STEALTH 'BLACK TRIANGLE' CRAFT

Part One

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By Jon King, UFO Reality magazine (UK)
File 25: Appendix 01  Case Report: Cosmic Top-X25
 

'Merlin'

George Vernon's name first came to light during the media
blitz immediately following Operation Blackbird. The fact that
he had invented an astrology-based board game and that in
the process of marketing his new game he referred to himself
as 'Merlin' made him the perfect media fall guy.

The Sunday Sport, for example, reporting on the events of
Operation Blackbird back in 1990, brazenly told the world that
George Vernon had claimed to have made all the crop circles
through the power of his mind, and that he had discovered
this ability some years previously when he'd slept in a crop
field near Stonehenge and had woken up to find that a circle
had formed around him. The Sunday Sport also claimed that
Vernon had admitted to hoaxing the Blackbird formation by
'rolling around in the corn'. It should be added that this story
was written by the Sunday Sport reporter, B. Ollocks.
 

I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.

George Vernon categorically denies all of these bizarre
claims. Having spoken to him on a number of occasions on
the telephone, and having met and interviewed him at his
home, I have to say that I believe him. His story is compelling
and coherent, and has remained consistent throughout my
investigations, even though the terrible traumas he has
suffered over the past seven or eight years have taken
their toll. Though fully cognizant, George is now in fragile
mental health. Nevertheless he is determined to clear his
name and get to the truth of what really happened on
the night of 25th/26th July 1990.

In brief, George's story begins with the mysterious deposit
of some £10,000 in his bank account. This occurred shortly
after he was involved in a car accident in December 1985.
According to George, all he can recall about the accident is
being picked up by an 'ambulance crew' and an 'ambulance
man' bending over him, touching his forehead and asking
his name. For some reason that, at the time, even George
could not fathom, he replied: 'Merlin.'

Some short time following the accident George became
inspired to invent a board game based on astrology and
megalithic sites, such as Stonehenge, but he did not have
the money to do this. The next thing he knew £10,000 had
been deposited in his bank account. To this day he has
no idea where the money came from. When questioned
about this his bank manager explained that there was no
mystery attached to the deposit - George had taken out a
personal loan and must have forgotten that he had done so.
When asked to produce evidence of the loan - a signed
document of some kind - the bank was unable to
do so, however.

Bemused by this rather mysterious set of circumstances,
in October 1988 HTV News revealed that they too had
investigated the deposit: as it turned out, their findings
differed slightly from George's own account. In a two-and-
a-half-minute segment correspondent Jonathan Meredith
reported that, when questioned, Lloyds Bank had admitted
to having made a sizeable blunder - their computer had
deposited the £10,000 in George's bank account
by mistake!

As a consequence, Lloyds were now treating the so-called
'mistake' as a personal loan and expected George to pay
it all back. In the meantime, however, George had treated
himself to a holiday in Greece with some of the money,
while the balance had been invested in the development
of his board game. In short, he no longer had the
£10,000.

And here's another twist. While travelling back from
Greece, George was stopped by Customs officials and
questioned about the sizeable amount of cash he was
carrying. When George attempted to explain that the money
had mysteriously appeared in his bank account he was
arrested and held for further questioning; he spent the entire
weekend in custody while the CID endeavoured to trace the
money - where it had come from, who had been responsible
for the deposit, etc. The strange thing is that the CID drew
a complete blank; they could not find any details as to where
the money had come from or who had deposited such a large
sum in George's bank account. George was subsequently
released without charge.

'I had to sign a statement that said they could go through
my account to find out where the money came from,' George
told me. 'But even the CID couldn't find out where the money
came from, so they let me go.'

In the meantime George followed his inspiration and
invented his new board game. The reason I mention
the board game is because it plays a very central role
in the plot, and the mysterious deposit of such a large
sum of money in his bank account certainly suggests that
perhaps someone wanted him to create this new board
game very badly. Why this should be so remains to be
seen. Perhaps what happened next may throw some
light on the mystery . . .

... On the night of the now infamous Operation Blackbird
'hoax' (25th/26th July 1990) George Vernon happened to
be in Wiltshire (he was a removals man and was working
in Wiltshire on the day in question).  So far as George
is concerned, what happened to him that night not only
changed his life completely, it virtually destroyed him.

That evening, at around 11:30 p.m., George says that a
'voice' or an 'inner communication' told him to drive to a
particular place and a particular field, which he did.

