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The Giants Return
In November, 1994 I sent a summary of the UFO landings and giant sightings between April-July 1993 to the television show Sightings. By January, a Sightings crew was in place to record the incidents.
As if the visitors knew about my plans, they returned after a long hiatus, just in time for Sightings to film some of the most convincing evidence of giants ever recorded.
In late December, Yossi Torner photographed a huge, round, orange UFO hovering over Haifa, which was reproduced in the large circulation newspaper, Yediot Ahronot. I called him to try and receive the original print and he informed me, "Yediot returned my whole roll of film but said they lost the negative of the UFO. I think they're lying and it was confiscated from me."
A week later, on the first Tuesday of 1995, Israel had an incident that must be included amongst the most powerful encounters of any nation.
Herzl Consatini, the security chief of the village of Yatzitz, ten miles east of Rishon Letzion, heard an explosion which shook his friend Danny Ezra's house. He opened the front door to investigate and was confronted with, "a giant, three meters tall, wearing grey foily clothes. His face was hidden from view by an electronic-looking mist."
Terrified, he slammed the door and told Ezra to look through his curtains. He took one glance and fainted. Herzl called the police, who were reluctant to believe him but nonetheless, arrived within twenty minutes. They found deep, mysterious tracks outside Ezra's house. Thinking that terrorists had infiltrated the village, dozens of army trackers and snipers were called in. The found 8.5 kilometers of totally unexplainable tracks. The tracks were made by shoes which dug 35 cm. into the hard soil at the sole, and between 5 and 10 at the heel. Later testing of the ground by the police suggested that the creature had to have weighed over a ton to make such deep tracks.
The tracks were made in twos but occasionally, a third round mark appeared between them. I guessed this was a walking stick of some kind.
Sometimes the tracks were like a human gait, then there would be a twelve foot gap before the tracks began again. At times, the creature which made them, must have jumped or floated enormous distances.
The tracks led army trackers to the village of Karmei Yosef, which had been the center of UFO activity the year before. There, unidentified red lights hovered above the village and one villager claimed the lights sent a blue beam at her through her bedroom window. The trackers could make no guess at who or what made the prints in the ground, so the police called in the head of the regional office of the Nature Reserves Authority, who originally disclosed that the tracks were made by a camel. When it was revealed that the camel would have had to have been two-legged and wearing boots, he next guessed an antelope made the tracks. A flying antelope, it was noted. Finally, he admitted to Yediot Ahronot, "The tracks may well have been made by giants from outer space."
I travelled to Yatzitz four days later and was joined by several dozen curiosity seekers. More than 10,000 Israelis would eventually arrive to see the giant tracks. I met Danny Ezra first and can only say, he seemed in a daze still. He was not forthcoming about his experience. Herzl Consantini was enjoying his new fame (that, too would end) and showed me his medical certificates. He was rushed to hospital the evening after his encounter with one gonad blown up "like a balloon." The doctor who signed the report wrote that the cause of the affliction was unknown but heavy doses of antibiotics brought down the swelling.
Herzl agreed to be filmed by Sightings and two young boys who had overheard the conversation told me they had something interesting to tell as well. The night after the incident, they had filmed a UFO over the village. The boys, Coby (13) and Itamar (11) Saadon filmed a white object, shaped like a child's spinning top darting like a moth in the sky. In the background, the family dog was barking wildly and the boys' mother told me, "You should see what's around his doghouse."
We walked outside and saw a burnt circle of six ft. diameter around the dog's pen. A foam cushion within was melted by the heat yet there were no charcoals or anything hinting at fuel to be seen. "The dog has been terrified ever since," Coby explained.
Next to make headlines was the Gueta animal mutilations of Moshav Porat, two miles from Kadima. Rachel Gueta awoke and found her dog whining. Its eyes had been removed bloodlessly. Twenty minutes later it died. She proceeded to the sheep pen and saw all three sheep dead. Their cheeks had been shaved and a 2 cm hole drilled through the bone. All blood had been drained and the animals would not rot, even five months after being thrown in the local dump. Next she went to her chicken coop and found all 35 birds frozen dead in their roosts. There had been no panic among them at the time of death. Outside the coop was a 4.5 meter crop circle, typical of the Kadima wave of 1993.
