, who had written to him requesting that he use his powers to end the terrible drought in England:
In your letter...you state that you are a friend of Professor John Taylor of King's College in London...and that he is doing research into the paranormal...he has studied Uri Geller and various children with mind-bending powers. You state that Dr. Taylor is "one of the top men in science at the Dept. of Mathematics at King's College."
You go on to state: "As you may know, England is in the midst of a severe drought - the worst in over 150 years and our water supply will be cut off to domestic use and industry within 6 weeks from now - unless some heavy rains fall."
...In order to work to produce prodigious amounts of rain onto England within the next 90 days...all during that period, and starting right away...it would be proper for Dr. Taylor to write me a personal letter on his stationary, requesting this...because I thoroughly document all that I do and his personal approach on his own stationary would be a necessity for me....
Since time is of the essence...I will accept you at your word...re Dr. Taylor...and set up this demonstration at once...this very day. Obviously it takes much time for a letter to reach you...judging from the date on your own letter...so that we can save England much anguish from prolonged drought if I begin my work at once, without waiting for Dr. Taylor's personal letter before commencing....
Very well, this demonstration of producing massive amounts of rain for England during the next 90 days...will do the following: Rain, rain and rain...in huge amounts, and over all of England. Lightning attacks accompanying. High winds, sometimes at hurricane force. Appearance of UFOs...and UFO creatures. And my demonstration should end England's drought....
In this demonstration...I need your assistance, and also that of Dr. Taylor. His letter, for one thing. Then, as the phenomena unfolds...I need clippings from your English newspapers re what I am doing, sent to me so that I can put them together, xerox them, and get the completed 90 day file out to my scientists at this end (copy to you and to Dr. Taylor)....
I begin.
Will await word from Dr. Taylor, personally.
And will be a pleasure to hear from you again.
=== Page 71 of 103
28
(Ed. note: Owens frequently uses the three dot...punctuation in his own writing, for non-grammatical reasons. Therefore, in indicating that I have skipped over nonessential material, I have used four dot punctuation....)
In a letter to Owens dated June 4, 1976, Susanne Stebbing indicated that Professor Taylor was too busy to write to Owens for the time being. However, she had arranged for Owens to be invited to speak at a conference to be held in August at City University of London (at his own expense) and hoped that Owens could meet Dr. Taylor there and also be tested in Taylor's laboratory. She also added, "The drought here has been aborted slightly, but the danger to reservoirs still remain. We have had some showery rain in local areas which just keeps the crops and gardens in order. Also a few local thunderstorms and 'cloud bursts' mentioned on local news bulletins. Any phenomena you could produce including UFO activity would certainly interest Prof. Taylor and his colleagues."
Newspaper clippings in the England file indicate some rain in June, particularly on the courts of the $100,000 women's tennis tournament and the Wimbledon tennis tournament. However the drought continued.
The following letter, from John Taylor, University of London King's College, is dated July 12, 1976:
I have received letters and copies of letters sent by yourself to Miss Susan Stebbing. You said in your letter of May 10th to Miss Stebbing that you would attempt to produce rain in England as rapidly as possible. It is now July 12th and since May 10th there has indeed been very low rainfall and England has got into a worse and worse state. I am afraid that clearly your attempt, at least from what I can see has failed dismally. If, when storms do come in about three or four days time, according to the weather forecast, you then claim success I can only say that of course if you wait long enough certainly rain will come. However, if you have been trying at the highest level that you can since May 10th, then I can only say that I have no faith at all in your powers.
I look forward to discussing this further with you at the City University conference, to be held here in London shortly.
Owens response (as tape recorded by me later in London) to Taylor's remark that the drought must end eventually was that there had been longer droughts in Africa
=== Page 72 of 103
29
and other countries and that the British drought would continue until he personally ended it. Another letter from Taylor is dated July 14, 1976:
..........I hope you have received by now my brief response to your earlier letter to her (Stebbing). I am afraid that I am not at all convinced by your demonstration as yet; the weather reports for the last two months have been uniformly hot and dry and that there is no alleviation of the drought. There have been rains in the north-west of the United Kingdom, but they have in no way touched the east, nor have they alleviated the drought. Indeed there is now rationing in parts of Wales, and this will have to be brought elsewhere. I would only hope that they will indeed be alleviated, but I don't see any clear prospect of this, at least according to the meteorological forecast.
Looking forward to seeing you at the City University as I said.
The British drought did not end within the 90 period specified by Owens. When I arrived in London on August 27 for the Parascience conference, conditions were severe. Residents of London were being asked to reduce their water consumption to 1/3 of normal use. In some villages, the only water was brought by trucks twice a week. On August 24, Prime Minister Callaghan called an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss the drought. A London **Times** article dated August 27 states the following:
**Water chief see no end to drought in long-range forecast**
Britain could not count any any early substantial rainfall to relieve the drought, Lord Nugent of Guildford, chairman of the National Water Council, said yesterday after being shown a preview of the September long-range weather forecast to be published next week.
However, the British forecasters failed to take into account the fact that Ted Owens would be arriving in person on August 27, 1976. I was there myself and friends told me I could get my picture on the front page of the **Times** if I only walked through Piccadilly Circus with my umbrella open. However a UPI story dated Friday, August 27, 1976, states: "Rain fell on London today for the first time in 38 days and showers dampened the southeast of England but weathermen said it made no difference to Britain's worst drought in 500 years." On the following day, August 28, the London **Evening News** carried a story about a power failure, causes unknown, which halted the entire underground subway system for about a half hour. Thirty trains were stopped. And the rains continued along with hail.
=== Page 73 of 103
39
The rains continued and continued. On September 29, 1976, the British Environment Ministry announced that the drought was officially over.
In his presentation at the London Parascience conference, Owens stated that it was he who was ending the drought. There were many cultists who were getting coverage in the news at the time for similar claims. To answer this, Owens pointed out the power failure which occurred when he arrived in London. This, he said was a feature common to his many demonstrations. Owens also predicted at this conference that droughts would continue around the world until the nations of this planet called on him to bring rains.
June 7, 1977: Owens writes the following document:
STATEMENT OF FACT FOR THE SCIENTISTS
The first of June...I telephoned the Chief of Police of Cape Charles...Mr. Charles Powell...and informed him of my INTENT to cause a hurricane to come to this area, which is composed of Cape Charles and the Eastern Shore plus the Tidewater Area just across the Chesapeake Bay. I warned him to get into his police car and drive away from this area quickly as soon as he heard that the monster storm was coming. He said that he couldn't...that he has a family here and that it would not be practical to do so. I told him that I wanted to warn him anyway.
Yesterday, June 6, 1977...a FREAK monstrous storm of hurricane force (98 miles per hour winds; hail the size of a fist, etc.) struck this area...just grazing the Eastern Shore but knocking the stuffings out of the Tidewater Area just across the Bay. Boats were knocked over and sunk; radar screens were completely blanked out for a while; TV stations were knocked out; people hung on trees just to keep from being blown away; huge loaded trucks were blown off the road; airplanes were blown over...and so forth. All of this described, and more, in the Virginian-Pilot newspaper of Norfolk, this date.
The reason I am informing you of this...is simply to let you know that I told the Police Chief here in Cape Charles in advance.
Another great point of interest to you scientists...is the fact that this freak monstrous storm is the SAME as the freak monstrous storm that struck the San Francisco area during my demonstration there for Jeffrey Mishlove, the young....scientist who lives in that area. Both freak storms came out of nowhere (as described by various witnesses in the newspapers following both storms in both areas) and were NOT anticipated by the Weather Bureaus of either the San Francisco area or this area.
Upon receiving this letter, I immediately telephoned the Chief of Police of Cape Charles, VA, who was indeed Mr. Charles Powell. Powell confirmed every detail of
=== Page 74 of 103
30
Owens' story and added that he had signed a statement for Owens to that effect.
The Virginian-Pilot, June 7, 1977, ran the following banner headline: **5 Killed in 98-m.p.h. Wind that Leaves Cities Stunned.** "The storm caught Tidewater by surprise. Although the Weather Service had predicted thunderstorms, a severe thunderstorm watch did not go into effect until 3 p.m. At 4:15 p.m. a tornado warning was put into effect." One witness described the storm as follows: "I was out at 3 p.m., and it was sunshiney, and all of a sudden it got dark and you could hear the wind and you could see the hail. You can't describe it. It's such an eerie feeling to see it light one minute and dark the next. If the wind wasn't so hard, the hail wouldn't have caused so much damage. I have a very small fist, but the hail was about the size of my fist."
Admittedly, the above episodes are not documented in sufficient detail for a qualified scientific or judicial opinion regarding Owens' activities. Further documentation exists and will be made available to serious researchers. The history has been presented in such a fashion as to suggest possibilities, rather than certainties. I myself can no more accept Owens' story than I can discount the likelihood of enormously significant events taking place.
=== Page 75 of 103
My Encounter with Ted Owens
outline
I learn about snowstorm at SRI
I read Owens' book.
Owens speaks in London
The rainbow UFO connection.
The San Francisco demonstration.
My letter exchange with Owens.
Owens visit to SF
Owens stays with Janelle
California fires
Am I a government agent?
Poltergeist on Owens files.
I write the report.
My personal reaction to this experience.
The public response.
Ethical issues.
=== Page 76 of 103
LOG
3. OWENS REPORT PP 10-31 21 PAGES
6. TED OWENS REPORT PART I, PAG 9 PAGES
7. OWENS REPORT TITLE PAGE 2 PAGES
8. PAG OWENS 10 22 PAGES
PAGES AVAILABLE: 10
=== Page 77 of 103
LOG
6. OWENS 30 PAGES
7. OWENS REPORT TITLE PAGE 2 PAGES
PAGES AVAILABLE: 25
=== Page 78 of 103
Prophetic Power:
The Fury of Ted Owens
by
Jeffrey Mishlove
2430 Lake Street, Apartment 4
San Francisco, California 94121
=== Page 79 of 103
Jeffrey Mishlove is a doctoral candidate in parapsychology at the University of California at Berkeley through the individual, interdisciplinary doctoral program. He is the first individual to create a doctoral major in parapsychology at any accredited university in the United States. Mishlove is also the author of The Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation through History, Science and Experience (Random House, 1975) which is used by dozens of college and university courses as an introductory parapsychology text.
The material in the following article is factual. Photographs of Ted Owens as well as photostats of relevant affidavits and newspaper headlines are available.
=== Page 80 of 103
Copyright (c) 1978 by Jeffrey Mishlove. All rights reserved.
This article may not be reproduced in whole or in part or in any form without written permission.
=== Page 81 of 103
Forward
Mr. Ted Owens is an individual who purports to be in telepathic contact with other dimensional beings which he calls Space Intelligences (SIs). For many years, Owens has supported this hypothesis by making written predictions regarding a variety of unlikely events which he claimed the SIs would be instrumental in causing. These events have included unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, hurricanes and storms, lightning striking pre-selected targets, mishaps on NASA spaceflights, power blackouts, earthquakes, and anomalous radar sightings. The data which relates to Owens' claims is presented in this book.
I do not believe that we can approach the Ted Owens case in an objective manner unless we are willing to examine our own predisposed attitudes to this subject matter. Thus, I feel it is incumbent for the reader to understand my basic stance in relationship to the Owens data.
In 1975, before I knew anything about Owens, I had published in my first book, The Roots of Consciousness (New York: Random House/Bookworks) a chapter which argued that there was a legitimate relationship between UFOs and psi phenomena. Similar positions have been held by many researchers who have a first-hand familiarity with the UFO data such as J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, James Harder, Leo Sprinkle, D. Scott Rogo and Berthold Schwarz. Nevertheless, this is a position which is as emotionally repugnant to some today as Freudian concepts of sexuality were to those of the nineteenth century. My position has been sarcastically treated in the two major American academic parapsychology journals. I have answered the charges brought against my position in both the Journal of Parapsychology (March, 1977) and The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (April, 1977).
However, the logical issues surrounding my position are not all that seems to be at stake. The very fact that the "UFO-psi" viewpoint is treated with such contempt--in the face of a considerable body of evidence--indicates that raw nerves are being touched
=== Page 82 of 103
Forward
somewhere. We may be dealing with a situation analogous to what T. S. Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) has called a "shift in paradigms." The Owens phenomena may challenge not only our research capabilities, but also the very notions of space and time upon which much of our research is predicated. (I say "much of our research" because developments in quantum physics and general relativity have already severely challenged our common sense notions of space and time.) Even more distressing, the evidence herein presented suggests a new understanding of our notions of mind and personality.
In presenting the Owens files, I have attempted to let the data speak for itself. Admittedly I have selected from the files those cases which I believe highlight the radical possibility that Owens is, in fact, in possession of unusual talents related to both psi and UFOs. Another selection of cases could paint a different picture. Owens hasn't always called the shots correctly. My best estimate is that he is at least 50% accurate in predicting events with an a priori chance probability of less than 1%. So, for all of his faults and errors, the pattern of his apparent successes stands out from the "rubbish" in the data.
Whether I have endangered my own scientific objectivity, integrity and reputation by presenting this material is a question which you, the reader, may well ask for purposes of your own evaluation. I have certainly not shied away from presenting my own subjective impressions and from including myself as a character in the Ted Owens story. If I were the reader of this book, I would have to ask tough questions.
Recently I had lunch with a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle who for many months has been interested in my experiments on ESP learning. This research had not been published for my scientific colleagues, so I was reluctant to allow him to report on my studies in the press. Instead, I steered the conversation to Ted Owens and the research report I had published on Owens. At first the newsman was very
2
=== Page 83 of 103
Forward
interested, but the more I told him of the story the more disgusted he became. Finally he looked at me and angrily stated, "I have to deal with reality. I can't afford to indulge in fantasies like this." With that he abruptly left the table.
The experience was not a pleasant one for me. It brought home quite clearly the fact that my integrity is being questioned every time I mention the Ted Owens material. Those who will accept the psychokinesis (PK) are unwilling to accept the UFOs--as in the case of this reporter and most of the parapsychology community. Those who can accept both psi and UFOs are unwilling to accept Ted Owens' ego--as in the case of other investigators who have known Owens during the past ten years. And a large segment of the population accepts none of the premises which led me to this study in the first place.
Until now, no individual with any claim to scientific credentials has been willing to tell the Ted Owens story. And although my first book, The Roots of Consciousness, is used as a standard parapsychology text in dozens of colleges and universities, I am still a graduate student myself at the time of this writing. I hope to retain my status with the University of California in spite of my inquiry into this rather taboo area.
Like any other scientist, my reputation cannot stand on my story alone. It stands on the corroborating evidence, on the testimony of other witnesses, on the ability of the data to withstand careful scrutiny, and on the ability of Owens to continue to repeat the phenomena for more scientists under conditions where more controls can be instituted and more careful measurements can be made.
I have asked Ted Owens to tell his own story in subsequent chapters of this book. He has done so candidly and, in my opinion, with style. This story is his, from his own memories, in his own words. He claims, for instance, that he learned to read instantly at the age of four when he was taught by a beautiful red-haired woman who mysteriously appeared to him.
3
=== Page 84 of 103
Forward
Many people would argue that I have lost all claim to scientific objectivity if I let such stories pass in a book such as this without challenging them. I concur with this view. I find it perfectly reasonable and healthy to challenge all of Owens' claims. I certainly do not endorse all of them myself. It is not my intention to present anything that Ted Owens states in this book as fact--but rather as data, as testimony to be analyzed and critically evaluated by the reader.
I feel that the reader has a right to be informed of our scientific progress in all stages of its development. Were this presentation limited only to the results of the hard-core, controlled experimental tests there would be no book whatsoever. Nevertheless, I feel it is my obligation as a scientific writer to present only that material which is what it claims to be. This I have done. However, I caution the reader to be careful in distinguishing the extent of my own qualifications for any piece of data.
I regard as most evidential the material presented in relationship to my 90 day pilot experiment with Owens in San Francisco and those cases which are from the scientific files I have gathered on Owens where his predictions have been sent in advance to scientists. Next most evidential are those cases where I have personally interviewed witnesses. I have explicitly stated in the text when this has occurred. Most of these witnesses are available to be interviewed by other serious inquirers into the Owens affair. After this, I hold as most evidential those cases for which I have signed statements and affidavits from witnesses who I have not been able to interview.
From a scientific perspective, Owens own claims and interpretations of his life are least evidential. From a humanistic perspective, they are of the greatest importance and it is particularly for that reason that they are included in this book. I cannot vouch for the entire accuracy of Owens' story. However, I can vouch with absolute certainty that it is his story.
4
=== Page 85 of 103
Forward
Many people have asked me why, with all of his alleged powers, hasn't Owens become rich, famous or powerful in the world. Often the question is meant to imply that these powers cannot be real; or, if they are real, they cannot be of any value. Whether or not Owens' powers are real, of course, depends only on the facts and not on our preconceived notions of whether or not such powers can exist or what they must be like if they do exist. I cannot emphasize this point enough.
The value which these powers have, be they real, depends as much on us, who give value and shape events by our mutual agreement, as it does on Ted Owens. We are all, in our own ways, as powerful and as powerless as he seems to be.
=== Page 86 of 103
PK Man
Scientists who know about Ted Owens have found it convenient to pretend that he doesn't exist. Skeptics who learn of his claims are outraged. Occult fanatics have sent hate letters to Ted Owens and mysterious strangers have threatened to kill him. Millie Miller, a sweet older woman who works for the telephone company in San Francisco, admires Owens' work as a cosmic agent. For years she has been providing financial support for his work--as has George Delevan, a computer specialist in Cleveland. As a scientific parapsychology researcher, there have been many moments when I would rather not have had to confront the enigma which Ted Owens represents.
I first learned about Owens in the parapsychology research laboratories of SRI International, in Menlo Park near San Francisco, California, the military-industrial think tank complex, where physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ have achieved public acclaim for their experiments with Uri Geller, Ingo Swann and other talented psychic subjects. Owens contacted Puthoff and Targ in 1973, shortly after their work with Geller received attention in the national media. In a letter to these researchers, Owens described himself as "the world's greatest psychic" and offered himself as a subject for testing. Puthoff and Targ declined the offer, but did continue to receive correspondence from Owens for several years documenting his "demonstrations."
In January of 1976, Owens wrote to Puthoff and Targ telling them that he was going to show them his powers directly by causing storms over the San Francisco area to end the drought which was then reaching significant proportions. Days later, it snowed and stormed with hail and sleet and rain throughout the Bay area. The Palo Alto Times ran a headline story on the event which stated, "Rare snowfall ends drought on Peninsula." The storm was completely unexpected by weather forecasters.
Puthoff and Targ sent Owens a note congratulating him on his successful prediction and received a telegramed response from him stating that it was not a
=== Page 87 of 103
PK Man
prediction--but that he, Owens, had caused the snowstorm. This was food for thought and when I visited Puthoff and Targ some months later, they eagerly discussed this case with me.
Puthoff and Targ showed me the intriguing book authored by Ted Owens in 1969 titled, How to Contact Space People. The book was sensationalistic and poorly written. It contained loose descriptions of a variety of demonstrations which Owens claimed he had provided for both NASA and the CIA, naming the officials he had interacted with in each case. For the CIA, Owens maintained that he had used his powers to interfere with military exercises and for NASA he had demonstrated his control over lightning. Nevertheless, Owens pointed out that these agencies still refused to take him seriously.
Owens also described the visualization techniques which he used to communicate with the Space Intelligences (SIs). He saw them as insect like creatures looking into a screen where his thoughtforms appeared. Other people could communicate with them using this same method, he stated. They were the ones who really had the power to control the weather and create other phenomena. It was through their aid that Owens believed he caused his psychokinetic (PK) effects.
What fascinated me most about Owens' book was a section where he described past events in his life relating to his UFO contact. There were instances where thugs would ominously approach him with weapons bared only to suddenly pale and run away from him. This puzzled Owens until it dawned on him that the SIs were protecting him. Another fascinating story in Owens' book is his description of how the SIs captured him and operated on his brain--causing him to become half human and half alien. He still carries a thick scar at the base of his skull which he says is the result of this operation.
In August 1976, some months after learning about Owens, I had the opportunity of inspecting this scar for myself at the City University of London where he was an
2
=== Page 88 of 103
PK Man
invited speaker at an international conference sponsored by the Parascience Foundation. Owens was an impressive speaker with a large frame and a booming voice which rang throughout the auditorium. His words were clear and articulate. His manner was confident. His eyes sparkled with charisma and precocious genius. He rocked the audience with his claim that he had established telepathic contact with other dimensional space intelligences. He described how they, the SIs, had guided his career since infancy through over fifty different occupations--bodyguard, bullwhip artist, judo expert, jazz musician, knife thrower, dance instructor, shorthand expert, high speed typist, parapsychology researcher at Duke University--so that his mind would be flexible enough to manipulate their complicated symbolic system. He stated that while he was not a scientist, he was a member of MENSA an organization limited to individuals with high IQ test scores. He presented statements from a MENSA researcher on official letterhead stationary stating that he, Owens, had predicted UFO sightings and other events.
He spoke of hundreds of demonstrations which he had documented for scientists and he carried with him a stack of newspaper clippings two feet thick documenting his exploits. He shocked the audience with the claim that he was being used by the space intelligences to end worldwide drought and that he would also be useful in psychic warfare against the Soviet Union.
Because the conference was running behind schedule, Owens was asked by the moderator to finish his talk early. When he received this abrupt news, his manner changed. Like an obedient, but bitter, child he left the podium not even taking advantage of the few minutes time remaining.
The conference was of a scientific nature and, in this context, Owens was out of place. He was speaking as a "psychic" to scientists who are by nature and profession skeptical of individual psychic claims beyond those which they have investigated or have been reported in the scholarly literature. To make matters worse, another psychic speaker preceded Owens on the podium--Susan Padfield, the wife of noted British
=== Page 89 of 103
PK Man
physicist Ted Bastin. Padfield, whose psychokinetic (PK) abilities had been extensively tested by Benson Herbert at the British Paraphysical Laboratory, spoke about "psychic support figures." She claimed that when she first started doing PK, she assumed that UFO intelligences were working through her. Since then she has come to realize that the powers were her own and that the notion of a UFO intelligence was a "psychic support figure" necessary only to satisfy her emotional needs and not to explain her PK abilities. She stated that other psychics who claimed to work with spirit guides, or saints or deities were also satisfying this same emotional need.
When Owens got up to speak, the cards were stacked against him. Even if people did accept the seemingly outlandish claim that he could cause large scale weather changes, they were not likely to accept the notion that he did so through the agency of UFOs. They were not likely to embrace his desire to use his talents in psychic warfare with the Soviet Union; and they were not likely to accept his claim that he was the supreme representative on earth of UFO intelligences. Either Owens was a liar or a madman, an evil magician or an egotistical maniac. Few people saw him as a human being struggling to communicate and share with other humans the methods by which he had cultivated powers so rare we think they are either nonexistent or demonic. Few people realized that Owens had travelled across the ocean--at Millie Miller's expense--in order to ask for help from the small group of individuals who might be able to appreciate his situation. Owens has been asking for scientific help for over a decade.
One researcher, Professor J. B. Hasted, had little difficult in imagining that Owens' claims were real. Hasted, who is Chairman of the Department of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has conducted laboratory tests with half a dozen individuals who have shown remarkable psychokinetic abilities to bend metal under controlled conditions. Hasted presented a paper at the Parascience Conference on his PK studies which have been continuing with success for two years.
4
=== Page 90 of 103
PK Man
Hasted's work with PK began when he and his colleagues tested Uri Geller at Birkbeck College. Before that he had shown no interest whatsoever in psychical research. Since then, however, he has shown an extraordinary talent in working with gifted subjects in the laboratory. Because of his communist sympathies, Hasted has rarely been allowed to present his research findings in the United States. Undoubtedly he would have taken more of a personal interest in working with Owens, had he not been horrified at Owens suggestion that someday his PK abilities would be needed by Western powers to use against the Soviet Union.
During one of the breaks in the scientific program, I took the opportunity to meet Owens personally and also to interview him for radio broadcast in America. While we were in the middle of this interview the conference organizers interrupted us to announce that one of the scheduled speakers had not shown up and that his time would now be made available to Owens to make up for the previous disruption of his talk. We walked together into the auditorium and, realizing Owens' precarious position at the conference, I volunteered to make a brief introductory statement regarding my knowledge of the San Francisco snowstorm demonstration. Perhaps this move on my part helped to increase Owens' credibility; however, again he was cut short when the scheduled speaker arrived late. Flustered, Owens left the lecture room amid a loud display of hissing and applause.
Later that day, Owens described to me how the SIs had taught him 150 different techniques for telepathic transmission and psychokinetic weather control. The most important of these, which he used every day, he claimed was a visualization of the "rainbow UFO." Coincidently I was at that moment wearing a pin with the image of a UFO in front of a rainbow. It was a gift to me and I had never paid much attention to its symbolism. Owens expressed a strong desire to have that pin and, after much reluctance, I finally parted with it. In exchange he later sent me a fancy Swiss watch with two dials on it which he claimed he had taken with him on his "Egyptian adventures." Since then Owens and I have enjoyed a good, albeit sometimes stormy,
5
=== Page 91 of 103
PK Man
working rapport.
I returned from London to San Francisco with my head full of ideas about Ted Owens. If he was real, he was undoubtedly the most powerful psychic in the history of paranormal research. And I had by then become aware that a fair amount of documentation existed to support Owens' story. During a subsequent visit to SRI International, I managed to obtain from Puthoff and Targ their accumulation of correspondence and documentation from Ted Owens: a stack of letters, affidavits, and newspaper clippings over six inches thick.
