British UFOlogy Infiltrated? AT WAR WITH THE UNIVERSE This article is a summary of substantial research carried out by the para-political writers 'Notes from the Borderland'. NFB have documented many of the recent  so called counter-cultural organisations that centred around the post 1960s green, left, anarchist etc movements and their monitoring by UK state intelligence apparatus.  "At War..." is best read in magazine format for associated images and documentation. It reveals a side to UK UFO research virtually unknown up to that point. In addition to possible infiltration of the UK scene by Tim Hepple the story also covers the infamous Sheffield black triangle sightings during the 1990s.

SUMMARY OF AT WAR WITH THE UNIVERSE

Any comment, analysis or refutation will have to address the evidence. Personal abuse and smoke-screening are beside the point. We challenge Hepple to a public debate, (see 43.6 below) if he will not accept this offer, readers are invited to make up their own minds who is lying and who telling the truth here. (November 1999)

BASIC SUMMARY

(1) Tim Hepple/Tim Matthews, pseudo-UFO investigator, is a state sponsored infiltrator. In the mid to late 1980's he was a fascist. Now he covers up and lies about his past.

(2) Even his present name is a lie. Hepple changed his name to Matthews after his previous operation against Green Anarchist was exposed in 'A Lie Too Far' and 'At War With The Truth'.

(3) Hepple's activities inside ufology include: disrupting groups, threatening people, faking ufo sightings, collecting address lists. He tried to set people up, he spreads confusion and fear.

(4) Hepple has powerful allies including the secret state, Searchlight, journalists. His book 'UFO Revelation' was published by Cassells, a mainstream publisher. This was not because of its originality, research or analysis, but because his activities are part of a wider state operation against ufology. Despite being made aware of his agenda, publication went ahead.

(5) Hepple's book pushes the bogus thesis that present day stealth technology stems from WW2 German developments. Hepple wishes to rehabilitate his core belief system.

(6) Part of his agenda is to hype up violence inside ufology, importing Nazi stormtrooper methods. This needs to be resisted by increasing openness, honesty, democracy and discussion.

(7) Just as with Green Anarchist before, leading up to the Gandalf prosecutions, Hepple's present activities indicate state interest in ufology.

PART ONE

(1) As a neo-Nazi back in the 1980's, Hepple beats up a policeman in Sheffield, 27th February 1988, two charged with him are jailed, Hepple does not even enter the court.. He helps instigate the June 1989 Dewsbury race riot. (2) After the Army, Hepple's scope widens to infiltration of left and right politics. Hepple infiltrates the green movement..(1) He also edits White Resistance, the Church of The Creator newsletter. (3) Hepple the provocateur infiltrates Green Anarchist. GA were later prosecuted, the 'GANDALF' case, 3 were jailed. (4) Despite pushing cell tactics and links to the ALF, Hepple is not even investigated by police. References to Hepple are excised from trial evidence. (5) To ufologists, Hepple lies about his past. Hepple changed his name to Tim Matthews to cover up his past.

(6) HEPPLE-MATTHEWS' MODUS OPERANDI OUTLINED

Hepple/Matthews' MO falls into 12 points. The MO has predictive power. Use it to analyze present and future operations.

PART TWO

(7) There are four main types of ufological explanation: Extra terrestrial, Military, Earth Lights, and Sociological. (8) Hepple infiltrates Ufology because it is socially important. Leftists ignore the socially important to their own cost. (9) At the same time that Hepple's UFO infiltration began, (late 1995, early 1996) Ploughshares peace protesters smash Hawk jets at Warton. Janet Lovelace, ex WPC was offered money to infiltrate Ploughshares, but turned it down. (10) In late 1995, Hepple starts his ufology infiltration posing as an Extra Terrestrial Hypothesis believer. (11) Feb 96, Hepple plants fake pictures on NLUFOIG. He engineers a split, renaming his own group LUFOS. His territorial ambitions (lebensraum) extend over all of Lancashire.(12) Oct 96, Hepple invites Nick Pope to speak at a Lancaster UFO rally. Hepple used Pope's credibility to bolster his own. After other people, Hepple belatedly joins the criticism of Pope. Pope counter attacked against Hepple, but was reigned in by his MoD controllers. If Hepple always distrusted Pope, why did he invite him to speak at this meeting? (13) As a disinformer, while Hepple attacked NLUFOIG for the Mil Hypoth, Warton flew triangle UAVs. He changes tack at great speed. Hepple pushes different scams at different times, Secrecy, base invasions and Stealth are just three. (14) In early 1997, Hepple and sometime associate, Matthew Williams try to get UFO Magazine to print detailed plans of BAe Warton. Williams makes claims about Rudloe Manor, that he was shot at there, and about an MI5 office. Is Williams a fantasist or more sinister? (15) UFO 'sightings' faked by Hepple include Kendal, 1996, (three versions) Hepple also faked Skelmersdale, (8th) and 'HMS Shetland' 9th October 1997 ufo sightings. (16) Hepple infiltrated BUFORA and helped distribute their magazine. Oct 1997. Therefore he has their address list. (List kleptomania, modus operandi Point three.) After this he slagged them off for poor research. (!) (17) To advance his version of the Military Hypothesis, Hepple the disinformer cobbles together unrelated sightings. These create an impression of research, but do not support his thesis. (18) First he praises them, then he slaggs them off - July 1997, the pattern seen with Nick Pope is repeated with Armen Victorian, trawling for leaks about UK stealth projects moving to the USA. (19) Hepple adopts fictional internet names like the 'Stealth Study Group'. Hepple trawls for leaks from US aerospace workers. (20) The cycle repeats itself. Hepple first praises Nick Redfern as 'a top researcher' (October 97). Then after Christmas 1997, he turns against Redfern and Irene Bott, with threats and unpleasantness, threatening to rip up 'Alien Encounters' at a meeting..