I phoned my producer at Sightings and told her the stories. She told me later she didn't believe me and there were discussions about cancelling the filming because of my unreliability. My faxing her newspaper reports of the one ton Yatzitz giant saved the project.
And to this day, I think the aliens decided to help me out. After the Sightings crew began its filming, those otherworld forces provided us with almost live action.
On January 14, we visited Hanna Somech in Burgata. We were preceded by two days by a far more dramatic visitor. Hanna's daughter "felt" the presence of a giant watching over her bed and she ran the 100 yards from her house to her mother's where, "I held my mother's hands all night."
The next morning they saw the circles from Hannah's house to her daughter's bedroom window. And so did we, two days later. I counted 18 circles big and small in the dark. Undoubtedly I missed some. There were counter-clockwise circles on the grass, in bushes and on high treetops. To cause a fraud, the trickster would have had to have hovered over twenty foot trees with a counter-rotating giant fan. The Sightings crew, incidentally, all skeptics about UFOs, grasped quickly enough that something as unexplainable as Yatzitz had occurred in Burgata.
Hanna related her encounter of June 1993 when she told a giant off for making her dog fly in the air and hurting it. (see Chapter Three). She told the interviewer that there was another incident when she had seen a craft floating outside her door. She related being called to "in my head" by name at different times. But perhaps most significant of all, she admitted that 25 years before she had been pregnant and the fetus disappeared with no medical explanation. She provided the name of the doctor who attended her and offered to present written documentation. She now believes the lost pregnancy was related to the current visitations. (Batya Shimon of Rishon Letzion became pregnant after her July '93 encounter with a dozen giants. "There is no way it could have happened naturally," she insisted.
On January 15, the giants or whoever or whatever again decided to help the Sightings project. A UFO was spotted over Kadima and in the morning a monster 18 meter circle was found. When we arrived, it was literally still warm. We put our hands within and they were covered in the red oil found during the 1993 wave. As usual silicon was discovered and it later tested 99.35% pure by the University of Manchester (England) Materials Science laboratory. All the evidence of 1993 was presented just when the film crew needed it most. And when the filming ended, so did the incidents at Kadima for many months.
Israeli ufologist Zvi Bighest photographed the filming at the circle and when he developed the film later that day, something emerged that seemed to defy logic. In the background of the circle are two "beings" seemingly watching the humans examine their landing mark.
None of us remembered the objects being there. But Doron Rotem noted that tractors were in the area and might have been passing by. The photos were examined, enlarged and published in numerous magazines including Fate, Magazine 2000 and UFO Universe. In each case, the editors ruled out any tractor shape and agreed that whatever they were, the two figures matched the bald, round-faced giants described by the witnesses. The giants had returned. And this time they chose to leave no doubt about their presence. They left miles of impossible boot tracks in hard mud, they swirled circles in tall trees, they produced a huge, hard-to-miss landing circle and they may have allowed themselves to be photographed.
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Giants Encountered In Israel
Dec. 8, 1994
Two weeks ago, I sent the manuscript of my book on recent Israeli UFO incidents, along with photographic and physical evidence, to Paramount Studios in Hollywood, where the *Sightings* programme is produced.
Today I received a call from the show's producer hiring me to arrange a few days shooting for the programme beginning January 11.
December 22, 1994
A Haifa resident, Yossi Torner, took a photograph of a large UFO over the city, and it appeared in the country's biggest circulation news-paper, *Yediot Ahronot*. The newspaper refused to return the negative claiming it had been lost. All other shots on the film are returned.