Much of this material seemed almost nonsensical to me. In his "Egyptian" file, Owens claimed to have established telepathic linkage with "Pyrcre" an occult creature that lived inside the great pyramid and was the source of its mystical powers. In another file, Owens claims to have communicated telepathically with the Loch Ness monster. Oddly enough in this file there were also signed statements and a newspaper clipping from Inverness, Scotland, testifying that a UFO had appeared over the town at the time Owens was staying there. The files also contained numerous letters from individuals who have received "SI disks" from Owens. These are poker chip sized pieces of plastic with Owens' SI insignia engraved on them. For years, Owens has sold them as good luck charms for a nominal price. Dozens of letters testified to miraculous healings, narrow escapes and other moments of fortune and grace bestowed upon disk recipients. The files also contain a few crank letters threatening Owens' life.
One item of interest in the files was an affidavit signed by Ed Busch of radio station WFAA in Dallas, Texas, dated May 7, 1974. The affidavit stated that after Owens had promised to produce freakish weather in the Texas area the following events occurred: an earthquake, high winds and tornadoes, record cold weather followed by a heat wave.
6
=== Page 92 of 103
PK Man
I spoke to Ed Busch on the telephone to confirm the affidavit. Busch acknowledged that all of the events did occur as stated in the affidavit--although he couldn't recall whether or not he had actually signed such a statement. What he did remember quite well were the events which preceeded Owens' Texas demonstration.
It seems that Owens had been publicly challenged by another "psychic" from Chicago, named Joe DeLouise, who felt that Owens' activities were giving the whole psychic field a bad name. He was convinced that Owens was a liar, or a criminal who should be punished. Ed Busch offered to help settle the dispute by arranging for Owens to take a lie detector test. The test results indicated that Owens was not telling the truth when he stated that he was in telepathic contact with UFO intelligences. It was after this experience that Owens offered to demonstrate his abilities directly for Busch in Texas.
Owens' own version of the lie detector test was that he failed the test because he was intimidated by the operator of the lie detector apparatus. Many of his anxieties had been triggered by his recollections of having been arrested in Texas years earlier for practicing medicine without a license. The "medicine" that Owens was engaged in at the time was hypnosis. Owens felt the lie detector test was invalid.
After reading through the files, I asked Owens about his apparent use of PK ability for harmful or destructive ends. There were many instances in the files which seemed to point to this. Football players were injured when Owens wanted their teams to lose. Businessmen who refused to play ball with Owens suffered losses. Ships sank, planes crashed, lightning struck and killed people--all after Owens predicted that he would cause these events. In one letter Owens remarked on the mysterious accidents which had killed several people who had "double-crossed" him.
Owens' response was quite simple. He claimed that the SIs would never allow him to use his abilities for evil or destructive purposes. His intention was never
7
=== Page 93 of 103
PK Man
harmful he maintained even though his PK demonstrations were sometimes hazardous. In many instances, Owens claimed that he had warned government officials of the possible harmful side effects of some of his demonstrations so that appropriate safeguards could be taken. But, sadly enough, he was never listened to. Owens stated that he deeply regretted the damage that he has inadvertently caused. The injuries to athletes were always minor, he claimed; enough to remove them from the game but not to seriously hurt them.
Owens felt that if a few innocent people were hurt during his demonstrations, it was regrettable; it was nevertheless essential for him to prove to scientists and to the world at large that he had these powers. The good that he could do would always outweigh the inadvertent harm that might be caused.
This logic is not uncommon. It justifies over 50,000 automobile deaths a year in the United States as well as a variety of other occupational hazards. Of course, it also justifies military activity and covert dirty tricks.
What seemed more insidious was the possibility that Owens was capable of injuring other human beings unconsciously, or perhaps in a fit of rage. Owens does, in fact, have a very temperamental personality. Fits of rage are not unknown to him.
Perhaps the SIs who work with Owens are his personification of dynamic forces within his unconscious mind, or even the larger collective unconscious in the Jungian sense. Owens does not claim that he can account for the behavior of the SIs. If they choose to punish a person or an institution, Owens states that there is nothing he can do to intervene, even though he has at times begged and prayed that they would cause no more harm. The issue is complicated by Owens' notion that he himself is half SI, because of the mysterious operation on his brain. One is never clear whether Owens' demonstrations are the results of his own PK abilities (after all he does call himself "PK Man") or if the SIs, if they exist, are creating these effects
8
=== Page 94 of 103
PK Man
through their own powers after Owens telepaths to them. Another possibility is that Owens is not involved causally with these events at all. Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist at the University of Wyoming at Laramie who has been studying the Owens case, prefers the hypothesis that he is simply precognizing the events which he claims to cause. The sceptic, of course, would suggest that Owens utilizes both a shrewd, logical understanding of events and the gullability of others who will believe him. To me, this hypothesis does not square with the evidence. Sceptics generally don't care to look at the actual evidence, since they are already convinced by their theories.
In Owens' eyes, it sometimes appears that the SIs take it upon themselves to punish people who maliciously or rudely block his work. In fact, sometimes it even appears as if the SIs attempt to extort financial support for Owens by the implied threat of such punishment. This, Owens claims, he has no control over.
For example, during the summer of 1977 Owens unexpectedly appeared in San Francisco. Owens wanted to tell people that he could end the drought in California, if he were invited to do so by the people or their government representatives.
The SIs had instructed him, he believed, to communicate this message through the newspapers and television media. So, like one of the Beverly hillbillies, he drove over to the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle with his family in a rented truck. Unfortunately, he never got past the guards in the lobby who simply asked him to leave. Of course, he was infuriated, and perhaps the SIs even moreso. In a fit of anger he wrote to his scientific correspondents that the SIs had declared war against the United States to retaliate for the awful way he had been received in San Francisco.
Owens predicted that there would be outbreaks of poltergeist activity and fires all over the state, as well as lightning attacks. Weeks later, when the State of California was ablaze with forest fires which set a record by burning over 400,000 acres, I was able to assuage my mind by asserting that this was the result of the drought and that anyone might have been able to predict it.
9
=== Page 95 of 103
PK Man
Certainly no government official would dare blame Mr. Ted Owens for setting over 1000 fires across the state by using either psychokinesis or UFO aid. In fact, no government official, journalist, or "responsible" scientist would even entertain the thought for more than thirty seconds.
When Owens wrote that the SIs were declaring a war, there was a record low amount of forest fires in California, despite the drought. People, recognizing the fire hazards, were simply being more careful in the woods. Normally most forest fires are caused by human carelessness, less than 20% are the result of lightning. However, last summer the forest fires in California mostly resulted from lightning. Lightning is Owens' PK specialty.
I have personally interviewed, over the telephone, the Philadelphia lawyer who signed an affidavit in 1967 stating that Owens had provided for him a remarkable demonstration of his ability to make lightning strike a target preselected by the lawyer within a few minutes after Owens pointed his finger at the target. The probability that this would happen by chance is less than one in a million according to researchers at SRI International who have been studying lightning. The logic of this incident very strongly suggests that Owens does, in fact, use psychokinesis.
If Owens or the SIs used PK control over lightning to cause the rash of fires in California in the summer of 1977, then we are faced with an ethical dilemma of considerable proportions. Were it not the result of psychokinesis, such an act would be criminal arson. But who is to blame? Although there is no real legal issue today, we might remember that there have been periods in our history when this would indeed have been a criminal issue. Certainly in a superstitious society, the laws against witchcraft created more problems than they solved. Apparently, however, our own age is still not sufficiently enlightened to nurture the talents that Owens and others seem to exhibit and to guide them in a positively healthy direction.
10
=== Page 96 of 103
PK Man
Owens takes credit for this damage--which he claims he greatly regrets. He suggests that the good that he could do, if people would only listen to his claims, would more than make up for the inadvertent destruction caused in getting people to believe him. Owens believes that he and the SIs have used all of the nondestructive means at their disposal to convince the people whose support he desires that his powers are real. Furthermore Owens maintains that the SI war against the United States is still continuing and will remain in effect until he, Ted Owens, is granted official recognition as the Ambassador to the United States from the Space Intelligences.
This sounds like madness, since Owens' behavior is severely lacking in political or social effectiveness and hardly fits our image of diplomatic dignity. A psychiatrist might label it the behavior of a paranoid, schizopathic personality. Such a diagnosis, however, must be tempered by a study of Owens' unusual psychic abilities as well as the social stigmas attached to these alleged abilities. Perhaps there is little justification for taking Owens at face value. However, there is no valid, scientific justification whatsoever for ignoring Owens. There are only justifications of disinclination and perhaps personal safety. If his claims regarding psychokinetic ability are true, continuation of a "head in the sand" attitude may result in continued destruction because of both Owens' rage and frustration and our inability to understand the safety factors surrounding these apparent powers. If his talent is primarily precognitive, the ball-game is less dangerous, and the scientific payoff is not reduced. I suspect that both types of psi are active in Owens and that, through intensive investigation of his case, we can learn to activate such abilities in many people with positive social support and social benefit. Perhaps we would do well to accord Owens the respect which he asks for.
=== Page 97 of 103
PK Man
As for the charge of madness, Owens has his own answer. He acknowledges that he is eccentric, but asks us whether any individual with his apparent talents might not be judged insane by his contemporaries. Owens acknowledges the many rough edges and signs of stress in his personality. While, at a deep level he is puzzled by his own abilities, his sense of braggadocio imbues him with mountains of occult rhetoric to hide his ignorance and fear of the powers within his mind. Nevertheless, through the complexities of his personality, he seems to have retained his rationality, as exemplified in the following statement in answer to my suggestion that he might be losing his sanity:
Let's look at that. If I were paranoid, as is implied, then I would have delusions of grandeur and persecution. All right. I have been poor; have remained poor; have never had any illusions of being grand, rich, or however you could define it. I do not identify with a king, Jesus, or anyone else. I have been, and am, Ted Owens--a human being with lots of faults and weaknesses, who has goofed all over the place at times. The only "grandeur" you could attach to me is that I claim to work with UFOs who can make lightning strike targets at times; UFOs who will appear at times when I say they will; UFOs that will change the weather; UFOs that can tear up military exercises; UFOs that can heal people, etc. Well, my documented files indicate surely that all of this has happened.
I have interviewed over a dozen individuals who have had interactions with Owens. In most cases these persons, with no vested interest of their own, have completely confirmed Owens' accounts of various events. In some cases, events were recalled similarly but the witnesses differed with Owens' interpretations. In a few minor instances, witnesses have recalled factual events differently than Owens. Sociologists would expect rational, sane people to disagree in similar circumstances. None of the people I interviewed from Owens' past, who knew his character, thought that he would deliberately falsify information.
Owens is a very human person with very human faults. He incessantly smokes cigars; he has not given up drinking although he has stated that the SIs would like him to do so. He is temperamental and irascible, rough and hardy.
12
=== Page 98 of 103
PK Man
Owens has an ego and a temper, much like some members of my own family or faculty. My conversations with him vary from moments of great clarity and affinity to moments where I lose all trust completely. My mind explores the notions that Owens is a con man trying to use me, that he is a madman, that he is dangerous, that he is immature and irresponsible. Whether he is these things, I am learning, is as much my decision as it is his. He is very quick and responds instantly to my labels. One might well think of Owens as an "ordinary man in extraordinary situation." We have had our arguments; and our differences have been heated ones. He has been as much a gentleman as I have been with him and my politeness has been strained at times. He has been honest with me as far as I have been able to determine. And Owens has always treated me with respect. He is willing to learn from others, to communicate frankly, to anguish with some authentic awareness of his existential dilemma. He asks that we accept him.
Ted Owens' activities and our responses to him are most aptly described by the fictional Lacombe in *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* as an "event sociological." If we are looking for insanity, we must look at the behavior of many people, not just Owens himself.
My own background as a conscientious objector provides something of a contrast to Owens love for fighting. One incident has occurred which brought my pacifism into direct conflict with Owens' fiery temperament.
Over the years, many people have suggested to Owens that he provide some sort of simple laboratory demonstration of his abilities. To a scientist, it is much more impressive for Owens to create a psychokinetic effect under controlled conditions in a laboratory, such a moving a small object in a sealed container, than all of his large scale weather demonstrations.
=== Page 99 of 103
PK Man
To these requests Owens' response has been that such experiments would be too trifling for his powers. Back in the mid-1940s when he was at Duke University he provided some small scale demonstrations. Since then, Owens claims that the SIs have expanded his abilities in a manner such that it is now easier for him to control the weather over thousands of square miles than it is to effect the fall of dice in a laboratory test.
Nevertheless, the pressure continues for Owens to repeat such small scale tests on demand.
One day, in January of 1978, I received a phone call from Owens who urgently insisted that I contact some of the individuals who might have witnessed his demonstrations at Duke University over thirty years ago. He felt that it would be important to have their testimony on the record for historical reasons and, I suspect, also to help him deal with the continual pressure to engage in further experiments of a trivial nature.
I telephoned several researchers (who wish to remain unnamed) who remembered Owens from that time period. They all emphasized very strongly to me the arguments which they had had with Owens about the scientific necessity to institute experimental controls for all possible alternative explanations to psychokinesis before assuming that it did in fact occur. They felt Owens was too quick to interpret events as examples of psychokinesis. While they suspected that Owens did have psychokinetic ability, they all emphasized that they had never personally observed any extraordinary PK phenomena around Owens under controlled conditions.
I have no reason to doubt either the memory or the integrity of those researchers. They all remembered Owens quite well and spoke of the fondness which they had for him. They were aware to some extent of his subsequent career as "PK Man," and one researcher told me, "It seems as if Ted takes himself a little too seriously."
14
=== Page 100 of 103
PK Man
Nothing could have been closer to the truth. Owens went into a rage after he pried the information from me that the individuals in question would not authenticate the story that he had psychokinetically caused an object to levitate. (Some remembered the incident, but were unimpressed with the experimental controls; others didn't even recall the incident.) His anger at that moment was as heated as it had ever been. I imagine that he had been drinking as well. We did not spend much time on the telephone.
Minutes later, Owens phoned back again to announce that he had just received a communication from the SIs. They were angry, he claimed, at the pettiness of the researchers who would not support his story. These researchers would have to be taught a lesson and so, to make their point, the SIs were going to cause airplane crashes on the East Coast.
I became furious with Owens and lost my temper myself. Even if the alleged levitation incident occurred exactly as he had stated, I told him that the SIs were not justified in causing any harm to humans to retaliate for the fact that some scientists remembered an event differently after thirty years. I was well aware of the pressure on parapsychological researchers to make public statements only about the most foolproof of cases--and then to suffer the sarcasm of clever skeptics who draw innuendos of fraud and carelessness with a literary vengeance. Owens and the SIs might be fighting for the truth; I'm convinced that Owens believed that he was. But, in the most forceful terms, I told him that there was something more important than truth!
My statement caught Owens off guard. His anger subsided and he asked me what I meant. When I answered very simply that compassion and love were more important than truth, Owens quietly mumbled that he wished he had a blond in bed with him that night. And I agreed, I wished that he did also. The conversation ended there. He hung up on me.
15
=== Page 101 of 103
PK Man
Frankly, I didn't know what to make of things. My mind was working overtime wondering how I had ever gotten involved with Owens and trying to compute scenarios. I knew I would feel terribly guilty if there were any plane crashes, just on the chance that Owens' abilities were real and that my interaction with him triggered such destruction.
I had given Owens and the SIs a choice. If they decided to teach a lesson to those researchers from the past, they would lose one researcher in the present who was very actively on the case. For I was clear that no matter how valuable the scientific payoff, I was not about to continue to cooperate with such destructive forces.
I was also relishing the strength I had found within myself to confront Owens during one of his bad moods. It reminded me of Captain Kirk's most dramatic scenes in Star Trek where he forcefully persuades powerful aliens to abandon their destructive intentions towards humans. Somewhere within me I was certain I had reached Owens and that he would abandon this foolish notion to cause airplane crashes.
It's clear to me that on this occasion and many others, Owens has set himself up in a position where he cannot win. If the airplanes did crash, people would have strong emotional needs not to believe that he caused it; and if they did believe, they could only feel repugnance toward him. If airplanes failed to crash, Owens would still look like a fool.
The next day, Owens called again and apologised to me for losing his temper. There really had never been a danger, he claimed, because the SIs would never have allowed him to cause such destruction even though he had wanted to. I was puzzled because on the previous day he had told me that it was the SIs, and not he, who were going to cause all the crashes. In fact, he said that he himself didn't desire it at all.
When I confronted him on this discrepancy, he reminded me of the operation on his brain and the notion that he is himself half alien. The matter ended in that confusion which I have still not been able to resolve to my satisfaction. I have no
16
=== Page 102 of 103
PK Man
idea to what extent the SIs exist outside of Owens' imagination. I am simply comfortable in knowing--even if the SIs are at war with the United States--that I seem to be able to work with Owens without my actions endangering myself or other people.
My position has been to allow a deep sympathy for Owens' situation to emerge. I have encountered his world view and I have survived so far. My sympathy for his predicament is occasionally almost overwhelming and at times my antipathy is almost overwhelming.
I might never have compiled this report if it were not for an apparent outbreak of poltergeist activity surrounding the Owens files which were then in the possession of one of my assistants, Joe D'Ambria. While I was busy with other research, D'Ambria was organizing the Owens material. For a two week period in late October, 1977, Joe reported strange events in his own apartment.
Lights would go on and off by themselves; the stereo would go on and off in the middle of the night; strange footsteps were heard and doors would lock by themselves. One evening the box in which the Owens files were contained apparently moved by itself twelve feet across the room. For several evenings in a row, Joe took special care in placing papers inside the box in chronological order before he went to bed. He reported that on two occasions he awoke in the morning to find that the papers which he had organized were rearranged in totally random order.
In July of 1977, Owens had predicted an outbreak of poltergeist effects in California. Oddly enough, during the same time that Joe D'Ambria and his wife reported these incidents to me, several other acquaintances independently reported similar poltergeist stories. Owens himself reports constant poltergeist activity in his own home.
Owens claims that he desires to use his abilities to help the planet by improving the climate, and improving economic and political stability "in a thousand different
17
=== Page 103 of 103
PK Man
ways." If this is madness, I am for it. As a humanist, my intention is to direct Owens' apparent abilities in a positive direction--just in case he is for real. Perhaps Owens is a mad god mirroring the mental images of those with whom he interacts. As a scientist my intention in working with Owens is to continue the investigation. There are a thousand questions to be answered.
Owens himself is willing to explore his abilities in a positive way with individuals who treat him with professional respect. For over ten years he has expended his time and funds in order to document his talents for sympathetic scientists. During this time he has been largely ignored by the scientific community. He has lived under considerable social, economic and psychological stress. Perhaps he is simply too far ahead of his time. Or perhaps the scientific community is as much responsible for Owens' sad state of affairs as is Owens himself. Owens is asking for our attention and our help. He has now agreed to the possibility of engaging in controlled PK experiments. He is willing to stand on the evidence and explore its mysteries with scientists, scholars and concerned individuals.
JEFFREY MISHLOVE
3103 WASHINGTON STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115
(415) 346-7770
July 22, 1977
Millie Miller
635 Paul Avenue, Apt. # 1
San Fransisco, CA 94134
Dear Millie,
I have recently received two communications from Ted Owens which were sent by you. Since I can't write directly to Ted, I am sending this letter to you and ask you to pass it on to him.
I am very disturbed by Owens allegation with reference to me in the letter of July 17, which states, "Jeffrey Mishlove and his company of government agents refused to let this message get to the public."
The statement is blatantly untrue, for the following reasons:
(1) I published material about Ted Owens in Psychic Magazine with his picture in the company of several distinguished scientists.
(2) I put Ted on the radio in Berkeley, where several thousand people heard his state that he could control the drought.
(3) I helped arrange another radio interview for Ted on KFAT.
(4) I loaned Ted $300, out of my educational budget, when he needed money. This allowed him to come to San Francisco.
(5) I arranged another $150 grant for Owens--for which he had to do nothing in return.
(6) I arranged for Owens to meet with Milan Ryzl, a psychic researcher.
(7) I arranged for Owens to meet with Alan Vaughan, the editor of New Realities magazine.
(8) I notified over 70 scientists and government officials of Owens UFO demonstration from November 7 until February 7.
(9) I notified them all of the preliminary results of that research, which included one major UFO sighting, one UFO abduction case and one power blackout.
(10) I am still working, with Jo Ann Partridge, on a high-quality scientific paper which will discuss the details of that experiment.
=== Page 2 of 103
(2)
(11) I arranged for Ted to have the use of a house in Sonoma County for eight days, when he had no place to stay.
(12) I introduced Ted to numerous other people in the hope that they might be able to help him obtain his base in Oregon.
(13) I don't have a "company" of any sort and furthermore, none of my friends, acquaintances, or associates are government agents. Frankly, I would have no objection at all if some of them were--but this is simply not the case.
I have no idea what sort of impulse led Ted Owens to make such an unfair attack on me. In fact, I genuinely am sorry that he wasn't able to reach some of the right people with his message. If I had had more advance notice of his arrival I might have been able to do more for him. However, neither I nor any of my associates did anything at all to prevent Owens from getting his message to the public--quite the opposite.
I suppose Ted thinks that he knows these untrue things about me through his psychic abilities--in spite of all the above mentioned evidence to the contrary. It's unfortunate if he does, because he is wrong. Perhaps there are some government agents in my company that I am not aware of. This is highly unlikely, but not impossible. Even so, the thrust of his attack is essentially misguided.
Last January, Ted predicted an assassination attempt against Carter's life during the inauguration. This never happened. Later Ted wrote and told me that he must have actually been picking up on the Hanafi Muslim terrorism in Washington, D. C. So, his accuracy in these things is often partial.
In the meantime, I am very angered by his attack on me and have no motivation whatsoever to continue to work in Ted's behalf until he corrects his unfortunate mistake.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Mishlove
Jeffrey Mishlove
=== Page 3 of 103
Washington Research Center
3101 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
April 29, 1980
Dear Ted,
I've been thinking about you and your situation lately, so I thought I would drop you a letter to share some of my thoughts with you.
As you know, I've been receiving your information about shutdowns at nuclear power plants lately and I think that this is very interesting. Of course, I have no background statistical data base regarding these events, and as I've told you many times, this is necessary to make any logical evaluation of your demonstrations. However, as I recall, you originally stated that this one was not for the scientists.
Back in 1976, when we first met and I started following your career, it was my intention to help you then establish some credibility for your work in the eyes of the larger public. My attempt was in terms of well-written, logical letters--and the scientific report on you. The impact of this has been largely minimal. I think there are several reasons for this, which I shall list as follows:
(1) Probably most important, what you have done is mind-boggling. Many people are simply not willing to accept that weather control or prediction is even possible. In fact, they are not even willing to seriously examine data, such as the report, which suggests such a possibility. It is too much of a challenge to people's belief systems.
(2) There are a number of people, however, who accept the reality of psi. They don't exactly disbelieve your powers, rather they dislike your flamboyant style. It will be to your advantage if you can understand their point of view with sympathy, even if they cannot understand or sympathize with your position. To many of these people you seem evil and dangerous (injuries, plane crashes, forest fires, droughts, accidents, storms, deaths, etc.). To some people you seem crazy, with your insistence on exorbitant (or at least unrealistically negotiated) fees for your services. To some you seem paranoid in your belief that government agents are out to destroy your career, with apparently little thought with how you yourself interfere with your own best interests. To others you seem, at times, like a braggart and egotist--even if your abilities are real. From my point of view, frankly, you are all of these things and also none of them. I think you understand me.
Now that I have finally received my doctoral degree, I am in a position where what I have to say is given greater legitimization and credibility. I have the ear of the newspapers, wire services, the business world and the academic world--at least to a larger extent than before. So, to a degree, the first objection that I mentioned above is being overcome. This leaves the second one for us to deal with, if we wish to achieve mutual goals.
=== Page 4 of 103
217 Connecticut Rd. Union, New Jersey 07083
# Peter Jordan
8/21/79
Dear Jeff:
Your letter brought me unexpected shock and disappointment.
I have always been of the opinion that, when an offer is made, it is fulfilled. Although I greatly admire the work of Scott Rogo, I feel as though you have dealt me an undeserved hand. To pass Rogo the same offer originally made to me is, I feel, cold and unethical.
John Keel once advised me of the instability of the Fortean field, and cautioned me against involving myself in its "seamy" activities. He told me it was his experience that many of the investigators, writers, and researchers within the field have little regard for each other, and generally are manipulative, cold, self-serving, and immature.
I doubt very much that such brash, descriptive adjectives could be applied to your character, but it is increasingly becoming my opinion that traditional codes of honor have no place or meaning in this unfeeling world.
I hope you succeed without sacrificing your spirit.
Yours,
Peter A. Jordan
=== Page 5 of 103
Jeffrey Mishlove
Washington Research Center
3101 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 346-7770, 668-0482
August 24, 1977
Peter A. Jordan
217 Connecticut Road
Union, New Jersey 07083
Dear Peter:
I have received your letter of August 21, expressing your disappointment regarding the book with Owens. Let me clarify the situation as I see it. Your letter implies that I originally made an offer to you to write this book with me, which I then in a "cold and unethical" manner abruptly withdrew. I'm sure that if you review our previous correspondence, you will discover a different story.
You originally proposed to me the possibility of co-authoring a book about Owens, based presumably on my years of research with him. My response was twofold: (1) I believed that a book on Owens should be done, and that my editor at Harcourt would be interested; and (2) I was concerned about both your writing experience in handling such a difficult project, and the possible conflict of interest if you attempted to simultaneously write about Owens and conduct research. I can see that my response may have raised your hopes, but it can hardly be considered an "offer" which I was not ready to make without further interaction with you.
Frankly, in your second letter to me, you avoided dealing in a substantive way with the issues I had raised in point (2), except to make an offhand remark that you had published some articles in FATE magazine. Frankly, I do not feel that I have violated any "traditional codes of honor" in dealing with you. However, I believe that in your accusations that you have violated some traditional codes of clarity. If this situation repeats itself, there can be no basis whatsoever for any continued cooperation with you on the Owens research.
