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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Ghast. Barbara DeLong has
Speaker 2: been a seeker of the mysteries of spirituality and a
Speaker 2: practitioner for more than a half a century of at
Speaker 2: least what she will admit to, and during the time
Speaker 2: she has become an international known podcasting host, author, artist, lecturer,
Speaker 2: ordained minister as well and documentarian. She painted the Cosmic
Speaker 2: Deck of Initiation, which is a handpaided deck of Mendela
Speaker 2: cards to be used for private divination and spiritual growth,
Speaker 2: and also wrote the handbook that goes with that deck.
Speaker 2: In this year, she co authored Before Roswell, The Secret
Speaker 2: History of UFOs with Ken Godswad. Her website is a
Speaker 2: teaching site combining personal information and a plethora a spiritual
Speaker 2: information and insight. Barbara, Welcome to the program. I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to this.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm looking forward to it too.
Speaker 2: What took you so long to write this book?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you something. Ken and I both did
Speaker 3: a lot of work on it, but mostly it was
Speaker 3: Patrick Hook's work that we worked from. And he was
Speaker 3: my late husband.
Speaker 2: Oh we missed him. He was a great guest on
Speaker 2: our program.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I sat up many hours with
Speaker 3: him while he was talking to you. What happened was
Speaker 3: when Patrick passed away, I couldn't keep my website and
Speaker 3: his website going. So I checked to make sure that
Speaker 3: everything from his website was in any of his three books,
Speaker 3: and the only two sections that were not I put
Speaker 3: onto my website the UFO section and the Giant section.
Speaker 3: And Ken was writing a book about before Roswell and
Speaker 3: he stumbled across my website and it was goose heaven
Speaker 3: for him, and so he called and asked if he
Speaker 3: could use the material, and I said, sure, go ahead,
Speaker 3: and then he called back and said, why don't we
Speaker 3: do it together, And so we did, and a lot
Speaker 3: of the material that is in the book is material
Speaker 3: that Patrick had gathered. So it was it was really
Speaker 3: a lot of fun for me, and both Ken and
Speaker 3: I added material to it, and it came together so
Speaker 3: rapidly and so beautifully. It was an exciting adventure and
Speaker 3: took me back to my roots because I got started
Speaker 3: into this field because I saw UFO and it landed
Speaker 3: on my campus when I was in college in the sixties,
Speaker 3: and so it was kind of going back to source
Speaker 3: for me and returning to a field that I've been
Speaker 3: fascinated in for obviously decades.
Speaker 2: Now, how far back do you go back investigating past
Speaker 2: UFO cases?
Speaker 3: Well, actually, I think that the last date that we
Speaker 3: have in the book is two hundred and seventy thousand
Speaker 3: years BCE.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Obviously obviously it was not printed material, but it was
Speaker 3: in the Samerian Kings List, and in the Samerian Kings List,
Speaker 3: their kings reigned in the sky, so they had to
Speaker 3: fly into the sky to ring and you go.
Speaker 2: All the way back up to a year before the
Speaker 2: Roswell episode.
Speaker 3: No to Roswell's fantastic Yeah, it was. It was. It
Speaker 3: was an amazing adventure to me because I was there
Speaker 3: are over three hundred instances that we have we have identified,
Speaker 3: but it was. It is a It is a wonderful
Speaker 3: book because it's all peaceful and it's calm, and it
Speaker 3: does show the difference between how UFO sightings were treated
Speaker 3: and how people reacted to them before Roswell and then
Speaker 3: after Roswell, how fear started to come in and conspiracy
Speaker 3: and concealing and hiding information. So that so that there
Speaker 3: is there is an amazing shift in public perception and
Speaker 3: how the government treats it.
Speaker 2: What do you think the moment was for that, Barber,
Speaker 2: Was it Roswell or was it a little before that?
Speaker 3: It was probably before that, because certainly there were crushed
Speaker 3: UFOs that Russia had and Germany had and we had,
Speaker 3: but it brought it into public public knowledge, you know,
Speaker 3: and it was sort of like, these were physical things
Speaker 3: that we've seen in the sky and we really didn't
Speaker 3: know what they were, but they were, isn't it cool?