*First week of January, 1995*. Tuesday and Saturday – After a lull of a year and a half, the aliens return to Israel. *In 1993, strange giants over seven feet tall were seen and spoken to by four professional women in their late 30s, three in the area of Kadima, forty miles north of Tel Aviv, and one in Rishon Letzion, twenty miles south of the city.*
On Tuesday evening at 8.30, two male residents of Yatzitz, a farm village ten miles east of Rishon Letzion, are terrified to see a giant outside the home of Herzl Casatini, the area security chief. *Casatini describes the creature as nine feet tall,* wearing shiny metallic clothing, its face obscured by a strange misty glow. He notifies the police who arrive and find peculiar tracks outside his window. Fearing a terrorist incursion, dozens of army and security personnel are called in to investigate. They trace the tracks of two separate creatures for eight kilometres to the village of Karmei Yosef, which had been the scene of a week of UFO activity the year before. *The tracks sank 35cm into the hard ground, and estimates of the weight of whatever made them are in the range of a ton. The tracks are of shoes but the walker stepped on his soles, in tippy toe fashion. The heel sinks only 5cm.
Investigators jumping on the ground can only make tracks of a few millimetres in depth. The tracks reveal a gait of from a few feet up to twelve feet, meaning the beings occasionally literally floated between steps. Casatini becomes very ill the next day with an enlarged gonad. Doctors have no explanation for his condition.*
At 6.am on Saturday morning, Memuneh Guata, a fortyish resident of the farm village of Porat, three miles from Kadima, awoke to feed her animals. She ventured into the eerie silence to find carnage. Her dog breathed its last breath in her arms. Its eyes had been surgically removed without blood. Her thirty-five chickens were dead, literally frozen in their place. Her three sheep were dead, with perfectly round holes drilled in their cheeks. By May, they had still not rotted in the village dump, and were in a mummified state.
Jan. 11 1995
Sightings* cameraman Phil Lapkin arrives. His first two days are spent filming witnesses to the Haifa (Shikmona Beach) and Kadima landings. On the evening of his second day, a UFO is witnessed in Kadima by an American new immigrant and his son. Local researchers found the landing site in the morning and we arrive. The circle is huge, eighteen metres in diameter, and it still smells acrid. When we put our hands in the crushed grass they are coated with the red fluid we assume is the same cadmium-based oil left in the Kadima circles of 1993. Also found were the shards of shiny material previously tested by the Israeli Geological Institute and found to be pure silicon. Some shards weigh over a pound. Ufologist Zvi Bighest photographs the area.
He develops the shots and from a distance bald, round-faced creatures appear in five of them. They appear to be observing us. Lapkin takes the photos back to America and we are still eagerly awaiting analysis.
We all agree the images are hard to explain but are they really invisible aliens?
Jan. 15, 1995
We visit Hanna Samech, a witness, at her home in Burgata, two miles from Kadima. In June 1993, she saw her barking dog fly in the air and smash against her kitchen wall. She went outside to investigate but was prevented by an invisible shield. She then saw the giant alien and demanded to know what he did with her dog. He smiled wryly and replied that he could do the same thing to her if he wanted to but simply didn't feel like it. The alien's ship left a 4.5 metre circle with the red oil within.
Hanna's married daughter lives in a neighbouring home fifty yards away. Three days before, the aliens visited her. There are circles about a metre in diameter from Hanna's front door to her daughter's bedroom window. I count eighteen of them. Whatever made the circles was a powerful force that crushed bushes and small trees. The alien stood over the daughter's bed and held her hand. Hanna claims on camera that the aliens have been visiting her for years and that when she was twenty-five, they removed her baby from her womb. She also stated that she is called by name telepathically from time to time.
February, 1995
The *Sightings* staff inform me that the material is so strong that a decision has been made to broadcast four segments instead of the in-tended two. Two video-tapes of UFOs had been verified as real, the oily grass within the Kadima circles had "conformed in molecular structure with circles found worldwide" and the silvery shards were indeed silicon-based but "with some very unusual characteristics."
March, 1995
Two giants are witnessed again. In Afula, twenty miles east of Kadima, four astonished young women watched an oversized hairy bouncing head in their apartment garden for twenty minutes before the appearance of a seven foot giant in the adjacent parking lot sent them scurrying in terror. All witnesses felt the giant was female. A week later a giant male was sighted by a young woman near Ramat Hasharon not far from Tel Aviv. Plaster casts taken at the site showed a similar track to that of the Yatzitz visitors.