Owens has forwarded to me copies of your letter of 8-14 to him about research and his responses to that letter. He has asked that I mediate in the organization of further experiments. For your information, I am enclosing a suggestion by Eisenbud for an experiment which has caught Owens' imagination. If you are seriously interested in initiating research with Owens, I suggest that you contact some biochemists about setting up the protocols and equipment for this experiment in cooperation with the ASPR or PRF. Owens is also interested in fogging photographic film simultaneously. He believes that he will require about two weeks to complete the experiment, concentrating on the target apparatus for about eight hours a day. Everything must be set up with the strictest experimental controls, so that if results are obtained Owens cannot later be accused of fraud.
Furthermore, Owens is interested in this research for scientific purposes. He is not seeking popular acclaim if he succeeds; nor does he desire any public announcements should he fail to succeed in controlled experiments of this sort--which, after all, will constitute a new effort for him.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Mishlove
=== Page 6 of 103
| 1-11-77 | 10:10 am | I return Owens' call |
|---|---|---|
Trying to keep demonstration as scientific as possible.
Something he must tell me, can't keep it to himself.
"When I got irked, I did a bad thing."
Dictated notes into tape recorder. Looked at map and hit it with a couple of sledgehammer blows in my mind."
Promised never to it again. Dec. 31st!
I'm going to hit SF with all the power I can hit it with.
On tape he says he forbids me to do the book, but he apologizes for that now.
=== Page 7 of 103
Ted Owens
3:07 pm
1-19-77
Serious attempt to kill Carter in next two weeks. Local militants.
Using same man used to kill JFK. Short, red hair. An "ace" at killing. 1 team & back-up team. Doesn't know motive.
He trains teams.
Tomorrow or in next two weeks. It won't succeed if we can tip them off & alert them.
Code name, "Apple"
Diversion that they would use with a woman so they can hit at Carter.
Some weapon pistol or rifle.
Schmidt, Mueller, Scott, Bill
Underground militants, revolutionaries
- led by "aces" outside US
- Germany
- Noon & 3 pm - planned for inaug.
- flexible plan.
- "I'm very excited about it."
- "They bought off some people to get near President Carter, bought off guards (secret service)"
=== Page 8 of 103
- doesn't have complete security.
- because he can't be controlled!
- S. Cal. based
- (for fun) Michaels, Michelles
- One or more women involved
- at a ball or party.
- attempt to blow whole place up with grenade or mortar.
- wipe out everyone
=== Page 9 of 103
Ted Owens
6 UFOs in a circle around SF.
1 over SF
EM effects between them.
Radius 100 miles
"time is short for the world"
Power blackouts EM
streetcars running backward
lightning
Millie Miller
635 Paul Ave., Apt. 1
467-7456
Send Ted a map
Dr. Dierkins, Brussels, Belgium
England Carol Stebbing
804
331-2999
EM Grid over Frisco
Radio & TV interference
Ted Owens
Uri Geller 1st third
Owens 2/3 of Spectrum
PK on people who kill without needing
=== Page 10 of 103
Feb 9 8:00 am Ted Owens
higher plane
"I know what I could do"
I once gave an earthquake demonstration around the world for scientists in Phila.
Time is short for US - nuclear shootout with Russia.
SIs want a big negative dem. so that he can get backing to direct nuclear war.
"I can't see it that way. One little child wouldn't be worth it."
Put on demonstrations for Russia's benefit.
__________
Richard Austin $\rightarrow$ 387-8190 461-4012
Cal. Inst. Asian Studies
__________
Birth Data
__________
Lon
__________
send Rauty
__________
Dorothy Gundling - MPI
- music & physiology
- 5 min each, diff types of music
- 3 aura readers
__________
Human Targets for remote viewing
=== Page 11 of 103
Dec. 31, 2:20 p.m. - Ted Owens
Professional gunman
hired bodyguard
========== equiv. of shooting a 45 magnum at target
- "psis never lied to him"
- "something rough will happen"
- "all hell is going to break lose in this area"
- "I'll give you hell in that area."
----------
12:30 p.m. Ted Owens 1-1-77 - apologize
- Idi Amin: "I'm not allowed to hit a person."
- an area, not people
========== each person has a pattern: I can't interfere.
- "I don't complete every pass."
- just enough to win games enough
- Over 300 demonstrations
- not all completely the way I wanted
- 4 pts. out of 6
- like a good quarterback
- Amin: the only thing I missed in years.
- UFO Saga. Quite
- from military:
- knocked out Fla. radar.
=== Page 12 of 103
②
- article says Owens "tampered with by UFOs"
- Owens has choices, can be wrong.
- BIs say that they have fulfilled the sightings
- FBI, NASA, SS, NSA
- dossiers on Owens
- indep. of the others
- UFO reports squelched!
- write to people again, ask if anything!
=== Page 13 of 103
1-8-77
51's told Ted to call and tell me to
1. pass the word on
2. forget $1,000,000 in Swiss Bank
3. States of Cal. & Oregon to obtain top of hill in Oregon for Owens & family.
- [x] Cave
- [x] tourist attraction
- [x] cafeteria in cave
- [x] Hotel
- [x] legend of bear, bush, hole, cave
- [x] use as headquarters
- [x] with employees
- [x] everyone else off the hill
- [x] $25,000 for a year
they will end drought over Cal & whole USA
take MENSA test!
Carter -- tell him about MENSA
-- get together the best psychics as US Gov't team
=== Page 14 of 103
November 29, 1977
Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove
Dear Jeffrey:
Received your letter of Nov. 25, for which, thank you. Your book outline looks very good. Would recommend "The UFO Connection" (singular). Also, I am quite amenable to the terms which you outline, and when your co-worker sends the contract I shall sign it and return it. In the interests of accuracy... see Chapter V...I have never, ever, "psychically attacked you"... nor would I, or will I, ever. I felt an extraordinary friendly warmth toward you when we first met...and this has never changed. Sometimes I get angry...but friends can and do get angry, sometimes, but remain good friends nonetheless. At any rate, I will never throw any OD mechanisms your way...and you have my sacred oath, word, on it...and the SIs are witness to it.
I haven't gotten anything out for a long while...because my electric typewriter was inoperative. Thankfully Henry (Dr. Monteith) made me a gift of a beautiful, brand-new, manual Royal typewriter. So now I can perk. The Selectric had blinding speed; I did over 100 wpm on it...can only do about 20-30 wpm on this Royal...but at least, it will not break down every other week like the Selectric.
When we hit town here we were riding in a busted U-Haul and didn't have a dime. Had to pawn a whole bunch of stuff (which is still in pawn at Liberty Loan) just to get up a month's rent so we could move in some place quickly and unload the truck. It's been like that ever since...last week was down to $13, and nothing coming in. Am explaining this to you so that you will realize that I have been unable to get together any money to send to you to repay your loan. As soon as something good happens financially, I will take care of it, you can rest assured.
Through Henry (Dr. Monteith) I discovered that the scientists and government agencies in this area are absolutely venomously hostile toward me. He even tipped me off that they were planning a PR attack on me in the newspapers, attacking my credibility. The SIs instructed me to disengage myself completely, then, from Henry as a scientist...from the other scientists and govt. people in this area. They told me my job had been completed...what they had led me here for and literally forced me down here for. (I
=== Page 15 of 103
2
was forced to set down in this area...and forced to even take this particular mobilehome in this particular small town, 17 miles from Albuquerque...out in the country...filled with Mex and Indians.) Evidently the SIs wanted to know if I would be accepted by, and treated well by, the scientists and govt. agencies in this tremendously sensitive government area. I was not..so they found out what they wanted to know. Henry is an incredible chap...he doesn't lie, no matter what. He told me some of the bad things which some people were saying about me...even some of my regular contacts, when he checked with them about me. When I asked him if my phone was tapped, he admitted that it was. Came right out with it. He told me that if he had the base money for Oregon, personally, he'd give it to me...just to see what I could do. He told me that the 'hostiles' local govt agencies had published that letter in the News relative to my working to produce UFO phenom in this area within 60 days...in order to embarrass me. He said that even if a UFO did appear...they would pay me nothing...that they would insist that I prove that I was connected with the sighting. I've never met a scientist like Henry. And both the kids and I are extremely fond of the man. He is colored, you know. A most brilliant man. He is a physicist...his hobbies are theoretical physics and the study of UFOs and paranormal phenomena. In Chap. V of your outline you describe the difficulty of conducting and analysing such experiments...that is what Henry brought up. He told me to move things on a table, like the French lad. He said that if I were such a hotshot at PK, as I claimed, then I could do a little thing like that. I pointed out to him that I had already done that...30 years ago, already...in 1946, for Dr. Rhine, his wife Louisa, Dr. McMahan and Dr. Humphreys at Duke...when Dr. Rhine set up scissors on a table, 8-10 feet away, and asked me to knock the scissors down with my mind. And I did so. (You can check with Rhine...he is hostile toward me, but if he is truthful, he will admit it.) Well, Henry argued, he and other scientists had to have something out of me that they could measure...and if I could pull 1,000 pounds then surely I could pull an ounce. The SIs comm'd and told me to tell Henry that they had given me the brain of Future Man...and they did not want me to back up 30 years to
=== Page 16 of 103
3
where the human scientists are now...instead the SIs want the scientists (or whichever of them are capable) to progress forward to where my mind and my work are...which is far, far ahead. They want the scientists to try and understand other-dimensional mechanisms and how they work; how they affect Nature, etc. To do that, the scientists must come to where I am. Nothing is gained for the SIs if I must regress 30 years to do something some other humans are doing now. Do you understand? They told me to tell Henry...if I have taken 30 years to learn how to pull 1,000 pounds, I would be an idiot now to pull an ounce. Henry told me, "Ted, I thought I was a rebel...but you're more of a rebel than I am!" Coming from Henry, that's a compliment. Now to a few inaccuracies in your outline, again...Chap. VI... "One researcher has diagnosed him as clinically psychopathic." Let's look at that. If I were paranoid, as is inferred...then I would have delusions of grandeur and persecution. (Remember, my major at Duke in 1946 was psychology...and even at that age I was an expert at abnormal psychology...the subject of.) All right. I have never had 'delusions of grandeur'. I have been poor; have remained poor; have never had any illusions of being grand, rich, or however you could define it. I do not identify with a king; Jesus; or anyone else. I have been, and am, Ted Owens...a human with lots of faults and weaknesses...who has goofed all over the place at times. The only 'grandeur' you could attach to me, is that I claim that I work with UFOs who can make lightning strike targets at times; UFOs who will appear at times where I say they will; UFOs that will change the weather; UFOs that can tear up military exercises; UFOs that can heal people, etc. Well, my documented files indicate surely that all of this has happened. Look at the affidavit from Dr. Fogel, for whom I had a UFO appear in a certain area of Virginia, under certain conditions, at a certain time. Look at the affidavit from Margulies, partner in the huge law firm of Cohen, Shapiro, Berger, Polisher and Cohen in the PSFS Bldg. in Philadelphia...to the effect that I caused a lightning bolt to hit a specific target that he pointed out (after challenging me) from the tall building there. Look at the newspaper column confirmation of
=== Page 17 of 103
4
Stan Hochman, of the Philadelphia News...who challenged me to go with him and Bill Shefski to a pro football game and demonstrate the power of the UFOs to control a game. I did go, and did so demonstrate...100% successful. Where was the delusion in any of these things? Then plow through dozens...hundreds...of like demonstrations, affidavits...and you get the same answer. No, there was never any 'delusion'. It happened. While working for Cohen, Shapiro, etc., in Philly, I told the lawyers there that I would cause, with UFO help, a major power blackout on the East Coast (this in 1967). You should have seen their scared, white faces when the lights went out and phones went dead and typewriters went dead...when it happened just as I had told them it would. No 'delusion'. It happened. All power knocked out in five States, on the East Coast, before June 21st, as I had said I would cause it to happen.
Delusions of persecution? Ha ha ha. Hundreds of people no doubt were accused of that...when Nixon was in power. Now, after the fact...we all know that hundreds or thousands of innocent people were in fact surveilled, phones tapped, mail opened. But never mind them. Henry, who speaks for the scientists in this area, has already admitted that my phone is tapped. So do I imagine that? In Cairo, Egypt...I was followed and surveilled by both British and Egyptian intelligence agents. Imagination on my part? My pro guide, Abo...told me that Egyptian intelligence were tailing me. I knew that already (see my file on it) but it amused me. As for the British...one of their agents sat at a table with me in the Hilton Restaurant, let me know who and what he was. Do you think I imagined that? Thus my phone is tapped; I am followed; my mail is checked (I found out there was a mail cover on me in Philly in 1968 when the Postmaster mistook me for a govt. Agent and gave it away, by accident.) Add to this the fact that I have received innumerable phone calls and letters...threatening my life because of what I do (I have one such call on tape...threatening to cut my brain out.) Any wonder then that I walk wary...and remain on the defensive? Henry himself pointed out how the govt. agencies here were planning to persecute me, through PR means. So where is my 'delusion'?
=== Page 18 of 103
5
There is no question of my being 'normal'. No member of Mensa could be 'normal'. But a "psychopath"? It is to laugh. Do I carry weapons? Sure I do. I have already explained why...the threats, etc. Remember that I am a special person to the SIs... they have taken ages to find and develop me...they have caused me to learn boxing, judo, quick-draw...to protect myself for their work. It figures.
And my personal philosophy is...if some freak out of the woodwork comes at me with a gun...I do not intend to stand there and be butchered like a hog. I intend to go down shooting at him, or them. I will have that much satisfaction, at least. Remember, I am not Jeffrey Mishlove. How many people want to kill you? I am PK Man...and religious fanatics and just plain kooks all over the United States have expressed a desire to eliminate me by violence. I do not intend to just sit or stand while they do it. And even if they get in the first shot or blast...I intend to try, at least, to take them with me. Try to get your mind in gear with this.
On July 19, 1977, after the kids and I had left your friend's cabin and headed down through an isolated area of northern California...the SIs let me know for sure, concretely...what they had telepathed to me for years. THEY WERE INDEED WITH ME. 28 of them overhead, within hours. One huge one, just over my head where I could bounce a rock off it. And they stayed there for hours, too. And Beau watched them, too. Me deluded? Ask Beau. So at last I knew the tremendous power that I have...within a rock's throw at any time, I imagine. If you'd have been there, you'd have been scared witless. For years I took the SIs pretty much on faith...through the miracles that they supplied me with. But on this "haunted night" as Beau and I call it...they simply put themselves, and their power, right in front of my eyes, to see! Tell you what...if you have any doubt...hook a phone up to an PSE outfit (psychological stress evaluation) and call me and ask me to tell you all about it. Ask whatever you want. You'll get an accurate readout. Talk to Beau, too. All I ask is...be on the level...not one of the govt. agencies dirty tricks boys on dallas style..and print the results in your book! That night...was the highlight of my entire life. Can you imagine your seeing three Big Foot creatures
=== Page 19 of 103
6
and 28 UFOs overhead...in one night, Jeffrey? Think about it.
And remember...both Beau and I...saw them.
In Chap. VII..."Filled with paranoid visions (I resent that very much) he blames secret government agents for hindering his efforts.." Not so. As a matter of fact...the SIs have let me know that in fact GOVT. AGENTS HAVE AT TIMES HELPED ME. That letter you got from Millie...was Millie's own thought...had nothing to do with me, that crack about govt. agents...and I did apologize for it. This sentence is completely out of line. Then it goes on.."and declares all out war on the United States." Not true. I, Ted Owens, did not declare all out war on the U.S. -- the SIs did and told me, their spokesman (just as Henry is here for the scientists) to report it. I am the man in the middle, Jeffrey. Then the SIs kicked the bejesus out of California. Not me. I have no such powers.
(Oh, you can check with the Cape Charles police...some "dark skinned men" tried to break into my house there at 1:30 at night by cutting the glass on my bedroom window for entry...and the next-door neighbors saw them and yelled and ran them off. It was reported to the police it is in their records. But this was only one of three attempted "hot-prowl" entries into our house. Add this paragraph to the 'paranoid delusions of persecution' part of this letter.)
Incidentally, I wish you the best of luck...all good things... on your getting your PhD, Jeffrey.
In closing, you mention 'apparent poltergeist effects' centered on the files of materials about me. Ha! We had those in our house in Cape Charles...but here it is even worse! Two weeks ago, after I had put Teddy to bed in his own bedroom...I heard loud, savage, leopard-like growls coming from his room. I thought that somehow he was making the noises, and told Beau about it the next day. But last week, one night...about 4 in the morn, I was wakened in my own bedroom...by loud, savage, animal growls, at the foot of my own bed. I got up, checked the room with a flashlight...but nothing there. Next morning when I got Teddy up... first thing he said was, "Daddy, something was growling real loud in my room last night!" I.e., he and I had both heard the loud, horrible growls (that would raise the hair on your head.) Also at
=== Page 20 of 103
Timothy Leary
San Diego
get police report
"insulators"
- 4" square article
insulating-like
- Santa Cruz police were called in.
- Man went to get friend
friend saw it just receding
- 3 am,
- landed on Pacific & Laurel
Sentinel, Santa Cruz (last week)
11-17
=== Page 21 of 103
This sighting discussed with Nick Herbert & Jim Harder.
- Harder suggests that in letters to the police, I not mention Owen's name - but say that a computer made the predictions.
Note: this sighting in Oct '76 - witness unreliable.
=== Page 22 of 103
Ted Owens 3-29-77
Last night being taught by some man in my sleep.
- [ ] 10 commandments being given to aliens.
- [ ] Podgorny: wake up in sleep all night
- [ ] gone to Africa from Russia
- [ ] Dynamite.
=== Page 23 of 103
US Govt not to try & shoot down and interfere with UFOs.
__________ "let them alone"
=== Page 24 of 103
K.H. Newton
Denny Pulis x3487
Ralph Fairchild x3136
Outages every day
80,000 meters
PG&E News Bureau
77 Beale St.
S.F. 94106
=== Page 25 of 103
Bodega Susan, Chairman of Art History
12 years ago, Upstate NY
Poughkeepsie
band of black on the bottom of the sides
larger than plane on sides
not luminous when I saw it
Oakland
12-11-76
Stephen Poleskie
Carl Sagan
=== Page 26 of 103
Shorter Paper in mail tomorrow!
stockholder suit
SF Foundation
Exxon Foundation
Media Support
Bright light on black mountain.
North Marin Water Board
Esalen
Dianne Vaughan
=== Page 27 of 103
6:10 p.m. 9-28-80
Ted Owens
Wants to do demonstration for T.V.
Chew up all pro-football teams. Rhine seeing psychiatrists a result of his work.
Working with Greenpeace
__________
Knows what Russia are doing
Af. is a start, jigsaw puzzle
__________
Judged this is time to start.
Perhaps in W. Germany.
1000 fires for Russia - make moves.
=== Page 28 of 103
TED OWENS BIOGRAPHY
He claims that at the age of three he was abducted by the saucer intelligences (SI's) who performed some sort of brain surgery which modified the left hemisphere to enable him to establish instantaneous two way telepathic contact with these beings. He claims to have mastered some fifty different skills in his life and credits the modification for this flexibility. For over ten years, he has created "demonstrations" of unusual abilities ranging from apparent feats of psychokinesis, healing, geological and atmospheric disturbances of massive proportions and causing the appearances of UFO's.
Although vague about the exact relationship between himself & the SI's, he projects the image of both liaison between the SI's and humans and the image of a forceful character whose interests are mainly for personal gain.
His personality, as he admits, is abrasive and straight forward. He speaks with undertones of resentment towards the skeptical scientific and scholarly community. Self contradiction is the predominant factor in his philosophy of governing the ethical use of his alleged psychic abilities. He has come under attack by psychics and scientists, not only for the possibility of fraud (as he has failed polygraph tests) but also for the destructive use of his alleged PK ability.
Owens has been very vague about his personal code of ethics and his plans for the future use of his alleged powers. However, throughout the years, virtual mountains of documented information in the form of clippings, affidavits, letters and articles have been amassed about this controversial figure and his exploits throughout the world.
MAJOR EVENTS
14 November 1969 Apollo 12 -- Owens notified NASA that the SI's were angry due to lack of his recognition and that they were going to sabotage the moonshot by striking the craft with a bolt of lightning. Owens arranged with the SI's to have the attack before the craft lifted off to avoid injury. The Apollo 12 was struck 36.5 seconds into lift-off, however NASA ordered the astronauts to continue the mission. No lasting harm was done and the lightning was explained as the result of the rocket piercing a rain cloud.
It should be noted that in 1964 and 1965, Owens warned NASA of this same attack and it was ignored. A sworn affidavit testifying to Owens' prediction was signed by two court reporters and a secretary on this date.
? ? 1967 Philadelphia -- Owens and two witnesses, Charles Ray and Kenneth Batch, tried another lightning experiment in which City Hall was the first target. Within minutes of the moment when Owens pointed his hands, three bolts in succession struck on or about the City Hall building. A second target was chosen some minutes after in a different section of the sky. Again within minutes, lightning appeared in that section and not anywhere else. It should also be noted that between the choosing of the targets no lightning struck anywhere at all. Both witnesses signed sworn affidavits on 12 August 1967, both were of high integrity judging from their occupations.
=== Page 29 of 103
Business / TM
Dramatic positive
Intuition Natural motivation
A good feeling for Gigi's career
Dream Music comes forward
=== Page 30 of 103
May 3, 1996
A 'Knockout Blow' to be delivered against the skeptics of psi.
My work moves congenially, effectively to highest levels of society - broadest levels.
Long, healthy life
=== Page 31 of 103
University Extension
University of California
Berkeley
EIGHT-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM
CONDUCTED BY JEFFREY MISHLOVE
# Parapsychology and ESP Learning
July 11-September 2
Mishlove is one of the major catalysts in the field, a student, supporter and synthesizer who suggests connections others are simply less equipped to see as possibilities. I have worked in this area for more than 25 years, and I know it well. But I know of no one today with as good a grasp of the many facets of this most fascinating of all fields.
MICHAEL SCRIVEN, Ph.D.,
Professor of Philosophy and Education, UC, Berkeley;
President-Elect, American Educational Research Association
Research in parapsychology has been advancing for more than 100 years. Since 1969 parapsychology has been officially recognized as a branch of science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The use of psychic abilities in business, medicine, crime detection, archaeology, scientific exploration, and personal growth has been widely reported. Unfortunately, perhaps, there has also been resistence to training in psychic development. Civilization has yet to provide comprehensive models for psychic training comparable to the well-developed programs and incentives in athletics, music, science, and art. Recently, however, Milan Ryzl, Charles Tart, and others, have scientifically demonstrated that some individuals can learn to use their ESP abilities.
This eight-week intensive program deals with the latest research in parapsychology and ESP learning. It is divided into four credit courses and individual and group sessions. Participants learn of the latest research findings; receive training in increasing their skills in hypercognition (mental processes extending rational thought, such as relaxation, concentration, and visualization); join in laboratory and field studies using ESP; explore their own ESP potential talents; and become familiar with research design and methodology in parapsychological research.
The eight-week program meets from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday each week, with the series of evening lectures each Wednesday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. A complete daily schedule will be sent upon request.
**Parapsychology X 109.3 (3)**
Study of psychic phenomena and transpersonal psychology. Use of meditation and biofeedback to enhance and comprehend altered states of consciousness. Parapsychology in medicine; Zen, Tibetan, alchemical, and shamanistic systems of transpersonal psychology; psychic events in hypnotic, psychedelic, and psychotic episodes; psychokinetic phenomena, and work with psychics.
**Analytical and Experiential Approaches to the Study of Hypercognitive Skills X 106.5 (3)**
Hypercognitive skills are mental processes--other than strictly rational thinking--for perceiving, knowing, and acting. These processes involve relaxation, concentration, creativity, and self-awareness. This course familiarizes participants with the literature on hypercognition, demonstrates hypercognition training techniques, and help in discriminating between legitimate uses of these techniques and their abuses for fradulent or unethical purposes.
**Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation X 106.4 (2)**
This course provides experiences as subjects in parapsychological experiments, and critical tools necessary for the evaluation of experimental reports in the literature. It deals with principles of experimental methodology and technique, the differences between field investigation of spontaneous ESP experiences and the experimental exploration of ESP, and the issue of repeatability and ESP learning. Please note: A separate evening section is available to those who cannot enroll in the entire program.
**New Research in Parapsychology X 106.3 (2)**
A series of evening lectures by researchers involved in experimental research and evaluation. Topics and speakers:
July 13 Factors affecting ESP performance--JOHN PALMER, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UC, Davis
July 20 Remote-perception of natural targets--HAROLD PUTHOFF, Ph.D., and RUSSELL TARG, Ph.D., Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park
July 27 Ganzfeld studies and psychokinesis--EDWIN MAY, Ph.D., Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Aug. 3 Hypnosis and ESP learning--MILAN RYZL, Ph.D., formerly with the Czechoslovakia Institute of Biology, Prague
Aug. 10 Psychic integration counseling: ESP and mental health--ELEANOR CRISWELL, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, California State College, Sonoma
Aug. 17 Learning to use extrasensory perception--CHARLES T. TART, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UC, Davis; President, Parapsychological Association
Aug. 24 Physical properties of Psi phenomena--ELIZABETH RAUSCHER, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, UC, Berkeley
Aug. 31 Philosophical overview of parapsychology--MICHAEL SCRIVEN
Please note: The lecture series is open to enrollment apart from the entire program.
**Coordinator and Instructor: JEFFREY MISHLOVE**, Ph.D. candidate, UC, Berkeley, and author of *Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation Through History, Science and Experience*, published by Random House/Bookworks, 1975. For the past nine years he has led courses and workshops on psychic exploration, mysticism, and consciousness development at colleges throughout the United States. He has produced more than 300 radio programs that approach psychic consciousness from the scientific, experiential, humorous, social, and artistic perspectives.
The eight-week program has been developed as a whole, and enrollment may not be made for individual courses, except for the Wednesday evening lecture series "New Research in Parapsychology" and a section of "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation," which will be given on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
**Prerequisite:** upper division standing or consent of the instructor. If you are enrolling for the entire program, please submit with your enrollment form a résumé of your interest and experience in parapsychology and a statement of why you wish to take these courses. Enrollment is limited.
