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Rogo, a writer and researcher interested in a
wide range of anomalous phenomena, treated
BVM and comparable religious miracles as
parapsychological phenomena.
Further Reading
Dash, Mike, 1997. B o rd e rl a n d s .London: He i n e m a n n .
Delaney, John J., ed., 1960. A Woman Clothed with
the Sun: Eight Great Appearances of Our Lady in
Modern Times. Garden City, NY: Hanover
House.
McClure, Kevin, 1983. The Evidence for Visions of the
Virgin Mary. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire,
England: Aquarian Press.
Nickell, Joe, with John F. Fischer, 1988. Secrets of the
Supernatural: Investigating the World’s Occult Mys -
teries. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
Rogo, D. Scott, 1982. Miracles: A Parascientific In -
quiry into Wondrous Phenomena. New York: Dial
Press.
Van Meter, David, 1999. “Digest of Marian Apparitions
and Catholic Apocalypticism.” http://members.aol.com/UticaCW/Mar-Review.html.
Mark
Mark may or may not be among the extraterrestrials
with whom George Adamski allegedly
interacted. He figures in an unusually interesting
contact claim made by a woman identified
only as “Joelle” and known to British ufologist
Timothy Good, who told her story for the
first time in a 1998 book. Joelle, a British
woman of Russian background, never publicized
her reported experiences, which occurred
between 1963 and 1964, and they did
not see print until after her death.
Joelle told Good that the contacts we re initiated
when she was doing a house-to-house
m a rketing survey in the Sheffield area in Se ptember
1963. At one house she noticed a va r iety
of gadgets, none of which she re c o g n i zed as
c o m m e rcially available. The woman (given the
pseudonym “Ro s a m u n d”) whom she was interv
i ewing said her husband (“Ja c k”) was a scientist,
inve n t o r, and ham-radio operator. W h e n
Rosamund stepped briefly out of the ro o m ,
Joelle heard a message come through the radio
t r a n s c e i ver from someone named “Ma rk,” proposing
a meeting at “Blue Jo h n” at 4:30 the
next afternoon. On Ro s a m u n d’s return, when
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Joelle mentioned that a message had come
t h rough, the woman acted shocked and
quickly turned off the radio. Su b s e q u e n t l y,
Joelle determined that “Blue Jo h n” was the
Blue John Caves near Castleton in De r by s h i re .
Intrigued by Rosamund’s reaction (though
Joelle did not tell her what the message had
said), Joelle made a point of driving through
the cave area on her way back to London.
Parking her car in an out-of-the-way place at
the appointed time, she watched from a distance
as a disc-shaped aircraft landed and a
man from inside the craft emerged to meet a
waiting man, apparently Jack, whose car she
recalled seeing parked in front of the house
the day before. As the two drove away, the aircraft
shot off at high speed. Joelle thought she
had witnessed spy activity and assumed the
aircraft to be an advanced Soviet vehicle.
Joelle was almost ready to report her observations
and suspicions to the police but felt
compelled to call on the couple one more
time. She drove directly to their residence and
knocked on the door, explaining to Jack—
who had barely opened the door—that she
had some further survey questions to ask. She
was admitted into the house at the insistence
of the man she recognized from the rendezvous
of a few minutes earlier. The stranger,
no longer dressed in uniform but in ordinary
street clothing, identified himself as “Mark.”
Speaking in a teasing, good-natured tone, he
said he knew why she was there.
Thus began Joelle’s interaction with space
people. Over the next fifteen months, she
spent eight and a half hours in the company
of Mark and another human-looking extraterrestrial
she called “Val.” Mark and Val proved
vague about their exact place of origin, except
to say that it was an earthlike planet in another
solar system. They also said they had
played a role in speeding up human evolution.
They were here to work secretly with scientists
from several countries, but as to their larger
purpose, they would only state, “We are not
here for entirely philanthropic purposes.”
On one occasion, Joelle was allowed to
touch a spacecraft and to watch its departure.