On a Tuesday evening in mid-March, the popular national tele-vision programme, the *Ruby Show*, devoted an hour to the wave of sightings and strange occurrences. I was invited as a guest along with Casatini, Guata, Batya Shimon, who had two visitations in Rishon Letzion, and Jonathan G., the American immigrant who witnessed the January Kadima UFO. He brought a document with him from the Israeli Atomic Research Laboratory. Technicians there tested the shards and discovered them to be different from those of 1993. They were found to be 75.6% silicon but significant traces of a wide variety of elements including barium, rhodium, titanium, iron and aluminium(aluminum) were found. Batya informed me that the aliens still call to her by name telepathically.
*The show was something of a set-up, with three debunkers as guests. Nevertheless, in my opinion, the sincerity of the witnesses wins the day. I explain that unless fifteen people who didn't know each other yet described seeing the same type of giant formed a conspiracy, there were, in fact, giants roaming Israel. I added that reports of giants in Israel were last made in the time of King David and that the biblical giants were the enemies of G-d and Israel. I noted that the re-appearance of giants is not necessarily a reason to celebrate.*
The show was supposed to have been broadcast two weeks later. But, two months later, the show has still not been seen. I phone every week to find out why, and am told that it will be shown the next week. It never is and I'm beginning to become suspicious.
It is clear to me, as it is to all other Israeli ufologists, as it is to the producers of *Sightings*, that Israel is the scene of intense UFO activity, and the giants of the ships are leaving clues including the shards, oils and tracks as well as permitting themselves to be photographed and seen.
*Of the fifteen people who have seen the giants, thirteen have been women and all contactees have been married women. No one has been hurt by the giants except Herzl Casatini and it is likely he was not meant to be a witness. Nonetheless, the behaviour of the tall visitors has been far from friendly and the goodness of their purpose is till in great doubt.
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Return of the Giants
The respected American UFO abduction researcher Derrel Sims arrived in Israel in mid-January for five days of intensive work. His primary goal was to thoroughly test a Netanya household over three days but by the end of his trip, Sims also examined another abductee, Yossi Saguy.
Spirits Roam a Netanya Apartment
On Dec. 31 at 7:55 PM, Shoshana Bar-on, a fortiesh mother and grandmother, was returning home from Tel Aviv by car with her live-in boyfriend Ilan Cohen. Both spotted an orange/red disk flying over the seaside cliffs of Netanya. Ilan stopped his car and both chased the object. They saw it break into three parts; one part further split into dozens of glowing plates which fell on the beach below.
Shoshana bent over the cliff and saw four typical small greys on the ledge below. She called Ilan over to look but he could not see the entities. She stood up and saw a nine foot long, clam-shaped craft appear opposite her. The top of the "clam" opened and she saw four entities, three in a row and a pilot sitting forward, seated in tight, tiny chairs.
One of the entities floated vertically from the craft and stunned Shoshana with his "white projector-like beams coming from his eyes." He approached her and rubbed her arm to the neck with a stubby, soft hand. She later recalled that his touch didn't feel bad. Nonetheless she was screaming at Ilan to save her but he didn't hear anything. He watched her slowly collapse to the ground but could not run to pick her up because he was "frozen, magnetized to the spot."
Within a few minutes he found the strength to approach her but couldn't lift her because, "She felt like a concrete block buried in the ground." With much effort, he finally did manage to drag her away but she insisted he take her back "in a voice that wasn't her own." Ignoring her request, he pulled her to the road, several hundred yards distant where he flagged down a car which drove them to a nearby hospital.
At this point the story becomes strange enough to scare off any rational UFO investigator. Shortly after admitting Shoshana with a burnt face, Ilan decided he didn't like the treatment they were receiving and before being released, escaped the hospital with Shoshana, the police trailing right behind.
They made good their escape, returned to their apartment where Ilan called a long list of local UFO researchers to attend, essentially, a press conference. Within an hour, about a dozen ufologists surrounded the bed where Shoshana and Tali, Ilan's eleven year old daughter from a previous marriage lay.
