-Caveat Lector- [no URL - Kelly] "TIME STORMS" by Jenny Randles >From H. G. Wells to Dr Who, time travel has intrigued us for generations. In a provocative new book, Jenny Randles, one of Britain's leading experts on UFOs and the paranormal, claims that it may be happening on a regular basis as a result of a strange phenomenon she calls time storms. Her evidence, set out in this exclusive new series, is a mixture of compelling case histories and rigorous scientific argument. We leave it to you, the reader, to reach your own verdict... The small unit of army conscripts had been sent on a two-day exercise into the inhospitable terrain above the small town of Putre in Chile. The intention was to harden these inexperienced young troops for the rigours of military life. On the night of April 24, 1977, they were camped on a windswept plateau at Pampa Lluscuma, at a height of 12,000 feet. In charge of the raw recruits was Corporal Armando Valdes. At 3.50am the recruit on guard duty, Pedro Rosales, saw something very odd. He called out to Valdes, who came immediately. What appeared to be two fuzzy violet lights were descending from the mountains and heading their way. The ground below was filled with an eerie glow. Unsure if these were flares being used in a mock attack, Valdes sprang quickly into action. He ordered some of the men to screen the campfire with blankets to escape detection, and told the others to prepare their weapons. By now there was just one large fuzzy glow on the hill a few hundred yards away. It sat there immobile for some minutes. Ignoring protests from his frightened charges, Valdes ordered them to cover him with their weapons while he went to investigate. As they crouched behind a nearby wall, rifles poised, he muttered a plea for God to protect him and headed into the darkness towards the purple glow. Within seconds the inky night had swallowed him up. Moments later, the glow disappeared too. The conscripts fell into stunned silence. When their commander returned around 15 minutes later, something was clearly awry He approached the camp from behind - not from the direction in which he had just walked. He was also far from well. The startled soldiers saw him wandering as if in a trance, speaking in a voice that sounded like that of a sleepwalker. 'You do not know who we are or where we come from,' he said in a monotone, although later he never recalled uttering those words. He reached the campsite, looking barely able to stand, and collapsed on the ground apparently unconscious. Having cared for him as best they could, the men waited for dawn. It was then that they noticed several very strange things about their stricken leader. Although they had seen him shave only hours earlier, he was now sporting several days' growth of beard. His watch had stopped at about 4.30am, the approximate time of his return to the camp, but the date display - which had to be wound on manually through 24 hours at a time to alter it - read April 30. It was as if Valdes had lived through five days in under 15 minutes. Army commanders have confirmed the incident took place but say it is inexplicable. When Valdes regained consciousness, he appeared to be in a state of shock, with massive memory loss and no proper body co- ordination. Later, he described his lost minutes or days - as 'a void in my mind'. That is a feeling that 39-year-old corporate business adviser Mark Henshall understands only too well. 'I think I would describe myself as a very down-to-earth sort of chap,' he says. 'But there are some things that no one can prepare you for.' Mark was just 16 when an extraordinary experience befell him as he rode his motorcycle late at night on the rural B6278 road near Barnard Castle in County Durham. There was not much traffic on the isolated, winding road, but at 11.30pm Mark noticed two glowing lights behind him. Thinking they were the headlights of a vehicle, he kept glancing back to cheek on them. After about 30 seconds he noticed that a Jaguar car was about to overtake him, so he pulled over slightly to let it pass. The glowing lights had been forgotten for the moment. But just as the car overtook, a blinding, hazy glow swamped both vehicles. It was a vivid, fuzzy purple colour with a pinkish tinge - possibly suggestive of ultra-violet radiation. Simultaneously, Mark noticed the power drain away from his motorcycle. 'I could not understand what was happening at first. Then I moved the throttle and there was no response. I felt my back and legs becoming hot and as I looked at my leather jacket it was beginning to steam.' Despite losing all power, the bike continued to move. It was 'pulled' up the hill, as if by an unseen force, for more than 300 feet. The driver of the Jaguar later confirmed to investigators that he too lost power and yet moved forward against gravity. 'It was scary,' recalls Mark. 'Eventually I managed to pull in and got off the bike. I walked over to the car driver who was just as unnerved as I was. 'It was then that I placed my hand on the roof of the car and realised it was burning hot. I also noticed that my leathers were baking hot, even though it had been raining and 1 had previously been soaked. Then the misty mass just disappeared.' Mark continued on his journey normally just a ten-minute trip from door to door. But when he arrived home he realised that the time it had taken him on this occasion simply didn't add up. 'Even allowing for the stop when I spoke to the Jaguar driver, there were about 25 minutes that I couldn't account for. It was then that I discovered a sunburn-like rash over my thighs and one side of my face. None of it made any sense. 