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http://roswellbooks.com/edinburg/?page_id=679

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Origin of World Contact Day

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Alfred K. Bender of Bridgeport, Connecticut, became fascinated by the ever-growing number of “UFO” sightings throughout the United States and the world. Bender, who worked as a supervisor at Acme Shear in Bridgeport (now called the Acme United Corporation), a company that made scissors, shears, and other devices for cutting, began collecting newspaper and magazine clippings about UFO sightings.

Alfred K. Bender

In 1952, he started one of the first civilian UFO study groups, which he called the “International Flying Saucer Bureau.” Researcher Riley Crabb describes the organization: “Bender had started what promised to be the biggest and best Flying Saucer Club in the business in 1952. A natural leader, his efforts aroused national and international interest, memberships, mail and Saucer reports flowed in from all over the world. His headquarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut was swamped with correspondence. Such a widespread effort was bound to crack the secret in time.”

Obsessed with solving the mystery of the UFOs, Bender became convinced that members of his group should “attempt to send out a telepathic message to visitors from space.” March 15, 1953 was chosen as “Contact Day.” Bender sent out a special bulletin, containing a message to be memorized and an appeal to have all members focusing their minds on the message at the exact same moment, at 6 p.m. on March 15.

The message that everyone was supposed to memorize stated:

“Calling occupants of interplanetary craft! Calling occupants of interplanetary craft that have been observing our planet Earth. We of IFSB wish to make contact with you. We are your friends, and would like you to make an appearance here on Earth. Your presence before us will be welcomed with the utmost friendship. We will do all in our power to promote mutual understanding between your people and the people of Earth. Please come in peace and help us in our Earthly problems. Give us some sign that you have received our message. Be responsible for creating a miracle here on our planet to wake up the ignorant ones to reality. Let us hear from you. We are your friends.”

At 6 p.m. on March 15, Bender lay down on his bed in Bridgeport, closed his eyes, and repeated the contact message three times. He later described an odd experience that happened next, “I felt a terrible cold chill hit my whole body. Then my head began to ache as if several headaches had saved up their anguish and heaped it upon me at one time…. Then I partly lost consciousness as the room around me began to fade away.”

Bender then had the feeling of leaving his body and hovering above it. He said, “I felt cold, very cold, as if I were lying naked on a floating piece of ice in the Antarctic Ocean.”

Albert K. Bender

Then he heard a voice in his head. It did not seem to be an audible sound. The voice said to him, “‘We have been watching you and your activities. Please be advised to discontinue delving into the mysteries of the universe. We will make an appearance if you disobey.”‘

He spoke back to the voice, saying, “Why aren’t you friendly to us, as we do not mean to do any harm to you?”

The strange voice responded, “We have a special assignment and must not be disturbed by your people. We are among you and know your every move, so please be advised we are here on your Earth.”

When he snapped out of his “contact,” Bender found a yellow mist hovering in his room, and he saw out of a corner of his vision what seemed to be the shadow of a humanoid. He also noticed that the radio in his bedroom had turned on by itself and that there was a strange odor in his room. Bender later claimed that in this, and other “contacts,” the whole mystery of the flying saucers was revealed to him.

Shortly after this incident, despite its popularity, the International Flying Saucer Bureau was suddenly disbanded, only nine months after it was created. Bender refused to say why he shut the group down, but several years later, he stated that he received a visit from three mysterious “men in black,” who told him that he needed to desist from his UFO activities. He described the Men in Black as “three men in black suits with threatening expressions on their faces. Three men who walk in on you and make certain demands. Three men who know that you know what the saucers really are! They don’t want you to tell anyone else what you know.”

An incredible story of the origin of World Contact Day! For more information about World Contact Day, visit http://worldcontactday.com.

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Fuente:

https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/18/Crabb_on_Albert_Bender.html

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A Borderland Sciences Review in 4 parts.

ALBERT BENDER, FLYING SAUCERS
and THE THREE MEN

Gray Barker's classic Flying Saucer book, Analyzed by BSRF director Riley Crabb.

