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EVENTS ARCHIVE for 1994
Download (hissy!) paranormal horn sound recorded by Camcorder on 29th.! |
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| general conclusions MORSE 94 RESEARCH see below |
MORSE 1993 RESEARCH |
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NOTE AT DECEMBER 2001 from Paul Hailey, author of this report. It is 7 years since I carried out this research. The report was laid to rest in my files because Andy Collins' book covered most of the events, but most of the report information here is not in his book. NOTE AT JANUARY 2007 Six years on, still I haven't made it to Wiltshire... maybe I never will finish this piece of research, but one never knows.. if its ever continued, it will be with laptop and multichannel data gathering.. I love the old tapedeck but its now been in the shed for 12 years, inhabited by spiders. Can't even lift the damn thing, its too heavy for my older back.. The report here is more for those of a 'technical' leaning - and for anyone interested in authentic reports of 'ufo', Balls of light, anomalous sounds. I hope it spurs others to consider similar observation activities. I still have the equipment and the van but my financial position still prevents me from researches of the scale described here. If anyone wants to supply funding let me know! The perennial problem is finding a permanent base in Wiltshire UK, where I could live and therefore devote the time required. Still waiting for Godot in 2007!!! Anyone want to lend me a narrow boat? Contact me for that - or other purposes - using the button to the left. By the way, Ed Sherwood was present during the Orgone project where meditations were run on Woodbourough hill. But then, so were about 40 of Andy Collin's friends from Essex. Ed led the GWR radio linked meditation on the day the light ball exploded over the cropcircle. And I hope Polly Carsons didn't mind the typo 'Potty' too much!. I've corrected that. Paul Hailey ============================== |
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It is suggested that those who are reading this report for general purposes of information on the unusual events, skip all of the daily on site notes but read the Event Archive below and conclusions sections. Project MORSE stands for 'Mobile Overnight
Recording and Surveillance Experiment' |
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Due to personal situation, in 1993 I was able to spend some months in Wiltshire investigating UFO and cropcircle phenomena. The details are contained in the 'Morse 1993 report' which gives some details of equipment, monitoring techniques and results. Pictures of the Morse 93 equipment:
'250 k file 6 pics'
much as used for 1994. |
| Andy Collins is the author or a number of books,
incorporating ideas on psychic questing, cropcircles and other topics. He
had organised 'Orgone 93' at Woodborough hill in 1993, we met and agreed
that I should locate my equipment near to Woodborough for his 1994 project.
His main interest was in looking for 'bioforms' (Wilhelm Reich believed
these were quasi-sentient) and other effects, during daily group meditations. A full account of his activities are to be found in his limited edition book 'Alien Energy' (ABC books, ISBN 0 950 8024, 1994). This book contains descriptions of my own researches also, and could be usefully read in parallel with the present report as Andy fills in the background not covered here. I used an old Bedford CF motorhome as a research base, modified with extra batteries and installed with a tapedeck, various bits of electronic equipment, and most importantly, cooking facilities, a bed and toilet. This enabled nightwatches to be carried out in comfort if necessary, at the same time being able to go on location to accessible interesting sites. The equipment could be left running unattended providing tapes were changed after four hours. Usually a four hour run was sufficient (say from 11pm to 3 am), using one large tape per night. Battery recharging was a necessaary activity, carried out the following morning using a 24 volt propane driven generator. A full description of my equipment is given in the 1993 morse report, but a brief description is given here. The major item is a twelve channel audio tapedeck, using 1 inch wide tapes at the slowest useful speed of 1 7/8 inches per second. For audio recording the upper frequency response of 10khz was adequate, while for the instrumentation channels, the signals were converted to an audio tone for recording and subsequently reconverted at playback. The tapes were pre-erased at home and used once on site before storage. Later, the tapes were reviewed and downloaded to cassette only if interesting results were present. In July 1999 I still have the original tapes for 1994, most of the 1993 tapes have been erased. The system for 1994 consisted of; two radio channels (one FM, one AM), Earthprobe, fluxgate magnetometer, hoop aerial, groundprobes, two audio and two ultrasonic microphones. All items except the two radios were deployed at a distance from the van, with cables running back to the recording and amplifying equipment in the van. Major differences in the equipment for 1994 comprised the addition of a computer to monitor slowly changing parameters, an ultrasonic microphone and extra radio channel. A seismograph used in 1993 was not used in 1994, as random vibrations occurred from passing cars, and because I did not have a site secure against random visitors as in 1993. Footsteps recorded on such equipment are confusing if a record of people's general movement in the area cannot be kept. The following local monitoring could be undertaken; Earthprobe; Three metal stakes hammered into the soil detected electrical signals. These were