Speaker 3: Let's sit and watch them. And then after that it
Speaker 3: and you know, the movies and everything else started to
Speaker 3: demonize the UFOs. And to be perfectly honest, I truly
Speaker 3: believe that the UFOs were here before we were. So
Speaker 3: in a way, we are the invaders and we are
Speaker 3: the aliens, and so I get very upset when people
Speaker 3: take a negative attitude towards them, because the governments have,
Speaker 3: well our government anyhow in our country, has made it
Speaker 3: into something to fear. And if it were anything to fear,
Speaker 3: we would have been fearing it a long time ago.
Speaker 2: I think you're absolutely right. And now, what is your
Speaker 2: personal perception your personal views? I'm sure you have them
Speaker 2: by now I'm just what these things are.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that they were and actually are now
Speaker 3: well right now in the sky. You don't know who
Speaker 3: owns what. They don't have name tags on everybody's got,
Speaker 3: you know, vehicles that they're trying to fly the same
Speaker 3: way that the uf of fly. In my personal belief system,
Speaker 3: they were originally, for the most part, drones that were
Speaker 3: being sent to check out the planet, and after the
Speaker 3: Rendallsham Forest incident, I truly believe that some of them
Speaker 3: have traveled are time travelers, you know, just checking us
Speaker 3: out and seeing what we're doing and how we're doing so.
Speaker 3: I and as far as aliens go, I don't think
Speaker 3: anybody is an alien. We all come from the same source,
Speaker 3: and I think calling humanity and every living thing around
Speaker 3: the family of man is inappropriate. We are the children
Speaker 3: of creation.
Speaker 2: Are you a believer in God? Barbara?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, there is a There is absolutely a source of creation. Yes.
Speaker 2: And I would guess the beans, the et Beans are
Speaker 2: looking for that same thing we are, aren't they?
Speaker 3: I would absolutely, yeah, Oh, totally agree. I think that
Speaker 3: thing is everybody's religions have become so corporate, corporately oriented
Speaker 3: that they've taken the spiritual essence away and they've created
Speaker 3: a you know, an old man in the sky, and
Speaker 3: that's not true. God is not a person.
Speaker 2: Oh, I agree with that. Let's go through some of
Speaker 2: these UFO cases after roswell to just buzz through them
Speaker 2: really quickly. Operation paper Clip. Tell us more about that.
Speaker 3: Operation paper Clip. Were the people that that came after
Speaker 3: the after the after the war.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, let me check after World War two?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there have been a lot of them,
Speaker 3: haven't there be too many? Paper Clip? Were the people
Speaker 3: that that we quote unquote rescued and brought over to
Speaker 3: this country, and uh, they're the ones that helped to
Speaker 3: develop the animal bomb.
Speaker 2: In some of the cases that we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about tonight, people have never heard them before. This will
Speaker 2: be our first time. You said that Fdr Franklin Delano
Speaker 2: Roosevelt wrote some kind of top secret memo.
Speaker 3: What was that about, Well, he was talking. It was
Speaker 3: a special It was to the Special Committee on Non
Speaker 3: Terrestrial Science and Technology, obviously saying that there were no
Speaker 3: terrestrials out there, and you know, sort of trying to
Speaker 3: come to grips with the reality that our planet is
Speaker 3: not the only one harboring intelligence life.
Speaker 2: Being so, and that was in nineteen forty four. Yeah, amazing. Now,
Speaker 2: back in forty two, we've heard the story of the
Speaker 2: Battle of Los Angeles that we were shooting at something
Speaker 2: because people could hear pings when the missiles or bullets
Speaker 2: or whatever we were blasting away at it or hitting
Speaker 2: these things, but nothing happened, actually didn't.
