Sam Willey: On Saturday June 16 2007 I attended the Lancashire Anomalous Phenomena Investigation Society (LAPIS) UFO conference which took place in St. Anne’s Lancashire, England. The event began at 10:30am with Janet Walkey giving her opening address to the good turnout of UFO enthusiasts from all parts of the country. Janet gave the opening address which would usually have been the job of the chairman Rob Whitehead however Rob recently moved to Cyprus and had to leave his group responsibilities behind. At any rate the conference got under way and the first speaker was announced.Alan Murdie who has written for Foretean Times Magazine and is the former chairman of the Ghost Club organization was first to lecture. His talk entitled “UFO’s and the gateway to the magical mind” firstly detailed an interesting UFO case from Columbia, South America. This well known UFO case took place in July 1969 and apparently involved a Columbian farmer who chased a strange ball of light only to meet his death a day later. The main point of his lecture was light ball UFO’s that thousands have reported. Mr. Murdie gave his opinion on what he thinks these lights may be stating that they could be strange mystical creatures or spirits instead of the widely believed extraterrestrial hypothesis.

Murdie went out of his way to really dismiss the Roswell 1947 alleged UFO crash calling the event a “folk story” and “a good story but nothing more” to the disagreement of myself and many others in the audience. With the disagreements aside Murdie made a good point regarding our mind and how we see things, he said that he believes there is something within that makes us all see things as being strange. For example he showed a ghost photograph and said if you expect to see a ghost you will no matter if there is an explanation present. Though I had strong disagreements with many points of Alan Murdie’s lecture it was still extremely well presented and one of the best of the day.During a break between the first and second lecture I noticed that Larry Warren due to speak at the end of the conference had arrived at the venue. I walked over and shook Larry’s hand and to my surprise Larry said “Have we met before” I thought for a moment then replied saying that I didn’t think so. I had a file full of information with me at the event and I presented the April 2007 issue of UFO Magazine were I had wrote an article about the Rendlesham Forest Incident which Larry was a witness to back in 1980. As soon as I opened the magazine and showed him Larry realized that it was actually UFO Magazine were he had seen me previously. It turns out that Larry has read my work before and thinks I am doing well thus far in this field. Larry believes it is excellent to see that younger people are getting into this subject so early on in life and told me it is what this subject needs, new people to carry on with the research.

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Hey Sam. It would be interesting to note any peculiar behaviors associated with people who see particular U.F.O.'s. Certain people see this kind of U.F.O other kinds of people see that kind of U.F.O. When a U.F.O. is reported, as much attention and investigation should be put forth towords understanding the kinds of people who see them. Certain classifications might arise and with this system maybe hoaxes could more easily be pointed out because of the certain kinds of people that are associated with them.

After many years of reading articles about U.F.O sightings, abductions, close encounters of the Fourth Kind, etc... I have come to the conclusion that if any of these sightings were real then the aliens are either slowely introducing themselves or that the U.F.O's are random visitors and are displaying and enigmatic caution and elusiveness that is somehow a common trait among advanced intergalactic and/or outergalactic spacefaring aliens.

Of course the possibility exists that there aren't any aliens and that every U.F.O sighting ever seen that was thought to be aliens is false. Even if this is so it is still important to research and keep alive the examination and scrutiny of any evidence that might prove the existence of extra-terrestrials. Perhaps over the last 60 years since 1947, we have imagined all of this, but that doesn't matter because if the aliens do come one day we will be prepared because of all the movies, books, and talking that has gone on.

This is an interesting idea and applies well to certain instances. However, what about multiple witnesses? The UFO I saw was also witnessed by at least 15 others (that I know of). It's highly doubtful that all of these folks had similar personality traits to my own...see what I mean?

Yes i do Lilly. I just came up with this classification idea about 10 minutes ago so it is still in its infancy. I agree that if there is a group sighting then there is absolutely no way that a particular behavioral pattern or a personality type can be assessed that is associated with the U.F.O. However a classification should be done at all times when a U.F.O has only a single witness. I would go so far as to even try it out on couples that witness a U.F.O together and a group of people from the same family. But not a group of strangers.

There's as much knowledge to be gained about U.F.O's by the examination of the witness(es) as there is by examining the U.F.O itself because the hoaxes and the reality associated with U.F.O's are both just as important IMO in understanding this phenominon.