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Telephone engineers have told me that very strange things are happening to telephones since they have had
many complaints from telephone users, especially in the mid-west. Television and radio engineers have
experienced weird happenings while on duty. Tape recorded programs have been mysteriously erased or
garbled and they have heard unknown code coming out of the air from apparently nowhere. These engineers
are not given to vivid imaginations since their profession calls for men of a practical and methodical mind.
The following cases are excerpts from letters I have received:
A lady in London, England wrote: "Lately at night time I have been hearing strange notes and rhythms which
have been quite outside ordinary wireless experience. I worked in wireless stations and know Morse code
exceptionally well, but this is not any code we know; it is very different."
A lady in Cincinnati, Ohio, wrote: "One day in the latter part of May, 1954, I was awakened about three in the
morning. I heard the sound of code in my room. It was similar to Morse code, pitched rather low, and seemed
to be just in my room. I listened to it for about ten minutes and fell asleep with it still going. There was a
sense of peace connected with it, and I felt there was nothing to fear. I knew it was strange for code to be
heard without a receiver but somehow it didn't bother me. In June, I heard it again for a few minutes."
A housewife in Medford, Oregon wrote: "One night the strangest noise suddenly came over our radio which
was off at the time. I asked my husband what it was. I wish now that I had turned the set on, because we may
have heard voices, but the sound was so loud and I was so surprised I couldn't think of anything. The sound
was similar to Morse code but had a musical note to it. Later we learned that two Saucers had been observed
in the area at the same time we received the signals on our radio."
A woman in New Castle, Pennsylvania wrote: "Several times lately our television set has gone absolutely
crazy. We heard strange code-like sounds and even voices. We called our neighbors but they were receiving
nothing like that on their sets. We have a brand new GE model and it's in perfect condition--we know, because
we've had it checked."
A lady in Los Angeles, California wrote: "My husband and I have an old television set in our den. This set has
been out of order for weeks. On the night of August 31, 1954, I went to bed in the front bedroom about 12:30,
my husband turned in shortly thereafter. About one in the morning he called me and asked if I had turned on
the TV set. I told him I hadn't turned it on, and besides, it wasn't working. He said the set was making a
strange, buzzing sound, and he could see the tubes from the back of the set and they were all on, even the
viewing tube which hasn't been working for weeks! My husband turned up the volume to see if he could hear
anything and a beautiful voice came out strong and loud, saying: 'Strange waters shall gush forth out of the
rocks.' My husband turned off the volume and I asked him what the man's voice was. He believed it was some
minister talking. I asked him how the set got on, and why did it work at all. We checked it and found the set
was only a little bit warm, so it wasn't on for long. Our television set had turned itself on some way! The next
morning we checked the TV programs in the paper to see what had been on the channel the night before. We
had been tuned to Channel 5-KTLA-TV. We learned that this channel is off the air entirely after 11:30 every
night and the voice came on after one in the morning. It certainly was unusual for a TV set that is out of order
to suddenly turn itself on, and produce a voice from a channel that has been off the air for over an hour and a
half! The set is still in the den, and still doesn't work."
Recently four people tried to contact space visitors by telepathy in Los Angeles, California. They asked for a
signal of some kind after they thought they were getting a reception. They wanted to know for sure whether it
was really coming from space friends or if it was from their own minds. Suddenly a TV set that hadn't been on
for over four hours started showing a "blip" similar to radar blips. This moved around on the TV screen. They
pulled the plug out of the wall and moved the set into the middle of the room, but the blip still kept coming in!
No power of any kind was being received by the set; as far as anyone in the room was concerned it was a dead
set.