Speaker 3: Actually hit them along. Well, many years ago, Patrick and
Speaker 3: I had a man who had actually been at the
Speaker 3: Battle of Los Angeles. He's been a child, and he
Speaker 3: watched the whole thing from his bedroom window and he
Speaker 3: said that he was watching it and while the planes
Speaker 3: and the batteries on shore were shooting at it, they
Speaker 3: exploded before they actually hit the ship, and the shrapnel
Speaker 3: came down and there were there was collateral damage, and
Speaker 3: people were hurt, and I believe there were even a
Speaker 3: few casualties. That it was the shrapnel from our armaments
Speaker 3: that were coming down and hurting people. And the next
Speaker 3: day he and his friends all went out to the
Speaker 3: beach and collected the shrapnel for the army, and they
Speaker 3: got paid for every piece of shrapnel they brought back.
Speaker 2: That was amazing. That was nineteen forty two, where a
Speaker 2: lot of people thought that Japanese might have been doing something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they thought. I thought initially that it was incoming
Speaker 3: Japanese fighters and it was It was just, you know,
Speaker 3: one one large ship from what this man you know
Speaker 3: told us about, and it moved very slowly up the coast.
Speaker 3: It wasn't bothering anybody. It was very reminiscent of Phoenix Flights,
Speaker 3: the ship that moved up California's coast that link had
Speaker 3: hide it such as.
Speaker 2: Seven episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very reminiscent of that.
Speaker 2: Lots of pilots during World War Two saw what they
Speaker 2: thought were food fighters, little tiny discs flying all over
Speaker 2: the place. You investigated that.
Speaker 3: Well, everybody investigated it. We thought it was Japanese or
Speaker 3: the Russians through the Germans and they thought it was us.
Speaker 3: And when they finally compared notes, they found out that
Speaker 3: it wasn't either.
Speaker 2: Wow. I've got a whole list of these episodes. I'm
Speaker 2: going to skip a few of them for time purposes.
Speaker 2: But in nineteen seventeen, you say that there was a
Speaker 2: human that's shot down at UFO. Tell us about that.
Speaker 3: That's one of my favorite favorite. That's the one thing
Speaker 3: in the book that I swear is going to someday.
Speaker 1: Be a.
Speaker 3: Question on a quiz show someplace. Was it was let's see, way,
Speaker 3: I want to get it right here. It was nineteen
Speaker 3: twenty seven, and it was nineteen.
Speaker 2: I was nineteen seventeen.
Speaker 3: Seventeen seventeen, sorry, and it was Baron Manfred von Rickefon
Speaker 3: is German.
Speaker 2: The German pilot, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was known as the Red Baron and
Speaker 3: he it shot down eighty enemy planes for the Germans
Speaker 3: during World War One. He's the first human in history
Speaker 3: to gun down an alien spaceship. And what's fascinating is
Speaker 3: that there was another pilot who saw the same thing,
Speaker 3: and you know, they reported it. He immediately shot it down.
Speaker 3: It crashed by the woods, and two pilots got out
Speaker 3: and ran into the woods. They were never seen again.
Speaker 3: And you know, they reported it, and nobody said anything
Speaker 3: or did anything. They were probably told to keep quiet,
Speaker 3: and they thought that perhaps it might have been some
Speaker 3: military reconnaissance of some sort by the US, but obviously
Speaker 3: it wasn't. And that's one of the things that he
Speaker 3: is very famous for and yet never given credit for.
Speaker 2: No, that's a story that's kind of been buried. Another
Speaker 2: story in nineteen seventeen is something I've talked about quite often, Barbara,
Speaker 2: and that is the Fatima in Portugal, the apparitions of
Speaker 2: the blessed Virgin Mary. But everybody says that the sun
Speaker 2: came down, and I've always said it was a UFO
Speaker 2: that they saw.
Speaker 3: Yep, I do believe it was. And there were there
Speaker 3: were fifty two one hundred thousand people there and it
Speaker 3: was raining apparently when all of this happened, and you
Speaker 3: know reporters and all it was. It was a large
Speaker 3: silver object and they also had the they called them
Speaker 3: the flowers or snow, unusual snow. But it sounded like
Speaker 3: it was very much like other things that have happened
Speaker 3: as far as things dropping from the sky, and it's
Speaker 3: similar to angel hair that is known to be present
Speaker 3: at a lot of UFO cases. And it was just
Speaker 3: it was amazing, how the fact, I truly believe you're right.