recorded. These signals were heavily contaminated by mains supplies in the area, filtering was used to minimise this. Monitoring of lightning strikes and other earthborne electrical disturbances might show any activity beneath the area that was unusual. The frequency range was 50 to 10,000Hz. Fluxgate Magnetometer; A commercial device. Very small variations in the earths magnetic field were recorded. A great deal of effort went into special signal conditioning equipment which would show any small changes coincident with UFOs or other events. The frequency response of the system was from 0Hz (DC) to 30Hz when tape was used. Sensitivity to change was better than 0.1% on each of the three axes of the sensing head, graphs showed any changes greater than about 50 nanoTesla- magnetic storms can be in this size of change, equivalent to disturbances of 0.002% approximately. The two radios were installed at the back of the van away from other equipment, fed by car type aerials on the roof. The usual frequencies were; one set to 70Mhz (FM) , the other set to a quiet section of the long (AM) waveband. These would pick up local radio frequency signals, but were ordinary domestic radios and the recordings were made in full knowledge of these limitations. Hoop aerial- these used to be known as 'frame aerials'. The one used had a diameter of two feet and could pick up what are known as very low frequency (v.l.f) electromagnetic waves in the frequency range 30Hz to more than 10Khz. Being directional in nature, it was necessary to turn the aerial to give the least interference from vlf transmissions used my military and other worldwide organisations. Such an aerial would detect local signals from a wide variety of events, for instance, car electrical systems. Signals were also received from distant lightning in the form of descending tones known as 'whistlers'.As in the case of the earthprobes, filters were used to reduce unwanted effects. Two microphone assemblies were used, both with reflectors to increase sensitivity and a directional quality also. The main audio microphone was a high quality moving coil unit mounted in a 24 inch ex satellite dish. The second audio microphone had three separate sensors -made for the 1994 project- a standard electret element, mounted in a small box together with a modified audio microphone for higher frequencies, (20khz) and a true ultrasonic receiver working at around 35 kHz. Recordings could be made in normal audio and in ultrasonic, simultaneously from the same position, since all three microphones shared the same reflector. Both systems were sensitive, but the limitation as usual was the level of hiss in amplifiers which could obscure signals picked up by the microphones. Small sounds at a distance require topgrade systems which are very expensive. A note on the difference between 'electromagnetic waves' and 'audio waves' is important here. The earthprobe and hoop aerial and radios picked up the effects of electromagnetic waves; these are equivalent to radio waves, and must not be confused with the signals picked up by microphones which are 'sound pressure waves'. Elecromagnetic waves travel without a 'medium', light is electromagnetic in nature. Sound (acoustic) waves require a medium, air or gas, to travel through. The magnetometer is in this commercial design a device using electrical coils to sense the level of magnetic field at the sensor. The earths magnetic field is essentially constant in any one place. Magnetic fields are associated with electromagnetic waves and 'electromagnetism'. In the case of project 'Morse' the main interest is in small magnetic field variations produced either by cosmic changes or by local anomalies. The changes may be produced by interaction between magnetic field (produced by the conditions of material within the earths crust) and streams of high energy particles from the sun, or the magnetic fields of the sun. Any other changes from unknown causes would be useful data at the time of observed unidentified lights or other events. All external equipment was attached to the tapedeck using individual cabling and electronic adaptors. Each channel was recorded separately onto the magnetic tape media. A channel was reserved for a an electrical timing pulse every five minutes, and a 'speaking clock' which could be turned on manually when required. Thus the equipment although basic, was of high quality and could reliably give data on local conditions during the time of unusual events. In fact, the major limitation of the system was sensitivity- but for UFO research I was looking for effects coming from within a mile of the van setup. Further reading of what actally happened will show that luck is an important part of the process, there is little point in constructing super-sensitive detection equipment when on low funding. A knowledge of which measurements are important has to be built up by experience, and the use of a number of different sensors is essential. The remainder of this report details the time spent at the orgone 94 project, the events and conclusions. =============================================================== |
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BASED ................. PH BASED....... OTHER 15.7.96 ............1 ...................(NB instruments were off) Light circles in cloud 23.7.96 ............2 ........... Rodney Hale sees distant LIT 25.6.94 ............8 ........... Debbie etc. Sees LIT 26.7.96 ............3 ........... GWR link fault ........................ 4 ........... BOL flash Eastfield 28.7.94 ........... 5 ........... Gold BOL ; Tawsmead 29.7.94.............6 ........... Horn, Voices, ....................... Shaman Shaman, Horn .........................7 .........................................................................................LITS over WH These 8 events are described in the 'Archive' section of this report below. KEY; BOL ball of light; GWR Great western radio station, local FM channel Link ---radio link used for GWR transmission from Woodborough hill LIT a light in the sky; WH Woodborough hill, site of Orgone 94 experiment PH Paul Hailey, operator of Morse94 surveillance |