'I was driving the van and this thing came in my head to
go to Bratton, to turn left, to turn right... it was about 11:30
p.m. and I was told to turn left and go over a little bridge, and
drive about four hundred yards. Then the engine cut out.
I pulled into the grass verge by a farmhouse gate and I was
told to get out of the van. I wasn't scared at this point.
I was being controlled, totally taken over.'

It just so happened that this field in which George had
'arrived' (and in which he now stood, in Bratton, Wiltshire)
bordered part of the perimeter of the operation's cordoned-off
surveillance area, although George had no idea that this was
the case. Indeed, he had no idea that Operation Blackbird was
even taking place, much less that he had stepped slap-bang
into the middle of it, and that, as a consequence, his every
move was being monitored by hi-tech military surveillance
equipment. So far as George was concerned he was simply
responding to a 'command' given him by some 'inner voice'.
His mind was numb to all else.

So there was George, suffering the effects of what might be
described as an 'altered state', standing in afield at midnight
in the middle of Wiltshire because he had been ordered to
do so by an 'inner voice'. Sounds bizarre, I know.
It gets even more bizarre.

Next, George was suddenly confronted by a human-like
'being' who, he says, came out of the bushes and proceeded
to make contact with him 'telepathically'. He asked George
his name, to which George once again replied: 'Merlin.'
But what is strange is the fact that, when George asked
the being its name, it replied: 'I am Merlin, too.'

George told me: 'I climbed over the fence and this being
came out, this shape, this black shape ... it was a little
bit smaller than me and I couldn't see a face. It was
human-shaped. It climbed the fence ... it did everything
human.'

The being then instructed George to fetch six of his board
games from his van (wrongly described as 'Ouija Boards' by
the press) and to place one at the centre of each of the six
crop circles which were, by this time, present in the field.
This George did. The being also ordered George to place
some stones in the circles which, again, he did. By this
time, however, George was becoming frightened, and so
he also placed a wooden cross in one of the circles 'as a
protection'. The wooden cross was later described by the
press as 'evidence of some kind of ritual', which indeed it
was not, and 'roughly made', which indeed it was. George
had fashioned it there and then out of his own staff - the staff
he used when marketing his board game under the guise of
'Merlin'. He simply snapped the staff in two and placed it in
the form of a cross in one of the six circles.

According to George, the circles - which later became
known as the 'Bratton Castle Hoax', or the 'Operation
Blackbird Hoax' - had just been made by the being and
his 'colleagues', and not by some arbitrary team of hoaxers.
Perhaps one interpretation of this might be that they had
been made by the 'special forces' military (SAS) to whom
this being belonged, and who were there - as Corporal
Darren Cummings had already confided to the press
- as part of a pre-planned operation to 'prove that they
[the crop circles] are caused by people'.

Indeed, considering this formation was so well-made, and
that it was manufactured in the space of approximately one
hour, it is highly improbable - indeed impossible - that one
man (George Vernon) could have made it by 'rolling around
in the corn', as the Sunday Sport subsequently claimed. It is
equally improbable that it was made by a team of drunken
young farmers after a night at the local pub, or even by a
team of practised hoaxers for that matter - who, it should
be said, were not nearly so practised in 1990 as they
are today (bless their tiny little agendas).

Another possibility at the time was that the hoax had
been made by the pop group KLF, who in the same year
had created a hoaxed formation in the form of a pyramid
crossed by a large ghetto blaster, the band's logo; film of
this formation was later used in the promo video for
their single What Time Is Love.

The reason KLF were suspected of creating the Blackbird
hoax was that on the day following Colin Andrews's ill-fated
TV announcement he received a letter that seemed to have
been sent by the band's members. 'Colin,' the letter read.
The circles on Wednesday were just a hoax, but we can't
help to play jokes. Inconvenience caused? We're sorry.
Catch us, you'll have to hurry. Yours, in total control, the
Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu - the JAMMs. Try not to worry
too hard. We find it very funny while you sit back and
rake in the money.'

Although it is known that KLF members Bill Drummond and
Jimmy Cauti (alias the JAMMS) expressed a healthy interest
in what they termed the 'landscape art' aspect of the crop circle
phenomenon, and that they paid farmer David Read £350 to
create the now-famous 'pyramid and ghetto blaster' formation
on his land, it is highly unlikely that they were responsible
for either the letter to Colin Andrews or the Blackbird hoax.

Indeed, when George Wingfield spoke to the band on the
telephone they categorically denied involvement, period, an
uncharacteristically discreet disavowal for a pop group (any
publicity is good publicity) unless of course it was true. And
in any case, it is known that the 'pyramid and ghetto blaster'
formation took them six hours to make in broad daylight.
The Blackbird hoax consisted of six circles and was made
in approximately one hour in the dead of night - and under
the watchful eye of the military.