PART THREE HEPPLE'S UFO MYTHS

(21) Once a Nazi, always a Nazi, but Hepple evades questions about his past. (22) To give a veneer of credibility to his book, Hepple moves from the familiar to the obscure. In his treatment of German WW2 research, Hepple offers no proof Alexander Lippisch worked on post WW2 covert US designs. (23) Hepple claims the late WW2 Horten all wing aircraft as stealth. It was never built with its supposed plywood/charcoal sandwich material, and the Horten's shape was determined by aerodynamics, not radar reflection geometries. This plane was aerodynamically flawed, but Hepple does not mention the Horten 229 crash, and misrepresents the 1947 Northrop lecture. (24) Desperate for more material to bolster his flawed theory, Hepple clutches at straws, ball shaped Foo fighters do not relate to flying triangles. No hard evidence for Foo fighters is ever found - no craft, no pilots, no groundcrews. The explanation of Foo fighters is likely to be psycho-sociological, not technological. (25) Hepple then wheels in the Miethe disc. Who is Miethe? Is he Walter or Richard? Even Hepple the supposed expert and claimed 'rigorous' researcher does not know his correct name. There is no hard evidence here. (26) The only firm evidence he uses, the 1955 Silver Bug report, (TR AC 47) has no link to Miethe and so does not support Hepple's thesis. Hepple falsely claims the report states this aircraft flew. (UFO News 2, Sept 98, p 10) There are many technical difficulties with this report. No wind tunnel tests, but performance estimates exceeding Concorde and the SR71 of a decade or more later. There are problems with its provenance, covered up by Hepple. (27) Hepple is poor on technology, his comments on the boundary layer and basic radar principles are particularly abysmal. The swept wing (Dunne 1907 and Geoffrey Hill Pterodactyl 1924) did not originate in Nazi Germany. Hepple ignores earlier examples disproving his thesis. (28) Hepple makes the false claim that the Germans invented stealth in WW2. Examination of evidence shows stealth technology came out of Vietnam and the Yom Kippur War. (29) Hepple's core belief is Nazism, for all his postures as an anti fascist. This hidden Nazi technologies thesis is a new way for him to rehabilitate his core belief. (30) Other known about far right figures have little influence on ufology. It is the one people deny or do not know of which is most dangerous.

PART FOUR TWILIGHT OF THE THUGS?

(31) Inside ufology, Hepple got away with a lot until his new identity as Tim Matthews was exposed in Lobster magazine, December 1997. (32) SHADOW, a smokescreen dummy denunciation of Hepple, circulates prior to his Jan 1998 Southport UFO conference. These were intended to pre-emptively discredit criticism. At least one of these SHADOW bulletins is proven to be by Eric Morris, Hepple's 'useful idiot'. We say the one who benefits did it. (33) Hepple displays his thuggish Nazi stormtrooper behaviour at Southport, attacking Larry O'Hara for daring to ask questions. Some of the ufologists cover up what happened. (34) On 18th August 1998, Morris the Hepple proxy causes trouble in Wales, at a ufo group run by Margaret Fry. (35) In July 1998 internet claims Morris's car was sabotaged, like the SHADOW, were yet another bid for sympathy, a fake murder plot on the motorway. (36) Jaimie the infiltrator turns up at UFOKENT 98. Wenham the Searchlight asset at a Knutsford March 1999 ufo 'sighting' Both these incidents were staged by Hepple. (37) Cassells publish 'UFO Revelation' but prior to publication, Hepple pulls lying stunts (Jaimie and the false allegation O'Hara stalked him) to keep his publisher on board. (38) September 1999, Max Burns is jailed for drugs, hypocrite Hepple crows on the internet. Burns criticised Hepple on the net. Hepple once wrote (31st March 1993) 'late at night, need more E.' Nazis in glass panzers shouldn't throw stones. (39) Hepple circulates falsehoods about O'Hara, to muddy the waters. Lancaster police confirm the coal shed accusation is bogus. (40) Alas, poor Eric! Morris changes his tune on alien abductions. Wot ? No Implants? Now he runs errands for Hepple, like an eager cabin boy. More dupe than asset. Insignificant. (41) Hepple brings out 'Beyond' a glossy one-off scam magazine. (42) The case against him summarized, and a defence of him considered. He has not put his past behind him, his current activities are all of a piece with his past. (43) Eight points to respond to the Hepple/Matthews problem: (a) Non violent response. (b) Telling the truth. (c) Not following Hepple's agenda. (d) Full and frank discussion. (e) Don't be intimidated (f) Public debate (g) Check it out! (h) Isolate Hepple. 

