The 'Mike Mercury' Connection
The text/article below were printed
in Spacelink Vol.1 No.2 (1964).
[I have edited out part dealing with contents of the July 1962 journal of B.I.S.]
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The following article, written by J.D.Llewelyn,
Chairman of SAUFOG
(Stratford Upon Avon UFO Group) formed the substance of his startling talk
given at the 1963 BUFOA National Convention, Birmingham.
Unobvious ways in which the concept of
UFO phenomena is disseminated
by J.D.Llewelyn
Members of groups and societies receiving UFO
magazines regularly and obtaining UFO books as soon as possible are enabled
to be kept up to date on all aspects of the subject.
They very often deplore the situation that developments are not brought, to
the same degree, to the notice of the Public generally. But do we realise the
different ways, not always obvious and as urgent as we would sometimes like,
that the New Age knowledge is being disseminated? Presented as it is, it must
be assimilated slowly in the same way that other new and unorthodox ideas have
come to the consciousness of man.
There has been a great deal of discussion and comment on the failure of our national press to contribute to the spread of the new knowledge of these times in the way that it could, but do we realise just what is being done in this direction?
The comic strips, for instance: A regular reader of "Jeff Hawke", Daily Express, knows that the hero's creator, Sidney Jordon, is with it! In the past, his strips have covered alien spaceships capable of safely "consuming" two cars and occupants at the switch of an anti-gravitational field. Where have we heard of this before?! A later adventure includes 'Shaverian' underground caves with entrances materialising on remote mountain tops. Inside are fabulous machines and a remote-controlled time capsule. Jeff Hawke emerges as the New Age man and is told by the 'Galactic Council'; '...Your planet Earth is a tiny culture far out on the rim of the Galaxy - there are thousands like it - a carefully tended incubator designed for the nature of man - man evolving from his environment is a cunning illusion, rather his environment was evolved for him - your planet is a machine for converting sun-energy into food, light and air - man is not on Earth by accident - every five thousand years a great survey ship passes by to see that all is well, to measure man's progress.'
Those of us with young children know that space travel is taken for granted with them and is stimulated by comics, toys, cartoons, etc. How about Flying Saucers?
One of the best examples of this preparation
for higher realms of thought is television's 'Supercar.' Have you ever listened
to the words of the title tune?
They fit the descriptions of Saucers recorded in many reports:
'Supercar... travels in the air... under the sea... lighter than air... swift
as can be... travels in space... roams the skies... IT'S THE MARVEL OF THE AGE.'
Supercar's pilot, Mike Mercury, has had an 'Angelucci Type' saucer visit and
contact with someone from 'Mercurius.' He was given a present of a belt which
by Earth standards had 'magical' properties, etc.
A B.B.C. 'Bleep and Booster' cartoon shows Scoutships with journeys in the Universe.
Then there is 'Fireball XL5.' This tells of spaceships roaming the Solar System on 'peace patrols' having crews composed of Earthmen, Venusians and Martians.
An I.T.V. beer advertisement shows, in the words of the blurb, the chasing of no, not a Flying Saucer, but a beer bottle!
Old Moore, in the 1965 Almanac, predicted that we were to hear of space probes resulting in evidence that highly intelligent and amazingly evolved life exists on planets other than our own. Those who accept the contacts and contactees realise that this prediction may have already come true. Talking about future weather prospects, he goes on to say that unknown factors such as the effect of 'yet undiscovered planets' may create other trends to modify conditions.
'Far and Wide,' a new magazine for young (at heart) people, contains two articles on 'Flying Saucers' and 'Life in the Universe.'
'Spaceflight,' published by the British Interplanetary Society, is a first class magazine presenting the realities of the future in a popular manner. Since its inception, it has published many articles on the possibility of extraterrestrial existence with a good deal of specific detail...
...Such enlightenment in our time is put forward more by our local newspapers and, for instance, the magazine 'Today.' There have been quite a few well balanced T.V. programmes; an I.T.V. presentation at the end of 1963 included an official Air Ministry statement.
Do we of the groups give these the support and encouragement that we should? At the same time that we tend to decry lack of publicity, do we do enough ourselves to contact Editors and provide material both interesting and factual on the existence of Flying Saucers?
With the examples mentioned it can be seen that the dissemination of new thoughts does go on in many ways - to bring about the eventual realisation of man's true place in the greater scheme of things.
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