Part I: Flying Saucers and the Three Men • THE "SPACE REVIEW" • His First Warning • The Third Contact • Hero Worship (Dominick Lucchesi) • The Fourth Contact • World Contact Day

Part II: Psycho-Kinesis or Apport • Earth Overtaken • A Smell of Sulphur in the Pentagon • The Flatwoods Monster

Part III: Bender's Visitors • Mephistopheles Himself

Part IV: Egg-Born Superman • Cold, Loveless, Lightless Existence • Life on Another Planet • Mushroom Eaters • Snake Meat Special

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“FLYING SAUCERS and THE THREE MEN”
 by Albert K. Bender (edited by Gray Barker)

"After heading the International Flying Saucer Bureau for many years (a civilian UFO investigative organization), Albert K. Bender suddenly disbanded the group. Bender told close associates that he had found the solution to the flying saucer mystery but he had been frightened into silence by three ‘men’ in dark suits who warned him not to divulge his fantastic discovery. Now Bender reveals the sinister events behind his UFO encounter: the identity of ‘the three men in black’; where the flying saucers come from; their strange purpose here on Earth; and how he was terrified into keeping their dangerous secret!"

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The Albert Bender Mystery

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http://www.theironskeptic.com/articles/bender/bender.htm

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The Albert Bender Mystery

"As if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors..."

~Hamlet, Act II, Scene 1

In the vaguest terms Albert K. Bender, a UFO enthusiast from the early 50s, and I have a lot in common. We both started our own publications; I have this column, and he had a magazine called Space Review. We both claim to know the truth about UFOs, but this is about where the similarity ends. I keep talking; he was scared, temporarily, into falling silent.

In 1952 Bender launched a group called the International Flying Saucer Bureau. Since the 1950s, UFO enthusiasts have tried to play up its importance, claiming that the group had dozens of scientists and engineers actively involved in investigating cases, with members in every state and several countries, but it actually only had a few hundred subscribers. In 1953 Bender claimed that he had made a number of important discoveries, and that he had arrived at a comprehensive understanding of the UFO phenomenon on earth: why they were here, what they wanted, where they came from, and so on. All of these secrets were to be published in the October issue.

So what was h big secret? No one knows. Instead of the much-hyped secret information being published, Bender wrote this rather cryptic statement:

“The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by order from a higher source. We would like to print the full story in Space Review, but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we have been advised in the negative."

He ended it by warning UFO researchers to be careful. Shortly after this issue, Bender dissolved the IFSB and ceased publication of Space Review. No one could get him to explain his reasoning, until he revealed in an interview that he had been visited by three mysterious Men in Black who confirmed that he was right about his conclusions, gave him further information, and then warned him not to publish the article. Apparently, they scared the living hell out of him, and he found it difficult to eat or sleep for days afterwards. His friends stated that he was a changed man; it was as though he had “been lobotomized.”

Apparently, the mysterious trio didn’t scare him too badly, because a decade later he wrote a book about his experiences called “Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black.” These days you can find most of the book on the internet, but take my advice and don’t. It’s almost completely unreadable. I made it about halfway through the book, and then I actually vomited through my eyes. True story.

Bender reveals in the book why he was so terrified of the three Men. They were dressed identically in black suits, ties, gloves, shoes, and white shirts, and they were constantly surrounded by a light blue glow. At one point, he wondered if this blue glow was the reason that the three men stink of sulfur. Their eyes glowed like tiny light bulbs, and they were intimidating to the extreme.

The reason that they scared him so badly is that one day he decided to take his mind off of UFOs by going to see a movie. As he sat in the nearly empty theatre, a giant hideous monster appeared out of thin air next to him. This shape then turned into one of the Men in Black, who then disappeared. Yeah, that would have scared me too.

Apparently, the Men in Black don’t know how to keep secrets very well, because they took Bender to their secret UFO base in the arctic, where he was taken on a tour of laboratories, hangers, and so on. There he met a being he called the Exalted One, a 9-foot tall “bisexual.” I assume this means that the thing was of both genders, not that he was, you know, into kinky sex.

The Exalted One told him, apparently, that the reasons that UFOs were on earth was because they needed to take water from our many seas and oceans. Being nice guys, they return everything they don’t need to use by dropping it out of UFOs into the oceans. He also let Bender ask him a number of questions about the presence of UFOs on earth, the nature of the universe, and so on. This is where the story takes an unexpected turn for the awesome.

The majority of the evidence that we have for the existence of UFOs comes from witnesses. Too many “credible witnesses”, the theory goes, are coming forward describing similar encounters for these encounters to be anything but true. Therefore, we must believe in the veracity of credible witnesses.