PART 1 - HEPPLE THE NAZI THUG!

CHAPTER 1 HEPPLE/MATTHEWS' FASCIST PAST, page 5 to page 11

Hepple, as a fascist, beats up a policeman in Sheffield

Hepple and the Church of Creator

(1.1) Hepple/Matthews makes admissions about his fascist past in his autobiography, 'At War With Society' (AWWS) AWWS is a laundered account, and Hepple began working for Searchlight/the state before the claimed date of 1990, probably in 1987.

(1.2) Key proof here is the February 27th 1988 attack on 566 PC Rowland, in Bank Street Sheffield. Independent, non-combatant witnesses saw fascists Hepple Baynes and Thorpe attack this policeman. Baynes and Thorpe were jailed, while charges against Hepple were mysteriously dropped.

(1.3) Hepple/Matthews' immunity from prosecution for violence is a recurring motif. Bank Street Sheffield, the Octagon Centre, Dewsbury Riot, Cardiff, Tower Hamlets, through to the January 1998 Southport UFO conference...

(1.4) As copious evidence and back-catalogue proves, Searchlight is a sub-contracted annexe of the security service. Hepple appeared on Granada TV documentary World in Action (19th April 1993) talking about an attack on the Anti Nazi League paper seller, Ian Gregory, but surprise surprise was not prosecuted for this.

(1.6) Hepple/Matthews wrote and edited the Church of the Creator (COTC) UK newsletter 'White Resistance'. He called for a world wide racial holy war, and was violently critical of Lancaster Quaker Carolyn Horne. He claimed intimate knowledge of COTC illegal activities and weapons.

(1.7) To the UFO community, Hepple/Matthews presently denies COTC involvement, despite plenty of public domain evidence to the contrary. After the April 1993 World in Action, Hepple's associate, Milnes, destroyed evidence of his own COTC involvement, and dropped out of fascist politics. Milne's over-reaction and Hepple's own denials indicate he has something more to hide.

CHAPTER 2 ARMY INTELLIGENCE, page 11 - 14

After the Army, Hepple's scope widens to left and right politics.

Hepple infiltrates the green movement..

(2.1) What did Hepple/Matthews do in the army at Ashford? Provocateur short courses, the type of topics on offer as indicated in books by insiders Geraghty and Rennie.

(2.2) Before, Hepple Matthews boasted about being in the army. In AWWS (1993) he admitted it reluctantly. By 1998, he denied it completely, eg to ufologist Andy Roberts. What has Hepple got to hide?

(2.3) Examine his trajectory before and after Ashford. His repertoire was enlarged. There is no evidence of interest in Green politics/the left prior to Ashford.

(2.4) Before 1989, Hepple was a violent Nazi thug, with links to Searchlight. In 1990, he postured as a pacifist, Quaker and anti Gulf War campaigner. In 1998, he was saying 'I hope they get Saddam' on the Internet. Violent about turns? - No, directed inconsistency.

(2.5) Hepple/Matthews also tried to infiltrate anarchist group Class War. This was covered up by Paul Bowman, a Searchlight asset inside Class War.

(2.6) Hepple/Matthews also infiltrated Green Revolution (address list trawl), the anti poll tax movement (Manchester address list theft) and was interested in meeting eco-saboteurs.

(2.7) As evidence for continuing Army intelligence connections, as recently as 23rd Jan 1997, late Kitsonite, Major General Richard Clutterbuck, was lauding Hepple's supposed 'exposure' of violent fascist group Combat 18, in a Western Daily Press newspaper article larded with factual errors.

Ch 3 HEPPLE AND THE GANDALF CASE, page 14 - 20

Hepple the provocateur infiltrates Green Anarchist.

GA were later prosecuted, the 'GANDALF' case, 3 were jailed.

(3.1) During the Gandalf trial, the state claimed the period of 'incitement' began in 1991 at GA issue 29. This is the period when Hepple was pushing GA decentralisation and cell structure which the state found so objectionable.

(3.2) 'Operation Washington' police action A349 July 1995, shows the police were aware of Hepple, and that he was 'Comrade X'.

(3.3) Hepple advocated decentralisation and wrote an article 'Autonomy Now' GA 29, 1991 pushing copying ALF tactics.

(3.4) 'Fighting Fascism' GA 31, Hepple supplied BNP leader John Tyndall's address and that of Hancock's printing company. Later, these were attacked. Some animal rights arson attacks were used in the trial, police investigated 'Earth Nights' also advertised in GA, but ignored the Tyndall Hancock attacks and previous investigations / complaints about GA re these incidents.

(3.5) Hepple made the legally helpful suggestion that GA collective members write stuff down (usable in court later) but his own words were written in legal invisible ink.

(3.6) Hepple tried to get GA to infiltrate the BNP. This was a set up - if they did they would later be exposed for their 'links to fascism'. Here we see a parallel agenda to Stewart Home/Fabian Tompsett's fabricated accusations of links between GA and fascism.

(3.7) The 'Targeters Targetted' scam described. The Gandalf case as secret state revenge for GA exposing Hepple in April 1993. The Gandalf raids/prosecution were probably triggered by the Isle of Wight firebombs, August 1994.

