a reply to:
IsaacKoi
Isaac, to the best of my knowledge, no actual final report was ever published on the subject. My memory of the whole affair is that, there was a
schism within in the community that, as I was only a teenager at the time, I was not party to. Rex Dutta just seemed to back off from the whole
subject in public whilst remaining happy to discuss what went on with those he thought would not try to merely "jump to conclusions".
Looking back, I can now see that, Rex's "journey" and those of many of those he'd known for many years within the UFO community of the time were
totally divergent paths and I suspect he began to lose trust in many of the upper echelons as they began to distance themselves from Rex. In short, we
are talking Gordon Creighton and a large swathe of the older ufologists turning to the concept that UFOs were of some sort of "demonic" source and
Rex, a leading figure in the esoteric movement. Rex saw a humour in the incidents, Creighton and colleagues felt threatened by the self same
scenarios. Rex seeing the "trickster tradition" writ large in what happened, Creighton and others seeing a biblical evil behind it all. I feel myself
that, Rex saw in me and others of my generation that, we had a far more open mind about possibilities and and far more "worldly" view on life that we
did not see things in terms of pure good and evil rather, we could live with life containing far more subtle shades of intent and purpose. That is,
just because something is on the surface, scary and unsettling, that does not make it either "bad or evil" it just means that, we don't really
understand.
The likes of Gordon Creighton had been brought up to believe in absolutes and their experiences in the fight against the Nazis merely strengthened
that concept in their own minds. Things were either "good or evil" they simply had a problem seeing "between the lines". If the intelligence behind
this whole phenomenon was unwilling to hold an open and frank discourse with the "cream of society" then their agenda must be a threat to us was their
rationale. Gordon was an ex foreign office person, he was there at the fag end of the British Empire he still had that mindset in part, where the UK
were "top dogs" and any outside intelligence must therefore, have to want to talk to the likes of him and Lord Hill Norton or they must be treated as
"suspect".
What I can say, with some certainty about it all is this. Rex was extremely well connected, not just low level connections rather, those who held
ranking positions in many walks of life. It was solely through Rex that a ranking Policeman was willing to talk "off the record" about the whole
incident and it was that policeman who gave Rex a couple of places to look in the knowledge that, the "official story" would quickly fall apart. It
does strike me that, given the length of time that has passed that. a FOIR for any and all police reports pertaining to the said incident might just
throw up that report Rex was given the details of. To the best of my knowledge, that report was never made available to the general public and was
for Chief Inspectors and upwards only. Why? That I cannot answer save , given it was really just a whitewash, maybe they knew it wouldn't stand up to
public scrutiny?
Neither do I know whether Rex himself actually wrote up and consigned to paper his own report on his investigation. This I do know, Rex always gave me
the impression that, the idea is was just a "prank" was a total non starter and that, if it was wholly of human origin then it was almost certainly
carried out under the aegis one arm of the intelligence services to test the "readiness" of other arms of the intelligence communities. My own
impression was that, Rex himself, thought that both the 77 incident and the one he was directly involved with himself, were "cosmic jokes" and a
subtle way of testing us on several levels. I would guess that, in public, I am still the only person to have spoken about talking directly to someone
involved in one of these incidents, in the figure of the Radio Station engineer i was introduced to by Rex. That self same engineer made it plain to
me in person that, the technology involved in perpetration of both incidents was beyond the ken of your casual prankster and that, salient facts about
what had actually occurred had been kept from the public sphere.
In the case Rex was directly involved with himself, all the phone lines into the Radio Station were blocked by the same caller who was on air and
that, the host of the show had tried to curtail the whole incident and been unable to because of this.
Likewise, in the case of then 77 transmission, a key and vital fact was kept from the public sphere in its' aftermath. That was that, as far as the TV
engineers on station when it occurred were concerned, nothing was happening. Their monitoring of the news that night showed nothing untoward happening
and that, they were tonally unaware it had happened until their phones started ringing and they were being questioned as to "What the hell is going
on?". The engineer I spoke to was of the opinion that, this was all bar impossible to achieve unless it was a sophisticated piece of tech that was
being used beyond the then known capabilities of even a fully specced TV station let alone, a few pranksters mucking about in a field.That is, unless
the prank was "in house" and carried out by those working for the TV station itself. it was virtually impossible to replicate.
Now it might be that, the 77 incident and Rex's own event earlier, were the result of in house pranksters and maybe the security services dealt with
those responsible however, neither the engineer or Rex could point to sudden "redundancies or personnel" who, had suddenly left their positions
under a cloud of any sort with reference to either incident. Furthermore, in the intervening years, I am almost positive someone somewhere, would have
"owned up" and gone public over their part in the "Hoaxes" or, if not that, someone within the media would have made mention of knowing who was
actually responsible and how it was done. However, in the intervening decades, to my knowledge, not one person has ever stepped from the shadows to
offer up such and explanation and that, I do find very telling.
In summary and this I feel i can speak for Rex on as I did know him, the content of the message was wholly irrelevant to them actually occurring and
the very nature of their occurrence. The cod English accent, the flowery language, the whole "hippy style" message was really something that was
pretty neutral in the sense that, it didn't really contain language that could be perceived as "threatening" to those who were witness to it all. In
fact, one could characterise the messages as really rather twee and verging on the daft. The public at large, once over the initial shock were quite
happy to believe that the whole thing was all really rather "silly" and yes, bore all the hallmarks of some "student prank". However, to the
authorities, it was a message of another kind. That being that, someone somehow, had the means to take over the control of the mass media of the
country with the longest history of its' usage and that, there was nothing they could do about it.
carried on to next post
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