Speaker 3: I think it was a UFO. And yet when you
Speaker 3: get to the to the sighting and everything, it was
Speaker 3: pouring rain and then it stopped running and everybody was dry.
Speaker 3: So there was something very mystical and magical happening there.
Speaker 3: And you know, was it the blessed Mother? Was it
Speaker 3: an eggrigor that everybody expected to see the blessed Mother?
Speaker 3: And so that's what they what they manifested. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think in cases like this the element of an
Speaker 3: eggregre has to be considered as well.
Speaker 2: In nineteen fifteen, a case I had never heard about
Speaker 2: before until I saw your book. In Turkey, a regiment
Speaker 2: of British Army members eight hundred men simply disappeared. Where
Speaker 2: did they go?
Speaker 3: Well, now there was a fog. There was a strange fog,
Speaker 3: and they were attempting to take a hill at Seo
Speaker 3: through Via Bay near Gllipoli. There were twenty two witnesses.
Speaker 3: The regiment of over eight hundred men marched into a
Speaker 3: strange fog of clouds hovering over the hill, and they
Speaker 3: were never seen again. And you know, the British thought
Speaker 3: that they were had been taken prisoner, and the Turks
Speaker 3: just denied any knowledge of the existence at all, and
Speaker 3: no sign of the regiment has ever been had eight hundred.
Speaker 2: Men, I mean, I know you were not talking about
Speaker 2: a handful of guys that disappear. Eight hundred My god,
Speaker 2: I want to know.
Speaker 3: Who the twenty two were.
Speaker 2: That didn't go the smart ones. Yeah, obviously, what's your
Speaker 2: best guess on that one, Barbara, what a story.
Speaker 3: I think the fog opened a portal to another dimension
Speaker 3: and they marched into another dimension.
Speaker 2: Now that's interesting, like they walked through a portal or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was a portal and they could.
Speaker 2: Never find their way back.
Speaker 3: Well, I think they walked into another dimension that had
Speaker 3: a physical reality similar to ours. They probably were. I
Speaker 3: think they went into a dimension that was very similar
Speaker 3: to the earthplane right now, almost like on another timeline, almost,
Speaker 3: And I think that's what happened. I don't think they
Speaker 3: were taken into a ship and lift off someplace. I
Speaker 3: think they became inter dimensional.
Speaker 2: The late Jim Mars talks about the eighteen ninety seven Aurora,
Speaker 2: Texas UFO crash. That was a fascinating one.
Speaker 3: Well, the part of it that I loved so much
Speaker 3: was the fact that when the ship crashed, I hope
Speaker 3: we're talking about the same one.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we are.
Speaker 3: When the ship crashed and burned, the people in the
Speaker 3: town went out to check it out and they found
Speaker 3: once one body, and it was a very small person,
Speaker 3: and they took care of him. They collected him and
Speaker 3: they put him in a coffin, and they buried him
Speaker 3: and they had a funeral. And our report comes from
Speaker 3: a newspaper article of a woman who was a teenager
Speaker 3: at the time. She didn't see the crash. Her mother
Speaker 3: didn't let her see the crash, but her mother let
Speaker 3: her go to the funeral for the for the for
Speaker 3: the pilot. And I was so touched by that that
Speaker 3: it was amazing. And then many many years later, the
Speaker 3: government she was then, let's say she was a ninety
Speaker 3: year old woman in seventy three, and the government wanted
Speaker 3: to exhume the body, and the townspeople would not release
Speaker 3: the the location of it because they wanted him to
Speaker 3: rest in peace.
Speaker 2: I wonder where it is right now. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Oh, I think it's still there. I don't think they'll
Speaker 3: let anybody touch it. They you know, the people have
Speaker 3: been very protective of it for this long. I can't
Speaker 3: see them giving up the location.
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