Ch 4 HEPPLE AND GANDALF THE COVER UP, page 20 - 28

Though aware of his involvement with GA, Hepple is not even investigated by police.

References to Hepple are excised from trial evidence.

(4.1) The state cover up of Hepple/Matthews' involvement in Green Anarchist includes both the police MI5 investigation 'Operation Washington', and the Gandalf trial itself.

(4.2) At the Gandalf trial, the state made much of incitement to violence and GA decentralization plans from 1993, but left out Hepple's 1991 urging of decentralisation and the responsibilities he grabbed for himself as a result of those ideas being implemented, including actual distribution of the magazine. Hepple-produced examples of incitement, such as the 1991 'Autonomy Now' article, were also ignored.

(4.3)

(4.4) The state made much of ALF attacks on dairies and firebombings on the Isle of Wight, but attacks on the addresses of fascists John Tyndall, BNP leader, and Tony Hancock far Right printer were completely ignored. Yet these locations were prominently displayed in the Hepple-inspired 'Fighting Fascism' articles of GA 31.

(4.5) Six months into the police enquiry, DC Collyer eventually got round to visiting PO Box 29 Lancaster - but there the trail went cold. Allegedly, no records were kept. Next he miraculously visited Hepple's parents, the address the PO box was registered to. Then he visited Hepple's girlfriend's parents, the Suggetts, but never managed to interview Hepple. Taking their word for it, Collyer just went away, psychically concluding Hepple was not involved. Despite this, Collyer was never billed for wasting police petrol.

(4.6) Hepple related material throughout the Gandalf trial was systematically ignored/glossed over.

(4.7) One of the GA editors Paul Rogers' attempts to get Hepple, Gable & co in the witness box met with nothing but obstruction from the defence team. In the end Leading Counsel, Ken McDonald QC resigned rather than accept instruction from his client. Paul (the main defendant!) was then compelled to represent himself. As it became clear he was obdurate and he had access to the damaging 'unused' evidence files, Paul was then severed by the judge rather than allow him to persist.

Ch 5 A SORT OF DEFENCE - HEPPLE AND HIS CRITICS page 28 - 33

Hepple lies about his past.

Hepple changed his name to cover up his past.

(5.1) Hepple/Matthews put out a poor self defence document, 4th January 1998, when the initial threat of his being exposed in ufology became clear. This statement covers up the true dates of his National Front membership, BNP membership, COTC membership, contradicting his own previously published autobiography, and other statements made to ufologists.

(5.2) Hepple did not mention his earlier claims to have observed Northern Ireland death squads, pretending these were invented by people he told them to. He tells different stories about his past to different people, depending on what he thinks people want to hear.

(5.3) Hepple's claims about his name change are self refuting. If Hepple is so innocent, why the name change?

(5.4) Searchlight did not defend Hepple after previous exposure At War With The Truth, (=AWWTT 1993) and has never answered A Lie Too Far (=ALTF 1993) or even referred to them because these booklets are devastating.

(5.5) Richard Hunt, presently fascist, formerly editor of GA, claims Searchlight did not know about Hepple's 'infiltration' of Green Anarchist, but this is contradicted by Searchlight's Ray Hill's involvement in the Hepple anti-GA scam including Hill writing an article in GA 'Creating a Community' issue 28, Autumn 1991. (see ALTF p 17, AWWTT p 19) Hunt has more recently admitted Searchlight/MI5 connections in this matter, but in all honesty Hunt's pronouncements on this affair are so ill thought out and implausible as to be worthless.

Ch 6 HEPPLE MATTHEWS' MODUS OPERANDI page 33 - 35

Hepple/Matthews' MO falls into 12 points.

If we are correct in this, the MO has predictive power.

Use it to analyse present and future operations.

(6.1) Urging others to undertake illegal activities. Examples: Church of the Creator and GA/ALF links

(6.2) Immunity from the law: The Sheffield police assault

(6.3) Address list kleptomania: 'Creating a Community', Green Revolution, Manchester Town Hall poll tax list October 1991.

(6.4) Setting up transient and dummy groups, and publications: eg Creating a Community, COTC newsletter White Resistance

(6.5) Trying to induce others to publish compromising information: Fighting Fascism GA articles, 'Targetters Targetted' scam.

(6.6.) Disrupting groups: BNP Mike Calton leadership bid. Pushing Earth Liberation Front and hate for Angie Zelter Peace people.

(6.7) Rapid changes of allegiance: NF, BNP leftists, greens, Quakers, Peace Pledge Union, Class War...

(6.8) Utter disregard for truth or loyalty to anyone: Denies CoTC membership, set up Quakers for attack by fascists, set up fascists for attack by leftists....

(6.9) Pulling stunts when under suspicion: Sheffield 1989 attack on students. Claims shot at on railway station 23rd March 1992.

(6.10) Pathological addiction to violence:Attacked PC Rowlands, Sheffield. Anti poll tax riot, London, March 1990, Beaumont Estate bailiff incident, 1991, Attacks on leftists, SWP paper sellers, featured on TV.

(6.11) Support from powerful allies:Police assault charge dropped. Searchlight, World in Action, journalists.

