REVIEW OF MAGNETIC EFFECTS

Magnetic fields associated with UFOs have produced a wide variety of effects strongly suggesting a static or
slowly changing field. They have induced permanent magnetism in ferrous objects such as signs and flagpoles.
Many wristwatches have been stopped during a UFO sighting then later found by a jeweler to be magnetized. Such
residual magnetism could have been produced only by static fields or ones changing intensity very slowly; rapidly
pulsing fields, on the other hand, would erase magnetism. That technique is used to erase magnetic tapes and to
“degauss” ships. The author has duplicated most types of radio interference from UFOs with static, magnetic
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fields. The most sensitive components of transistor radios are coils in tuned radio-frequency and intermediate-
frequency circuits. The magnetic field modifies the physical property of their ferrite cores. The circuits are thereby
detuned from the selected station. Reception begins to fade at about 350 gauss and is entirely blocked at about 800
gauss. Such fields are moderately strong, being typical for bar magnets. Continued increases in field strength will
shift the tuning to the next station of higher frequency. A radio can be tuned across the whole dial in that manner.
Radios originally set at stations in the upper end of the dial will be driven completely beyond the AM band, where
they can receive navigational signals in Morse code.
Slowly pulsing magnetic fields around UFOs have been suspected to cause agitation or spinning of compasses.
Intuition suggests that sustained rotation of a compass can be produced by a weak magnetic field only if it is pulsed
at a rate approximating the natural resonant frequency of the compass. That point was verified in experiments by the
author in which spin rates of liquid-filled compasses were sustained from 6 to 20 rpm depending upon the strength
of the applied magnetic impulses. Overly strong impulses threw the compass into wild agitation. On February 2,
1973, Captain Peter Telling was piloting a commercial flight in Australia. At first fearing a fire in his starboard
engine, he spotted an intense bluish-white light 7–14 m. in diameter at a distance of 10 m. It paced the airplane for
20 to 25 seconds. His automatic direction finder, gyrocompass, and magnetic compass all went haywire and spun at
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12 rpm. The pulse rate of the magnetic field was thus measured to be as slow as 12 rpm = 0.2 sec , or one pulse
every 5 seconds.
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Actually, the magnetic fields from UFOs have been precisely measured with scientific instruments in the field!
French aerospace scientist, Dr. Claude Poher, former head of GEPAN, studied the relationship between UFO
sightings and major disturbances of the earth’s magnetic field. France maintains a series of research stations
monitoring atmospheric conditions, nuclear explosions, and the three components of the geomagnetic field. They are
generally located in remote areas to minimize electromagnetic interference. During the fall of 1954 when UFO
sightings were unusually frequent, fifteen events were found in which the exact location and time of the sighting
corresponded with a major disturbance of the magnetic field at the research station. While moderately strong fields
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are measured in gauss, very weak fields are measured in gammas, the ration being 1 gamma = 10 gauss. Maximum
disturbances in the vertical component of the field ranged from about 5 gamma to about 80 gamma for distances of
24 to 100 km. The geomagnetic field in France is about 0.454 gauss with a declination of 10 degrees west and a dip
of 60 degrees downward toward the north. Hence, the vertical component would normally be (0.454) sin 60 = 0.393
gauss = 39.300 gamma. The measurements are thus seen to be extremely sensitive, namely on the order of 1 part in
1,000. Five experimental data points clustering around 5 gamma at 85 km. are taken as a baseline. As magnetic
fields diminish from their source inversely as the third power of the distance, Poher’s data allow the calculation of
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Effects of UFOs Upon People
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the source strength, or magnetic moment, of the UFO. It is found to be 7.7 x 10 amp meter ! That figure is
phenomenally high compared to current research on super-fields and the hint of advanced technology from unearthly
sources is inescapable. The magnetic field strength at any distance from UFOs can also be calculated from the
scientific measurements. It would be 425 gauss at a distance of 130 m. from a UFO, a typical range at which
electromagnetic effects are observed and consistent with the experimental data on radios.
From the foregoing review of magnetic effects, it appears that magnetic fields from UFOs are static or pulse very
slowly. It is, therefore, unlikely that they could produce significant currents in the body because such induction is
proportional to the rate of change of the field strength. The rate of change of a static field is, of course, nil.
In contrast, direct evidence indicates that pulsed microwaves are a strong candidate. In 1958, a four-year,
comprehensive medical survey of the physiological effects of radar was completed at Lockheed Corporation. Many
employees were routinely exposed to low-intensity radiation during final tests of aircraft radar. Their medical
histories were compared with those of employees who had not been exposed. Despite various minor symptoms, no
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pathological changes were observed for occasional exposures up to 13.1 mW/cm in the S- and X-bands having
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frequencies of 1,500–5,200 and 5,200–11,00 sec respectively. Almost 6% of 335 people exposed to the S-band
field experienced a “buzzing or pulsing sensation,” a phenomenon with which the reader is already familiar. “Less
than 1%…” presumably meaning three individuals, experienced “sparking between dental fillings or a peculiar
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metallic taste.” (My emphasis.) There seems little doubt that pulsed microwaves are perfectly capable of
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stimulating the taste, particularly at power densities greater than 13.1 mW/cm .