'It's difficult to know what to believe. But I feel sure that whatever that strange shape was, it wasn't of this world.' BEWILDERED though they may feel, Mark Henshall and Corporal Armando Valdes are not alone. Their experiences have been shared by countless others across the world. During 20 years of research, I have interviewed more than 300 witnesses to similar events. I am convinced that their testimony points to the existence of a hitherto undiscovered phenomenon that challenges our most basic understanding of reality. All these witnesses have encountered a strange energy cloud that provokes a series of bizarre physical and psychological effects. Watches stop, engines lose power, lights go out. Witnesses report pounding headaches, tingling sensations, nausea, body rashes and burns. Their hair stands on end, they get goose pimples, their eyes water. Above all, they become confused, go into a daze or even lose consciousness. When they come round, they typically feel that they have unaccountably lost track of time and space, often losing hours or even days of real time. They may have travelled significant distances - in some cases, hundreds of miles with no memory of having done so. Such claims seem to defy common sense. They are beyond the realms of our normal experience - the stuff of Hollywood films and science fiction novels. But the evidence I have gathered comes from perfectly normal people who were going about their ordinary lives when their worlds were changed for ever. And the conclusions I have drawn are based on hard-headed science - the work of men such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking. I know that many investigators of the paranormal would assume that the incidents I have described were encounters with UFOs or an alien life form. As the director of the UFO Research Association for 12 years, I might be expected to agree with them. Instead, I am offering an explanation that is both less outlandish and even more extraordinary - a mind-boggling quirk of physics that 1 call a time storm. It is my belief that time storms are flaws in the very fabric of the universe: windows into parallel realities and alternative time frames. When we step through one of these windows, we leave the world of normal experience behind. IN 1995, in a small factory in Florida, a lone security guard was going about his nightly duties. Having performed his rounds, he settled in to watch the security monitors. On one of the screens, he noted one of the workers walking towards the building's rear gate through the loading bay. As the security guard continued to watch, he suddenly saw a strange, fuzzy white glow appear and cover the area where the factory worker was standing. It caused a kind of electromagnetic interference which briefly affected the quality of the picture on the screen. The glow continued for a few seconds and then disappeared, as suddenly as it had arrived. When it had gone, the cameras returned to working normally - but the man had disappeared. A later frame-by-frame analysis of the security videotape shows the factory worker's near-instant disappearance, swallowed up by the glow. The security guard reports that he went to search for his colleague, but could not find him anywhere. He was at a complete loss to explain what had happened. EVENTUALLY, he returned to his post in front of the security monitors. Then, one hour and 50 minutes later, as he continued to watch the screens, to his great astonishment he saw the missing worker return. Again, the videotape tells the full amazing story. All the factory lights go out, a fuzzy glow re-appears and within a fraction of a second the man can be seen within this light as the glow rapidly fades. He is in distress and on all fours. Moments later he lurches forward and is violently ill. The security guard, seeing the worker staggering about in this disoriented way, went out to help him. The stunned man could recall nothing of his ordeal: he had a two-hour gap in his memory. In total shock, he went home and reported next day that he was too sick to work. He never returned to the factory. Shortly afterwards, the videotape was thoroughly examined by scientists and computer analysts, who concluded that it was genuine. Personally, I am in no doubt that what the guard witnessed, and the video recorded, was a time storm. So how do we explain what was going on? To find out, we must examine the mind-bending question of the nature of time itself. THE slippery quality of time is easy to recognise. Just ask yourself how long 'now' lasts. You know that there are moments which have happened (the past) and others yet to happen (the future), and that in between the two is supposed to be a very short instant that we call 'now'. But how long is that instant? Is it a trillionth of a second? Is it in fact any length at all? The fact is that this vital link between past and future is impossible to pin down. And that says something very profound about time. For if past just melts into future and there is no length or duration between the two, then what is the distinction between them? Indeed, is there any distinction? The answer that many modern scientists provide is: 'No.' In the 20th century, one of the biggest blows to our commonsense view of time was delivered by Albert Einstein in his theory of relativity. Einstein's equations show that weird things happen when we travel at high speeds: our mass increases, our length decreases and the passage of time slows down. If you fly on a supersonic jet, you will age less rapidly (by a few fractions of a second) than someone who stays at home. You