(6.12) Nazi ideology: Territory Eagle Scout article, admissions in AWWS. Holocaust denial.

PART TWO - INFILTRATING UFOLOGY

HOW WHY AND WITH WHAT RESULT?

Ch 7 THE DIFFERING STRANDS OF UFOLOGY page 36

For people new to ufology, there are four main types of explanation:

(7.1) That UFO's are alien spacecraft, the Alien or Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) as put forward by people like Tim Good and Nick Pope.

(7.2) That UFO's are military aircraft, secretly developed. This is the Military Hypothesis (MIL HYPOTH) as held by G M Kanon, for example.

(7.3) That UFO's are really earth lights, or a result of psychic magnetism, a complex interaction between the earth and the human psyche. (EARTH LIGHTS) as put forward by Devereux and Budden.

(7.4) That belief in UFO's is a result of sociological factors up to and including mass psychic experiences at opportune moments/portals. (SOCIOL) A position exemplified by Magonia and Kevin McClure.

Ch 8 WHY UFOLOGY ? page 37 - 38

Hepple infiltrates Ufology because it is socially important.

Leftists ignore the socially important to their own cost.

(8.1) Psychiatric explanations of Hepple/Matthews' behaviour do not explain him infiltrating ufology.

(8.2) Ufology is sociologically significant and therefore a potential threat / area of concern / potential manipulation for state intelligence agencies. Leftists wake up and take note.

(8.3) Part of Hepple's activity is explicable in terms of job creation scams for the intelligence agencies. The hitherto little known DIS (Defence Intelligence Service) is a possible candidate for such, along with the more usual suspects. Events befalling a local UFO group investigating a triangle sighting near the residence of former Home Secretary Michael Howard in 1997 might fit this pattern.

Ch 9 THE POLITICAL CONTEXT

FOR HEPPLE'S INFILTRATION OF UFOLOGY page 39 - 40

At the same time that Hepple's UFO infiltration began, peace protesters hit Hawk jets at Warton.

(9.1) In January 1996, the Ploughshares peace campaigners smashed up a Hawk jet at British Aerospace Warton, near Preston, a base near Preston Hepple pays a lot of attention to.

(9.2) At this time, Special Branch tried to recruit ex WPC Janet Lovelace to infiltrate Ploughshares. This was successfully resisted, (Guardian 28th Sept 1996) but is likely to have been only the tip of the iceberg.

(9.3) A UK anti secrecy campaign was relaunched in October 1995, thus indicating UFO's were moving up the orthodox political agenda.

Ch 10 LATE 1995 OPERATION UFO COMMENCES

Hepple starts his ufology infiltration posing as an Extra Terrestrial Hypothesis believer.

(10.1) Hepple/Matthews launched himself into Ufology via a Morecambe group, NLUFOIG, pushing the ETH in late 1995. He had back catalogue links to Morecambe, such as those provided by fellow Searchlight asset, racist thug Ray Hill.

(10.2) At first, Hepple presented himself as an enthusiastic believer in the ET hypothesis, so as to ingratiate himself with the supporters of the then dominant paradigm.

(10.3) He issued a warning about the possible appearance of dummy photographs.

Ch 11 HEPPLE SHOWS HIS HAND

DUMMY PHOTOGRAPHS APPEAR, pages 41 - 43

Feb 96, Hepple plants fake pictures on NLUFOIG.

He engineers a split, renaming his own group LUFOS.

Hepple switches from ETH to MIL HYPOTH..

His territorial ambitions (lebensraum) extend over all of Lancashire.

(11.1) Hepple/Matthews caused fake UFO photographs to be left at a NLUFOIG meeting, in February 1996, and used these fakes as a pretext for picking a row with them. May 1996.

(11.2) Hepple then used this engineered split to isolate his own Lancaster group, LUFON. In order to push his territorial ambitions yet further, he renamed his group Lancashire UFO Society, camoflaging his next volte face, shifting from the Extra Terrestrial Hypothesis to explain UFOs to the Military Hypothesis.

Ch 12 POPE AND ANTI POPE page 43 - 47

Oct 96, Hepple invites Nick Pope to speak at Lancaster.

Hepple used Pope's credibility to bolster his own.

Hepple belatedly criticizes Pope.

Pope counter attacked, but was reigned in by his MoD controllers.

(12.1) Hepple/Matthews invited prominent Ufologist, Nick Pope to speak at Lancaster, 12th October 1996, billed as 'Event of the Year'.

(12.2) Criticism has been levelled at Pope over his silence about his own 'alien abduction'. Pope was also seemingly unaware of Rudloe Manor. Serious ufologists are increasingly sceptical of his explanations for these and some other matters.

(12.3) Hepple must have been aware of these criticisms, but still used Nick Pope to bolster up his own credibility in the Ufology movement.

(12.4) Later, after almost everybody else, Hepple joined the chorus of denunciation against Pope. If Hepple 'always thought' Nick Pope was dodgy, why invite him to Lancaster?