**Dates:** July 11-Sept. 2; Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wed., 7-9:30 p.m. for the entire program. Evening courses: "New Research in Parapsychology," July 13-Aug. 31; Wed., 7-9:30 p.m.; and "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation," July 12-Sept. 1; Tues. Thurs., 7-10 p.m.
**Location:** All sessions meet in International House, Piedmont Avenue and Bancroft Way, Berkeley, with the exception of "New Research in Parapsychology," which meets in 155 Dwinelle Hall, UC, Berkeley campus.
**Housing:** Rooms are available at International House for this period. Housing information will be sent upon request. Please write to Dept. SBHS, University Extension, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720, or call (415) 642-1064 in Berkeley.
**Credit:** 10 quarter units in Psychology for the entire eight-week program; 2 quarter units each for "New Research in Parapsychology" and "Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation."
**Fees:** $450, entire program (edp 105304); $55, New Research in Parapsychology lectures (edp 105312); $7.50 individual lectures, available at the door, space permitting; $75, Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation (edp 105320)
**For Information:** write Continuing Education in Behaviorial Sciences, University Extension, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; or call (415) 642-1064.
To enroll: complete and return the form on the reverse side of this announcement.
----------
=== Page 32 of 103
# ENROLLMENT FORM
Please mail to: Dept. B, University Extension, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
Name __________ __________ __________
last first middle
Address __________
number and street
__________ __________ __________ __________
city state ZIP daytime telephone
Social Security number (Please note, if you are enrolling for credit: Your Social Security number is the basis on which records are kept. Pursuant to the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, disclosure of this number is mandatory. This record-keeping system was established prior to January 1, 1975, by authority of the Regents of the University of California under Article IX, Section 9, of the California Constitution.)
I enclose $ .......... to cover ..... enrollment(s) in the following:
- [ ] edp 105304 Eight-Week Summer Program Conducted by Jeffrey Mishlove, $450
- [ ] edp 105312 New Research in Parapsychology X 106.3, $55
- [ ] edp 105320 Investigations in Parapsychology: Analysis and Participation X 106.4, $75
Please make check payable to The Regents of the University of California, or if using BankAmericard give:
__________ __________
your account number date card expires
__________
and your signature to authorize charge
Please use a separate sheet giving above information for others covered by this enrollment.
As required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (45 CFR 86) the University of California does not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission to or employment in the educational programs and activities that it operates. Inquiries concerning Title IX may be directed to the Assistant for Legal Affairs to the Vice Chancellor, Administration, 228 California Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, or the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. 20203.
=== Page 33 of 103
Ted Owens
Box 1171
Libby, Montana
59923
Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove
190 25th Ave.
San Francisco, California
94121
=== Page 34 of 103
Schneider leaves
Rick Schneider, publisher of The Western News, this week announced that he is resigning his position. He has been replaced by H. Markley McMahon, president of Cabinet Publishing Co., the firm which owns The Western News. Schneider, who has been with The Western News for four years, including 16 months as publisher, said that he will leave Libby with regret, but that he had an opportunity in Alaska too good to pass up. McMahon also announced that he was naming his wife, June, as editor of The Western News. She has more than 30 years of newspaper experience, including five years as co-publisher of the Humboldt Sun, a semi-weekly newspaper in Nevada. McMahon, who brings 38 years of newspaper experience to the job, has spent the past 20 years as publisher and co-publisher of newspapers in Nevada and New Mexico. He said that his appointment and that of his wife's were temporary, pending finding a permanent replacement for Schneider.
"Saga", Mish/Rogo book; several TV + radio talk show hosts w/ me.
February 23, 1983
SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS
The above may simply be one of those famous 'coincidences' connected with me which Dr. Hynek has attributed to me. But then again, it might not.
Do you remember, in the early 1970's, when Saga Magazine did five different big articles about me and my work? Just afterward the Editor responsible for the Otto Binder articles was fired...a new Editor Brought in...and Saga from that time on studiously ignored me and my work...IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE FIRST EDITOR INFORMED OTTO BINDER THAT THOSE ARTICLES ABOUT ME BROUGHT SAGA MORE MAIL FROM ITS READERS THAN EVER BEFORE IN SAGA HISTORY! Logic would demand...why, with the bringing in of a new Editor, would I then be blacklisted, in effect, with Saga.
D. Scott Rogo and Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove wrote a brilliant book about my work and it was purchased by a famous publishing house in New York, which provided thousands of dollars in advance money. Suddenly, what do you know, the Editor who chose the book mysteriously resigned and a new Editor came in and rejected the book.
Back again to the newsclip up at the top of this sheet. Schneider, the publisher of Western News, suddenly departed and a new publisher came in...immediately after a very large article appeared in the Western News about me and my work.
Not only the above 'coincidences' happened...but through the years I appeared on numerous television host-talk shows and radio host-talk shows. In one instance I appeared on a Philadelphia TV show and the host was a negro. The very next day he was fired from the television station. In Norfolk, Virginia, I appeared on a radio show and the very next day he was fired from the radio station...he called me in Cape Charles, Virginia, and said "would you believe it? It was because I had you on my show!" There have been these and other similar 'coincidences' as Dr. Hynek loves to apply the situation to me. It is quite obvious that one or more government agency is stalking me...keeping me "in a box"...and punishing those who "let me out of the box" albeit temporarily. A policewoman, Scarlett, secretly came to my home in Libby with her mother and gave me valuable information from inside the Sheriff's Dept. (She had been 'taken' by a UFO here, at night.) Within days she was off the force...and she and her mother vanished from Libby. Friend
=== Page 35 of 103
UFOs Sun Attack G Reis 3/9/83
# Weather forecasting
# A long way from perfect
The art of forecasting still has quite a ways to go. Economic forecasts of recent years are noted more for being wrong than being right. Recent forecasts of electricity demand turned out to be so far off that they helped trigger the near downfall of the Washington Public Power Supply System. And, to add to the list of "misforecasting" achievements, we have the weather.
Last fall, weather experts checked their isobaric maps, ocean temperature gradients and charts of the jet stream and other pertinent data and announced that the prospect was for the coldest winter in years. A consensus of meteorologists, quoted in U.S. News and World report last October, said the United States "was heading for a brutal winter, perhaps the coldest of the century."
Ominous signals abounded. Autumn weather began two to four weeks ahead of schedule, with record lows for September reaching as far south as Alabama. Dust from the Mexican volcano El Chichon was expected to shield the earth from warming sunlight. Peter Leavitt, vice president of Weather Services Corp., a commercial weather-forecasting company, noted that the high-altitude jet stream did not make its usual shift to the Arctic. That meant large parts of Canada and the Eastern United States never really warmed up during the summer.
Then there were measurements of a slight decrease in the energy Earth receives from the sun, which could have devastating effects on the planet. Norton Strommen, chief meteorologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, concluded: "When you combine winter trends over the last few years with this fall's chilly temperatures, it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than this is going to be a long, hard winter."
This winter isn't over yet, but so far it has been noted for its extreme mildness. Here in the Northwest, this January and February rank as among the warmest on record. In the East, energy experts report that many billions of dollars in fuel costs have been saved because of generally warm temperatures.
While many meteorologists are willing to go out on a limb with long-range forecasts, the National Weather Service has adopted a highly cautious attitude. Donald L. Gilman, chief meteorologist there, observes that a forecast for the coming winter made in September is probably "no more accurate than the flip of a coin." And that comes from one of the nation's top weathermen.
For the rest of us, it fortunately is not necessary to have a track record for accuracy in order to be able to talk about the weather. We can continue to talk about the weather and can continue to do nothing about it for as long as we like.
March 9, 1983
SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS
I told you well in advance of the above information, of course, that my UFOs were going to deflect the sun's rays onto Earth...causing the center of the Earth to gradually increase in heat-intensity also causing weather anomalies on the face of the Earth.
The UFOs are also causing the "intelligence" of the Sun to attack the Earth. You will read above: "Dust from the Mexican volcano El Chichon was expected to shield the Earth from warming sunlight." Obviously those experts were not aware of the Sun attack my UFOs are inflicting onto Earth.
Also, above, you will note that all of the experts predicted an almost-record cold winter...and what they got was record heat in many places and a warm winter. Caused by the work of my UFOs, of course!
The UFOs Sun Attack seems to have affected Australia the most, first; I have written to the Prime Minister, as you now know...and if they contract with me to give me the Base if I, with my UFOs, produce enough water for them...then the UFOs Sun Attack will be removed from its effect on Earth...after my UFOs and I get that Base.
Owens
=== Page 36 of 103
Date: 2/28/83
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
A few years ago Ted Owens (PK Man) sent me documentation to the effect that he was working on ending a terrible drought in Australia at that time; following documentation indicated that he and his UFOs had indeed ended the drought in Australia.
Then Owens informed me that he had been insulted by an authority in Australia who had been closely cooperating with him, sending him maps and documents, etc., but that, after he, Owens, had ended the drought, the man in authority had rudely broken off their connection without even a word of thanks from the Australian government.
Owens told me at that time that, to redress this wrong, he would bring back an even greater drought in Australia, a drought ten times worse than the drought he had ended.
Owens has requested that I supply him with a notarized affidavit of the above facts and I am doing so.
George E. Delavan
George E. Delavan
Des Plaines, Illinois
Joan H. Citro
Notary Public
=== Page 37 of 103
UFOs Sun Attack
# Australian brushfires controlled; 69 killed
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Fire brigades fought brushfires around Melbourne on Thursday but controlled most of the conflagration that has swept across Australia's southeast coast like "a panzer division." Police said at least 69 people were killed.
"It was like a giant flame thrower," said one weary firefighter.
"The wind was like it came from a huge hair dryer," said a man who lost his house -- one of 3,000 homes destroyed in seven towns that were consumed by wind-driven flames Wednesday and Thursday.
"A panzer division going through could not have caused so much damage," said Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser after an inspection tour.
More than 4,000 firefighters had most of the fires under control by Thursday. The flames, fanned by gale-force winds, devastated 2,600 square miles of drought-stricken farmland, forest and scrub along a 500-mile stretch of Australia's southeast coast in the states of South Australia and Victoria.
Exhausted firefighters were still battling outbreaks late Thursday in the hills around Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city. Elsewhere, they remained on guard.
Police said 69 bodies had been found. With 46 bodies already found in Victoria and 23 in the state of South Australia, police expected the total to exceed the 71 killed in Victoria in 1931 in the worst brushfire in Australian history.
Some died in their automobiles, trapped as they tried to flee the flames.
About 900 people were reported injured. Officials estimated property damage at more than $400 million.
With the Southern Hemisphere's summer at its height, the worst drought in Australian history spawned brush fires that 60-mile winds from the central desert whipped through the Adelaide Hills and down the south coast past Melbourne into the Dandenong Ranges.
Foreign Minister Tony Street, whose election district in Victoria was badly hit, said the winds were so strong they sent the fire truck in Airey's Inlet "sailing down the road" even though the fire chief "had his foot on the brake and the handbrake jammed on."
"He ended up in a ditch and got up and ran for his life," said Street. "Another man was driving down the road and saw a complete roof of a house pass him about 12 feet up."
Twelve volunteer firemen were incinerated Wednesday at Cockatoo, 31 miles from Melbourne, when flames surrounded their two trucks. But 120 children in a Cockatoo school were spared when two men sat on the roof hosing down the building while the children huddled under wet towels.
February 23, 1983
SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS
You may or may not recall that several years ago I worked on ending the then terrible Australian drought. I was actually approached, through the mails, at that time, by a person of authority in Australia, requesting that I take that action, which I did. The man sent me all sorts of huge maps of Australia and government books showing the drought, month by month...and I brought in huge rains all over Australia and wiped out the drought. To my amazement the man then wrote me and said that all correspondence must cease...I must not write to him again. In short...once I got the job done they didn't want to know me...evidently for fear the fact would get out that PK Man, with UFOs, had worked on ending their drought. Well, I informed Mr. George Delavan, computer specialist and close friend of mine...that I would restore the Australian drought "ten times worse than the one I ended." Australia is in that drought now. As you can see above it is "the worst drought in Australian history." (I always keep my word, if humanly possible.) When an area incurs my wrath (Australia, England, Texas, etc.) then God help it.
CALIFORNIA
Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens
=== Page 38 of 103
Schneider leaves
Rick Schneider, publisher of The Western News, this week announced that he is resigning his position.
He has been replaced by H. Markley McMahon, president of Cabinet Publishing Co., the firm which owns The Western News.
Schneider, who has been with The Western News for four years, including 16 months as publisher, said that he will leave Libby with regret, but that he had an opportunity in Alaska too good to pass up.
McMahon also announced that he was naming his wife, June, as editor of The Western News. She has more than 30 years of newspaper experience, including five years as co-publisher of the Humboldt Sun, a semi-weekly newspaper in Nevada.
McMahon, who brings 38 years of newspaper experience to the job, has spent the past 20 years as publisher and co-publisher of newspapers in Nevada and New Mexico.
He said that his appointment and that of his wife's were temporary, pending finding a permanent replacement for Schneider.
"aga" mesh/Rogo book; several TV + radio talk shows note w/oe.
February 23, 1983
Ted Owens
Box 1171
Libby, Montana
59923
Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove
190 25th Ave.
San Francisco, California
94121
on numerous television host-talk shows and radio host-talk shows. In one instance I appeared on a Philadelphia TV show and the host was a negro. The very next day he was fired from the television station. In Norfolk, Virginia, I appeared on a radio show and the very next day he was fired from the radio station...he called me in Cape Charles, Virginia, and said "would you believe it? It was because I had you on my show!" There have been these and other similar 'coincidences' as Dr. Hynek loves to apply the situation to me. It is quite obvious that one or more government agency is stalking me...keeping me "in a box"...and punishing those who "let me out of the box" albeit temporarily. A policewoman, Scarlett, secretly came to my home in Libby with her mother and gave me valuable information from inside the Sheriff's Dept. (She had been 'taken' by a UFO here, at night.) Within days she was off the force...and her mother vanished from Libby.
=== Page 39 of 103
Partly Cloudy
High 70, Low 48
Details, Page A2
The Virginian-Pilot
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, Virginia, Thursday, March 10, 1977
112th Year, No. 110
Price 20 Cents
# Muslim Terrorists Seize 3 Buildings, Take Scores Hostage in Washington
Two hostages released from B'nai B'rith headquarters wait in a rescue vehicle.
By WALTER R. MEARS
WASHINGTON (AP)--Terrorists invaded the headquarters of a Jewish organization, a Moslem religious center, and Washington's City Hall Wednesday, killing a radio newsman and seizing scores of hostages.
The gunmen held their captives into the night in buildings ringed by police, who sealed off sections of Pennsylvania Avenue, close by the White House, and Massachusetts Avenue, in the heart of Embassy Row.
Police are in contact with the terrorists, seeking release of the hostages.
The apparent leader of the four invaders at the B'nai B'rith headquarters, a Jewish service organization, demanded and got cancellation of the premiere of a motion picture, "Mohammed, Messenger of God."
The gunmen demanded that five men convicted of the 1973 massacre of seven Hanafi sect Moslems in Washington be brought to the building.
As the takeovers unfolded, at least 11 people were shot, stabbed, or beaten.
A city councilman was shot in the chest and the mayor of Washington was, for a time, barricaded in his office against the intruders.
The man known killing was at the District of Columbia Building. Radio station WHUR said the victim was Maurice Williams, 22, a staff reporter.
Police said there are two gunmen holding hostages in that building.
A police spokesman said the invasions are the work of Moslems, apparently members of the predominantly black Hanafi sect, and were coordinated. Victims of the 1973 slayings were members of the same sect. J. E. Sarner, a police spokesman, said the gunmen talked to each other on the telephone.
At nightfall, four intruders were holding more than 100 hostages at the B'nai B'rith building.
They made the public demands.
"I'm a Muslim, that's it," one of the gunmen told a radio reporter who telephoned from WBE in Boston. "Now get that straight or I'll hang up on you. . . Do you remember they killed my family in 1973? . . . Now we are fighting for our lives because we are not going to let this picture be shown in this country." The intruder told an Associated Press reporter that the film tries to make a joke of his religion.
In New York, Irwin Yablans, U.S. distributor of the movie, said it had been ordered out of American theaters. He said people were asked to leave theaters where the film was showing in Los Angeles and New York. At the Rivoli Theater in New York, the film was halted during showing, and about 1,000 patrons got refunds or rain checks.
Aside from the apparent quest for retribution and the insistence that the movie be cancelled, there were no clear demands. Police negotiated with the gunmen by telephone and by shouting through office-building stairwells.
"We're asking what their demands are and they said we'll find out later," Sarner said.
The three invasions happened within hours. First came the strike at B'nai B'rith, headquartered seven blocks north of the White House. Then at least one gunman invaded the Islamic Center, a mosque on Embassy Row, taking 15 hostages. Then came the shootings at the District of Columbia Building.
(See Terrorists, Page A7)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The invaded buildings are all within 1 1/2 miles of the White House.
# U.S. to Ban Saccharin Soon Because of Cancer in Animals
WASHINGTON (AP)--The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is banning saccharin, the only artificial sweetener approved for use in the United States, because it causes cancer in laboratory animals.
Acting FDA Commissioner Sherwin Gardner said that it will take at least until July to complete the administrative requirements before the ban goes into effect. But he called on manufacturers "to discontinue use of saccharin as soon as possible, even while we are drafting the documents needed to accomplish this action."
The FDA said that it will not order a recall of the many soft drinks and foods that contain the sugar substitute since tests "do not indicate an immediate hazard to public health."
A similar ban was announced simultaneously by the Canadian government, whose scientific studies were the basis for the U.S. action.
Under the FDA's order, it will take 30 days for the agency to draft the ban. The FDA then will allow 60 days for comments from interested parties. The agency will then take another 30 days to make the rule final, making July the earliest month the ban could take effect.
Americans eat or drink more than 5 million pounds of saccharin a year, about three-quarters of it in diet soft drinks and the rest in coffee, tea, and diabetic foods such as canned fruits, gelatin desserts, jams, ice creams, and puddings.
It also is used in some mouthwashes, cosmetics, and over-the-counter drugs.
The Canadian study involved feeding 100 rats a diet of 5 per cent pure saccharin during their entire lives, from conception until death. Fourteen of the rats developed cancerous bladder tumors compared to only two such tumors in a group of 100 animals given no saccharin.
In order to consume an equivalent amount of saccharin, a person would have to drink 800 12-ounce diet sodas a day for a lifetime, the FDA said.
The FDA order was denounced by an officer of Sweet 'N Low, a large saccharin user.
"Any call for a ban of saccharin is an outrageous and harmful action based on flimsy scientific evidence that has absolutely no bearing on human health," said Marvin E. Eisenstadt, executive vice president of the company.
"It is an action that provides no public benefit, and indeed, could cause great harm to the millions of Americans who need an artificial sweetener for medical reasons and as an aid in weight control."
The federal law under which the FDA acted prohibits the use in food of any ingredients shown to cause cancer in animals or humans.
Gardner said that he could not assess the economic impact of the FDA's decision but said that it will be "substantial, no question about it."
# Confirmed
The Senate, after days of heated debate, has confirmed Paul Warnke as President Carter's chief negotiator for strategic arm talks with the Soviets. Warnke also was confirmed as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Story is on Page A7.
# Apology on Chile Not Policy: Carter
WASHINGTON (AP)--President Carter said Wednesday that a newly recruited American diplomat's apology for past U.S. action in Chile was "inappropriate," and the State Department promptly announced that the envoy was being called in for "consultations."
Brady Tyson, deputy leader of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, expressed regrets in a speech Tuesday "for the role some government officials, agencies, and private groups played in the subversion of the previous, democratically elected Chilean government."
Carter told a nationally broadcast news conference that he did not have advance notice of Tyson's remarks, which he characterized as "a personal expression of opinion by that delegate."
Carter also spelled out some of his thoughts on a possible Middle East settlement, announcing that he soon will begin exploring his ideas with Arab leaders. And he announced that he is lifting restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia effective March 18.
Saying that Tyson's words did not reflect government views, Carter said Senate investigators found no evidence that the United States was involved in the 1973 overthrow of the Chilean government of Salvador Allende.
Shortly after Carter's meeting with reporters, a State Department spokesman said Tyson had been called into the department for a review of his speech. The State Department also said "the procedures for coordinating U.S. policy" will be reviewed in the consultations with Tyson.
The State Department said the action does not represent a recall of Tyson from Geneva, because Tyson was planning to return to the United States on Wednesday, anyway.
Carter's apparent candor on the superpower arms race and on the Middle East of his free-wheeling disclosure at his first news conference Feb. 8 of proposals for conducting arms-related negotiations with the Soviet Union--an action that surprised many conventional U.S. diplomats.
At the broadcast news conference, Carter said he can foresee a Middle East settlement in which Israeli forces might be permitted to go beyond that country's established boundaries to provide protection against any sudden Arab attack.
He also talked about the possible use of international forces to police a demilitarized zone that might extend, he said, for 20 kilometers or more.
Having met here this week with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Carter said, "I will be meeting in the next few weeks with representatives of the Arab countries when they come." Carter plans to consult with leaders of the Arab nations most directly involved by mid-April.
The President acknowledged that the search for a Middle East settlement "will be a long, tedious process." But he pledged "to mount a major effort in our own government" to bring the parties to a Geneva conference in the last half of the year.
Carter also:
* Said the United States is concerned about human rights under the present Chilean government.
(See Carter, Page A7)
# In Today's Pilot
| | | |
|---|---|---|
| Ann Landers | | D4 |
| Bridge | | A25 |
| Business | | B5-7 |
| Classified | | C9-19 |
| Comics | | B2 |
| Dr. Thosteson | | A14 |
| Editorials | | A10 |
| Movies | | C8 |
| Obituaries | | A12 |
| People Column | | A14 |
| Sports | | C1-7 |
| Tidewater Living | | D1-7 |
| TV-Radio | | B4 |
| Weather | | A2 |
# Today's Chuckle
Little boy's description of his baby sister: "She has some teeth, but her words haven't come in yet."
# Friend's $153,000 Bequest Stuns Beach Couple
By GEORGE BRYANT
Virginia Beach City Editor
VIRGINIA BEACH--"My husband and I just kind of looked at each other to make sure we weren't dreaming," the wife of a Virginia Beach man said this week after being informed that her family will inherit an estimated $153,000 from a family friend.
"We knew his father left him some money but not to the extent of this," said Mrs. Jerold A. Goldy as she reminisced about her husband's Navy buddy, who died in September.
In a will probated in Ohio last month, retired Corpsman Robert Edward Lee, 49, named the Goldys beneficiaries of his entire estate, which lawyers estimate is worth $133,000 in cash and property before taxes.
The Goldys said Lee, who never married, "just kind of adopted us as his family."
Goldy met Lee seven years ago while stationed at Oceana.
"He was a good friend," Goldy said. "He enjoyed the same things we liked."
For several years Lee "lived with us on and off. He was kind of like a built-in boarder," Mrs. Goldy recalled, "a permanent resident of our sofa."
Lee referred to the Goldys' three daughters, aged 12, 13, and 16, as his girls, she said.
When an Ohio attorney notified the Goldys of the will they couldn't believe the amount. But the fact the Goldys were beneficiaries was not completely new.
Lee's sister, Mrs. Mary M. Brown of Akron, told the Goldys shortly after Lee's death that they were the beneficiaries of his $20,000 Navy insurance policy. But the rest was a complete surprise.
Lee died of a heart attack on an Akron street corner on his way back to Virginia after a 10-day visit, his sister said. His sister and friends were unaware he had heart trouble, though Lee apparently knew, because relatives found unfilled prescriptions for a heart ailment in his personal belongings.
Goldy said Lee once mentioned in passing that he was going to look after the children, but never said any more about it.
Mrs. Brown said this week that her brother had few friends, but the Goldys were special. "Their family was his family."
Lee was a small, shy person who "was never one to make friends," Mrs. Brown said, "but he would always do anything for anybody."
Despite his shyness, Mrs. Brown said, her brother would give a beggar on the street $100 if the mood struck him. "And that was just the kind of person he was."
The Navy was Lee's life.
"When he got out . . . he never did go to work. He just didn't seem to have a life afterwards, except for the Goldys, his sister said.
She speculated that Goldy's active-duty status was Lee's link to his 20-year Navy career.
"The ironic thing is we couldn't even go to his funeral," Mrs. Goldy said. Her husband was at sea at the time and she and her children could not afford the plane fare.
"I had airline tickets reserved for the girls and myself," Mrs. Goldy said, "but I knew I couldn't afford it."
Goldy has had part-time jobs and his wife has worked most of the 18 years they've been married, but they still have to make an occasional extra.
But Lee spoiled her daughters, Mrs. Goldy said. "It was nothing for him to hand them a $10 bill to go roller-skating when all they needed was a dollar," she said.
Lee even offered to buy 16-year-old Angela a car for her birthday but the Goldys put their foot down on that.
"It hurt his feelings but I didn't feel that a 16-year-old needed to be given a car," Mrs. Goldy said.
But Angela said Lee told her in a phone conversation the night before he died that he would figure a way to get her that car when he got back to Virginia.
"He was good to us," she said.
It will be a year under Ohio law before the Goldys actually receive the proceeds of the estate, but they have no immediate plans except to fulfill a promise Lee made to take the children to Disney World and possibly send them to college.
Beyond that, they hope their good fortune won't change their way of life, and they're already leery of those who might have 'good deals' for them.
=== Page 40 of 103
# Terrorists
Continued from Page A1
lumbia Building, within sight of White House grounds.
Police said they believe eight to 10 hostages are being held at the District building, with an undetermined number of workers barricaded in their offices. Mayor Walter E. Washington was for a time locked in his own office before he was able to escape the building.
