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Death by gunshot to the head.
Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation. Deaths
possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever.
Yet
the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron
Johnson, Con Routine, Ann Livingston and Karln Turner, as well as the
deaths of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis
to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOlogists are now quite
familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the life
span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national
average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators
arc nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto
Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled
"Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'
Binder
had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer
researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the
previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."
The
selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged
heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright
examples of murder.
We
will have occasion to refer to many of these cases, but first let us
take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among
present day researchers.
Who or
what is killing UFO investigators now and in the past? Probably some of
the deaths presented here-that look at first glance so suspicious---are
in fact natural or accidental or self-inflicted because of stress or
mental imbalances.
But,
as Otto Binder noted more than 25 years ago, there are so many. Pure
common sense, and good logic, should lead us to believe that the high
incidence of premature death in a field which has a limited number of
investigators is very disproportionate compared to the population at
large.
Spider Web of Causes
What we may have IS a
concatenation, a spider web, of interweaving threads which are causal
and often, in fact, deadly. One thread is the activities of the US (and
other) intelligence agencies. Another thread is possible ET involvement.
A third thread is the
involvement of certain PSI-tech think tanks and private PSI/PK
practitioners, including negative occultists.
A
possible fourth thread is highly reactionary religious cults which feel
they are carrying out the will of God.
It is more than likely that one
or more or all of the above agencies are responsible in whole or in part
for many of the deaths from the recent past, which have already been
mentioned and many of those remaining cases from the present to the more
distant past, some of which we will now explore.
Mae Brussell
Not
long ago, Mae Brussell, a gutsy, no-holds-barred, investigative radio
host died of a fast-acting cancer just like Ann Livingston and Karla
Turner. Brussell was acutely interested in UFOlogy.
Deke Slayton
Deke Slayton, the astronaut, was purportedly ready to talk about his UFO experiences, but cancer also intervened.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch, young psychic and contactee, died in 1985, purportedly of a drug overdose.
According
to Lynch's sister, Geraldine, Brian was approached approximately a year
before his death by an intelligence operative working for an Austin,
Texas, PSI-tech company. Geraldine said they told Brian they were
experimenting on psychic warfare techniques.
After his death, a note in his personal effects was found with the words "Five million from Pentagon for Project Scanate."
Don Elkin
In
the '80s Eastern Airlines pilot Captain Don Elkin committed suicide. He
had been investigating the UFO coverup for over 10 years and, at the
time, was deep into the study of the Ra material with Maria Rucker.
There are reports of negative psychological interferences having developed during this latter investigation.