(5) After counter attacking Hepple in April/March 1999, Pope made a sudden about turn in July, announcing he will neither make nor respond to personal attacks. Pope may be saying this for good personal reasons -- but we cannot rule out the possibility Pope was leant on, perhaps as a result of indirect influence from Hepple's powerful allies. A likely candidate would be the Searchlight organisation, who in 1999 leaked MoD documents to the press while criticizing the MoD, as part of a joint operation with MI5, but were never prosecuted.

Ch 13 THE SCRIPT CHANGES page 48 - 50.

While Hepple attacked NLUFOIG for the Mil Hypoth, Warton flew triangle UAVs.

He changes tack at great speed.

Hepple pushes different scams at different times, Secrecy and Stealth are just two.

(13.1) Hepple/Matthews attacked UFO researcher Omar Fowler. Fowler is a rival, genuine triangle UFO expert, who Hepple would have co-operated with if he was genuine.

(13.2) Whilst Hepple had been attacking NLUFOIG for claiming triangle sightings were military (April/May 1996) he later claimed (and we do not disagree) Warton was flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (=UAV) triangles at exactly this time. With all we know about Hepple, his plugging disinformation when it mattered was no coincidence.

(13.3) Hepple changes his focus at great speed. Now it is an anti secrecy campaign (to gather names and addresses), next its Stealth -- Stealthchaser/Stealth Study group (another trawl) Sometimes its Warton, then again, not Warton. Hepple is a chameleon.

(13.4) Hepple is very keen for ufologists to monitor military bases, and perhaps enter them. Warning of his scam in January 1998 has hindered his ability to do this with ease.

(13.5) Hepple plugs other bases apart from Warton, but the ones he does not plug, like Menwith Hill, are perhaps more interesting.

Ch 14 MATTHEW WILLIAMS MYTH MAKER GENERAL ? page 51 - 55.

Hepple and sometime associate, Matthew Williams try to get UFO Magazine to print detailed plans of BAe Warton.

Williams makes claims about Rudloe Manor, that he was shot at there, and about an MI5 office. Is Williams a fantasist or more sinister?

(14.1) Along with Matthew Williams, an ex Customs & Excise officer, in early 1997, Hepple/Matthews tried to get UFO Magazine to print plans of Warton. A clear entrapment. After they refused to take the bait, Hepple attacked UFO Magazine after previously praising them.

(14.2) Matthew Williams, who filmed Hepple's wedding, claimed he was shot at while investigating tunnels under Rudloe. His various accounts of this don't add up.

(14.3) Williams claims from his Customs & Excise experience, that there was an MI5 liaison office at Rudloe. We think this unlikely.

(14.4) Matthew Williams has admitted faking crop circles, and has placed film footage on the net which he claims shows another ufologist smoking a joint.

(14.5) Currently, Williams is operating at what could well be a merely tactical distance from Hepple. The jury is still out on Matthew Williams. His best defence could just be that he is a bull shitter/fantasist.

Ch 15 BULLSHIT AND LIES BUT NO VIDEOTAPES pages 55 - 59

UFO 'sightings' faked by Hepple include Kendal, 1996, (three versions)

Hepple also faked Skelmersdale 8th and 'HMS Shetland' 9th October 1997 sightings.

(15.1) Hepple/Matthews has pushed 3 different versions of the Kendal UFO sighting, 29th August 1996.

(15.2) Hepple lied that a report of the Kendal incident was printed in the Westmorland Gazette. It was not. A report of RAF low flying exercises was. This is indicative of what Hepple is really about. Disinformation.

(15.3) Different details of the Kendal incident witnesses and their stories are offered. Hepple has a self confessed track record of media fabrication, eg the CoTC stickers in Lancaster, January 1992.

(15.4) Hepple and ex navy cabin boy Morris probably faked a UFO incident involving 'HMS Shetland' off the Lancashire coast, 9th October 1997. Another UFO was supposedly seen over Skelmersdale the day before. Hepple does not tie the two together, as any genuine researcher would, because ultimately he was the source for both.

(15.5) Hepple faked these sightings to try to impress other UFO groups prior to forming a Northern UFO group Federation under his control. Yet more territorial ambitions.

Ch 16 HEPPLE TARGETS BUFORA pages 59 - 61

Hepple infiltrated BUFORA and helped distribute their magazine.

Therefore he has their address list.

After this he slagged them off for poor research. (!)

(16.1) Hepple/Matthews adopted a classic wrecking tactic towards BUFORA, the main ufological organisation.

(16.2) At first, Hepple was critical if BUFORA, and later, ingratiating towards them. Hepple used Quest International as an entree, to gain credibility as a 'legitimate' researcher. Hepple then infiltrated their antagonists BUFORA.

(16.3) Hepple helped distribute BUFORA's newsletter in October 1997. This way, he got access to their address list. after this episode of list kleptomania, he criticised BUFORA for poor research (!) Here we see the Heppellian zig zag at work.

Ch 17 THE MILITARY HYPOTHESIS AS ADVANCED BY HEPPLE pages 61 - 68

Hepple the disinformer cobbles together unrelated sightings.

These create an impression of research, but do not support his thesis.

(17.1) In different versions of the same story, Hepple/Matthews claims to have been approached by military insiders. Not credible. Why would any signatory to the Official Secrets Act risk their career by talking to outsiders?