Albert Bender, who is just as reliable a witness as anyone else, claims that the Exalted One told him UFOs had never visited earth before the year 1945, and that they were only going to stay until 1960, when they would have gathered enough water to suit their nefarious purposes. Therefore, according to this reliable witness, all accounts of UFO sightings before 1945 or after 1960 must be incorrect.

So what now, UFO enthusiasts? Either Albert Bender was right and UFOs no longer visit the earth, making everyone else who has reported encounters with UFOs wrong, or this ‘credible witness’ was wrong. And if one credible witness is wrong, what’s to say that others are not wrong? Is this the kicking in of the door that will make your whole rotten structure of conspiracy theories, psuedoscience, and mumbo-jumbo collapse?

Obviously, this paradox isn’t 100% bulletproof. It's just hyperbole to show that you cannot, and must not, accept the testimony of witness as completely true just because you have no reason to suspect they are lying. If you believe every witness that claims involvement with aliens, as so many UFO enthusiasts are wont to do, you’re going to be in for one hell of a logical headache. Albert Bender is a reliable witness, and his testimony stands in utter opposition to the testimony of other reliable witnesses. Who is right? Who is wrong?

Personally, I think Albert Bender was full of baloney. Despite the fact that when he closed the IFSB he returned all of the outstanding subscription money that was owed to readers, his organization and publication were still losing money. This story was the perfect way to save face. Second, for a guy that was supposedly scared into silence, he did a whole lot of talking about what had happened to him.

Third, in his book the portions I was able to stomach reading seem lifted straight out of the UFO folklore of the early fifties. The aliens were afraid to openly contact mankind because they were afraid of nuclear weapons, a hallmark of the Contactee movement; aliens were abducting people to put in zoos on their homeworld, a hallmark of comic books and pulp novels from the 30s, 40s, and 50s; he was told that life had existed on Mars, but all that remained were gigantic, ruined cities and vast canals and waterways, a theory made incredibly popular in such books as War of the Worlds; finally, he claims that gasoline-powered vehicles are the cause of cancer, which I can’t really think of a cause for, but in light of current medical knowledge, it seems that either our doctors are not as advanced as they would think, or that the Enlightened One knows surprisingly little about genetics.

Alfred Bender has created a number of problems for the modern world. His experience is generally regarded as the first involving the so-called Men In Black, and if this particular slice of UFO mythology is his creation, I hope he hears the sarcasm in my thanks. On the other hand, he has also introduced a particular stumbling block for the UFO community and their reliance on credible witnesses, which is probably the exact opposite of anything he was trying to do. In any event, the “Albert Bender Mystery” is a mystery only in the minds of the naïve.

Be seeing you.

First Published in The Triangle, 3 March 2006.

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Operación High Jump

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http://www.bolinfodecarlos.com.ar/operacion_highjump.htm

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1947: Operación High Jump

Entre finales de 1946 y comienzos de 1947, la mayor fuerza militar expedicionaria que los EE. UU. haya enviado a la Antártida hasta el presente comienza a desplegarse desde las bases norteamericanas en el Mar de Ross (al sur de Nueva Zelandia) hacia el continente, divididos en tres grupos convergentes, iniciando una invasión de vastos alcances.

La Task Force 68, la fuerza invasora, está compuesta por 13 barcos (entre rompehielos, destructores, cargueros y buques tanques de aprovisionamiento), 2 lanzadores de hidroplanos, un buque de comunicaciones, un submarino (Sennet) y un portaviones (Phillipine Sea); los efectivos embarcados suman 4.200. Lidera la operación el Almirante Richard Byrd.

Oficialmente la Operación Highjump eran simples maniobras que tenían por objeto "probar equipos militares y tropa en condiciones antárticas"...

La expedición estaba planeada y equipada para una duración de 6 a 8 meses. La misión es esencialmente militar, se ha desestimado la participación de observadores extranjeros y ha contado con el concurso de un limitado número de científicos especializados, lo cual destaca su carácter prioritariamente militar. La magnitud del esfuerzo aeronaval sumado a trascendidos sobre algunos de los verdaderos objetivos de la misión, serán motivo de especulación todavía décadas más tarde sobre sus verdaderos fines. 

Los alemanes del Reich se repliegan en la Antártida

En 1938 y 1939, la Sociedad Alemana de Investigaciones Polares respalda sendas exploraciones liderada por el capitán Alfred Ritscher, quien navega en el buque Schwabenland. La expedición arriba a la región conocida como Queen Maud Land y aerofotografía más de 600.000 km2.