will also relatively speaking - grow heavier and shrink in size. Those changes exist only in relation to people on the ground: you and your fellow passengers will not experience any difference. Anyway, you will return to normal when you're back in the same frame of reference as everyone else. But the shorter period of time you experienced will be permanently noticeable. You will literally have aged a little less. These effects are only very slight until you approach the speed of light, and no method of travel can yet convey passengers this fast. But when the technology is available and highspeed space travel is a reality, the full implications of Einstein's theory will become unignorable. SUPPOSE you took a trip to our closest star system, Proxima Centauri, at close to the speed of light. It would take you maybe ten years of your time to get there and back. Ten years might seem like a big chunk out of your life, but it is as nothing in comparison to what you would find when you got back home. Whole centuries might have passed. Everyone you ever knew would be dead. In other words, you would have travelled through time and found yourself far in the future. You would have proved that time is not the rigid and impenetrable barrier that it seems, but full of gaps and flaws. I believe that it is these flaws that make time storms possible. And I believe that they exist not just in the fabric of time but of space itself. A RECURRENT theme in descriptions of time storms is the way that witnesses find themselves being physically moved from one place to another. Let me give some examples. I will call my first witness simply by his Christian name, Paul. One night in September 1973, when he was 21, he was driving through the village of Little Houghton in the Midlands. As he passed the church clock, he noted it was about 2am. But from that moment on, he lost all sense of time until he found himself wandering on foot near Bromham 16 miles away. He was soaking wet, although it was not raining. There was no sign of his car and he had no obvious injuries. And it was now daylight, around 7am. Paul found a friend who lived not far away, and told him that he had no memory of the past few hours, but could only assume he'd had a crash. His friend drove him along the A428, retracing his route towards his last recalled location by the church clock. They found the car about five miles from Bromham, near a village called Turvey. It was in the middle of a muddy field yet there was no sign of tyre tracks leading from the closed gate. The car was locked (Paul had the keys in his pocket) and appeared undamaged. It was not possible to drive the car out because of thick mud caused by the heavy rain that Paul later discovered had fallen during the five hours lost to his memory The farmer had to tow it out with his tractor. TWO years after this strange event, Paul had a sudden flashback. He now recalled driving out of Little Houghton and seeing a fuzzy white glow heading towards his windscreen. Then there was blackness until he came to five hours later, wandering on foot near Bromham. It is a strange story - but others are even stranger. Take the case of Jorge Ramos, a travelling rep for a chemical company in Linhares, Brazil. At 6pm on April 20, 1981, Jorge set off to drive the few miles to a business meeting. He never arrived - and his wife Noemia feared the worst. Next day, police found his Volkswagen on a side road only a few miles outside Linhares. The key was still in the ignition, and his samples and files for the meeting were lying undisturbed. It was as if Jorge had been abducted, but there was no sign of a struggle. The car was taken away for forensic tests but there was no clue as to what had happened to Jorge until five days after his disappearance, when Noemia received a frantic call from her husband. Jorge said that he had been driving to the appointment when suddenly he saw a white glow heading towards him. Before he could react, it had enveloped the car. He felt a sense of pressure, making it hard to move, and tingling pains in his muscles. Then he found himself in a dreamy, floating state, and then he awoke, with his body still sore and disorientated. The car was gone and he was standing by an unfamiliar road. He had no idea how he had got there, but set off to buy some medication to relieve the pains in his body. Upon arrival at the chemist shop, he discovered the startling truth. Not only was it no longer the evening of April 20 (it was in fact the 25th) but he was nowhere near either his car or his home. In fact, he was in the town of Gioania - some 600 miles from where his car was discovered by the police. Just one case like this would be astonishing enough. But despite having received almost no publicity - which makes it certain that people are not copying each other's stories such incidents have been reported all over the world. I have even discovered one in the annals of Song-Zi Xian county in 19th-century China. The records relate how on May 8, 1880, a local farmer named Ju Tan came upon a misty light in some bushes. He described feeling very strange, including a tingling paralysis, and hearing a humming or rushing noise. He then found himself floating upwards and lost all sense of time and space. His very next memory - as if it had been a moment later was of being found in a dazed state by a forester in Guizhou province. This was 300 miles from his farm, and two weeks had simply gone by 'in a blink'. WHAT kind of force could move someone through both time and space? The answer must lie within the glowing clouds and mists that almost invariably trigger these