(17.2) Six incidents used by Hepple examined and found hollow: Heyford 1967, Leicester 1978, Staffordshire and Yorkshire 1987-88, Belgium 1989-90, Salisbury Plain 1996, Boscombe Down 1996. These are sightings cobbled together, and or inconsequential, and do not add up to support for Hepple's thesis, at least in the way he presents them.

(17.3) Hepple fakes support from Nick Pope, a man he opposes, re Belgium sightings, but gets the year wrong.

(17.4) Hepple quotes an account making use of hypnotic regression in an 'unnamed soldier' case. The testimony is therefore worthless. Hepple does not mention McClure on un-named soldier hoaxes c 1994 onwards, yet must be aware of this.

(17.5) Taking the Boscombe Down sighting of 1994 as an example, we show that not only does Hepple deliberately mislead over basic details, by failing to place the reports in context, he flunks the most elementary requirements for his research to be credible.

(17.6) The definition of disinformation so freely applied by Hepple to all supporters of the ETH can legitimately be shown to apply to himself, a possibility he and his apologists want to rule out without question.

Ch 18 DAY OF THE ORCHIDS

HEPPLE GOES FOR THE BIG ONE p 69 - 70

First he praises them, then he slaggs them off.

The pattern seen with Nick Pope is repeated with Armen Victorian.

(18.1) In June 1997 Hepple/Matthews tried to ingratiate himself with prominent researcher Armen Victorian, praising him in his own magazine, The Grey Area, pumping Victorian for information about a rumoured UK stealth project moving to the USA.

(18.2) Afterwards, having failed to elicit information, Hepple attacked Victorian and Lobster magazine. Is there not something depressingly predictable about Hepple's pattern of activity here?

Ch 19 A STAR SPANGLED SWASTIKA

HEPPLE GOES STATESIDE pages 71 - 72

Hepple adopts fictional internet names like the 'Stealth Study Group'.

Hepple trawls for leaks from US aerospace workers.

(19.1) Some of Hepple/Matthews' intelligence gathering activities are directed towards US aerospace workers, via dummy front group designations posted on the internet.

(19.2) Hepple constantly changes his story about the TR3A. Does it exist, or not?

(19.3) Perhaps, having worn out his welcome here in Britain, Hepple wants to move to the USA. We urge US readers to be aware of this possibility. Forewarned is forearmed.

(19.4) Recently, Hepple acted as publicist for NASA TV, seeking to extend it to Europe. So much for his 'scepticism' about the US military covering up the truth on UFOs. Yet another script.

Ch 20 TIM MATTHEWS RESPECTED UFO INVESTIGATOR ? pages 73 - 74

The cycle repeats itself.

Hepple first praises Nick Redfern and Irene Bott.

Then he turns against them, with threats and unpleasantness.

(20.1) In October 1997, Hepple/Matthews praised UFO Nick Redfern, then after Christmas 1997, threatened to rip up Redfern's 'UFO Encounters' at a UFO meeting.

(20.2) Hepple fell out with Nick Redfern and Irene Bott on the surface because they dared to suggest flying triangles were seen over NW England as early as 1952. These may well have been Vulcan and Avro 707 prototypes, well known British aircraft. In any case he should have welcomed such reports, as possibly helping his Nazi origins hypothesis.

(20.3) In reality Hepple's blitzkrieg against Redfern and Bott happened because they are good quality researchers, and stand in the way of his territorial ambitions.

PART THREE: HEPPLES' NAZI UFO MYTHS SHOT DOWN

Ch 21 TAKING THE BOY OUT OF NAZISM pages 75 - 76

Once a Nazi, always a Nazi, but Hepple evades questions about his past.

(21.1) The only thing Hepple has ever positively believed in is Nazism. In this, his project is parallel to, but differs in detail from other material about the Nazi saucer myths; German foo fighters, Arktos myth, Hannebu, etc.

(21.2) Hepple evades questions about his own past Nazi affiliations, yet they are surely relevant given in his book 'UFO Revelation' he argues for the superiority of Nazi technology.

Ch 22 ALEXANDER LIPPISCH UFO PIONEER ? pages 76 - 77

To give a veneer of credibility to his book, Hepple moves from the familiar to the obscure.

In his brief and superficial treatment of German WW2 research, Hepple offers no proof Alexander Lippisch worked on post WW2 covert US designs.

(22.1) The German aerodynamicist and designer, Lippisch, is included in Hepple/Matthews' book, so as to create an aura of credible research, by moving from the well known to the obscure.

(22.2) Lippisch is an important German WW2 aerodynamicist. He designed the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket fighter, and delta wing gliders. His work was influential, in the USA and Britain, post WW2. These facts are well known, and documented.

(22.3) Hepple offers no proof Lippisch worked on post WW2 covert US designs.

(22.4) During WW2 the allies did similar work to Lippisch - British aerodynamicists in 1944 worked on triangular wings. Also Northrop built the XP-79.

Ch 23 HORTEN BROTHERS VISIONARIES OR NAZI CLOWNS? pages 77 - 82

Hepple claims the Horten all wing aircraft as stealth.

It was never built with its supposed plywood/charcoal sandwich material.

Its shape was determined by aerodynamics, not radar reflection geometries.