Over the next week, Ilan dragged the researchers on numerous wild UFO chases until all had written him off as berserk. Hearing a rumour that Maariv reporter David Ronen was about to print an unfavorable report of him, Ilan had a lawyer issue a restraining order against him, preventing publication of his piece.
Nonetheless, both Ilan and Shoshana appeared on television Channel Two's 5 PM news program and I was impressed by their story. I called the station and agreed to meet them the next day despite dire warnings within the UFO community.
Shoshana modestly related her story and told me of other phenomenon: a drilling sound in her left ear, horrid headaches, a pungent stench when the spirits entered the apartment, an ammonia-like taste in the mouth after, a needle puncture behind her ear. Her story was sincere and the puncture mark real.
Ilan, far too energetically added details. His daughter had been visited by spirits or whatever they were for the past year. They were stealing away her devotion to him and transferring it to them. He had videos made of the UFOs flying over the cliff and he returned to the encounter site and collected strange rocks left on the ground.
The rocks sold me. One was light and brown. When you lit it with a match it bubbled and melted. Drippings from the rock landed on the table and immediately turned hard and black. I had never seen a rock like that and didn't believe Ilan capable of creating one for a hoax.
I phoned my editor Michael Hesemann and gave my verdict that this was a powerful case. Accepting my conclusion, I was flattered that Hesemann quickly organized Sim's trip to Israel to investigate in depth.
He arrived on a Friday and Ilan gave a demonstration that was an immediate doubt-breaker. He took out a shiny rock found at the encounter site and placed it on an ice cube. Though it had not been heated and was at room temperature, it melted right through the ice and became almost as cold as it.
Derrel and I agreed that we had never heard of a rock that does anything like this. Where did the heat come from?
Derrel, next passed a black light over Shoshana. Explaining that fluorescence is a common feature of alien encounters, he found what he was looking for in her hands. Her palms and fingers glowed yellow green and near perfect fluorescent circles were found just below her thumb. The soles of her feet also displayed subdermal fluorescence.
We went to sleep, I relieved that I had not dragged Derrel ten thousand miles for nothing. The next day, Derrel began serious questioning, designed in part to trip Soshana up. Ilan didn't approve of the approach, in fact was confused by it and became increasingly more intrusive.
With great difficulty, Shoshana drew, under Derrel's skilled guidance, accurate drawings of protypical small greys about 90 cm in height and possessing arms that dangled below the knees. With even more difficulty Derrel succeeded in putting Shoshana under light hypnosis. She recalled the incident three times but each time she saw the "projector eyes" her face contorted and she snapped to with a painful headache.
As evening approached I stood by the window and smelled a stench that shocked me. I yelled, "The smell, it's here." It was like burnt tires and it came from nowhere. No electric appliance or any other source could explain its presence. It filled my sinuses and left a lingering, awful taste in my mouth. Derrel was next to smell it and did so on four other occasions in four other locations in the apartment. There was no logical explanation for it.
As the investigation continued, Ilan became impossible. Seeing that Shoshana and his daughter were the main foci of the research, he became totally intrusive and insulting when things weren't done his way. I was warned that this would happen but was unprepared for how irritating the behaviour could be. I left the apartment in anger at 2 AM vowing to return only for the final hypnotic session the next day.
Derrell warned Ilan that he would be the next to leave unless he removed himself while he was examining Shoshana and Tali. He acquiesced and Derrel gathered more vital evidence. A red ball of energy had entered Shoshana's bedroom the previous week and she told it to go away. Five minutes later it appeared outside her window. She had told me the same story previously only she ordered the ball away from Tali's room and it changed directions before leaving.
Tali's tales of abductions dovetailed with Shoshana's. The beings flew in a craft too small for Shoshana to fit it. They had a spare chair just big enough for her to fit into. The next day she told me she had to sit in the snug chair while flying or she would float around the little craft. She also added that when they took off, her stomach rose from the propulsion.