incidents. The way in which these clouds shine with light suggests that they are charged with energy. Given the physiological effects I have already described tingling sensations, hair standing on end, nausea and burns - there seems every reason to think that they are made up of strong electromagnetic fields. This could be the vital clue to how they can transcend time and space. To see why, we again need the help of Einstein. The theory of relativity stipulates that no physical object can travel at the full speed of light. To do so, it would have to grow to infinite mass and shrink to zero length - both physical impossibilities - while time slowed to a total halt. ACCORDING to Einstein, the only things that can travel at that speed are light itself and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. This is possible because they are not material objects. However, the characteristics they possess as a consequence are very disconcerting. They have infinite mass and energy, no size whatsoever - and time does not exist for them. This almost makes energy fields appear God-like: a timeless, spaceless, separate reality. Nearly all physicists quickly brush that unnerving thought aside. But there is increasing speculation that consciousness the thing that turns inanimate objects into living beings may itself be some sort of unrecognised energy field. If so, perhaps this confirms mystical ideas that our consciousness exists in a timeless, spaceless realm and only our material bodies are locked into the permanent illusion that time flows in a linear way. And perhaps the reason that the normal rules of time and space are suspended for people affected by a time storm is that they, unlike the rest of us, are caught momentarily in the never-never land of the electromagnetic cloud. But there are other mysteries to unravel here. The baffling properties of electromagnetic fields are one of the central conundrums of science. Sometimes their energy seems to be packed into tiny particles - at others, it seems to come in waves. In 1923, the French physicist Louis de Broglie showed the full implications of this paradox. In essence, matter itself was found to be myriad energy fields whose complex interactions create two levels of reality. At the everyday level, we see the world as made up of particles that knit together into solid objects. But when we look at the sub-atomic reality within those solid objects, everything appears wave-like and immaterial. In other words, the hard, logical universe that behaves with the firm- edged clarity of ping-pong balls bouncing off a bat is in truth a sea of invisible, radiating energy. In an almost spooky sense, something clearly tangible - the real world is being created out of what amounts to nothing. Once again, a very unpalatable truth has emerged. The solidity of the universe is just as much an illusion as the inexorable movement of time. And what time storms seem to do is blow those illusions apart. A motor-bike ride that battles still: Mark Henshall (above) was left with 'radlation' burns after an encounter with a strange light. Right: Does Einstein's work hold the clue to time and space travel? The sheer power of the energy forces contained in a time storm is shown by my next case history. It concerns a retired nurse living in Sweden, named Mrs Bensson. On December 31,1987, Mrs Bensson was awoken in the night by her pet cat and dog behaving restlessly. She let them out into the garden believing this was what they wanted. But once outside they seemed terrified and desperate to be let back in. Unable to see what the problem was, she pulled on her dressing gown and stepped outside. To her horror, she saw her little dog shaking with fear beside a foggy ice-blue shape surrounded by a grey-orange mist. >From the base of this foggy shape, large sparks or miniature lightning bolts seemed to be entering the soil. By now Mrs Bensson was frightened and moved to grab her dog. Immediately, she began to feel very strange. Her head started pounding as if it was about to explode and her jaw began to ache. A sensation of pins and needles overtook her body. Mrs Bensson tried to call out to her husband, but was paralysed. Unable to move, she was aware of a psychological change overtaking her, as if her mind was being sucked out of her body. She seriously felt that she was dying. Meanwhile, Mr Bensson had woken up. He could hear a strange humming or buzzing sound and went to investigate. His wife was barely aware of his arrival, but recalls having just felt a sharp pain in the base of her neck. It was as if someone was sticking a needle in that part of her body. At the same moment, the blue fog disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived. All that was left was a pungent smell in the air, like sulphur. Stranger still, both the cat and the dog were sitting on the ground, staring into space as if hypnotised. Mrs Bensson was following their gaze and appeared to be in a deep trance, from which it took several minutes to rouse her. She was left bedridden for several days, suffering from a severe migraine and deep nausea. Her husband discovered that her jumper had melted, and tests following a police investigation revealed that a powerful electrical discharge had struck her body and heated the jumper's fibres. Thirteen years later, the Benssons still have no idea what truly went on that night. WHEN witnesses talk about time storms, they often liken the experience to moving into a parallel reality, where everything is basically the same but small things have changed. Is it possible that there are coexistent worlds, running on almost