| Seen by Paul Hailey only - everyone else was looking
the other way! This event happened while I was sitting on the back step of my camper van mulling over life in general. The van was parked at the car park at Knapp Hill, near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. The immediate area overlooks Woodborough Hill to the south across a wide valley. The following is reproduced from my report written at the time. "Parked in the car park at Knap hill, back door facing north with view across field. Had not taken drugs or other materials. (I do not drink alcohol or smoke other than normal cigarettes). Time; About 10.50pm local time. Direction; to north Condition; Sitting quietly watching and thinking about things. Light levels; Dusk, low light. Weather; Cloudy, probable cloud height 2000 feet. There were a number of people on the site, but all were to the east end of the bridleway, about 100 yards to the east. Some 'anti-cropcircle-hoax' people were using powerful lamps to secure the valley below from intruders, with one light operating from the Knap hill area, the other from the south edge of Eastfield. The beams of these lights were clearly visible in the dusk and the beams were seen to light up the cloudbase on occasion. No lights were being used in a northerly direction from these sites further than the knap hill car park to my knowledge. I saw a diffuse powerful white light appear within an area of cloud to the north, perhaps at most 3/4 mile away. The light proceeded to move at a constant rate in a clockwise horizontal circle of radius estimated at 800 yards, and was always within the cloud itself. Each circle took about ten seconds to complete. The light only disappeard for a short section of the west side, reappearing almost immediately to complete the circle. There was a short pause and the process repeated exactly, completing a second circle of similar diameter and position before ceasing. The event was estimated not to be further north than the field used for parachute glides, about half a mile distant. Visibility of the event was excellent, with detail of the varying cloud thickness between the light and my view, causing slight variations in intensity. The weather conditions were quiescent, no significant wind and not raining. No mists were present. The area over knap hill itself and the car park were clear, with clouds over Eastfield and the cloudbank edge which the phenomena were seen in was easily discernable. Stars were just visible overhead between the two areas of cloud to north and south. I walked over to the people using the high powered lights, they agreed they had not shone their lights to the north, and to date no-one else on the site has advised me of any sighting similar to my own. The light on the south edge of Eastfield could not have been able to perform the event that I saw, and probably would be obscured in any case by the knap hill scarp. There was no sound during the event. No aeroplanes or helicopters were heard before, after or during the event, or were visible. The light, although powerful, was not seen to have any groundbased source, no ground beams were seen, neither was the underside of the cloud illuminated at all. All light intensity was from within the cloud, I estimate power needed would be ten to 100 times that of a car headlamp, bearing in mind the diffusion effects within the cloud and the distance from me. Tom Trubridge was on Woodborough Hill and agreed later that he saw the event. He was more of the opinion that disco-lights were the cause. From my position on Knap hill I saw not a trace of a ground based cause. NOTE; The above report was written on 4th august 1994 from notes of 15th July. Subsequent note; Woodborough hill is about 1 mile south of Knap hill car park; the event was seen about 2/3 mile north of the car park. Between the car park and Woodborough hill lies Eastfield, the Pewsey road and several unnamed fields, all lower than Woodborough. The car park is shightly lower in elevation that Woodborough hill. Land to the north of Knap hill is relatively flat in the area of the event and at the same height as the carpark. . Car headlamps approaching from the north would not have been misinterpreted as the event seen. Instrumentation was not in use at the time, and it did not occur to me to photograph the light. The best I could do was to note the details and check if anyone else saw the event. The other group were apparently focussed in the southerly direction, as Eastfield has a great interest for cropcircle watchers. The land to the north is grassed for the first 3/4 of a mile before cropfields occur. There are no houses directly beneath the event area or nearer than say half a mile- the area is farm land. |
| Rodney Hale saw a light in the distance around 11.30pm. He had stayed on to do a nightwatch after the Orgone experiment had finished on 23rd July. The behaviour and colour of the light and associated luminosities around clouds did not indicate it was manmade. |
| Details of these events are written up in Collins'
book, (p.174 on). On the night of 26th July, a 'secret location' broadcast
was made from Woodborough Hill for several hours. Edward Sherwood led a
meditation of the ET type, namely visualiation of contact with alleged extraterrestials,
and using imagery connected with 'balls of light'. The meditation was carried
out 'on- air' thus involving an unknown number of listeners in the process.