Las circunstancias que se viven bajo el régimen NS llevarán a suponer que mas allá del carácter civil y científico de las mismas influyeron de forma decisiva consideraciones estratégicas y militares.

Durante la guerra, escuadrillas de submarinos alemanes habían estado incansable y frenéticamente yendo y viniendo de la Antártida. Los alemanes estaban construyendo enormes complejos subterráneos en las tierras antárticas, no escatimando recursos ni científicos. Es allí a donde huyeron casi todos los jerarcas NS que "desaparecieron", empezando por Adolf Hitler.

Según el investigador portugués J. Garrido, una semana antes de la rendición alemana en 1945, el comandante de la flota de submarinos alemanes, Almirante Doenitz, afirmaba que nunca se rendiría a los Aliados. 

El prestigioso Almirante Byrd comanda la Operación High Jump.

Richard Byrd participa en la Operación High Jump como oficial a cargo de la misma en tanto que el comando de la Task Force 68 recae en el almirante en activo Richard H. Cruzen.

Si el propósito declarado de la operación era el del entrenamiento de personal y puesta a prueba de equipos militares en condiciones extremas, ¿por qué era necesario enviar tantos barcos, unidades y soldados y por qué se prohibió la presencia a observadores extranjeros?

Durante esta operación Byrd había sobrevolado, por lo menos una vez, todo el territorio de Neuschwabenland, desde la dirección sur-oeste hasta las tierras altas de Ritscher (Ritscher Hochland) y las áreas Este del Polo Sur. Sin saberse por qué, Byrd regresa a Estados Unidos en Febrero de 1947 y declara en una entrevista que le hace un reportero que era "necesario para los Estados Unidos tomar acciones defensivas contra aviones de combate enemigos que vienen de las regiones polares" y que en caso de una nueva guerra "los Estados Unidos serían atacados por aviones que pueden volar de un polo a otro con increíble velocidad"

Otras extrañas declaraciones realizadas en Estados Unidos por Byrd y otros militares en ruedas de prensa hablaban de avistamientos y encuentros con aeronaves de altas capacidades no comparables con los mas avanzados aviones a reacción de la época.

El almirante Byrd tuvo que enfrentarse a un secreto y minucioso interrogatorio de las autoridades norteamericanas. Tras ello, Estados Unidos se retiró de la Antártida durante casi una década.

Pero aún después de terminarse la Operación High Jump, siguieron ocurriendo cosas extrañas: James Forrestal, Secretario de Defensa en el período de la operación, es internado en 1948 en un hospital, donde bajo extrañas circunstancias cae de un décimo piso... Oficialmente fue un suicidio. ¿Y por qué nada le ocurrió al almirante Byrd? Seguramente porque era demasiado prominente y demasiado respetado por el pueblo norteamericano, su muerte hubiera sido demasiado llamativa.

Inmediatamente después de esta operación, el 19 de febrero de 1947 el propio Byrd sobrevuela una vez más el Polo Norte, por orden de su país, llegando a "nuevas tierras desconocidas". Su críptico y singular testimonio sobre esta nueva misión, que en forma fragmentaria reproduce la prensa, es inicialmente soslayado, aunque seguirá alimentando una suerte de leyenda sobre enigmas existentes en las latitudes polares, lo que sumado a la inaccesibilidad relativa a los mismos por parte de fuentes no militares o científicas los hará perdurar. 

Americanos y soviéticos, juntos en la Antártida.

Es muy extraño el hecho de que en la Operación High Jump participaran fuerzas soviéticas, por ejemplo algunos barcos. ¿Soviéticos y americanos colaborando juntos a principios de la Guerra Fría? ¿Acaso los nuevos enemigos se reconciliaban por un corto periodo para terminar de acabar con el enemigo común, el Reich alemán? 

Extensas e inéditas operaciones aéreas.

El grupo principal, de reconocimiento aéreo magnético y fotográfico, opera desde una pista continental construida para lanzar aviones del tipo DC3 adaptados para vuelos de largo alcance de relevamiento aerofotográfico. Se tomaron 70.000 aerofotografías en dos semanas, lo cual demuestra los amplios recursos aéreos empleados en la operación. ¿Qué estaban buscando los americanos? 