Tali was even more persuasive than Shoshana because of both her sharpness and her innocence. She knew the names of two of her abductors; Shimshon, the nice one and Makhluf, not as nice. When Derrell drew her a picture of a somewhat more elongated face, she recoiled from fear. She added details of the chairs Shoshana had drawn. Because Shoshana had only seen the craft at eye-level, she had not seen the legs of the chairs but she had seen arms with control buttons on them. Tali had seen the same arms and buttons but the legs as well. And both confirmed that the beings had rather stubby fingers.
Tali had described a site near a beachside hotel where she said the beings lived. Ilan insisted on taking Derrel to the location though he had misgivings.
Two nights before Ilan had taken us to the cliffs to point out UFOs which were clearly boats and planes. But this time he didn't disappoint. Telling Derrel to stand away, Ilan walked to a spot some yards distant and was quickly surrounded by usually skittish alley cats. Something drew them to him in unexplainable numbers.
An added factor that must be considered is the location of Netanya, some ten miles west of the village of Kadima. Since 1993, this tiny area has seen five highly documented encounters with tall aliens, at least fifteen landing circles imbued with a red cadmium-based liquid and hundreds of craft sightings.
Our mutual conclusion was that the cases of Shoshana and Tali are genuine. Derrel believes Shoshana was not abducted, the craft's size would mitigate against that but Tali was on numerous occasions. We agreed that the case is a strong one but because of the difficulty, in fact, near impossibility of working properly, we would not want to do a repeat investigation.
Next Visit, Yossi Saguy
On his next to last evening in the country, I had about 20 of Israel's top UFO researchers over to my home to meet Derrel. Yossi Saguy insisted on coming. He was a publicized abductee who knew I doubted his story. The problem began when I organized an episode for Sightings last September. I invited Saguy, who is a professional actor, to be interviewed. His agent phoned me not long after to discuss terms. An incident like that tends to plant doubts deeply.
However, most Israeli researchers accept Saguy's story of his beach house being invaded by robot-like creatures, who took a sperm sample from him and left appliances inoperable. They point to the dozens of witnesses who saw a craft over his building the night of the alleged abduction.
Derrel demonstrated his techniques to the local investigators and put Saguy through a grilling interrogation. His verdict: "He passed with flying colours."
Thus ended Sim's five day odyssey to Israel. This was the first time Israel's abduction stories had been examined by a worldwide expert in the field and all passed "with flying colours." Israel is indeed the focus of intense UFO abduction activity.
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This Is Not Big News From Israel
David Ronen is in an enviable position. Because he is the only UFO columnist for a major newspaper, Zman Tel Aviv, a weekend magazine of Maariv, he is the first address for Israeli UFO witnesses to contact. And David Ronen is one of the most honest, decent personalities in Israeli ufology.
Unfortunately, anti-UFO forces and plain old hucksters have exploited his sincerity in the past and it seems they're at it again.
It was David who first broke the story of the Achihod "alien" in December of '96, one of the most embarassing episodes in Israel's short UFO history. And this month he has broken two stories that are spreading fast. I hope to nip at least one story in the bud before it causes worse damage than even the Achihod fiasco.
The first story is that two individuals visited him with the same tattoo burned into their skin: that of an oval-eyed child-like figure. David reported that one of his visitors was an Israeli politician "known around the world." This has sparked massive speculation throughout Israel and the politician, who David cannot identify, nonethless will be so identified soon since he is a high-ranking Knesset member who lives in Kiryat Ono. If he does not confirm the story, David will have a huge embarassment on his hands... But maybe he will...when pigs can fly, and they barely walk in Israel.
David began April with an even bigger story. He claimed an alien had been photographed in Eilat and his article was accompanied by a computer depiction of a typical grey alien garnered from two photos he had received.
Here's the story David told me and his readers. On August 11, 1996, the Red Sea resort of Eilat was overflown by UFOs witnessed by hundreds of people. This is a fact. One Shimon Zohar took his video camera to a hill above Eilat's port to film the UFO. He succeeded in capturing a UFO on film but when he played the cassette back at home he saw an alien on the film which he described as having "small eyes, and barely noticeable lips and nostrils."