City Council President Sterling Tucker, first reported a hostage, later was found to have eluded the gunmen. But Councilman Marion Barry was shot in the chest, underwent surgery, and was reported in stable condition.
At B'nai B'rith, Daniel Thursz, the executive director, said the gunmen apparently released about 20 hostages who were not Jewish.
President Carter ordered the FBI into the case.
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley said Carter ordered the bureau to investigate "all violations of federal law involved in the terrorist-type activities being perpetrated in the Washington, D.C., area."
The terrorists struck as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin concluded a three-day visit to Washington. Departure ceremonies near the Washington Monument were canceled abruptly, and Rabin's motorcade sped without stopping to his waiting airplane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
At all three buildings, police cordoned off the streets. Police riflemen and special weapons units stood at the ready.
"We're just sitting and staring at each other," said a woman barricaded in her fifth-floor office at the B'nai B'rith building. She said there were five coworkers with her. "We're fine. We're barricaded in," she told a reporter by telephone.
At the B'nai B'rith, a gunman who identified himself as Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis demanded withdrawal of the movie and said the invaders want retribution for the 1973 murder of the seven members of the Hanafi sect.
The Hanafi group is a predominantly black sect of the Islamic movement in the United States, independent of the much larger Black Muslims. The Hanafis are thought to number about 1,000.
In January 1973, seven sect members, five of them children, were killed in Washington in a house owned by professional basketball star Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Five men associated with the Black Muslim mosque in Philadelphia were convicted of the murders and are serving long sentences.
Here is how the three episodes unfolded:
Photos by The Associated Press
An unidentified woman peers from a fifth-floor window of the B'nai B'rith headquarters.
* At B'nai B'rith headquarters, at midday four men entered the white-brick building in a downtown area of offices and embassies.
They carried weapons gangland style, in what looked like guitar cases.
When police arrived, they found the door lashed shut with chains. They cut their way in, and officer William Stansbury said a half-dozen people were lying on the floor, along with two bayonets and a pistol.
"There was blood on the floor," Stansbury said.
He said a hail of gunfire ricocheted from above when police started climbing the stairs. The police retreated, escorting out the people they found in the lobby.
Police said the intruders had rifles, two of them automatic, apparently carried some pistols, and were armed with knives and a machete as well.
At least eight people were shot, stabbed, or beaten.
The takeover began on the fifth floor. A woman employe there said she and six others locked themselves in their office after staff members shouted warnings.
Another employe said the warning came at about 11:10 a.m. EST. "And about a quarter of 12, we heard three shots. . . ."
Office workers barricaded their doors with chairs, desks, and bookcases, and waited it out.
The terrorists took no more than 20 hostages at first, but captured more as they moved to two other floors, finally taking up positions on the eighth floor. Police said they used rollers to paint over rear windows in the building, apparently to block the view of police sharpshooters.
Steven Hurwitz, a B'nai B'rith official in Richmond, Va., said he was talking by telephone with Dr. Sidney Clearfield at the D.C. headquarters when he heard a commotion over the line.
He said he heard a voice, and while he isn't sure of the exact words, they amounted to "Up against the wall or we'll blow your head off." Clearfield didn't return to the phone.
Thursz, B'nai B'rith executive director, said "there was blood and glass all over the place" when he went into the building with police to set up an operations center in the lobby.
Thursz said he and B'nai B'rith President David Blumberg were on their way to lunch with Rabin when the takeover occurred.
By nightfall, the four gunmen were holed up in a cafeteria on the top floor, and police said they had more than 100 hostages.
Khalifa did most of the talking, telling newsmen who telephoned his stronghold that the film "Mohammed, Messenger of God" is offensive to his faith.
"Tell everybody we don't want that picture playing, trying to make my religion into a joke," he said.
He also posted the demand for the murderers of the Hanafi Moslems, and said at one point that the gunmen want the slayer of Malcolm X brought to them.
* In the second invasion, police said one and possibly two gunmen walked into the Islamic Center mosque on Washington's plush Embassy Row during the lunch hour and seized 10 to 15 hostages.
No shots were fired and no injuries reported.
Among the hostages is the director of the center, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf, a traditional Moslem religious official in Washington. Dr. Rauf lives at the mosque with his family.
Also seized was an unidentified Chilean student who was with a group touring the mosque, and the tour director, the Rev. Robert Teasdale of New York City, president of the World Association for Travel Exchange.
John Ashton of Fredericksburg, Va., who was among more than 40 members of the tour group who escaped at the outset of the incident, said he first noticed something was wrong when he saw a mailman suddenly drop his bags and flee the building.
Outside the mailman told a policeman there was a man with a gun in the mosque, Ashton said.
Ashton then warned members of his group and also fled.
Within half an hour after police first learned of the seizure, about 50 officers converged on the scene. Traffic was blocked off along a three-block section of Massachusetts Avenue, a heavily traveled four-lane street lined on either side by foreign embassies.
The mosque serves as a religious and social center for Moslems from several embassies as well as Americans of that faith.
* At about 2:15 or 2:30 p.m. two men armed with a shotgun and a handgun entered the District Building, rode an elevator to the fifth floor, and opened fire, according to accounts by witnesses.
They killed Maurice Williams, 22, a black man employed for the last 18 months by Howard University's radio station, WHUR-FM. The gunmen wounded Councilman Marion Barry and two guards.
By nightfall the invaders were holding about 15 hostages. Mayor Washington remained for several hours in his office in the building, under police protection, then went to police headquarters.
Barry, interviewed later at Washington Hospital Center, said the shot that hit him apparently was a ricochet. "The doctors say if it had been a direct hit I wouldn't be here talking to you," he said.
A hospital spokesman said doctors removed a bullet from Barry's chest, where it had lodged a quarter-inch from his heart.
Barry said guards warned him of trouble when he entered the District Building, and two of them rode up with him on an elevator.
On the fifth floor, he said, "I heard two shots and my instinct was to hit the floor and move out of the way."
Then he heard a third shot, and felt a burning sensation in his chest. Knowing he was hit, he stumbled into the City Council room, where a sparsely attended hearing was in progress on the economic development of the district. Barry said he waited 20 to 25 minutes before medical help arrived, and heard intermittent gunfire during that time.
=== Page 41 of 103
WASHINGTON STREET RESEARCH CENTER
3101 WASHINGTON STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94115
Ted Owens Research Project
Preliminary Proposal for Continuing Investigation
Project originator Jeffrey Mishlove proposes to continue research and development work on the case of Mr. Ted Owens along the following lines:
(1) Continued collection and analysis of documents relating to Owens' demonstrations.
(2) Collection of statistical data bases regarding phenomena symptomatological to the Owens effect; such as lightning, UFO sightings, hurricane activity, tornado activity, drought, rain, and power blackouts.
(3) Interviews with individuals associated with previous demonstrations by Owens.
(4) Medical and neurological studies relating to Owens' claim that the "SIs" have surgically operated on half of his brain. Some records may be available from tests done at the Mayo Clinic.
(5) Hypnotic regression of Owens, if possible, to periods relating to his alleged actual physical contact with the "SIs."
(6) Personality tests and in depth clinical interviews of Owens for the purpose of elucidating the relationship between his psi abilities and his psychological makeup.
(7) Analysis of Owens' PK techniques in order to determine whether these apparent skills can be learned by other individuals.
(8) Experimental projects designed to test Owens' alleged ability to control weather in ways beneficial to people, i.e. causing rain in drought stricken areas.
(9) Experimental projects designed to test Owens' alleged ability to produce UFO appearances, or other forms of contact, under circumstances where physical measurements can be made.
The duration of the proposed work will depend on specific project objectives and on availability of personnel, facilities and funding.
The Washington Street Research Center (WSRC), can accept tax exempt contributions through its affiliation with a sponsoring tax-exempt public foundation, the Regional Young Adult Project, or can accept non-exempt contributions directly. WSRC is committed to maintaining high technical and ethical standards in the conduct of its research programs, and encourages communication between research associates and funding sources, through regular reports and through informal discussion as needed.
=== Page 42 of 103
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF EVENTS WHICH SUGGEST
THE POSSIBLE APPLIED PSI ABILITY
OF MR. TED OWENS
Jeffrey Mishlove
3103 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
December 1977
=== Page 43 of 103
Note: This factual report is one of the most unusual documents, non-fiction or fiction, that you are likely ever to have read.
The author would appreciate readers monitoring their personal, psychological reactions to this report as well as their critical comments.
=== Page 44 of 103
Introduction
Mr. Ted Owens--currently of Bernadillo, New Mexico--is an individual who purports to be in telepathic contact with other dimensional beings which he calls Space Intelligences (SIs). For many years, Owens has supported this hypothesis by making written predictions regarding a variety of unlikely events which he claimed the SIs would be instrumental in causing. These events have included UFO sightings, hurricanes and storms, lightning striking pre-selected targets, mishaps on NASA spaceflights, power blackouts, earthquakes, and anomalous radar sightings. The present investigation with Ted Owens utilizes two methods: (a) collection and evaluation of documents relating to Owens' demonstrations during the past ten years and (b) observations from a ninety day, pilot demonstration during which Owens attempted to have the SIs produce a variety of unusual phenomena in the San Francisco area.
History of Owens' Demonstrations
The data upon which this historical evaluation is based has been gathered from the files of Dr. Leo Sprinkle, of the University of Wyoming, Laramie, whose correspondence with Owens begins in 1970; and Dr. Harold Puthoff and Mr. Russell Targ, of SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, whose correspondence with Owens dates back to about 1974. Owens has been sending his predictions to these researchers, at their request. Some of the items in the files go back as far as 1966, but were apparently sent to these researchers years later.
These files document Owens' financial difficulties, his family life, his religious speculations, and his many conflicts with the outside world. Many of the records contain instances in which Owens seems to be taking credit for events which one would not reasonably think he predicted in advance. In other instances, Owens' predictions are clearly inaccurate. Often the events which Owens predicted occurred nearly, but not exactly, as he claimed they would. When the events did occur as Owens
=== Page 45 of 103
2
predicted, it is often difficult to determine whether the prediction was actually psi-mediated rather than being the result of informed intuition, or perhaps misleading or even fraudulent documents. Finally, when the dramatic probabilities suggest an actual psi-mediated event, we are often unable to distinguish SI intervention from PK or precognition.
In reviewing 144 claims by Owens, I have arrived at a preliminary judgement that over 73 of these cases would suggest paranormal functioning to a rational person who is already willing to accept this as at least a possibility. 42 cases exist which are not likely to support Owens' hypothesis and another 29 cases are clearly disputable. These judgements have emerged from a sympathetic, but critical, theoretical orientation. Others are likely to differ in both directions.
The following highlights from Owens' career are selected not always for their evidential nature but also because they provide interesting information about Owens and his work. These cases have not been personally investigated with the thoroughness than a criminologist might apply.
**March 10, 1966:** In a letter to Lyndon Johnson, Owens warned that "our forces will be lucky if they even manage to escape from Viet Nam with their lives...regardless of all our military might." Owens also told LBJ that the SIs will bring rain to end the five year drought on the East Coast. He warned that after the drought has ended, if he is still ignored by the U. S. government, then the SIs will create something even worse.
Newspaper clippings from May 1966 through July 1967 show continuing rain on the East Coast, and in fact many floods in 1967. Clippings from **U.S. News and World Report**, July 7, 1967, indicate that experts did not then have a handle on the reasons for the drought or its end in massive rains. Contrary to the indications provided by Owens, the rains of 1966 alone were insufficient to end the entire drought although conditions did substantially improve.
**June 13, 1966:** In a letter to Mr. George Clark of the Central Intelligence Agency, Owens warned that the SIs will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe,
=== Page 46 of 103
3
or a carrier catastrophe, by September of 1966. Owens also predicted a "serious blow" to the White House.
None of these events happened within the specified time limits. However, on November 10, 1966, the U. S. nuclear submarine Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged. On October 26, 1966, the U. S. aircraft carrier Orinsky was struck by a fire which killed 44 men. Two other submarine accidents and four other carrier accidents were reported during September, October and November of 1966. Also in November of 1966, LBJ received surgery in both his throat and abdomen--possibly a serious blow to our seat of government. The Owens files are periodically confounded by the fact that unusual events which Owens predicted seem to have occurred just beyond the specified time limits. Owens believes that this is because the SIs operate from a different dimension of time.
**May 8, 1967:** In a sworn affidavit, Sidney Margulies, partner in a Philadelphia law firm, states that Owens caused lightning to strike the Camden Bridge, a target preselected by Margulies. Lightning struck within minutes after Owens pointed his hand at the target. Margulies states that there was no other lightning either before or after the experiment. Other affidavits testify to similar lightning demonstrations. The logic of this experiments suggests psychokinesis.
**August 1970:** Science writer Otto O. Binder published an article about Owens in Saga based on files which I have not seen myself. One prediction mentioned by Binder is of interest:
"On October 26, 1965, a telegram sent to George Clark, CIA, Washington, D.C., held this alarming statement: 'A rare warning. They (the SIs) will unleash a terrible catastrophe within 10 days.' Signed: 'PK man' (Owens).
A little more than ten days passed without incident. But on November 9, 1965, the Big Blackout hit seven northeastern states and parts of Canada, plunging 30 million people into darkness."
**January 1971:** Owens published his predictions for the year in Saga. He states, "President Nixon will not finish his term. Something most unusual will occur and he will either resign or be forced out of office." This may be the earliest Watergate prediction on record.
**March 23, 1971:** In a letter to government agencies and scientists unnamed,
=== Page 47 of 103
4
Owens stated that the SIs want earthlings to "get your earth back into good condition before you even think about outer space." Owens warned that the SIs would attack space shots and cause death to astronauts.
May 9, 1971, newspaper clippings indicate a disappointing failure in the NASA Mariner 8 Mars launch. "Officials reported after studying radio data that the second stage began to deviate from course about 20 seconds after ignition and that it tumbled out of control at an altitude of 92 miles."
On May 12, 1971, in a letter to NASA officials Owens specifically warned against sending up the Apollo 15 moon shot. On June 16, 1971, minutes after scientists put the moonship through a mock launch, the umbilical tower next to the rocket was struck by lightning damaging power units that had been knocked out by lightning the previous day. In his letters, Owens refers to previous undocumented demonstrations where he had caused lightning to strike "lightning proof pads" at Cape Kennedy. The Apollo 15 shot was, nevertheless, eventually successful. On
May 20, 1971: In a letter to Larry Maddry, an editor with the Norfolk Virginia Pilot newspaper, Owens stated that he will use his PK to save farms and villages from being destroyed by molten lava from Mt. Etna which had then erupted in Sicily. Copies of this letter were sent to three scientists. Newspaper clippings from May 20 indicated that thousands of villagers in Sant' Alfio and Fornazzo lived in the path of the lava flow.
Newspaper clippings from June 9, 1971, indicate that while the lava caused $8 million in damages, destroying about 50 buildings, the villages of Sant' Alfio and Fornazzo narrowly missed destruction. Priests called it a miracle.
July 18, 1971: Mr. Bill Bell, a placekicker with the Atlanta Falcons signed the following sworn affidavit:
While the Russian cosmonauts were up in orbit, and everything was going perfectly, I phoned Owens at midnight on Friday, June 25, 1971, and asked him why the UFOs had not killed the Russian cosmonauts up in orbit. He answered that he was sure the UFOs were curious about what they were doing; would watch them carefully until the end of their experimentation, and then "clobber" them with it came time for them to come down. He said he did not know for sure what the UFOs would
=== Page 48 of 103
5
do to the cosmonauts, but that it would be "drastic." He further stated adamantly that the UFOs never said anything they did not mean; that they were always deadly serious; and if they said they would kill humans from now on in orbit or outer space...well, that's what they meant.
Several days later I told some of my friends of Owens' dire prediction concerning the Russian cosmonauts.
On Wednesday, June 30, 1971, I was amazed to hear that the Russian cosmonauts had been found dead.
January 22, 1972: In a letter to Otto Binder, Owens speculated that his PK operates subconsciously, which is why he believes several people who "double crossed" him have been mysteriously killed.
January 29, 1972: The following handwritten statement is signed by Juan Jose Arenas, M. D., Post 16 N, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico:
Last night, Friday night, Ted Owens sat with my son, Kevin, and I on our veranda overlooking the mountains, and I requested that Owens make a flying saucer (UFO) appear over our house! He said that he would communicate with UFOs, and try to bring one over our home. For quite a long while we waited. The sky was absolutely clear. Then peculiar clouds began to fill the sky directly in front of us, until our immediate field of vision was obscured. I went in to bed. Shortly thereafter my son, Kevin, rushed in to tell me that a UFO had in fact appeared. I went out to the veranda, with binoculars, and observed the UFO carefully. It was standing above a line of trees, on a mountain top. It had the appearance of a brilliant star (but seemed to have more brilliance than a star). It kept changing color from red to gold to blue to yellow. It also kept moving, slowly, in an erratic manner in a slight zig-zag direction. It rose upward slowly and then moved horizontally across the sky to another point some distance away, where it stayed, but still moving about erratically.
At this point I, being a physician and having put in a very hard day at my clinic, decided to go to bed, which I did. However, I am making an honest, true, and accurate statement of facts as they occurred: Ted Owens told us that he would try to make a UFO appear, following which a UFO did in fact appear, observed by me, my son Kevin and Owens.
March 7, 1972: In an apparently sworn affidavit (no notary stamp and confusion of dates), Otto Binder made the following statement:
My name is Otto Binder. I am an author. Last night, Sunday night, February 27, 1972, Ted Owens called me long distance from Cape Charles, Virginia. The time of the call was approximately 8:00 PM.
He told me that it was his intent to stop the Jupiter shot at Cape Kennedy, which was forthcoming about an hour later and that he would do this with his mind...the power of his mind. He explained that the UFO intelligences had given him a new technique to use...which he had
=== Page 49 of 103
6
used the past week to obtain earthquakes on the West Coast (which he had documented with scientists several months past). He also informed me that he had telephoned the city editor last night at the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, and left the message for Larry Maddry, columnist, as follows: "Jupiter rocket going up tonight. Will not allow success."
What followed, factually, was that around 8 PM (the same time, approximately, as Owens' call) all power facilities around the Jupiter rocket at Cape Kennedy went utterly dead. Without power the rocket could not go up, and did not.
I am confirming these true and accurate facts at the request of Ted Owens, who keeps a file of such things, I understand.
In order to maintain a semi-scientific approach to all this, I have telephoned the Virginian-Pilot editor, and actually confirmed that Owens did indeed make the other call and left the message that he would make the shot unsuccessful with the city editor. So all is in order.
I swear that this is a true and accurate statement of facts as I know them.
In his own remarks on the Jupiter shot, Owens noted that the newspapers attribute the power failure to a storm over the area two hours before. Questioning this interpretation, Owens asked why the power failure didn't occur earlier at the time of the actual storm.
Double Space
**April 19, 1972:** In a letter to six scientists who have been interested in his demonstrations, Owens discussed his purported PK control of the Apollo 16 moon shot. Owens claims that he telephoned Otto Binder and J. Allen Hynek on the evening of April 15, 1972, the day before the flight and told them the following:
I am going to give this NASA Apollo space shot fits. Will try to knock out power before it goes up. Failing that, will pursue it with my mind, my PK mechanisms to cause it all sorts of troubles and difficulties. Give them fits. I will build into the intelligence of this PK attack that it not injure or kill the astronauts. I will do whatever I can to make the mission a failure for NASA. The reason for this is that the government has not cooperated with me; neither has anyone else. Therefore their reason must be that they do not think I have any such power. I will do what I can to show them I do indeed have such power.
There is nothing in the files from Binder or Hynek to support Owens' claim that he did, in fact, notify them in advance of the flight. There is only a copy of the "PK Map" which Owens drew with the rocket as his target, and also copies of telegrams Owens sent to Binder and Hynek after the flight which state, "I have done exactly what I told you I would do."
Newspaper clippings subsequent to the flight indicate that an unusual number of problems occurred. The insulation on the outside of the lunar landing module was torn into shreds. An errant electrical surge confused a spaceship computer and caused
ut
=== Page 50 of 103
7
it to send commands which locked the guidance system of the spacecraft, wiping out the basic references needed to for the craft to steer itself in space. Mission control later indicated that the electrical surge which flashed through the craft was as if it had been struck by lightning in space. Communications systems were dropping out because the lunar command ship, Casper, was spinning slowly in space and the antenna was pointing away from earth three times an hour. This happened when Casper's steering mechanism failed to work. It was the first failure in space of the command ship's main propulsion system.
Problems also occurred with the astronauts. Orange juice seeped into their helmets and dried like glue, preventing the helmets from being unlocked later on. Several major scientific experiments were lost as the astronauts stumbled over power cables and failed to throw crucial circuit breakers. Later reports indicated that the astronauts were exposed to radiation from the first solar flare ever to occur during a manned moon mission. Finally after the mission had safely returned to earth the space capsule's fuel tank exploded causing damage to the capsule and blowing a hole through the roof 250 feet above.
In his letter Owens gladly took credit for all of the mishaps involved, including the fact that, in spite of the difficulties, none of the astronauts were injured. I could imagine that, after his failure to stop the Apollo 15 flight, Owens was hedging his bets on Apollo 16 and therefore failed to insure adequate documentation of his intentions before the flight. I have no evidence which directly suggests that Owens, himself, has ever been dishonest regarding his demonstrations.
April 27, 1972: The National Tattler received the following prediction from Owens, which he had actually made the previous month for Warren Smith: "George Wallace will be assassinated in time ahead. Shot."
On May 15, 1972, Wallace was shot.
April 30, 1972: In a letter to John Kerr, vice-president of the Virginia Squires basketball team, Owens predicted that he was going to use his PK powers to cause Kerr's team to lose its ABA playoff series against the New York Nets. At the time
ens
=== Page 51 of 103
8
the letter was written, the Squires were ahead 3-2 in the seven game series. Owens stated in his letter that he was angered when he received a call from a representative of the team asking him to help out also--but refusing to pay him a fee for his service. Furthermore, the Squires had hired a "PK Master" called "The Great Kahuna" to help them win the series (and to entertain the audience at halftime).
Newspaper clippings indicate that the Squires lost the next two games and thus the series. One article states that in the final game the Squires missed 57 of 91 shots and made the fewest number of points since moving to Virginia two years previously.
There are dozens of similar cases in the files where Owens has used his PK abilities to affect the outcome of basketball and football games with apparent success. Sportswriters have generally received Owens' claims favorably and presented him as something of a hero opposing the big business management of the teams. His exploits have even received coverage in several national sports magazines.
**May 30, 1972:** In a letter to six unnamed scientists, Owens stated that he was going to embark on a demonstration in the Cleveland-Akron area in order to teach a lesson to the people who mistreated him during a recent visit to that city. Owens stated that he would produce the following phenomena:
Power blackouts there...big ones.
More than the usual number of fires.
All kinds of electrical disturbances.
Lightning storms...with lightning striking many places.
Planes being forced down; power failure, etc.
Ships sinking just offshore.
Blazing hot drought.
The people in the area behaving peculiarly more than usual.
Odd animal behavior (dogs, cats, etc.).
Possible epidemics.
60-90 mile-per-hour winds.
In a sworn affidavit, Otto Binder states that Owens told him personally in June of 1972 that he would also "hit" the Cleveland Browns football team with his PK mechanisms.
Newspaper clippings indicate that the Clevela
=== Page 52 of 103
9
nd area was hit with an unusual heat wave in July of 1972. One article states that the heat caused the city streets to buckle and manhole covers to "blow their tops." Another article in the Cleveland **Plain Dealer**, dated July 23, 1972, stated that crackpots were swarming to City Hall to see the mayor:
The flow of those claiming to hear the voice of God, receive messages from outer space or be secret agents on secret missions started to climb last Monday and remained at a high level all week.
Other articles discuss lightning striking which killed three people and caused power blackouts. The heatwave, combined with pollution blanketed the area with a rotten egg smell for four days. Cars were stalling and failing to start
=== Page 53 of 103
10
in the heat. In Akron, over a million pounds of garbage went uncollected by July 25 in the heat as municipal workers went out on strike on July 10. Residents were dumping their garbage in the city parks. Another article stated that Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns was hospitalized for surgery on July 13 after walking through a sliding glass door at his New York home.
In subsequent letters about his Cleveland demonstration, Owens made a number of interesting points. Owens had appeared as a guest on the Pete Franklin show on Tuesday, May 23, 1972, where he felt publicly insulted and walked out of the studio "sizzling mad." The next day there were two major power failures in the downtown Cleveland area. When Owens returned to Virginia on Monday, May 29, and shortly thereafter a newspaper clipping reports power blackouts throughout the Norfolk area. Owens suggests that the strong emotions he felt triggered these blackouts-something like a super RSPK effect. Owens also sent to his scientific correspondents a UPI clipping, dated August 9, 1972, documenting an enormous sunspot which according to a scientist at Boulder, Colorado, was "sort of like getting snow in Atlanta in July." Owens points out that the concentration technique he was using during the Cleveland demonstration involved an intensification of the sun's energy onto the Cleveland area. The sunspot, he suggests, may have been caused by his mind.
June 29, 1972: In an apparently sworn affidavit (no notary seal) Bill Richards, a radar expert from Cape Charles, VA, stated that Owens' description of a radar experiment was accurate in every way. Owens' story is as follows:
Yesterday afternoon (June 26, 1972), the UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and told me to get to a radar screen and try to demonstrate phenomena on a radar screen....So I phoned a man I know who by chance is a radar expert....The upshot of it was last night I wound up in a huge radar setup, sitting before a radar screen with my friend sitting beside me. This was not done through official government channels....
First my friend explained what was what, patiently. Then mentally I called the SI's to appear on the radar screen. Then a strange ring of objects appeared on the screen, in a concentric circle. My friend, who is a top expert, would not identify these objects. He could readily point out ships, airplanes, etc. After a bit the ring of strange objects faded out and vanished. Then after a bit, they reappeared again. Before my
=== Page 54 of 103
11
session was over another ring of strange objects appeared inside the first ring.