Other groups were also meditating in other local areas, by agreement, including
those people at Swanborough tump who saw lights over the Woodborough area
as described in the day report. The Orgone meditation took place from 9.24 to 9.49pm, Collins logged 107 people taking part on the ground as the groups locally started at the agreed time of those meditating on Woodborough. The GWR mediation led by Ed Sherwood started at 10.28, and finished at 10.47. The whole of the GWR transmission was monitored on the Morse radio and recorded to channel 15 of the master tape. The weather had changed during the day from dry to wet, and a mist developed as it got dark. Sherwood was still on air after the GWR meditation, being interviewed, and at about the time that listeners were invited to call in with their experiences, the radio link between the on site interviewer and the GWR radio station in Wootton Bassett was lost. Collins states that it was the 'outside broadcast van to station link' that failed. There must have been also a link between the interviewer on the hill (via a portable aerial) and the O.B van, but this is not mentioned. I had been meditating with the GWR meditation, inside the van, consequently I did not see the aerial flash which lit up the area. This flash, which occurred at 10.58pm, was observed by several people on Woodborough to be over Eastfield. As it happened, two people (Andrew Potter and Cornelius Crowley) were meditating in a cropcircle in Eastfield, Crowley saw the aerial ball of light explode directly above him. The light was stable for a moment before its explosion, without sound. I could find no large anomaly in the time period of this event on the tapes, this was strange as both the audio and hoop (vlf) aerial were aligned directly to this area and could have picked up any electromagnetic or audio effects as the distance is well under a mile and would be line of sight for a light ball in the air.. Stephen Alexander saw a possibly similar flash in the same area at 02.45 on the 28th July, some 28 hours later. I myself saw some flashes the followimg year (1995) at night near to Adams Grave, an ancient hill just to the West of Eastfield, so this type of phenomena is well established. With regard to the Morse 94 tapes, no correlation could be made to either the link transmission loss, or the ball of light. This indicates that the light was not emitting electromagnetic energy or sound waves when it 'exploded'. There is a difficulty with such correlations in any case because of the inability to know the exact moment of the event. |
| (Paul hailey only, saw this) This event was far easier to correlate timewise to the Morse master tapes. There were no official 'Orgone project' meditations on the 28th. July. However, Andy, Debs and some others carried out a daytime meditation at Tawsmead copse. I can confirm this as they walked past the van to the copse and back later in the day and spoke with me. I operated both the computer and the tapedeck on the 28th, but decided to close down the computer to save battery power as dusk approached. Accordingly I stood up on the bed with difficulty in the van, and bent over to switch off the computer at the end of a screen of recordings. I announced what I was doing to the onboard microphone. The following is a copy of my report written in August from notes taken at the time. "I was parked at 120ew 616ns map173 of the OS 1;50,000 series; a position about 200 yards from the east end of Woodborough hill and 300 yards from the edge of Tawsmead copse. I was parked beside the farm track to the immediate north of the hill. The weather was cloudy, dusk was in process at 10.12pm, the event time. My instrumentation was fully operational, with both tapedeck and computer running. I had decided to switch off the computer, as battery power was at a premium. I switched off the computer, and was kneeling inside the van on the bed to do this. As I bent into the drivers area to switch off the master switch to that section of equipment, I was looking through the (clean!) windscreen directly towards Tawsmead copse, and saw a bright scintillating gold-to-amber coloured light hovering within ten feet of the tops of the trees at Tawsmead copse not more than 300 yards away. The light was relatively stationary, and disappeared after about five seconds. There was now no computer record for magnetic field, but the tapedeck was running. The tape has been examined, the light appeared within thirty seconds of switching off the computer. The portion of tape is identifiable as I announced the light directly it had disappeared, to ch.15 microphone." (A cassette was made from this portion of the tape recording. No electrical or audio effects were identifiable. The magnetic field was stable, no changes could be noticed on the graphs, down to tens of nanoTesla, a very small amount. Higher frequency alternating changes to the magnetic field might have been present, but no 'wobble' of the audio tones (an 'FM' audio tone for each of the 3 mag channels) was heard. The complete system can detect to 30Hz but graphs show only to a few Hz unless an expanded graph is made, which is why '30 second' graphs are inluded in the report for various events.) "The bright colour and rapid scintillation indicate to me that the light was not man-made, however I could not determine the distance truly as I had one line of sight only. The light was a point source, not a disc. Subsequently after the event I checked that none of the internal indicator lamps in the van dashboard could have been seen by reflection, but all lamps had diffusing covers and even if reflected could not have caused comparable effects to that observed." I was not wearing glasses. |