He immediately called a group of people to see the film including TV producer Yifat Dargesh and abductee/conference organizer Carlos Bin Nun. The former insisted she saw an alien "with big black eyes just like on the X-Files," while the latter cam-corded the film off the TV screen.
After the crowd left, David Ronen insists ten people saw the film, Zohar contacted his rabbi and invited him to see the film. The rabbi informed him that he had captured a demon on film and thus the cassette must be destroyed. Zohar obeyed and trashed the invaluable evidence.
But he recalled that he had forgotten his camera tripod on the spot and returned the next night with one Benny Mazgini to recover it. While approaching the tripod, a UFO returned and Mazgini, "was so frightened, I snapped two pictures automatically."
The UFO did not appear on the film but an alien did.
David had Bin Nun's two stills taken from Zohar's TV screen detailed by a computer graphics expert and what should appear than a "grey" face replete with black, oval eyes.
Now Israelis think that one of their countrymen photographed an alien and Maariv is being approached by worldwide networks. David told me, "CNN and NBC have already said they want the story. This is going global."
And once again Israeli ufology is about to be humiliated. The story is ridiculous enough. Zohar destroys the original cassette but returns to recover his tripod with an associate who happens to have a camera handy.
They discover a 30 meter burnt circle around the tripod and just at that moment, the UFO decides to return. Luckily, Mazgini was so scared he clicked his camera twice and though he didn't actually see an alien, it showed up on his film when he developed it. But Mazgini was not prepared to let David Ronen actually see the photos. Ronen would have to make do with Bin Nun's second generation video reproduction of Zohar's original tape.
Now let us look at the personalities involved in this story.
* David Ronen – A good journalist but too easily swayed by unscrupulous opportunists. Even after BUFORA – England tested the Achihod "alien" and found its carbon level the same as a lizard's, he refused to give up the fight. Eight months later, he published a laboratory test by police pathologist Dr. Yehuda Hiss concluding the creature was not of this world.
* Dr. Yehuda Hiss. This man has been totally disgraced for his role in covering up two of Israel's greatest scandals. The first was the Rabin assassination. While Israel police and three doctors who attended Rabin stated he was shot point blank, once from the front and that his spine had been shattered, none of which the convicted murderer could have done, Hiss signed a final pathology report eliminating all the damning wounds. Second, early in Israel's history, the authorities kidnapped and sold 4500 babies, mostly from Yemenite immigrant parents. Last year, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted DNA tests on an elderly Yemenite lady and a California woman who suspected she had been kidnapped from the woman and adopted in America. The tests matched and thus the kidnapping claims were verified. Dr. Hiss conducted his own tests on behalf of the government which supposedly nullified the results of Hebrew University. He was the last man on earth who would have given an honest testing of the Achihod alien lizard.
* Carlos Bin Nun – Coincidently or probably not, just as the Achihod fraud gathered momentum, Bin Nun's UFO conference took place in Eilat. A mystic speaker promised that the UFOs would land in Tel Aviv on Jan. 4 and announce their presence to the world. Definitely not coincidentally, the next day all the major newspapers announced the prediction and on the eve of Jan. 4, Israeli TV changed its prime time programming to make an utter mockery of the false prediction. Between Achihod and that horrible evening, legitimate Israeli ufology was given a blow it should not have recovered from.
Yet, so many powerful UFOs were filmed in 1997, that the public still could not ignore what was happening in their skies and sometimes, in their homes.
Zohar and Mazgini – They know each other because they share deep debt. Mazgini is chairman of the Mortgage Victims Association of Eilat, which represents those who fell into debt because of the cutthroat mortgage policies of Israeli banks. Zohar and Mazgini need money in a hurry to sort out their lives and certainly could have concocted their alien story, falsely believing people pay lots of pictures of aliens. It all adds up to another pathetic attack on local ufology. But there is good news. Once this fraud passes, I will report on a genuine abduction case in Ramat Gan and I have the pictures to back it up. I add, David Ronen reported this case as well with great skill and insight.
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