But the big result was this: I'd been concentrating for about an hour on the screen when suddenly what my friend called "spokes" or "strobes" began to appear. These were heavy, straight lines of light revealed when the sweeping arm went over them. My friend explained that sometimes these spokes could be seen at sunup or sunset, but never at 10 to 11 PM at night (when we were working on this demonstration). My friend got very excited at these spokes which began to appear at different points of the circle. After checking he stated that these spokes were caused by something very powerful RIGHT OVER THE RADAR DOME WHERE WE WERE OPERATING!
...I used my regular excitatory technique, same as I use on TV screens to control pro football games, exuding PK power from my brain, backed by verbal exclamations. AS SOON AS I DID THIS CLUSTERS OF SPOKES APPEARED CLEAR AROUND THE CIRCLE, IN EVERY DIRECTION! Up until I used this PK "attack" technique, there had only been a spoke here, a spoke there. But immediately when I began to exude PK force, psi-force, the spokes appeared in multiples, everywhere. This lasted for a brief time, then the spokes vanished entirely. The radar expert told me that he had never seen this phenomena in all his years of radar work.
The above quotation is taken from a letter by Owens to J. Allen Hynek, which in his affidavit Richards stated is accurate. The affidavit continued to add further details regarding the experiment:
Furthermore, Owens told me personally the night that he did his radar screen experiment that the technique which he was using on the screen could probably result in immediate rainstorms, because he was using on the radar screen lightning coming from his fingers which was the same technique that he used to make storms at other times. (And weather was clear.)
Last night, the night following the experiment, there was a huge rainstorm here in Cape Charles, Virginia, then again today, two days later, there was yet another rainstorm; rather two, one in the afternoon and another tonight.
Furthermore, on Monday night Owens told me that as a result of his use of psi-force over the radar screen ships might sink and planes might crash in the Chesapeake Bay area (which the radar screen denoted). Tonight a Navy Phantom Jet airplane crashed in the Chesapeake Bay area (this is Wednesday night, two days later after Owens prediction). And furthermore, Owens told me on Monday night to watch the television and newspapers for just such a happening! This news of the plane crashing appeared on local television tonight! (June 28, 1972)
I swear that all of these statements are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.
Subsequent to Richards' affidavit, the files indicate a number of other crashes and accidents in the Chesapeake Bay area. Up to three inches of rain was reported
=== Page 55 of 103
12
in some Tidewater locations on June 28 and there were also many power outages throughout the area. On June 29, a newspaper clipping reports a variety of unusual "gremlin" type phenomena interfering with a Navy change of command ceremony for the Vice-Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk. Also a Navy jet was almost lost near the Chesapeake Bay when a wheel dropped off the jet was flying. Only tremendous flying skill got the plane down without crashing.
On July 10, 1972, a fire aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal caused some $12 million dollars in damages. A sailor who was caught setting one small fire was charged with arson and newsclips mentioned a possible death penalty. On August 6, Owens wrote a lengthy letter to the attorney defending this sailor suggesting that he, Owens, was responsible for the fire as a by-product of his radar demonstration. The attorney's reply indicated that while he was very interested in Owen's argument, it would hold no weight at all in a court of law.
On July 28 a small twister hospitalized two people and damaged several motels and automobiles in Virginia Beach. July 29, 1972, lightning struck and killed two people in Norfolk, VA. On August 1, a civilian pilot was killed in a crash near Zuni, VA.
An accident occurred with a Navy Blue Angels Phantom jet on August 3, 1972, in Kingston, N.C., which was within the 150200 mile range of the radar demonstration. On August 10, another Navy jet crashed at the Ocean Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach after returning from field carrier landing practice at Fentress Air Station in Chesapeake. The pilot was killed. Another Navy jet crashed off of the Virginia coast on September 14, 1972.
On September 21, 1972, an empty barge, drifting in high winds and heavy seas, slammed into the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, heavily damaging the structure and forcing it to close. A survey showed no fewer than 30 impact points. The bridge was closed for about three weeks. Owens claimed that this bridge was actually the
=== Page 56 of 103
13
main focus of his PK radar demonstration. The storm which occurred at the time of the accident which was the worse in that area in over ten years.
**October 25, 1972:** In a letter to "my six scientists," Owens states that he will create a giant psi-force demonstration with the help of his UFO friends:
I propose to CREATE summerlike weather this winter--warm, pleasant weather, little or no snow or cold. In this manner the fuel shortage need not happen, and people in the U.S. will not suffer.
To do this I am going to communicate with my four huge giant UFO's and arrange for one (or two) on the far side of the earth to reflect the sun's rays onto THIS side of the earth, these rays to then be reflected downward onto OUR side of the earth by the one or two huge UFO's on THIS side.
Whether my understanding of the sun is correct or not, I am going to use the four huge UFO's positioned around this earth to furnish heat to the U.S. this winter! So that the U.S. can have one of the warmest winters in its history.
Newspaper clippings from the winter of 1972-1973 reveal that it was, indeed, a warm winter. Norfolk, VA, reported 73º sunshine on December 5, the warmest weather for that day in 47 years. An AP story dated January 21, 1973 shows that New York City set a new record high for the day of January 18 with a temperature of 66º. The City of Washington, D.C. set a new record by going without snow all winter according to a UPI article dated February 14, 1973. An article dated March 20, 1973, in the Philadelphia Inquirer states that that city "logged an interesting 'first'--its first winter with no measurable amounts of snow." The fuel shortage never did manifest during the winter of 1972-73, however it did get very cold in parts of the western United States and in February 1973 the southeastern states were blasted with the worst snowstorm in a century. Newsclippings show that Governor Jimmy Carter's home in Plains, GA, was buried under two feet of snow.
In a letter dated March 27, 1973, Owens noted that it snowed in the south for about a week where it hadn't snowed in ten years. This, he said, was nature's way of maintaining its delicate ecological balance.
**January 22, 1973:** In a letter to his six scientists, Owens made the following
=== Page 57 of 103
14
claim:
Since no government takes me seriously and just a few scientists are even interested, they (the SIs) deem it necessary to give a demonstration of their powers further in order to prove that they are real and that I am indeed a living link with them, as no other human being is.
This last year was called "The Year of the Flood" (a special television show to that effect, outlined the many floods and heavy rainfall, which I had in fact predicted in Brad Steiger's book, "What the Seers Predict for 1972" a year ahead of time).
All right. Ahead is NOT the year(s) of the flood. But the REVERSE. The SIs are going to produce world-wide drought, intense heat, and LACK of rainfall and water.
Otto Binder once asked me, "Ted, which plague are we in now?" The above is it.
Newspaper and magazine articles document terrible drought conditions in 1973. Owens' plan was to use his powers to end the droughts in various countries when the various governments would ask him to do so. None asked. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle dated June 14, 1973, states that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations listed 28 countries stricken by drought that year. "The prolonged series of dry spells, the worst in 25 years, has killed cattle and reduced crops in wide areas of Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East." "'Too many countries have had droughts simultaneously,' said Anthony Leeds, of FAO's basic foodstuffs service. 'They came at a time when there has been a big drop in grain production in the world.'" An article in Newsweek dated June 4, 1973, called 1973 "The Year of the Famine." Newspaper clippings stated that Britain, famed for the moistness of its climate, had its lowest rainfall since 1749. China, the Soviet Union and Australia were all effected. Africa had the worst drought in 60 years.
November 9, 1973: The following letter, written on MENSA letterhead stationary is signed by Max L. Fogel, Ph. D., Director of Science and Education for Mensa:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet," and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFOs and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25,
=== Page 58 of 103
15
1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973.
Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owens' letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place.
Interestingly enough, one of the two witnesses of this sighting was Marion Owen, the Chase City police radio dispatcher who first sighted the object after noticing an unusual light reflection on the window of the police station. Ted Owens, in later correspondence, claimed that the similarity in names is a signature from the SIs to acknowledge that the sighting was, in fact, one of his demonstrations. There are several other instances in the files where this name similarity seems to occur.
Actually, in Owens' original letter to Fogel, he stated that he would cause UFOs to appear all over Virginia. He would almost have to make such a large claim as the country was already in the middle of a major UFO flap in October of 1973--having been triggered by the famous Pascagoula, Mississippi, case. Owens, in his correspondence, took credit for having caused the entire wave of UFO sightings throughout the country--although he admitted there was no documentation to support this claim other than in his personal notes.
February 12, 1974: In a letter to Ed Busch, of Radio Station WFAA, Dallas, Texas, Owens--who had been on Busch's radio program the week before--made the following prediction:
If you recall, on the program itself you requested that I make it snow instantly, and your colleague wanted heat. All right. The SIs have given their permission. This is not for "funzies." I will notify the scientists who are observing my work, thus it will be a large-scale demonstration.
There are four, huge, giant UFOs circling our earth (on your show, we didn't even scratch the surface of all that could be brought out) and I am going to utilize them to reflect heat back onto earth, the bullseye being Dallas, Texas. This will cause freakish weather and, of course, heat. Normal summer heat, coming up, should be amplified tremendously, perhaps to break a record. You will have great storms, lightning attacks, etc. Built into this will be the intelligence not to cause death or injury to Texas people, but to show how I, and the UFO entities, can control the weather anyplace in the world.
On February 16, 1974, newspaper clippings record that an earthquake centered
=== Page 59 of 103
15
in the Texas panhandle shook parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The tremor registered between 4 and 4.5 on the Richter scale. On March 20, 1974, a storm developed over Texas and moved rapidly to the northeast. By the time it arrived in Georgia, winds reached up to 100 miles per hour. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service said, "It's the strongest wind I've ever seen in the continental United States." Large areas of Texas were under tornado watch and at least two were reported on the ground. No injuries were reported. On March 24, unexpected freezing rain glazing the roads of north and west Texas, "and the resulting auto accidents brought deaths to the highways." Midland, Texas, recorded a record low temperature for that day of 28°.
All of the above news items were clipped by Owens, who didn't have access to Texas newspapers, from the Virginian-Pilot. In a sworn affidavit, dated May 7, 1974, Ed Busch made the following statement regarding the Texas demonstration:
...Owens sent me a letter, stating that he, working with the UFOs would produce a "major demonstration" of weather control over Texas. Following Owens' letter Texas was struck by an earthquake, 4.5 on the Richter scale. Then Texas was struck by high winds and tornados. Then Texas had the coldest weather ever in its history. Then Texas was struck by hot winds that destroyed half of the Texas wheat crop.
I am submitting this statement of fact to Owens at his request. It is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Whether Owens had any connection with the above weather phenomena, I do not know; perhaps it was mere coincidence. But I am stating the plain facts as they occurred, at Owens' request.
**April 4, 1974:** In a letter "TO THE SCIENTISTS," Owens presented a very intimate story of his psi abilities interacting with a personal relationship:
I am writing this special, very sad, report...because I am collaborating with a scientist actively in the search for Truth as pertains to the UFO enigma. Thus, it is more important, in the matter of values...to bring out the Truth as I know it...since I am part space-intelligence, and work for and with them. Believe me when I tell you...this is one report I do not wish to send you.
Several weeks ago, after I had been challenged by Ed Busch, of Radio WFAA, in Dallas, Texas, to produce freak weather in Texas...the SIs produced first an earthquake; then a tornado attack; then unexpected cold that broke the Texas record. I had informed Mr. Busch in advance...that the SIs would do so. But the SIs were making their point...they could
=== Page 60 of 103
17
produce tornados!
Now it is necessary to go back to early March. The SIs communicated with me then (or was it late February...somewhere in there) and told me that they were sending a female to me, for a purpose. They told me what the purpose was...and I wrote it down on a slip of paper and put it in my wallet. I told no one of this.
Weeks later a girl called me from California, named Judy. She was in danger and did not know what to do...and she had my disc. (Ed note: Owens sells these SI charged discs at a nominal price.) During her call the SIs communicated and told me that this was the female. So I told her to come to Cape Charles and I would see that she was protected until the danger was over. Several days later she called from Phoenix...she'd changed her mind and was going back home to Los Angeles; had written me a letter to that effect, but was calling anyway. I told her that it was a great mistake; to come ahead. She did, changing from bus to airplane...and arrived at Norfolk airport, where I met her. During the first hour of meeting her, over coffee at the airport, I told her that the SIs had informed me a month earlier of her coming...and showed her the slip of paper containing notes re their communication, from my wallet. I was also very angry, because I thought that the SIs had made a ghastly mistake. This female did not resemble in the least...what they said they were sending. I told the girl this, and she cried.
The general purpose of the SIs sending the female, as of that moment as I knew it...was to save my life. I have pointed out before that the SIs regard me, PK Man, as priceless to them...and to their plans to save the human race. But, known only to myself, and the SIs...my will to live had been getting lower and lower with each passing year, until this year, 1974, it barely flickered.
By the next day...I discovered that the girl wore a disguise. (Dress, hair and make-up.) True. And she was in absolute fact...what the SIs had promised me. And I fell deeply in love with her, as I have never loved another female in my lifetime. (But I had to...as it turned out, because the SIs had planned it that way. And evidently they had been able to pick out this one female...perfect for me...an absolute stranger to me...and motivate her to come to me. Which can give you some inkling of the infinite intelligence, and powers, of the SIs.) All right. She was to stay in Cape Charles for a month, under my protection. I had fallen deeply in love with her in 24 hours (sooner, really). And for several days all I could do was watch her move around and talk, speechless myself with the wonder of it all...absorbing her warmth and personality. For years it had been my habit to drink Scotch, whenever I felt like it. She lectured me about that. She showed me how to cook vegetables and cut my food bill in half. Then...came the shock.
Remember, for years and years and years...each day has been like the next day. Suddenly, like a flower blooming in the springtime...I am deeply in love...and long-fading feelings, deep feelings...are fanned within me to a lovely, roaring blaze.
Also remember...PK Man has a brain. A powerful brain. The most powerful brain, in fact, in the whole world. Most of you are familiar with the hundreds of miracles I have CAUSED to happen...if not, I can show you the documentation. What kind of brain...would it take, think
=== Page 61 of 103
18
you...to cause those kind of miracles? So...what would be an ordinary human emotion in an ordinary male...strong human emotion...would be magnified god knows how many times in PK Man. I.e., as I have long told my friends, when PK Man gets angry, trees fall down. Quite unlike...the ordinary human. And also remember...the SIs had gone to a great deal of trouble to bring this female to me...and nothing they do is trifling. Whatever they do, has tremendous significance. So, the SIs thought they had arranged it...to extend my lifespan by ten to twenty years.
The shock: several days after she arrived, the female...well, it happened like this. Each day I slept late, until ten in the morning...before driving far out to her motel to bring her into Cape Charles. But on Saturday morning the SIs woke me early in the morning...about 7:30...and warned me to go to the female quickly. I got dressed and drove out to her motel. She was dressed, and in the lobby. We went to the coffee shop. I was puzzled, but said we'd have breakfast before going into Cape Charles for the day. Then she dropped the bomb.
"Would you be upset," she asked me, "if I left today?" I just sat and stared at her. Now, at this point...I only knew that the SIs had brought her, and why. I thought to myself, oh, no....and I'm in love with her...and the SIs are monitoring...and she's leaving the SI plan! (You see, human choice is most important to the SIs...they cannot force humans to carry out their wishes; just set up their plans, and hope that the humans follow through.)
So I thought to myself...my God, will the SIs be upset! She told me that she'd already booked a plane in Norfolk, to fly away. So I drove her to the Norfolk airport, and saw her onto her plane. Her previous long distance call to me from Phoenix, as I have described...had been an error on her part...but she'd taken my advice then and come ahead. I knew...that this decision on her part to leave abruptly...was an even greater error....
On Monday following her departure...the SIs communicated and told me they'd sent the female, having picked her from all other females, knowing full well that I would fall in love with her...and that the result would be eliminating my drinking Scotch and beer which, they said, was due to shorten my life considerably ahead. (They can see ahead; precognition.) She also had another, much more important function...but that will be in confidence. But I could sense, from the tone of their communication...that they were disturbed. The SIs do not emote as humans do...but since I am half-SI, I share and sometimes sense...what they are "feeling". And...they were disturbed. Their plan...an excellent one...had been sabotaged by the female's decision to leave just a few days after arriving. And now the reason for the writing of this report...after the necessary background.
On Wednesday, yesterday, April 3, 1974....tornados struck in eleven of the U.S. states. The radio said that it was the worst tornado attack in the history of the United States. I wondered...on hearing this...about the coincidence...of my SI tornado demonstration just several weeks ago in Texas...to prove a point there. Could there be any connection?
Today, Thursday...the SIs communicated with me...said they had done it on purpose. To demonstrate their intense anger over the shattering of
=== Page 62 of 103
19
their plan...and to show you scientists, and the government...what very serious powers they have. They said that I am no joke; I am so important to them...they must keep me alive and well and happy and healthy...yet they cannot get humans to subsidize me and my work with them, and provide situations where they, the SI s, can keep me alive, happy and well. And the massive, enormous tornado attack...was their signature to the "letter" of their Texas demonstration of several weeks past. I.e., if they could make a few tornados in Texas to prove a point...then they would produce and eleven state tornado attack to prove a point as well. The record tornado attack was the SI equivalent of a small child stamping its foot in a rage of frustration. Why, you say...if they are so infinitely intelligent...yes, I say, but they do not think like humans. And in their communication today...they reminded me of years ago...when they deliberately burned up three astronauts on the pad at Cape Kennedy...because the night before, a killer tried to wipe out me and my family in our apartment in Philadelphia by setting fire under us, and we barely escaped. At that time they were furious...because I wasn't being given ample protection by the government, or somebody...being as important to them as I was...their only link with the human race.
The reason for the female being here...was just as important...to save my life. But it was not her fault for wanting to leave...and the SIs knew it. But they also know...I cannot go on much longer as I have been going on...financially supported mainly by the help of one man, George Delavan, in Illinois...who has been sending me several hundred dollars a month, sometimes more...to help me keep my head above water. They know my life-flame has burned too low (will to live) because of the unemotional, dull life that I lead (hence bringing in the female). Something has to give...and the eleven-State tornado attack was a SI warning...that whatever has to give, it had better not be PK Man.
With this letter is a copy of the Virginian-Pilot dated April 5, 1974, with the following headline story: Death Toll From Tornadoes Mounts -- Injured, Homeless In the Thousands.
**July 23, 1975: The following letter from Owens:**
SCIENTISTS....
In this file you will find some strange documentation re the Kennedy airplane crash. I was returning from Egypt, from Cairo via Rome...and showing my Saga magazine writeups to the stewardesses and others...particularly the page where the artist has my face looking up into the sky...where an airplane is being struck by lightning...and on the page are the words "Tornado Winds Rip Area." Then my plane began its approach to Kennedy Airport and the pilot told everyone to buckle seatbelts for landing. But the plane, going down, veered off...circled over the ocean...went to another airport for a while...then returned to Kennedy and landed. When I went through customs the customs officer looked at my flight ticket...said, "You are lucky to be here. You know that don't you?" I asked what he meant...and he told me that the plane ahead of ours had been struck by lightning; had crashed. Words to that effect.
All of the action, move by odd move, is on my "crash" tape....
=== Page 63 of 103
20
The other material is self-explanatory. There were so many military plane crashes IN THIS AREA that the government grounded those type of planes everywhere. It was caused by my radar demonstration of some time ago. The power is still active here.
To bad the government will not subsidize my work.
In the file with this letter is a newspaper clipping about the airplane crash at Kennedy Airport, dated June 25, 1975. The article states, "More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U. S. aviation." "At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plowed into an area of parkland north of the airport." Owens includes a xerox of his flight ticket for TWA flight 491 into JFK airport on June 24 from Cairo. A copy of the Saga article and illustration is shown, as Owens described it in his letter. In a newsclipping of June 26, 1975, winds are now cited as the cause of the airline crash. One one other time in U.S. aviation history has there been a case where lightning has been cited as the cause of a crash. And never had lightning destroyed the airframe or damaged it to the extent that the plane couldn't fly, according to a spokesman from the National Transportation Safety Board.
Then follow a series of articles about two more jet crashes in the Virginia area and the Navy grounding all 139 of its multimillion dollar F14 fighter planes because of suspected engine problems.
A number of other miscellaneous articles follow including one which states that "Kenya Asks for Soccer Sans-Witch--Black Magic Blackballed." "Medicine men who claim they make the ball disappear or cast a spell on opposing players with animal or bird charms are especially active in soccer, officials note."
OCTOBER 8, 1975: In a letter to Mr. Doug Dahlgren, Radio Station
=== Page 64 of 103
214
WCFL, Chicago, Illinois, Owens told some stories about his past and promised another demonstration:
...Shortly thereafter a stranger sent money to me to move to Colorado. So we packed up and drove to Colorado. But once there things went wrong as far as this stranger was concerned, so we drove towards Florida, at the direction of the SIs. A UFO followed us overhead all the way. We would get out and look at it, and it would go into a cloud...wait until we drove on...then emerge from the cloud and keep following us. When we reached Dothan, Alabama, we parked for the night on top of a high hill, and I spread some blankets on top of the station wagon and slept up there. I was wakened by a blinding flash of light...then a loud crash nearby our car. Strangely I simply went back to sleep. In the morning a car came rushing up to our car...and a man leaped out and asked if we had seen an army helicopter. I pointed over to the side of our car and said, there it is. He shouted for us not to go near the copter, because it had secret equipment in it...leaped in his car and drove away. I sauntered over to the copter and a negro in uniform leaned out the window with a .45 in his hand and cheerily told me to stay right where I was because he had orders not to let anyone approach the copter. I asked him what had happened. He said the copter had flown down over our car and turned their searchlight on us...and at that exact instant all the power in the copter went dead. Lights, radio, everything. He couldn't even radio out for help...and the copter of course crashed.
Then a whole fleet of cars, officers, and heavy equipment arrived to try and extricate the copter. I showed the army officers my book re UFOs...and warned them not to buzz my car again, because the UFO that had followed us from Colorado had evidently thought we were being attacked by the copter, and had downed it....
Now, to the business at hand. You have requested that I give a UFO demonstration over Chicago. I can do much better than that...and have cleared it with the SIs by direct communication today.
Please note in the March 1971 Saga Mag article, "Ted Owens - Flying Saucer Missionary" by Otto Binder. In this article is described one of my 300 miracles...causing all sorts of weird things to happen in and around Norfolk, Virginia...as well as the appearance of a UFO over Norfolk.
I am going to duplicate this miracle, with some embellishments, for the benefit of Chicago. And I will spell out what I am going to do, and then notify my scientists, so that they can observe.
UFO appearances...will ask the SIs to appear outstandingly in and around the Chicago area, and possibly do some very strange things to accompany the appearances.
EM phenomena...I will cause electromagnetic changes in the Chicago area. This will cause power blackouts and various forms of magnetic and electromagnetic anomalies. It should also cause many lightning strikes, violent storms and high winds.
Poltergeist phenomena...I will send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area...to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings. This will cover, of course, the O'Hare Airport and the stadium in which the Chicago Bears play football. I will especially request that the
=== Page 65 of 103
22
poltergeists not harm anyone, or make any planes crash. But the football games of the Bears in that Stadium, in the months ahead...should be wild, freakish, and downright funny. And all sorts of strange things should happen at O'Hare Airport. Instruments going crazy; tires blowing out; etc. Not to mention human error by the bushelful.
The Grid...I will set up an other-dimensional grid over the Chicago area. Won't tell you what it will do...but you'll see the results.
Now...I have never yet failed in a demonstration on this huge scale. Never. But the difficulty here is...to try and minimize the effects so that no one gets hurt. In short...I have far too much power for such an experiment. Sort of like using a shotgun to shoot a fly in a barrel. This will not make too much sense to you, but believe me I know what I am talking about....
P.S. The time element on this: will set it all up today. Things should start popping within days or weeks. The entire demonstration should cap and climax within 90 days. It could well be the wildest 90 days in the history of Chicago!
An extensive assortment of newspaper and magazine clippings accompanies the file of Owens' Chicago demonstration. The Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1975, reports that "A Mysterious radio signal apparently coming from the Michigan Avenue bridge has caused occasional brake failures on new buses operated by the Chicago Transit Authority and the United Motor Coach Co...." A Chicago Tribune article of October 15, 1975, states that, "Police are investigating the possibility that the recent slaughter of two calves and the beheading of a rabbit in an area 50 miles Northwest of Chicago may have been the work of a mysterious "UFO" group reportedly traveling across the country from Oregon."
A letter to Owens from Doug Dahlgren, on December 1, 1975, states, "We even had the UFO sightings within the prescribed area. We tried to call the parties who were involved but they refused to talk to us."
A Newsweek article of December 22, 1975, reports on unusual traffic jams that have occurred recently at O'Hare Airport. A Tribune article of December 13, 1975, states that there have been four near collisions between commercial jets flying to or from O'Hare field in less
=== Page 66 of 103
23
than two weeks.
The October 14 Tribune states, "After a month of below-normal temperatures, the mercury hit 88 degrees breaking the old mark of 83 set nineteen years ago. The following day also set a record high temperature. A Tribune article of November 10, 1975, ran the bold headline, 75-mile winds pound city. Several tornadoes were also reported. While early November was the warmest in Chicago history, the November 28 Tribune reports "The worst Thanksgiving Eve snowstorm in Chicago history." Again on December 1, the Tribune reported high winds and tornadoes across northern Illinois. A Tribune article of December 2 states that November 1975 was the "second warmest November in 100 years" and the warmest since 1931.