identical lines to our own, and that time storms allow us to move sideways from one track to another? Once again, an idea that seems to come straight from the realms of fantasy has a firm foundation in modern science. The existence of pararallel worlds is one of the main theories put forward to solve one of the toughest problems in physics. Put simply, the problem is that there is no way of knowing with certainty what is happening in the sub-atomic world. Everything is a matter of probability and impossible to cheek, because as soon as you start taking measurements at this tiny level it inevitably changes the results. Could this mean that - before you start measuring - all possible options are occurring simultaneously? In that case, taking a measurement would just mean that you pick one reality rather than another. The implications are staggering. At every single moment, the universe would be splitting into unthinkably large numbers of parallel realities. It sounds crazy. But although hugely controversial, this 'many worlds' theory has passionate defenders In the scientific world. Stephen Hawking is one of those who have been drawn to it. Certainly, however strange or incredible reports of time storms might be, they are no more incredible than what physicists are prepared to accept about the nature of the universe. But I also believe that the existence of parallel worlds could account for what many of my witnesses have experienced. For example, take the strange events that befell Peter Williamson of Somerset on July 28, 1974. It all began innocently, with Peter and his wife Mary enjoying a barbecue in the garden. Although it was a sumrner's day, there had just been an electrical storm. The Williamsons noticed that their dog was cowering under a tree - spooked, perhaps, by the strange atmosphere. Peter decided to take the animal back indoors, but as he went towards It there was a huge flash. Next moment to his wife's horror, Peter had vanished. The police were called, Mary Williamson was put under sedation, and their children were sent to stay with friends. Despite a massive search there was no sign of the missing man. It was argued that a lightning strike had disoriented the guests, caused them to miss what had happened. Peter must have suffered traumatic amnesia after being struck, and wandered off in the confusion. Then, at 8am three days later, Peter was found unconscious in a shrubbery In a locked garden nearby, with one foot in a pond. It was as if he had arrived there out of nowhere. There was no sign of how he had got in the gardener who found him had the only key. Peter spent several days In hospital suffering from shock, and had no recall of what had taken place. Then Peter began to experience increasingly lucid dreams. He saw himself standing in an unfamiliar garden, soaking wet, and wandering along roads, dazed and confused. In his dream, he was found and eventually taken to a hospital. Here he spent some time undergoing tests. He was able to recall the names of a doctor, a sister, various nurses, and the ward where he was cared for. He also remembered how the hospital would 'shimmer' around him in a sort of haze, and furniture would appear in places where none had previously stood. Then the ward would return to normal. As Peter's condition improved in this dream hospital, he was allowed out for a walk around the grounds. Going down a lane outside, Peter began to get a sense of familiarity. Then there was no further recall until he awoke by the pond. The hospital Peter described was traced it was a cottage infirmary nearby. It had a ward, a doctor and a sister with the names Peter had reported. The doctor did not recognise Peter and the hospital records showed that he had never stayed there. It was suggested that he must have invented his dream from fragments of information lurking in his subconscious (perhaps a conversation once heard about the hospital). But is that the real explanation? Or during this electrical storm, did Peter shift into a parallel reality? 'What if many Peters In many similar realities disappeared that night and the one that returned to 'our' reality was not the Peter who left? Maybe in some other reality there is a man who returned to his family but seemed somehow slightly different. The world is full of stories about people who suddenly disappear, never to be seen again, or of strangers who arrive from nowhere without the ability to explain who they are or where they come from. Is it possible that in such cases we are seeing the result of a sudden switch in realities? It is a chilling thought. These ideas throw a new light on many of the other cases 1 have discussed. What witnesses regard as a physical movement from one place to another might not be that at all. What if the details of their surroundings have altered because they have 'jumped reality tracks', thanks to the time storm? Both the space and time they found themselves in would be out of step with the reality they left behind. If time storms are made up of timeless, spaceless electromagnetic fields that are able to travel at the speed of light, then perhaps, finally, we have discovered the naturally occurring windows to other dimensions. On Monday, I will reveal more evidence to support this astonishing possibility including suggestions that time travellers may be visiting us from our own future, and leaving their mark on our world. EXTRACTED from "TIME STORMS" by Jenny Randles, to be published by Piatkus Books on January 25 at £17.99. (0 2001 Jenny Randles. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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