Explosiones atómicas en Neuschwabenland.

¿Se llevaron a esta expedición bombas atómicas, como indican algunas fuentes? Algunos autores indican que se detonaron bombas atómicas en Neuschwabenland. Estas explosiones atómicas serían la causa del actual agujero de la capa de ozono en la Antártida.

De cualquiera de las formas, las bases alemanas en la Antártida no estaban en superficie, sino que eran subterráneas. ¿Contaban los alemanes del Reich con la posibilidad de un ataque atómico? Sin duda. Tengamos en cuenta que los norteamericanos no habían tenido reparos en lanzar dos bombas atómicas contra los núcleos civiles japoneses de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, en que perecieron carbonizadas cientos de miles de personas inocentes y quedaron con graves secuelas de por vida otros tantos. ¿Podían tener entonces reparos en lanzar bombas atómicas contra un continente sólo habitado por nazis y pingüinos?

Según ciertas fuentes, sí es seguro que por lo menos en 1958, año en que se realizó una nueva "expedición" estadounidense a la Antártida, se llevaron armas nucleares y se emplearon tres veces: el 27 y 30 de Agosto y el 9 de Septiembre. Ninguno de los tres misiles atómicos explosionó en el suelo antártico, sino que, sin encontrársele explicación, estallaron en pleno vuelo sobre el mar cuando se dirigían a su objetivo.  

La retirada...

Si bien se estimó para la Operación High Jump una duración de seis a ocho meses, las fuerzas invasoras debieron retirarse al cabo de seis semanas, después de numerosas pérdidas no determinadas en material y hombres. Otras fuentes indican que la retirada empezó a las tres semanas, tras producirse decisivos combates entre atacantes y defensores de Neuschwabenland.

No sabemos cuáles fueron las bajas reales de los invasores, pero se sabe por ejemplo que el submarino Sennet, oficialmente por causa de los hielos antárticos, llegó a sufrir serias abolladuras en su casco, debiendo ser retirado durante la operación a un puerto de Nueva Zelanda para ser reparado. También se sabe que se perdieron varios aviones de combate y material aéreo de alta tecnología, y que hubo pérdidas humanas, en concreto muertes de marines norteamericanos. ¿Todo esto en una operación de adiestramiento?

En los Estados Unidos fue muy difícil justificar a la opinión pública las bajas acaecidas en la Antártida, pero el caso fue oficialmente cerrado. Los militares llamaron a esta operación como "la guerra de los pingüinos", después de que el gobierno federal declarara una y otra vez a la suspicaz opinión pública norteamericana que en la Antártida sólo vivían pingüinos y que las bajas de personal militar se debían a desafortunados accidentes...

También oficialmente, la expedición fue un "gran éxito" porque "permitió conocer muchos nuevos aspectos del uso de equipo militar bajo condiciones extremas". Entonces, ¿por qué regresó Byrd a Estados Unidos en Febrero de 1947, meses antes de lo previsto? 

Después de High Jump.

El 8 de Enero de 1956, varios investigadores de una expedición científica chilena en la Antártida observaron, durante varias horas, OVNIS en forma de "puro" y de disco evolucionando en el cielo de la área del Mar de Weddell. En aquel mismo año de 1956, una nueva operación militar fue intentada por los norteamericanos, la Operación Deepfreeze, y los resultados fueron peores que los de la anterior.

Enseguida, el 27 de Agosto y el 9 de Septiembre de aquel mismo año, el gobierno de Sudáfrica declara detectar dos emisiones electromagnéticas de alta energía, comparables con explosiones nucleares en la área antártica cercana a sus costas, que corresponde a la zona de Neuschwabenland, una manifestación de carácter subterránea y otra en la superficie. Otros avistamientos conocidos de OVNIS en la Antártica fueron declarados en los años siguientes, especialmente los de 1964 y 1969, por parte de personal de bases militares tanto argentinas como chilenas.

Siempre que los americanos han intentado invadir Neuschwabenland, fuerzas misteriosas les han repelido. Todo indica que los alemanes del Reich cuentan ya con una amplia red de bases, extendida por todo el mundo. En la dirección http://www.unglaublichkeiten.com/unglaublichkeiten/htmlphp/basenx.html (que pertenece a una de las mejores webs sobre el tema de los alemanes del Reich y Neuschwabenland) se puede encontrar un mapa con las principales bases más o menos conocidas.

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