A series of Tribune articles on Bear football games seem to bear out Owens' prediction. On October 13, "Lions ax Bears in 'laughter' 27-7." Coach Jack Pardee is quoted as saying, "This is the first teach I've ever been associated with where we were so bad the opposition laughed at us on the field." October 20, "Steelers crumple bumbling Bears." October 29, "Vikes' TD a Freak," referring the the play when the Bears had only 10 men on the field. In the Tribune of October 29, 1975, columnist Jack Mabley remarks on Owens' demonstration as follows:
**The Bears Are Bugged:** I've come across an interesting theory about what's happening to the Chicago Bears. Poltergeists. From flying saucers. When a team lost a close game because on one play they had only 91 per cent of their team on the field, you've got to look for more sophisticated reasons than bad coaching or missed signals.
The poltergeist theory is contained in an "I told you so" letter from one Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, Va., who calls himself "The UFO Prophet," to one Doug Dahlgren of WCFL.
Apparently Dahlgren challenged Owens to produce UFO phenomenon in Chicago. On October 8 Owens announced he would "send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area...to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings."
He says he has connections with the occupants of the flying objects,
=== Page 67 of 103
22
and set this up with instructions that nobody was to get hurt.
..........Of the caliber of the Bears' play I'd say the poltergeists had some of their greatest moments Monday night when the Bears had only 10 men on the field as Tarkenton tossed the winning touchdown, I could almost see the little men sitting in their saucer over Soldier Field with the lights out, hugging their sides in mirth. What's cooking for the next game, fellows?
On November 3, "Have mercy...don't laugh at Bear comedy." November 17, "Bears can't win for fear of losing."
January 30, 1976: Owens' letter:
TO MY SCIENTISTS
I am giving you notice well in advance...of major phenomena that I am going to cause...over the State of California....
Last night over TV the evening news showed a stricken California. No water. "The worst drought in 72 years." "Only three times in the entire history of the State of California...has such a drought appeared." Crops are dead and dying...and the animals are in pitiful condition.
Now I, Ted Owens, PK Man...will change all of that. Within the next 90 days from the time of this letter...I will pour and pour and pour rains onto and into the State of California...until it is swimming in water, and the dangerous drought is completely over. There will be storm after storm, lightning attack after lightning attack, and high winds....
A UPI clipping from February 1, 1976, confirms Owens statement about drought.
"The cost of a California winter-drought has mounted to about $310.5 million Saturday, and dried-out Kansas wheat lies vulnerable to wind erosion." "Ten more days of drought could precipitate an emergency in the livestock industry. But there is little moisture in sight."
However by February 6, 1976, the headlines changed: San Francisco Snowed by a Record Snowfall. "...the biggest snowfall in exactly 89 years hit the city and surrounding areas." "The storm also featured lightning and sleet. A giant television tower on Mt. San Bruno, south of San Francisco was hit by lightning about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday knocking several TV stations off the air."
The following newsclip was sent to Owens by Dr. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ from SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, who had received Owens prediction only days earlier. From the Palo Alto Times, Thursday, February 5, 1976:
Rare snowfall ends drought on Peninsula. "The unexpected and unfamiliar weather was at odds with a forecast Wednesday that the dry spell would
=== Page 68 of 103
25
continue in the Bay Area." "Not since the morning of Jan. 21, 1962, have Mid-peninsulans awakened to find their homes blanketed with snow."
Puthoff and Targ wrote Owens the following note with the clippings, "Ted--Just as you predicted in your letter of January 30. Kinda makes me stop and wonder." The Oakland Tribune of February 5 goes on to state that the storm brought with it "nearly every phenomenon in the weatherman's book throughout the Bay Area." "Snow, hail, sleet, light rain, thunder and lightning hit the Bay Area after weeks of dry, Balmy weather." "Varying amounts of rain fell upon the lower two-thirds of the state..." "In northwestern California, there are gale warnings..."
On February 10, a UPI story states, "The rainy season continued in California for the sixth consecutive day. Some mountainous regions of the state have received 6 to 8 inches of rain and coastal areas have measured 3 to 4 inches."
The San Mateo Times of January 31, 1976, reports that several nights earlier "half a dozen law enforcement agencies reported a cigar shaped object with flashing lights leaving what looked like a vapor trail in the sky over southwestern Nevada and southeastern California." A San Francisco Chronicle reports a UFO sighting in Siskiyou mountains of northern California on February 8 and 9 by Tom Gates, director of the De Anza College Space Center, and Paul Cerny, mechanical engineer for an electronics firm. Both of these men were investigating earlier sightings reported in December for Northwestern University's Center for UFO Studies when their own sighting occurred. On March 10, 1976, a large power failure hit state government offices in downtown Sacramento. The lights went out shortly after 1:30 p.m. and remained out all through the rest of the afternoon. On April 19, 1976, a giant fireball was reported near San Jose. On April 8, massive outages affected more than 600,000 electricity customers in California from two to ten minutes.
With regard to the April 8 power blackout, Owens told an interesting story. In a letter of April 9, 1976, Owens wrote:
TO MY SCIENTISTS:
=== Page 69 of 103
246
A most astounding thing has occurred: The SIs...my UFO connection...have "spoken"... in their own inimitable way...before I could even get the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, off to you! I typed ten copies of the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, Wednesday afternoon...then had to desist because I had the flu...also was shook up by the IRS agents...and was so angry that I could have cussed. Matter of fact...I did cuss. (This emotional response of my part is important in your understanding of what follows.)
All right. Wednesday night late...about 3 AM Thursday morning, really...all power went out on the West Coast from Portland, Oregon, down to almost Los Angeles, California...for from 3 to 7 minutes depending on where you lived there. (Millie, my San Francisco friend and scout...called me long distance on Thursday and told me about it...said that it was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper...and I will document it later in my last file on the "California Miracle.") That's "one."
Also...in that same time-frame...there was an earthquake in California...approximately 5 on the Richter scale...reported here in Virginia on our TV set. That's "two."
I.e., the SIs...UFO connection...en rapport with the "alien" half of my brain (belonging to them) (Ed. note: Owens claims that his brain was operated on by the SIs. He does, in fact, have an unusual groove in the back of his head where he says the incision occurred.)...picked up my distress caused by the Wednesday IRS agent happening...and decided to show the United States government, on a small scale, what they could do. They did it to California because that is where I am putting on a UFO-connection demonstration at the present time. (If they had knocked out the power and put an earthquake anywhere else in the U. S., it would have had little meaning with regard to me and my demonstration in California.)
Enclosed with his April 9 letter is a letter dated April 7, which describes several incidents of apparent harassment and makes a number of dire predictions. In the April 7 letter, Owens stated:
Anyway, I want you to know...that I am being harassed...and I can tell you...that the SIs...my UFO connection...will be greatly angered by this. Because they feel...that the U.S. Government is my "host government"...i.e., I am their ambassador to the human race, residing in the United States. So that...anything bad...that befalls their "Ambassador"...they will retaliate...in their own, UFO, way.
I myself first learned of Owens, shortly after his California demonstration, when Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ eagerly shared with me the snowstorm story. This sort of phenomena was outside the boundaries of their experimental investigations, however they hoped that someone, like myself, would follow up on the case.
A news brief in Psychic Magazine of April 1976, mentioned Owens apparent
=== Page 70 of 103
28
success with this demonstration. This news item led to Owens being invited to end the drought in Britain. It should be noted that, in spite of the unexpected storm following Owens' prediction, the drought continued in many areas of California. By February 27, 1976, Governor Brown had declared 29 of the state's 58 counties as economic disaster areas due to crop losses.
**May 10, 1976:** Owens wrote the following letter to Susanne Stebbing in Kent, England, who had written to him requesting that he use his powers to end the terrible drought in England:
In your letter...you state that you are a friend of Professor John Taylor of King's College in London...and that he is doing research into the paranormal...he has studied Uri Geller and various children with mind-bending powers. You state that Dr. Taylor is "one of the top men in science at the Dept. of Mathematics at King's College."
You go on to state: "As you may know, England is in the midst of a severe drought - the worst in over 150 years and our water supply will be cut off to domestic use and industry within 6 weeks from now - unless some heavy rains fall."
...In order to work to produce prodigious amounts of rain onto England within the next 90 days...all during that period, and starting right away...it would be proper for Dr. Taylor to write me a personal letter on his stationary, requesting this...because I thoroughly document all that I do and his personal approach on his own stationary would be a necessity for me....
Since time is of the essence...I will accept you at your word...re Dr. Taylor...and set up this demonstration at once...this very day. Obviously it takes much time for a letter to reach you...judging from the date on your own letter...so that we can save England much anguish from prolonged drought if I begin my work at once, without waiting for Dr. Taylor's personal letter before commencing....
Very well, this demonstration of producing massive amounts of rain for England during the next 90 days...will do the following: Rain, rain and rain...in huge amounts, and over all of England. Lightning attacks accompanying. High winds, sometimes at hurricane force. Appearance of UFOs...and UFO creatures. And my demonstration should end England's drought....
In this demonstration...I need your assistance, and also that of Dr. Taylor. His letter, for one thing. Then, as the phenomena unfolds...I need clippings from your English newspapers re what I am doing, sent to me so that I can put them together, xerox them, and get the completed 90 day file out to my scientists at this end (copy to you and to Dr. Taylor)....
I begin.
Will await word from Dr. Taylor, personally.
And will be a pleasure to hear from you again.
=== Page 71 of 103
28
(Ed. note: Owens frequently uses the three dot...punctuation in his own writing, for non-grammatical reasons. Therefore, in indicating that I have skipped over nonessential material, I have used four dot punctuation....)
In a letter to Owens dated June 4, 1976, Susanne Stebbing indicated that Professor Taylor was too busy to write to Owens for the time being. However, she had arranged for Owens to be invited to speak at a conference to be held in August at City University of London (at his own expense) and hoped that Owens could meet Dr. Taylor there and also be tested in Taylor's laboratory. She also added, "The drought here has been aborted slightly, but the danger to reservoirs still remain. We have had some showery rain in local areas which just keeps the crops and gardens in order. Also a few local thunderstorms and 'cloud bursts' mentioned on local news bulletins. Any phenomena you could produce including UFO activity would certainly interest Prof. Taylor and his colleagues."
Newspaper clippings in the England file indicate some rain in June, particularly on the courts of the $100,000 women's tennis tournament and the Wimbledon tennis tournament. However the drought continued.
The following letter, from John Taylor, University of London King's College, is dated July 12, 1976:
I have received letters and copies of letters sent by yourself to Miss Susan Stebbing. You said in your letter of May 10th to Miss Stebbing that you would attempt to produce rain in England as rapidly as possible. It is now July 12th and since May 10th there has indeed been very low rainfall and England has got into a worse and worse state. I am afraid that clearly your attempt, at least from what I can see has failed dismally. If, when storms do come in about three or four days time, according to the weather forecast, you then claim success I can only say that of course if you wait long enough certainly rain will come. However, if you have been trying at the highest level that you can since May 10th, then I can only say that I have no faith at all in your powers.
I look forward to discussing this further with you at the City University conference, to be held here in London shortly.
Owens response (as tape recorded by me later in London) to Taylor's remark that the drought must end eventually was that there had been longer droughts in Africa
=== Page 72 of 103
29
and other countries and that the British drought would continue until he personally ended it. Another letter from Taylor is dated July 14, 1976:
..........I hope you have received by now my brief response to your earlier letter to her (Stebbing). I am afraid that I am not at all convinced by your demonstration as yet; the weather reports for the last two months have been uniformly hot and dry and that there is no alleviation of the drought. There have been rains in the north-west of the United Kingdom, but they have in no way touched the east, nor have they alleviated the drought. Indeed there is now rationing in parts of Wales, and this will have to be brought elsewhere. I would only hope that they will indeed be alleviated, but I don't see any clear prospect of this, at least according to the meteorological forecast.
Looking forward to seeing you at the City University as I said.
The British drought did not end within the 90 period specified by Owens. When I arrived in London on August 27 for the Parascience conference, conditions were severe. Residents of London were being asked to reduce their water consumption to 1/3 of normal use. In some villages, the only water was brought by trucks twice a week. On August 24, Prime Minister Callaghan called an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss the drought. A London **Times** article dated August 27 states the following:
**Water chief see no end to drought in long-range forecast**
Britain could not count any any early substantial rainfall to relieve the drought, Lord Nugent of Guildford, chairman of the National Water Council, said yesterday after being shown a preview of the September long-range weather forecast to be published next week.
However, the British forecasters failed to take into account the fact that Ted Owens would be arriving in person on August 27, 1976. I was there myself and friends told me I could get my picture on the front page of the **Times** if I only walked through Piccadilly Circus with my umbrella open. However a UPI story dated Friday, August 27, 1976, states: "Rain fell on London today for the first time in 38 days and showers dampened the southeast of England but weathermen said it made no difference to Britain's worst drought in 500 years." On the following day, August 28, the London **Evening News** carried a story about a power failure, causes unknown, which halted the entire underground subway system for about a half hour. Thirty trains were stopped. And the rains continued along with hail.
=== Page 73 of 103
39
The rains continued and continued. On September 29, 1976, the British Environment Ministry announced that the drought was officially over.
In his presentation at the London Parascience conference, Owens stated that it was he who was ending the drought. There were many cultists who were getting coverage in the news at the time for similar claims. To answer this, Owens pointed out the power failure which occurred when he arrived in London. This, he said was a feature common to his many demonstrations. Owens also predicted at this conference that droughts would continue around the world until the nations of this planet called on him to bring rains.
June 7, 1977: Owens writes the following document:
STATEMENT OF FACT FOR THE SCIENTISTS
The first of June...I telephoned the Chief of Police of Cape Charles...Mr. Charles Powell...and informed him of my INTENT to cause a hurricane to come to this area, which is composed of Cape Charles and the Eastern Shore plus the Tidewater Area just across the Chesapeake Bay. I warned him to get into his police car and drive away from this area quickly as soon as he heard that the monster storm was coming. He said that he couldn't...that he has a family here and that it would not be practical to do so. I told him that I wanted to warn him anyway.
Yesterday, June 6, 1977...a FREAK monstrous storm of hurricane force (98 miles per hour winds; hail the size of a fist, etc.) struck this area...just grazing the Eastern Shore but knocking the stuffings out of the Tidewater Area just across the Bay. Boats were knocked over and sunk; radar screens were completely blanked out for a while; TV stations were knocked out; people hung on trees just to keep from being blown away; huge loaded trucks were blown off the road; airplanes were blown over...and so forth. All of this described, and more, in the Virginian-Pilot newspaper of Norfolk, this date.
The reason I am informing you of this...is simply to let you know that I told the Police Chief here in Cape Charles in advance.
Another great point of interest to you scientists...is the fact that this freak monstrous storm is the SAME as the freak monstrous storm that struck the San Francisco area during my demonstration there for Jeffrey Mishlove, the young....scientist who lives in that area. Both freak storms came out of nowhere (as described by various witnesses in the newspapers following both storms in both areas) and were NOT anticipated by the Weather Bureaus of either the San Francisco area or this area.
Upon receiving this letter, I immediately telephoned the Chief of Police of Cape Charles, VA, who was indeed Mr. Charles Powell. Powell confirmed every detail of
=== Page 74 of 103
30
Owens' story and added that he had signed a statement for Owens to that effect.
The Virginian-Pilot, June 7, 1977, ran the following banner headline: **5 Killed in 98-m.p.h. Wind that Leaves Cities Stunned.** "The storm caught Tidewater by surprise. Although the Weather Service had predicted thunderstorms, a severe thunderstorm watch did not go into effect until 3 p.m. At 4:15 p.m. a tornado warning was put into effect." One witness described the storm as follows: "I was out at 3 p.m., and it was sunshiney, and all of a sudden it got dark and you could hear the wind and you could see the hail. You can't describe it. It's such an eerie feeling to see it light one minute and dark the next. If the wind wasn't so hard, the hail wouldn't have caused so much damage. I have a very small fist, but the hail was about the size of my fist."
Admittedly, the above episodes are not documented in sufficient detail for a qualified scientific or judicial opinion regarding Owens' activities. Further documentation exists and will be made available to serious researchers. The history has been presented in such a fashion as to suggest possibilities, rather than certainties. I myself can no more accept Owens' story than I can discount the likelihood of enormously significant events taking place.
=== Page 75 of 103
My Encounter with Ted Owens
outline
I learn about snowstorm at SRI
I read Owens' book.
Owens speaks in London
The rainbow UFO connection.
The San Francisco demonstration.
My letter exchange with Owens.
Owens visit to SF
Owens stays with Janelle
California fires
Am I a government agent?
Poltergeist on Owens files.
I write the report.
My personal reaction to this experience.
The public response.
Ethical issues.
=== Page 76 of 103
LOG
3. OWENS REPORT PP 10-31 21 PAGES
6. TED OWENS REPORT PART I, PAG 9 PAGES
7. OWENS REPORT TITLE PAGE 2 PAGES
8. PAG OWENS 10 22 PAGES
PAGES AVAILABLE: 10
=== Page 77 of 103
LOG
6. OWENS 30 PAGES
7. OWENS REPORT TITLE PAGE 2 PAGES
PAGES AVAILABLE: 25
=== Page 78 of 103
Prophetic Power:
The Fury of Ted Owens
by
Jeffrey Mishlove
2430 Lake Street, Apartment 4
San Francisco, California 94121
=== Page 79 of 103
Jeffrey Mishlove is a doctoral candidate in parapsychology at the University of California at Berkeley through the individual, interdisciplinary doctoral program. He is the first individual to create a doctoral major in parapsychology at any accredited university in the United States. Mishlove is also the author of The Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation through History, Science and Experience (Random House, 1975) which is used by dozens of college and university courses as an introductory parapsychology text.
The material in the following article is factual. Photographs of Ted Owens as well as photostats of relevant affidavits and newspaper headlines are available.
=== Page 80 of 103
Copyright (c) 1978 by Jeffrey Mishlove. All rights reserved.
This article may not be reproduced in whole or in part or in any form without written permission.
=== Page 81 of 103
Forward
Mr. Ted Owens is an individual who purports to be in telepathic contact with other dimensional beings which he calls Space Intelligences (SIs). For many years, Owens has supported this hypothesis by making written predictions regarding a variety of unlikely events which he claimed the SIs would be instrumental in causing. These events have included unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, hurricanes and storms, lightning striking pre-selected targets, mishaps on NASA spaceflights, power blackouts, earthquakes, and anomalous radar sightings. The data which relates to Owens' claims is presented in this book.
I do not believe that we can approach the Ted Owens case in an objective manner unless we are willing to examine our own predisposed attitudes to this subject matter. Thus, I feel it is incumbent for the reader to understand my basic stance in relationship to the Owens data.
In 1975, before I knew anything about Owens, I had published in my first book, The Roots of Consciousness (New York: Random House/Bookworks) a chapter which argued that there was a legitimate relationship between UFOs and psi phenomena. Similar positions have been held by many researchers who have a first-hand familiarity with the UFO data such as J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, James Harder, Leo Sprinkle, D. Scott Rogo and Berthold Schwarz. Nevertheless, this is a position which is as emotionally repugnant to some today as Freudian concepts of sexuality were to those of the nineteenth century. My position has been sarcastically treated in the two major American academic parapsychology journals. I have answered the charges brought against my position in both the Journal of Parapsychology (March, 1977) and The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (April, 1977).
However, the logical issues surrounding my position are not all that seems to be at stake. The very fact that the "UFO-psi" viewpoint is treated with such contempt--in the face of a considerable body of evidence--indicates that raw nerves are being touched
=== Page 82 of 103
Forward
somewhere. We may be dealing with a situation analogous to what T. S. Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) has called a "shift in paradigms." The Owens phenomena may challenge not only our research capabilities, but also the very notions of space and time upon which much of our research is predicated. (I say "much of our research" because developments in quantum physics and general relativity have already severely challenged our common sense notions of space and time.) Even more distressing, the evidence herein presented suggests a new understanding of our notions of mind and personality.
In presenting the Owens files, I have attempted to let the data speak for itself. Admittedly I have selected from the files those cases which I believe highlight the radical possibility that Owens is, in fact, in possession of unusual talents related to both psi and UFOs. Another selection of cases could paint a different picture. Owens hasn't always called the shots correctly. My best estimate is that he is at least 50% accurate in predicting events with an a priori chance probability of less than 1%. So, for all of his faults and errors, the pattern of his apparent successes stands out from the "rubbish" in the data.
Whether I have endangered my own scientific objectivity, integrity and reputation by presenting this material is a question which you, the reader, may well ask for purposes of your own evaluation. I have certainly not shied away from presenting my own subjective impressions and from including myself as a character in the Ted Owens story. If I were the reader of this book, I would have to ask tough questions.
Recently I had lunch with a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle who for many months has been interested in my experiments on ESP learning. This research had not been published for my scientific colleagues, so I was reluctant to allow him to report on my studies in the press. Instead, I steered the conversation to Ted Owens and the research report I had published on Owens. At first the newsman was very
2
=== Page 83 of 103
Forward
interested, but the more I told him of the story the more disgusted he became. Finally he looked at me and angrily stated, "I have to deal with reality. I can't afford to indulge in fantasies like this." With that he abruptly left the table.
The experience was not a pleasant one for me. It brought home quite clearly the fact that my integrity is being questioned every time I mention the Ted Owens material. Those who will accept the psychokinesis (PK) are unwilling to accept the UFOs--as in the case of this reporter and most of the parapsychology community. Those who can accept both psi and UFOs are unwilling to accept Ted Owens' ego--as in the case of other investigators who have known Owens during the past ten years. And a large segment of the population accepts none of the premises which led me to this study in the first place.
Until now, no individual with any claim to scientific credentials has been willing to tell the Ted Owens story. And although my first book, The Roots of Consciousness, is used as a standard parapsychology text in dozens of colleges and universities, I am still a graduate student myself at the time of this writing. I hope to retain my status with the University of California in spite of my inquiry into this rather taboo area.
Like any other scientist, my reputation cannot stand on my story alone. It stands on the corroborating evidence, on the testimony of other witnesses, on the ability of the data to withstand careful scrutiny, and on the ability of Owens to continue to repeat the phenomena for more scientists under conditions where more controls can be instituted and more careful measurements can be made.
I have asked Ted Owens to tell his own story in subsequent chapters of this book. He has done so candidly and, in my opinion, with style. This story is his, from his own memories, in his own words. He claims, for instance, that he learned to read instantly at the age of four when he was taught by a beautiful red-haired woman who mysteriously appeared to him.
3
=== Page 84 of 103
Forward
Many people would argue that I have lost all claim to scientific objectivity if I let such stories pass in a book such as this without challenging them. I concur with this view. I find it perfectly reasonable and healthy to challenge all of Owens' claims. I certainly do not endorse all of them myself. It is not my intention to present anything that Ted Owens states in this book as fact--but rather as data, as testimony to be analyzed and critically evaluated by the reader.
I feel that the reader has a right to be informed of our scientific progress in all stages of its development. Were this presentation limited only to the results of the hard-core, controlled experimental tests there would be no book whatsoever. Nevertheless, I feel it is my obligation as a scientific writer to present only that material which is what it claims to be. This I have done. However, I caution the reader to be careful in distinguishing the extent of my own qualifications for any piece of data.
I regard as most evidential the material presented in relationship to my 90 day pilot experiment with Owens in San Francisco and those cases which are from the scientific files I have gathered on Owens where his predictions have been sent in advance to scientists. Next most evidential are those cases where I have personally interviewed witnesses. I have explicitly stated in the text when this has occurred. Most of these witnesses are available to be interviewed by other serious inquirers into the Owens affair. After this, I hold as most evidential those cases for which I have signed statements and affidavits from witnesses who I have not been able to interview.
From a scientific perspective, Owens own claims and interpretations of his life are least evidential. From a humanistic perspective, they are of the greatest importance and it is particularly for that reason that they are included in this book. I cannot vouch for the entire accuracy of Owens' story. However, I can vouch with absolute certainty that it is his story.
4
=== Page 85 of 103
Forward
Many people have asked me why, with all of his alleged powers, hasn't Owens become rich, famous or powerful in the world. Often the question is meant to imply that these powers cannot be real; or, if they are real, they cannot be of any value. Whether or not Owens' powers are real, of course, depends only on the facts and not on our preconceived notions of whether or not such powers can exist or what they must be like if they do exist. I cannot emphasize this point enough.
The value which these powers have, be they real, depends as much on us, who give value and shape events by our mutual agreement, as it does on Ted Owens. We are all, in our own ways, as powerful and as powerless as he seems to be.
=== Page 86 of 103
PK Man
Scientists who know about Ted Owens have found it convenient to pretend that he doesn't exist. Skeptics who learn of his claims are outraged. Occult fanatics have sent hate letters to Ted Owens and mysterious strangers have threatened to kill him. Millie Miller, a sweet older woman who works for the telephone company in San Francisco, admires Owens' work as a cosmic agent. For years she has been providing financial support for his work--as has George Delevan, a computer specialist in Cleveland. As a scientific parapsychology researcher, there have been many moments when I would rather not have had to confront the enigma which Ted Owens represents.
I first learned about Owens in the parapsychology research laboratories of SRI International, in Menlo Park near San Francisco, California, the military-industrial think tank complex, where physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ have achieved public acclaim for their experiments with Uri Geller, Ingo Swann and other talented psychic subjects. Owens contacted Puthoff and Targ in 1973, shortly after their work with Geller received attention in the national media. In a letter to these researchers, Owens described himself as "the world's greatest psychic" and offered himself as a subject for testing. Puthoff and Targ declined the offer, but did continue to receive correspondence from Owens for several years documenting his "demonstrations."
In January of 1976, Owens wrote to Puthoff and Targ telling them that he was going to show them his powers directly by causing storms over the San Francisco area to end the drought which was then reaching significant proportions. Days later, it snowed and stormed with hail and sleet and rain throughout the Bay area. The Palo Alto Times ran a headline story on the event which stated, "Rare snowfall ends drought on Peninsula." The storm was completely unexpected by weather forecasters.
Puthoff and Targ sent Owens a note congratulating him on his successful prediction and received a telegramed response from him stating that it was not a
=== Page 87 of 103
PK Man
prediction--but that he, Owens, had caused the snowstorm. This was food for thought and when I visited Puthoff and Targ some months later, they eagerly discussed this case with me.