Every indication, then, points to the fact that this was
a pre-planned operation performed with military precision,
SAS precision, and that George Vernon, Colin Andrews,
Pat Delgado et al were destined from the very beginning
to be the fall guys.
 

Back to the plot. . .

According to George Vernon, the being that confronted
him was about six feet tall, dressed all in black with a
blackened face, and was somehow able to reach inside his
mind and take control. As if by some form of 'mental hijack'
this being was able to lead George across two more fields
towards a railway embankment, George following behind
like an obedient puppy, unable to break the grasp this being
seemed to have on his mind. Despite the fact that the being
had a human-like build and, according to George, walked
like any human might walk (and indeed, had to climb over
fences and stiles in the same way as any human would)
George believes to this day that the being was a 'spirit' or
an 'alien' of some kind. But then, George - like most people
- has little idea of what the military is these days capable
of, much less the motives for executing this kind of covert
operation. Perhaps understandably he is also reluctant to
accept the possibility that the military might be working with
aliens (or at least with secretly developed 'acquired alien
technologies' capable of creating screen memories in one's
mind - memories that act like screens to block out what really
happened and at the same time replace one's true memory
with a false one - see Document 10). But if the military is
not working with aliens and/or their technology, then what
happened next beggars the very fabric of sanity itself.

Because as George approached the railway embankment
- still following the strange black being - he was suddenly
confronted by a sight that has dogged him to this day. His
still-recurrent nightmares are a testament to this end.
According to George, what happened next was that a
massive black 'craft' suddenly arrived and hovered above
the field in which he stood. And then landed.

"All of a sudden, from the left-hand side, looking up at
Bratton Fort, this black object came at us at the speed of
light, then circled around and landed. It was so fast and
silent - I couldn't believe my eyes. The being in front of me
said (telepathically): "Stand still." And I just froze.'

In a later interview George described the craft as 'massive,
very black, and silent', eerily similar in every respect to the
craft described by Mark, the craft that had zapped him and five
other soldiers on Salisbury Plain only six months previously.
 

The jigsaw begins to form a picture, then ...

It seems the arrival of the unknown craft was sufficient
to snap George out of his mental stupor, at least to some
small degree - enough that he suddenly became aware of
what was happening to him and, perhaps not surprisingly,
started to become very frightened. In the meantime the
being continued to try and coax George on towards the
craft which, by this time, had landed silently in the field.
But George remained rooted to the spot. When a second
being emerged from the landed craft, however, and started
to walk over towards him, George instinctively felt that he
was about to be abducted. At which point the 'spell' on
him came loose and he was able to turn and run away,
lacerating his hand and arm on a barbed-wire fence as
he did so.

The being approached this black object (the craft) and I
saw an orange ball come out of the craft and turn before
my eyes into another black entity ... At this point panic set
in and I ran like hell from the middle of this field (200-300
yards) straight into a barbed-wire fence . . . when I got up
he was there. He got me again.'

Despite his efforts, then, George did not get away; the being
caught up with him and, in order to prove that it wasn't 'human',
proceeded to 'melt' in front of his eyes, and then reassemble
itself. At least this is George's 'memory' of the event. This is
also, of course, one of the main reasons George is reluctant
to believe that this could have been anything but an 'alien'
or a 'spiritual' experience, and understandably so. After all, if
what your mind 'remembers' is some strange being 'melting'
before your eyes the last thing it will want to be told is that this
being was 'human' - that this particular part of your memory
is a false one that has been so cleverly woven into your true
memory of what really happened that discrimination between
false and real is virtually impossible. Of course, in order for
this to have occurred George must surely have been 'taken'
and 'worked on', at least for some short period of time. And
if this was the case then equally he must have experienced
some missing time.

Sadly he did. The next thing George remembers is waking
up, slumped over the driving wheel of his van with a head full
of nightmares that felt like memories, his memories - memories
which to this day he believes are perfectly accurate and
authentic. Most of them probably are.

It should be added that George has subsequently suffered
no less than three nervous breakdowns, all due to this
event, and is still on prescribed medication for his condition
(although, being teetotal, he normally refuses to take even
an aspirin).

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Pages: 228-237 'COSMIC TOP SECRET - The Unseen Agenda'
By Jon King, Editor of UFO Reality (UK)
1998/1999, New English Library, Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 0 340 70822 0

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