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|[Note: the following article is provided by "NM MUFON News" |
|Volume 1, #9 - September 1993.  NM MUFON News, PO Box 2786  |
|Corrales, NM 87048.  12 issues = $12 subscription.          |
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|Editor -   Carolyn Duce-Ashe, PO Box 2786                   |
|           Corrales, NM 87048 (505) 897-7075                |
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|Producer - Debby Stark, 611 Lead SW. #918                   |
|           Albuquerque, NM 87102 (505) 242-6258             |
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|                    WHAT IS HAPPENING?                      |
|        ED DAMES' "BIG EVENT" AND THE MARS OBSERVER         |
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|by Carolyn Duce-Ashe                                        |
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|The final week of August proved inhospitable to New         |
|Mexicans and "aliens" alike as thunderstorms and flash      |
|floods drenched most of the state. Despite the weather,     |
|several MUFON field investigators and myself sat in a truck |
|near Chaco Canyon watching the cloudy skies for most of the |
|night, Saturday, August 28. (Of course, Chaco was just a    |
|guess as to the location of Site Two; northern New Mexico is|
|a huge area!) We saw some interesting ground lights, between|
|downpours, but saw nothing "alien" as far as we could tell. |
|The beautiful pink-red sunset had promised better.          |
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|Ed Dames had told me that the predicted "Event" would       |
|happen the last weekend in August when I talked to him by   |
|phone on August 23. He also said at the time that the       |
|malfunction of the Mars Observer was "directly linked to the|
|Event." More on the Mars connection later in this article.  |
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|I survived the wet weekend and by the middle of the         |
|following week was beginning to wonder if I would indeed    |
|hear from Dames, who had said he would keep me informed.    |
|There had been no worldwide announcement of any "event"     |
|other than the usual wars, disasters and depressingly       |
|familiar goings-on of life on this planet. (Here in         |
|Albuquerque, a section of the Alameda Bridge dropped a      |
|foot--reminiscent of John Keel/Mothman, but probably a      |
|coincidence.) A paradigm shift sure would be great about    |
|now, I thought. But hoping for a change hadn't made it      |
|happen. And researchers were calling me from all over the   |
|country asking for the latest news.                         |
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|Then, at 9:30 p.m. on September 2, Ed Dames called to       |
|explain the situation.                                      |
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|According to  him  the "Event" had happened, despite the    |
|weather, but the "announcement" would be delayed for 5 or 6 |
|weeks. He said that there is much more going on than anyone |
|can imagine and it's incredibly beautiful! The timing of the|
|"announcement" crucial; it will be made by a very high      |
|authority, one of three in the world--an important world    |
|figure, trusted and recognizable to all and "higher up than |
|President Clinton."                                         |
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|He said he is working with some contacts within MUFON "who  |
|will be told." As for Debby and I, he added, "You're my     |
|neighbors," and "We're all in this together in New Mexico." |
|He thanked the NM MUFON News staff for the accurate job of  |
|reporting we've done to date and assured me, your editor,   |
|that he was telling me as much as he could, since it was    |
|"not his job to announce anything, " that the announcement  |
|must come from higher sources, someone who the world would  |
|trust and believe to announce "strange things."             |
|When I asked him to elaborate on the nature of these        |
|"strange things," he said that "the average person would be |
|scared to death" to see what's happening.  Regular people   |
|want contact, but when the real thing happens, it can be    |
|more frightening than they can imagine and unpleasant       |
|personal physiologic reactions can occur. He added that the |
|situation was very scary and very serious and "the alien    |
|hybrids desperately need to be taken care of."              |
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|I said, "So it's happening now--" "And will be going on for |
|quite some time," Ed confirmed. "This is just the beginning |
|of a series of events...You have my word that things are    |
|happening."                                                 |
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|Regarding the recently defunct Mars Observer, Ed said that  |
|the malfunction was "directly related to the 'event' since  |
|Mars is key in the martian/alien/New Mexico scenario that   |
|has been ongoing for millions of years." Last year Ed Dames |
|predicted that the Mars Observer would be lost or interfered|
|with when it arrived at Mars, and he told officials at NASA |
|at that time.  A researcher I know says that he heard Ed    |
|Dames make that claim last year.  According to Dames, he is |
|now working on the problem with people at JPL in Pasadena   |
|and the U.S. Air Force.  NASA, he says, "is arrogant and    |
|won't tell the truth... but the Air Force knows what is     |
|going on." Several years ago the Russian Phobos II          |
|spacecraft mysteriously failed to respond to orders, as,    |
|more recently, did the NOAA-13 polar-orbiting weather       |
|satellite. And now the Mars Observer is defunct and it's due|
|to alien intervention, according to Dames.                  |
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|Will we ever really know what is going on with the Space    |
|program? I hope so.  Presumably, this will be part of the   |
|information included in the "announcement" when it is made  |
|(around the middle of October?).                            |
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|Editorial Opinion                                           |
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|Why is Ed Dames going out on a limb with this alien/Mars    |
|stuff? Concerning this, Ed said he would rather not be doing|
|this but that the "Transcendentals" are in charge and       |
|"calling the shots" ! He admitted he's had his "nose to the |
|grindstone" and he's "bloody in the face" from being too    |
|close to it all. And he confided that right now he'd "love  |
|to get out of this" because there's been a lot of risk...   |
|"but it's a labor of love...I wasn't prepared for the purity|
|and innocence of the races we are dealing with--it's just so|
|wonderful and beautiful," he said.                          |
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|Well, so now it seems we must continue to wait to see what  |
|happens.  Personally, I'm willing to be patient, but many   |
|people I know are fed up with waiting for the "Big Event."  |
|There have been so many disappointments throughout the      |
|years--and hoaxes and disinformation abound in the UFO field|
|(skies). What we need is PROOF, but, for now, we only have  |
|Ed Dames' word to go on.... So, anyway, stay tuned! We'll   |
|report more in next month's newsletter.                     |
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