Puthoff and Targ showed me the intriguing book authored by Ted Owens in 1969 titled, How to Contact Space People. The book was sensationalistic and poorly written. It contained loose descriptions of a variety of demonstrations which Owens claimed he had provided for both NASA and the CIA, naming the officials he had interacted with in each case. For the CIA, Owens maintained that he had used his powers to interfere with military exercises and for NASA he had demonstrated his control over lightning. Nevertheless, Owens pointed out that these agencies still refused to take him seriously.
Owens also described the visualization techniques which he used to communicate with the Space Intelligences (SIs). He saw them as insect like creatures looking into a screen where his thoughtforms appeared. Other people could communicate with them using this same method, he stated. They were the ones who really had the power to control the weather and create other phenomena. It was through their aid that Owens believed he caused his psychokinetic (PK) effects.
What fascinated me most about Owens' book was a section where he described past events in his life relating to his UFO contact. There were instances where thugs would ominously approach him with weapons bared only to suddenly pale and run away from him. This puzzled Owens until it dawned on him that the SIs were protecting him. Another fascinating story in Owens' book is his description of how the SIs captured him and operated on his brain--causing him to become half human and half alien. He still carries a thick scar at the base of his skull which he says is the result of this operation.
In August 1976, some months after learning about Owens, I had the opportunity of inspecting this scar for myself at the City University of London where he was an
2
=== Page 88 of 103
PK Man
invited speaker at an international conference sponsored by the Parascience Foundation. Owens was an impressive speaker with a large frame and a booming voice which rang throughout the auditorium. His words were clear and articulate. His manner was confident. His eyes sparkled with charisma and precocious genius. He rocked the audience with his claim that he had established telepathic contact with other dimensional space intelligences. He described how they, the SIs, had guided his career since infancy through over fifty different occupations--bodyguard, bullwhip artist, judo expert, jazz musician, knife thrower, dance instructor, shorthand expert, high speed typist, parapsychology researcher at Duke University--so that his mind would be flexible enough to manipulate their complicated symbolic system. He stated that while he was not a scientist, he was a member of MENSA an organization limited to individuals with high IQ test scores. He presented statements from a MENSA researcher on official letterhead stationary stating that he, Owens, had predicted UFO sightings and other events.
He spoke of hundreds of demonstrations which he had documented for scientists and he carried with him a stack of newspaper clippings two feet thick documenting his exploits. He shocked the audience with the claim that he was being used by the space intelligences to end worldwide drought and that he would also be useful in psychic warfare against the Soviet Union.
Because the conference was running behind schedule, Owens was asked by the moderator to finish his talk early. When he received this abrupt news, his manner changed. Like an obedient, but bitter, child he left the podium not even taking advantage of the few minutes time remaining.
The conference was of a scientific nature and, in this context, Owens was out of place. He was speaking as a "psychic" to scientists who are by nature and profession skeptical of individual psychic claims beyond those which they have investigated or have been reported in the scholarly literature. To make matters worse, another psychic speaker preceded Owens on the podium--Susan Padfield, the wife of noted British
=== Page 89 of 103
PK Man
physicist Ted Bastin. Padfield, whose psychokinetic (PK) abilities had been extensively tested by Benson Herbert at the British Paraphysical Laboratory, spoke about "psychic support figures." She claimed that when she first started doing PK, she assumed that UFO intelligences were working through her. Since then she has come to realize that the powers were her own and that the notion of a UFO intelligence was a "psychic support figure" necessary only to satisfy her emotional needs and not to explain her PK abilities. She stated that other psychics who claimed to work with spirit guides, or saints or deities were also satisfying this same emotional need.
When Owens got up to speak, the cards were stacked against him. Even if people did accept the seemingly outlandish claim that he could cause large scale weather changes, they were not likely to accept the notion that he did so through the agency of UFOs. They were not likely to embrace his desire to use his talents in psychic warfare with the Soviet Union; and they were not likely to accept his claim that he was the supreme representative on earth of UFO intelligences. Either Owens was a liar or a madman, an evil magician or an egotistical maniac. Few people saw him as a human being struggling to communicate and share with other humans the methods by which he had cultivated powers so rare we think they are either nonexistent or demonic. Few people realized that Owens had travelled across the ocean--at Millie Miller's expense--in order to ask for help from the small group of individuals who might be able to appreciate his situation. Owens has been asking for scientific help for over a decade.
One researcher, Professor J. B. Hasted, had little difficult in imagining that Owens' claims were real. Hasted, who is Chairman of the Department of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has conducted laboratory tests with half a dozen individuals who have shown remarkable psychokinetic abilities to bend metal under controlled conditions. Hasted presented a paper at the Parascience Conference on his PK studies which have been continuing with success for two years.
4
=== Page 90 of 103
PK Man
Hasted's work with PK began when he and his colleagues tested Uri Geller at Birkbeck College. Before that he had shown no interest whatsoever in psychical research. Since then, however, he has shown an extraordinary talent in working with gifted subjects in the laboratory. Because of his communist sympathies, Hasted has rarely been allowed to present his research findings in the United States. Undoubtedly he would have taken more of a personal interest in working with Owens, had he not been horrified at Owens suggestion that someday his PK abilities would be needed by Western powers to use against the Soviet Union.
During one of the breaks in the scientific program, I took the opportunity to meet Owens personally and also to interview him for radio broadcast in America. While we were in the middle of this interview the conference organizers interrupted us to announce that one of the scheduled speakers had not shown up and that his time would now be made available to Owens to make up for the previous disruption of his talk. We walked together into the auditorium and, realizing Owens' precarious position at the conference, I volunteered to make a brief introductory statement regarding my knowledge of the San Francisco snowstorm demonstration. Perhaps this move on my part helped to increase Owens' credibility; however, again he was cut short when the scheduled speaker arrived late. Flustered, Owens left the lecture room amid a loud display of hissing and applause.
Later that day, Owens described to me how the SIs had taught him 150 different techniques for telepathic transmission and psychokinetic weather control. The most important of these, which he used every day, he claimed was a visualization of the "rainbow UFO." Coincidently I was at that moment wearing a pin with the image of a UFO in front of a rainbow. It was a gift to me and I had never paid much attention to its symbolism. Owens expressed a strong desire to have that pin and, after much reluctance, I finally parted with it. In exchange he later sent me a fancy Swiss watch with two dials on it which he claimed he had taken with him on his "Egyptian adventures." Since then Owens and I have enjoyed a good, albeit sometimes stormy,
5
=== Page 91 of 103
PK Man
working rapport.
I returned from London to San Francisco with my head full of ideas about Ted Owens. If he was real, he was undoubtedly the most powerful psychic in the history of paranormal research. And I had by then become aware that a fair amount of documentation existed to support Owens' story. During a subsequent visit to SRI International, I managed to obtain from Puthoff and Targ their accumulation of correspondence and documentation from Ted Owens: a stack of letters, affidavits, and newspaper clippings over six inches thick.
Much of this material seemed almost nonsensical to me. In his "Egyptian" file, Owens claimed to have established telepathic linkage with "Pyrcre" an occult creature that lived inside the great pyramid and was the source of its mystical powers. In another file, Owens claims to have communicated telepathically with the Loch Ness monster. Oddly enough in this file there were also signed statements and a newspaper clipping from Inverness, Scotland, testifying that a UFO had appeared over the town at the time Owens was staying there. The files also contained numerous letters from individuals who have received "SI disks" from Owens. These are poker chip sized pieces of plastic with Owens' SI insignia engraved on them. For years, Owens has sold them as good luck charms for a nominal price. Dozens of letters testified to miraculous healings, narrow escapes and other moments of fortune and grace bestowed upon disk recipients. The files also contain a few crank letters threatening Owens' life.
One item of interest in the files was an affidavit signed by Ed Busch of radio station WFAA in Dallas, Texas, dated May 7, 1974. The affidavit stated that after Owens had promised to produce freakish weather in the Texas area the following events occurred: an earthquake, high winds and tornadoes, record cold weather followed by a heat wave.
6
=== Page 92 of 103
PK Man
I spoke to Ed Busch on the telephone to confirm the affidavit. Busch acknowledged that all of the events did occur as stated in the affidavit--although he couldn't recall whether or not he had actually signed such a statement. What he did remember quite well were the events which preceeded Owens' Texas demonstration.
It seems that Owens had been publicly challenged by another "psychic" from Chicago, named Joe DeLouise, who felt that Owens' activities were giving the whole psychic field a bad name. He was convinced that Owens was a liar, or a criminal who should be punished. Ed Busch offered to help settle the dispute by arranging for Owens to take a lie detector test. The test results indicated that Owens was not telling the truth when he stated that he was in telepathic contact with UFO intelligences. It was after this experience that Owens offered to demonstrate his abilities directly for Busch in Texas.
Owens' own version of the lie detector test was that he failed the test because he was intimidated by the operator of the lie detector apparatus. Many of his anxieties had been triggered by his recollections of having been arrested in Texas years earlier for practicing medicine without a license. The "medicine" that Owens was engaged in at the time was hypnosis. Owens felt the lie detector test was invalid.
After reading through the files, I asked Owens about his apparent use of PK ability for harmful or destructive ends. There were many instances in the files which seemed to point to this. Football players were injured when Owens wanted their teams to lose. Businessmen who refused to play ball with Owens suffered losses. Ships sank, planes crashed, lightning struck and killed people--all after Owens predicted that he would cause these events. In one letter Owens remarked on the mysterious accidents which had killed several people who had "double-crossed" him.
Owens' response was quite simple. He claimed that the SIs would never allow him to use his abilities for evil or destructive purposes. His intention was never
7
=== Page 93 of 103
PK Man
harmful he maintained even though his PK demonstrations were sometimes hazardous. In many instances, Owens claimed that he had warned government officials of the possible harmful side effects of some of his demonstrations so that appropriate safeguards could be taken. But, sadly enough, he was never listened to. Owens stated that he deeply regretted the damage that he has inadvertently caused. The injuries to athletes were always minor, he claimed; enough to remove them from the game but not to seriously hurt them.
Owens felt that if a few innocent people were hurt during his demonstrations, it was regrettable; it was nevertheless essential for him to prove to scientists and to the world at large that he had these powers. The good that he could do would always outweigh the inadvertent harm that might be caused.
This logic is not uncommon. It justifies over 50,000 automobile deaths a year in the United States as well as a variety of other occupational hazards. Of course, it also justifies military activity and covert dirty tricks.
What seemed more insidious was the possibility that Owens was capable of injuring other human beings unconsciously, or perhaps in a fit of rage. Owens does, in fact, have a very temperamental personality. Fits of rage are not unknown to him.
Perhaps the SIs who work with Owens are his personification of dynamic forces within his unconscious mind, or even the larger collective unconscious in the Jungian sense. Owens does not claim that he can account for the behavior of the SIs. If they choose to punish a person or an institution, Owens states that there is nothing he can do to intervene, even though he has at times begged and prayed that they would cause no more harm. The issue is complicated by Owens' notion that he himself is half SI, because of the mysterious operation on his brain. One is never clear whether Owens' demonstrations are the results of his own PK abilities (after all he does call himself "PK Man") or if the SIs, if they exist, are creating these effects
8
=== Page 94 of 103
PK Man
through their own powers after Owens telepaths to them. Another possibility is that Owens is not involved causally with these events at all. Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist at the University of Wyoming at Laramie who has been studying the Owens case, prefers the hypothesis that he is simply precognizing the events which he claims to cause. The sceptic, of course, would suggest that Owens utilizes both a shrewd, logical understanding of events and the gullability of others who will believe him. To me, this hypothesis does not square with the evidence. Sceptics generally don't care to look at the actual evidence, since they are already convinced by their theories.
In Owens' eyes, it sometimes appears that the SIs take it upon themselves to punish people who maliciously or rudely block his work. In fact, sometimes it even appears as if the SIs attempt to extort financial support for Owens by the implied threat of such punishment. This, Owens claims, he has no control over.
For example, during the summer of 1977 Owens unexpectedly appeared in San Francisco. Owens wanted to tell people that he could end the drought in California, if he were invited to do so by the people or their government representatives.
The SIs had instructed him, he believed, to communicate this message through the newspapers and television media. So, like one of the Beverly hillbillies, he drove over to the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle with his family in a rented truck. Unfortunately, he never got past the guards in the lobby who simply asked him to leave. Of course, he was infuriated, and perhaps the SIs even moreso. In a fit of anger he wrote to his scientific correspondents that the SIs had declared war against the United States to retaliate for the awful way he had been received in San Francisco.
Owens predicted that there would be outbreaks of poltergeist activity and fires all over the state, as well as lightning attacks. Weeks later, when the State of California was ablaze with forest fires which set a record by burning over 400,000 acres, I was able to assuage my mind by asserting that this was the result of the drought and that anyone might have been able to predict it.
9
=== Page 95 of 103
PK Man
Certainly no government official would dare blame Mr. Ted Owens for setting over 1000 fires across the state by using either psychokinesis or UFO aid. In fact, no government official, journalist, or "responsible" scientist would even entertain the thought for more than thirty seconds.
When Owens wrote that the SIs were declaring a war, there was a record low amount of forest fires in California, despite the drought. People, recognizing the fire hazards, were simply being more careful in the woods. Normally most forest fires are caused by human carelessness, less than 20% are the result of lightning. However, last summer the forest fires in California mostly resulted from lightning. Lightning is Owens' PK specialty.
I have personally interviewed, over the telephone, the Philadelphia lawyer who signed an affidavit in 1967 stating that Owens had provided for him a remarkable demonstration of his ability to make lightning strike a target preselected by the lawyer within a few minutes after Owens pointed his finger at the target. The probability that this would happen by chance is less than one in a million according to researchers at SRI International who have been studying lightning. The logic of this incident very strongly suggests that Owens does, in fact, use psychokinesis.
If Owens or the SIs used PK control over lightning to cause the rash of fires in California in the summer of 1977, then we are faced with an ethical dilemma of considerable proportions. Were it not the result of psychokinesis, such an act would be criminal arson. But who is to blame? Although there is no real legal issue today, we might remember that there have been periods in our history when this would indeed have been a criminal issue. Certainly in a superstitious society, the laws against witchcraft created more problems than they solved. Apparently, however, our own age is still not sufficiently enlightened to nurture the talents that Owens and others seem to exhibit and to guide them in a positively healthy direction.
10
=== Page 96 of 103
PK Man
Owens takes credit for this damage--which he claims he greatly regrets. He suggests that the good that he could do, if people would only listen to his claims, would more than make up for the inadvertent destruction caused in getting people to believe him. Owens believes that he and the SIs have used all of the nondestructive means at their disposal to convince the people whose support he desires that his powers are real. Furthermore Owens maintains that the SI war against the United States is still continuing and will remain in effect until he, Ted Owens, is granted official recognition as the Ambassador to the United States from the Space Intelligences.
This sounds like madness, since Owens' behavior is severely lacking in political or social effectiveness and hardly fits our image of diplomatic dignity. A psychiatrist might label it the behavior of a paranoid, schizopathic personality. Such a diagnosis, however, must be tempered by a study of Owens' unusual psychic abilities as well as the social stigmas attached to these alleged abilities. Perhaps there is little justification for taking Owens at face value. However, there is no valid, scientific justification whatsoever for ignoring Owens. There are only justifications of disinclination and perhaps personal safety. If his claims regarding psychokinetic ability are true, continuation of a "head in the sand" attitude may result in continued destruction because of both Owens' rage and frustration and our inability to understand the safety factors surrounding these apparent powers. If his talent is primarily precognitive, the ball-game is less dangerous, and the scientific payoff is not reduced. I suspect that both types of psi are active in Owens and that, through intensive investigation of his case, we can learn to activate such abilities in many people with positive social support and social benefit. Perhaps we would do well to accord Owens the respect which he asks for.
=== Page 97 of 103
PK Man
As for the charge of madness, Owens has his own answer. He acknowledges that he is eccentric, but asks us whether any individual with his apparent talents might not be judged insane by his contemporaries. Owens acknowledges the many rough edges and signs of stress in his personality. While, at a deep level he is puzzled by his own abilities, his sense of braggadocio imbues him with mountains of occult rhetoric to hide his ignorance and fear of the powers within his mind. Nevertheless, through the complexities of his personality, he seems to have retained his rationality, as exemplified in the following statement in answer to my suggestion that he might be losing his sanity:
Let's look at that. If I were paranoid, as is implied, then I would have delusions of grandeur and persecution. All right. I have been poor; have remained poor; have never had any illusions of being grand, rich, or however you could define it. I do not identify with a king, Jesus, or anyone else. I have been, and am, Ted Owens--a human being with lots of faults and weaknesses, who has goofed all over the place at times. The only "grandeur" you could attach to me is that I claim to work with UFOs who can make lightning strike targets at times; UFOs who will appear at times when I say they will; UFOs that will change the weather; UFOs that can tear up military exercises; UFOs that can heal people, etc. Well, my documented files indicate surely that all of this has happened.
I have interviewed over a dozen individuals who have had interactions with Owens. In most cases these persons, with no vested interest of their own, have completely confirmed Owens' accounts of various events. In some cases, events were recalled similarly but the witnesses differed with Owens' interpretations. In a few minor instances, witnesses have recalled factual events differently than Owens. Sociologists would expect rational, sane people to disagree in similar circumstances. None of the people I interviewed from Owens' past, who knew his character, thought that he would deliberately falsify information.
Owens is a very human person with very human faults. He incessantly smokes cigars; he has not given up drinking although he has stated that the SIs would like him to do so. He is temperamental and irascible, rough and hardy.
12
=== Page 98 of 103
PK Man
Owens has an ego and a temper, much like some members of my own family or faculty. My conversations with him vary from moments of great clarity and affinity to moments where I lose all trust completely. My mind explores the notions that Owens is a con man trying to use me, that he is a madman, that he is dangerous, that he is immature and irresponsible. Whether he is these things, I am learning, is as much my decision as it is his. He is very quick and responds instantly to my labels. One might well think of Owens as an "ordinary man in extraordinary situation." We have had our arguments; and our differences have been heated ones. He has been as much a gentleman as I have been with him and my politeness has been strained at times. He has been honest with me as far as I have been able to determine. And Owens has always treated me with respect. He is willing to learn from others, to communicate frankly, to anguish with some authentic awareness of his existential dilemma. He asks that we accept him.
Ted Owens' activities and our responses to him are most aptly described by the fictional Lacombe in *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* as an "event sociological." If we are looking for insanity, we must look at the behavior of many people, not just Owens himself.
My own background as a conscientious objector provides something of a contrast to Owens love for fighting. One incident has occurred which brought my pacifism into direct conflict with Owens' fiery temperament.
Over the years, many people have suggested to Owens that he provide some sort of simple laboratory demonstration of his abilities. To a scientist, it is much more impressive for Owens to create a psychokinetic effect under controlled conditions in a laboratory, such a moving a small object in a sealed container, than all of his large scale weather demonstrations.
=== Page 99 of 103
PK Man
To these requests Owens' response has been that such experiments would be too trifling for his powers. Back in the mid-1940s when he was at Duke University he provided some small scale demonstrations. Since then, Owens claims that the SIs have expanded his abilities in a manner such that it is now easier for him to control the weather over thousands of square miles than it is to effect the fall of dice in a laboratory test.
Nevertheless, the pressure continues for Owens to repeat such small scale tests on demand.
One day, in January of 1978, I received a phone call from Owens who urgently insisted that I contact some of the individuals who might have witnessed his demonstrations at Duke University over thirty years ago. He felt that it would be important to have their testimony on the record for historical reasons and, I suspect, also to help him deal with the continual pressure to engage in further experiments of a trivial nature.
I telephoned several researchers (who wish to remain unnamed) who remembered Owens from that time period. They all emphasized very strongly to me the arguments which they had had with Owens about the scientific necessity to institute experimental controls for all possible alternative explanations to psychokinesis before assuming that it did in fact occur. They felt Owens was too quick to interpret events as examples of psychokinesis. While they suspected that Owens did have psychokinetic ability, they all emphasized that they had never personally observed any extraordinary PK phenomena around Owens under controlled conditions.
I have no reason to doubt either the memory or the integrity of those researchers. They all remembered Owens quite well and spoke of the fondness which they had for him. They were aware to some extent of his subsequent career as "PK Man," and one researcher told me, "It seems as if Ted takes himself a little too seriously."
14
=== Page 100 of 103
PK Man
Nothing could have been closer to the truth. Owens went into a rage after he pried the information from me that the individuals in question would not authenticate the story that he had psychokinetically caused an object to levitate. (Some remembered the incident, but were unimpressed with the experimental controls; others didn't even recall the incident.) His anger at that moment was as heated as it had ever been. I imagine that he had been drinking as well. We did not spend much time on the telephone.
Minutes later, Owens phoned back again to announce that he had just received a communication from the SIs. They were angry, he claimed, at the pettiness of the researchers who would not support his story. These researchers would have to be taught a lesson and so, to make their point, the SIs were going to cause airplane crashes on the East Coast.
I became furious with Owens and lost my temper myself. Even if the alleged levitation incident occurred exactly as he had stated, I told him that the SIs were not justified in causing any harm to humans to retaliate for the fact that some scientists remembered an event differently after thirty years. I was well aware of the pressure on parapsychological researchers to make public statements only about the most foolproof of cases--and then to suffer the sarcasm of clever skeptics who draw innuendos of fraud and carelessness with a literary vengeance. Owens and the SIs might be fighting for the truth; I'm convinced that Owens believed that he was. But, in the most forceful terms, I told him that there was something more important than truth!
My statement caught Owens off guard. His anger subsided and he asked me what I meant. When I answered very simply that compassion and love were more important than truth, Owens quietly mumbled that he wished he had a blond in bed with him that night. And I agreed, I wished that he did also. The conversation ended there. He hung up on me.
15
=== Page 101 of 103
PK Man
Frankly, I didn't know what to make of things. My mind was working overtime wondering how I had ever gotten involved with Owens and trying to compute scenarios. I knew I would feel terribly guilty if there were any plane crashes, just on the chance that Owens' abilities were real and that my interaction with him triggered such destruction.
I had given Owens and the SIs a choice. If they decided to teach a lesson to those researchers from the past, they would lose one researcher in the present who was very actively on the case. For I was clear that no matter how valuable the scientific payoff, I was not about to continue to cooperate with such destructive forces.
I was also relishing the strength I had found within myself to confront Owens during one of his bad moods. It reminded me of Captain Kirk's most dramatic scenes in Star Trek where he forcefully persuades powerful aliens to abandon their destructive intentions towards humans. Somewhere within me I was certain I had reached Owens and that he would abandon this foolish notion to cause airplane crashes.
It's clear to me that on this occasion and many others, Owens has set himself up in a position where he cannot win. If the airplanes did crash, people would have strong emotional needs not to believe that he caused it; and if they did believe, they could only feel repugnance toward him. If airplanes failed to crash, Owens would still look like a fool.
The next day, Owens called again and apologised to me for losing his temper. There really had never been a danger, he claimed, because the SIs would never have allowed him to cause such destruction even though he had wanted to. I was puzzled because on the previous day he had told me that it was the SIs, and not he, who were going to cause all the crashes. In fact, he said that he himself didn't desire it at all.
When I confronted him on this discrepancy, he reminded me of the operation on his brain and the notion that he is himself half alien. The matter ended in that confusion which I have still not been able to resolve to my satisfaction. I have no
16
=== Page 102 of 103
PK Man
idea to what extent the SIs exist outside of Owens' imagination. I am simply comfortable in knowing--even if the SIs are at war with the United States--that I seem to be able to work with Owens without my actions endangering myself or other people.
My position has been to allow a deep sympathy for Owens' situation to emerge. I have encountered his world view and I have survived so far. My sympathy for his predicament is occasionally almost overwhelming and at times my antipathy is almost overwhelming.
I might never have compiled this report if it were not for an apparent outbreak of poltergeist activity surrounding the Owens files which were then in the possession of one of my assistants, Joe D'Ambria. While I was busy with other research, D'Ambria was organizing the Owens material. For a two week period in late October, 1977, Joe reported strange events in his own apartment.
Lights would go on and off by themselves; the stereo would go on and off in the middle of the night; strange footsteps were heard and doors would lock by themselves. One evening the box in which the Owens files were contained apparently moved by itself twelve feet across the room. For several evenings in a row, Joe took special care in placing papers inside the box in chronological order before he went to bed. He reported that on two occasions he awoke in the morning to find that the papers which he had organized were rearranged in totally random order.
In July of 1977, Owens had predicted an outbreak of poltergeist effects in California. Oddly enough, during the same time that Joe D'Ambria and his wife reported these incidents to me, several other acquaintances independently reported similar poltergeist stories. Owens himself reports constant poltergeist activity in his own home.
Owens claims that he desires to use his abilities to help the planet by improving the climate, and improving economic and political stability "in a thousand different
17
=== Page 103 of 103
PK Man
ways." If this is madness, I am for it. As a humanist, my intention is to direct Owens' apparent abilities in a positive direction--just in case he is for real. Perhaps Owens is a mad god mirroring the mental images of those with whom he interacts. As a scientist my intention in working with Owens is to continue the investigation. There are a thousand questions to be answered.
Owens himself is willing to explore his abilities in a positive way with individuals who treat him with professional respect. For over ten years he has expended his time and funds in order to document his talents for sympathetic scientists. During this time he has been largely ignored by the scientific community. He has lived under considerable social, economic and psychological stress. Perhaps he is simply too far ahead of his time. Or perhaps the scientific community is as much responsible for Owens' sad state of affairs as is Owens himself. Owens is asking for our attention and our help. He has now agreed to the possibility of engaging in controlled PK experiments. He is willing to stand on the evidence and explore its mysteries with scientists, scholars and concerned individuals.
Collection
Citation
“JM Notes & Studies,” Archive Home, accessed July 29, 2026, https://pkman.org/archive/items/show/764.