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Shaman chanting heard by Paul Hailey, Horn heard by JPH with group standing on hill. From my report for the horn and shaman events, of 29th July, written
up on 4th August1994 from notes taken at the time; I had, in 1996, queries as to how the energy driving the horn was derived, where it came from and how it occurred. However, the same comments are applicable to many LITS, LITS have a similar quality of seeming to obtain energy for their existence from some place that is invisible to humans. |
| This event was found listed in Collins 'Alien
Energy' book in February 1996 when the Morse 94 report was being revised. Event 8 took place on the 25th July at around 10.45pm. Debbie and Fiona were sitting watching when an orange light rose onto the air above Martinsell hill, at the east end of the Pewsey vale area around map reference SU 178638. 5 minutes before this sighting, Ed Sherwood was convinced that he could 'see' an 'etheric light' in this position, then subsequently became otherwise engaged during the actual sighting period at 10.45pm. This report is compiled from Collins' report. |
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This is an overall view of the research. The equipment was adequate for the job but there is a need for portable data logging systems. The events listed above were quite 'energetic' in light output or sound (for the horn). It is not understood why no physical changes were detected during these events. Either the distance was too great - or the 'energy' producing the events does not register on systems detecting electromagnetic variables such as radio waves or earth's magnetic field. In other words, another non-electromagnetic source of energy is being tapped. No coincidence of general magnetic field change was observed with event times. Little support evidence was found that underground stress was producing the events either - it may be that there are 'earthquake lights' but the events monitored did not link in with the theory that underground activity produces above-ground light events when the rocks are stressed.. (Persinger Tectonic Strain Theory). Certainly the events occurred - it is difficult to believe the possibility that hallucinations or man-made objects could have produced the events. Witnesses were reliable people especially those on the Orgone project.
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| This logs the actual times
multitrack tape was running. The computer recorded magfield only. DAY ...........TAPEDECK RECORDING .............DISC (COMPUTER) RECORDING. 23.7.94 ........8pm to 12.20am ...............................8.30pm to 12.45am, 1hour graphs 24.7.94 ..............none...........................................12.10pm to 1am, disc ORG24 25.7.94 ........tape 1; 9.01pm to 1.00am................ 12.40pm to appx. 2am 25ORG .....................tape 2; 1am to 2am 26.7.94 ........8.47pm to 1am .................................5.01pm to 1am; 26ORG 27.7.94 ........8.45pm to 1am ................................12.30pm to 2am, disc 27ORG 28.7.94 ........Approx, 9pm to 1.10am ..................1.08pm to 10.11pm disc 28ORG 29.7.94 .........9.07pm to 1.25am ----------- NB. Discs were usually run as a series of one hour graphs, magnetometer only. |
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(this section is copied from the 'On site sheets' daily records page, modified for clarity The term 'TC' refers to time code which defines tape run time on the multitrack tapedeck) COPIES might be available but copied from the cassettes not the original tapes Email me with requirements - Paul hailey ALL FROM the 26th - GWR Radio transmission day: TAPE 401 item 3. Anomalous whistle/tone,
close to when hoop 7 aerial was intermittent From 28th - Event 5 where the ball of light rose out of the copse TAPE 406 Detailed examination of all tracks was carried
out for period TC 206.6 to TC 208,which is known to be the time period
where the light was seen due to live commentary on channel 15, the in-van
voice microphone. No anomalies were heard. ============================ From 29th - Events 6 and 7 - The horn and shaman - note the Morse microphone was too far away to pick up these sounds - but the tape is interesting see on site records for this day TC VALUE ============ |
Last updated Jan 2007