AMSKAYA

Magazine Overview

Title: AMSKAYA
Issue Date: October 1997
Publisher: STAR Fellowship
Document Type: Magazine Issue

This issue of AMSKAYA, the newsletter of the STAR Fellowship, delves into various aspects of UFOlogy, extraterrestrial contact, and cosmological theories. It features personal accounts of sightings, discussions on planetary environments, and information about the STAR Fellowship's history and publications.

Key Articles and Features

Cigar-Shaped UFO Sightings

The issue highlights several sightings of cigar-shaped UFOs. Eileen Roche and Jimmy Goddard reported an encounter on April 12, 1997, near Addlestone. Another sighting, photographed by Janet Bord on July 4, 1983, over the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, revealed smaller objects underneath upon contrast enhancement. The author recounts a personal sighting on September 1, 1997, in Somerset, describing an object that appeared as a vapour trail but did not change size or shape. A report from Croatia's national TV on April 16, 1997, described a UFO over Zagorje as a 'giant cigar'. The article suggests these sightings, particularly those involving the Pitch Hill Ley Project participants, are significant evidence of 'space people'.

The Environments of the Planets

Drawing from books by George Adamski, George Hunt Williamson, and Daniel Ross, this section explores the conditions on various planets:

• Mercury: Described as the communications centre of the Solar System.
• Venus: Characterized by a firmament in its upper atmosphere that blocks harmful cosmic rays while allowing visible light. Its troposphere is life-supporting, with conditions similar to Earth, including oceans and lakes. Venus is presented as a planet where lessons in love and compassion predominate.
• Earth: Noted as potentially the most hostile planet due to its unwarlike people and extreme environment, which struggles to filter harmful solar radiation.
• The Moon: Evidence suggests it is not airless, waterless, or lifeless. It is said to have a substantial atmosphere, higher gravity than theorized, water, vegetation, and both artificial and natural bases on its surface.
• Mars: Dr. E.C. Slipher's work suggests Mars has a deep atmosphere, water vapor clouds, polar caps of frozen water, and a surface with canals, oases, and cyclic vegetation, contradicting 'official' government evidence. It is also described as highly developed in science manufacturing.
• The Asteroid Belt: Presented as having a negative charge that attracts solar particles, acting as an incubator of electromagnetic energy. Voyager I measured extremely high kinetic activity in this zone. The belt is described as grid-like, with openings allowing particles to pass through to influence the planets. A third asteroid belt beyond the twelfth planet serves to blend our system with neighboring ones and acts as a protective filter.
• Jupiter: Its atmospheric colors are described as soft blues and yellow, and blue-green, contrary to 'stormwracked' descriptions. It is noted that Jupiter has a solid surface beneath its atmospheric zones.
• Saturn: Its earth-like surface lies below its atmospheric firmament. Saturn is described as a planet of balance, serving to balance planets, the sun, and the asteroid belts.
• Uranus: Mentioned as inhabited, with beings who discourage excessive contact with Earth.
• Neptune: Also inhabited, with beings involved in interplanetary cooperation.
• Pluto: Described as looking like a small world, with Adamski suggesting the existence of three more planets beyond it.

The section concludes by suggesting that by emulating Venusians, Martians, and Saturnians, humanity could improve its condition and become eligible to take its place in the solar system's household.

Messages from The Saucers Speak!

This section presents messages purportedly from 'space people' as detailed in George Hunt Williamson's book. On August 6, 1952, 'Regga of Masar' described the Sun as a cool body, not a hot flaming one, and explained that heat is generated by friction within Earth's magnetic field. On August 10, 1952, 'Nah-9' and 'Zrs. Zrs' stated that all planets and many moons are inhabited, and that leaving Earth's magnetic field via rocket or atomic power would be dangerous. They also claimed Earth has two moons, one of which is the 'dark moon'. On August 17, 1952, 'Zo' from Neptune mentioned going to Pluto and described Mercury as not a hot, dry world, attributing planetary temperatures to magnetism. A warning was issued about Earth's bombs potentially destroying universal balance or creating an asteroid belt, referencing a past event on a 'planet of the fifth orbit'.

National Sky Watch: 21st June 1997

This report details a sky watch event at Pewley Downs, Guildford, Surrey, organized by TEMS and SEMG. Participants observed aircraft, including one resembling a flying triangle, and noted two bright flashes in the clouds, possibly reflections from electric trains. A major firework display was also observed.

George Adamski

This section provides a biographical sketch of George Adamski, a prominent UFO contactee. It recounts his alleged encounter in the Mohave Desert in 1952, where he met a being from Venus and witnessed a cigar-shaped object eject a silver disc. Adamski's photographs of 'mother-ships' and 'scout craft' generated controversy, with critics comparing them to mundane objects. The article defends Adamski by noting the sincerity perceived by science journalist Robert Chapman and the independent sightings of similar objects by others, such as Stephen Darbishire. It also mentions astronaut John Glenn's and Russian cosmonauts' observations of 'firefly-like' objects, suggesting Adamski may have had prior knowledge. The section concludes by referencing a 1965 incident where Adamski filmed a scout ship exhibiting a distortion effect.

Flying Saucer on Air Force Memorial?

This brief piece notes that the Royal Air Force Memorial on Cooper's Hill, Runnymede, Surrey, has a structure on top that resembles a flying saucer, similar to the Magna Carta memorial and the ship from 'Forbidden Planet'.

Booklets and Publications

The Hidden Unity and Beginnings

Two booklets are described: 'The Hidden Unity' examines the phenomenon of subconscious siting of ley points and the significance of worship, using the Shah Jehan Mosque and Guru Nanak Sikh Temple as examples. 'Beginnings' details discoveries made by Jimmy Goddard over twenty years, including earth energy detection, natural antigravity, and subconscious siting. Both booklets are available for purchase.

Earth People, Space People

This booklet, prepared to compensate for a lost manuscript, details extraterrestrial contact claims, the history of the STAR Fellowship, evidence for life in the Solar System, and extraterrestrial language. It is available for £2.

Recurring Themes and Editorial Stance

The recurring themes in this issue are UFO sightings, particularly of unusual craft shapes like cigars, and the exploration of extraterrestrial life and planetary conditions. The STAR Fellowship, as represented by AMSKAYA, appears to advocate for the reality of extraterrestrial contact and investigation into these phenomena, viewing contact as the primary path forward for flying saucer research. The editorial stance is one of open inquiry into anomalous aerial phenomena and the potential for interplanetary communication and understanding.