A New CFZ Tale

Following the success of the cryptozoological story entitled “The Cats of Upperminster,” by Tim Matthews, the CFZ is embarking on another yarn. This new one is by Oll Lewis and is called “The Adventures of Marmaduke Wetherell, Adventurer.” Part 1 goes under the title of “A Mission to Die,” and sets the scene as well as introducing us to the characters. As Oll writes:

“I can write a new part roughly once a month probably. It's not exactly high art, just a little adventure story. I have a vague outline of what's going to happen in future parts that I can add more bits into if people actually like it or remove parts from for a quick and merciful ending if its not well received, should things go according to plan it does end up in loch ness and a huge twist is revealed.”

So why not go over and read it, and be sure to let the CFZ know if you like it and would like to read more instalments.

Meanwhile, back with “The Cats of Upperminster,” Part 18 “Making a Movie” went online back at the beginning of August. It’s been a while, but I’m still following this one, and I’m still highly amused at how the tale is unfolding. I can’t wait to read the next part, and hope it won’t be too long before it appears.

And, Jon, here’s a suggestion, why not put up a couple of links where all the instalments, from both of these adventures, can be read? Then people who have missed previous segments can know where to find them. Just an idea :)

More UK Government UFO files available

The UK has just released some more UFO files, this time for the years 1981 to 1996. Amongst the reports are some pertaining to Rendlesham Forest and, of course, the archive downloads are all in pdf which, personally, I really dislike. If you’d like to check them out then click here for the National Archives.

As to be expected, Dr David Clarke, a UFO expert and journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, has his own theories about sightings being co-incidental with the release of some film and TV programmes in which the main themes were Aliens and/or UFOs. You can read more about that here in an article that also relates what Lord Hill-Norton thought when he wrote to Michael Heseltine, the UK Defence Secretary in 1985, about the Rendlesham event.

But what I find particularly interesting is the case of a UFO seen across my own county of Cornwall, and other counties, at the very end of March 1993. The Ministry of Defence concluded that this was, in fact, either an American spy plane, or the re-entry of a Russian rocket.

What all of this tells us about UFOs is, of course, open to question. Some of it relates to what are now old cases where further investigation would probably be very difficult given the passage of time. But that's not to say that investigating old cases has no merit, and I'm also a firm believer that those who are new to the UFO subject should make themselves aware of what went before. Without that basic grounding we fail to see how the subject has evolved, and is still evolving with each new generation.