Hepple does not mention the Horten 229 crash, and misrepresents the Northrop lecture.

(23.1) The Horten flying wing is claimed as stealth technology by Hepple/Matthews, on the basis of its charcoal-plywood sandwich construction, and its shape. The Go229 never used the plywood-charcoal sandwich construction, however, and the shape was determined by aerodynamic, not radar reflection, considerations.

(23.2) Hepple claims Goering ordered the Hortens to design a 1000 Kg bombload x 1000 Km range x 1000 Km/hr aircraft, but in fact Goering wanted them to build an Amerika Bomber = 6000 miles/11000 Km range, a project so hare brained that it was never even started.

(23.3) Hepple says the British disregarded the Hortens. In fact they looked into them, but sacked them as amateurs. The Americans similarly: the wooden Horten plane was left out in the open to rot, until a museum curator rescued it. Northrop never even troubled to repair his loaned Horten. Hardly indicative of interest.

(23.4) Hepple misrepresents what was said in Northrop's lecture. Northrop went further, independent of the Hortens.

(23.5) Reimar Horten's subsequent career in Argentina disproves Hepple's assertion that the took up their work. Hepple's treatment of Horten does not stand up.

Ch 24 GETTING DESPERATE FOO FIGHTERS FLY AGAIN pages 83 - 85

Desperate for more material to bolster his flawed theory, Hepple clutches at straws.

Ball shaped Foo fighters do not relate to flying triangles.

No hard evidence for Foo fighters is ever found - no craft, no pilots, no groundcrews.

The explanation of Foo fighters is likely to be psycho-sociological.

(24.1) Allied accounts of 'Foo Fighters' were possibly the result of inexperience; St Elmo's fire, anoxia, mass hysteria, folk myth, the collective unconscious, and psycho-social causes may also be explanations. How are these balls related to Hepple/Matthews' triangles and all wing aircraft?

(24.2) Vesco is the only Axis 'inside' account, but unsubstantiated by hard evidence. No physical examples of Foo fighter craft were found, no constructors came forwards, no pilots, no ground crews. Vesco is most likely some Cold War disinformation conduit.

(24.3) Hepple uses Professor R V Jones, cited as a source as though supportive of Hepple's thesis. Hepple does not mention Jones was sceptical about UFO's though, and under Hepple's own thesis a dubious authority anyway, being a scientific/technological intelligence insider.

(24.4) Hepple misses out the fact the Germans also saw Foo fighters.

Ch 25 THE MIETHE MYTH pages 85 - 89

Hepple then wheels in the Miethe disc. Who is Miethe? Is he Walter or Richard?

Hepple does not know. There is no hard evidence here.

(25.1) Biographical details about Lusar, Vesco, Bellonzo, Habermohl, Schriever and Miethe are sketchy, lacking corroboration. Hepple/Matthews merely repeats secondary sources.

(25.2) During the height of the Cold War, why would Schriever (1950) or Miethe (1952) be permitted to publish genuine information about real advanced aircraft projects in West German newspapers?

(25.3) Is he Walter or Richard Miethe? Hepple cannot even be sure of his name. He does not provide more detailed biographical information - like which university did Miethe receive his doctorate from? This vagueness gives the lie to publishers' claims of rigorous research.

(25.4) Claims about the existence of a film of the alleged 1945 Miethe disc are made by Hepple on behalf of Bill Rose. These are not substantiated. Rose himself more recently does not seem to back up these claims.

(25.5) The claimed simultaneous publication of accounts of these German discs, March 1950, in both Italy and W. Germany, is suspicious, and could point to a co-ordinated Cold War disinformation campaign, a piece of psychological warfare.

Ch 26 SILVER BUGGERING ABOUT? THE DISC THAT NEVER WAS p 89 - 94

The only firm evidence he uses, the 1955 Silver Bug report, (TR AC 47) does not support Hepple's thesis. Hepple falsely claims the report states this aircraft flew.

There are many technical difficulties with this report.

There are problems with its provenance, covered up by Hepple.

(26.1) The Silver Bug report (ATIC TR-AC-47, 15th February 1955) is the only 'substantiated' evidence Hepple/Matthews puts forward to support the flying disc part of his thesis.

(26.2) Hepple covers up the GRP (German Research Project = Nazi apologists) involvement in the declassification of the Silver Bug report. Hepple covers up the involvement of William Moore in the Silver Bug documentation history, yet elsewhere (UFO Revelation pp 237-238) condemns Moore as a disinformer, implicated in the Bennewitz affair.

(26.3) Four explanatory possibilities for the Silver Bug report are: (a) The Silver Bug report is wholly false. The issue then becomes - Who? Where? When? Why? It could be a Cold War disinformation spoof, a psychological warfare trick. (b) The report may be partly true and partly false, for much the same reasons as in (a). (c) The report might be a true description of an aircraft which was then developed and flown, and (d) The report could be a true description of a project later stopped due to lack of funding or for technical reasons.

(26.4) The configuration (=shape of the aircraft, the planform) is circular, whereas known supersonic aircraft are pointed. The claimed performance figures exceed Concorde or the SR71 designs flown a decade or more after the supposed date of the report.

(26.5) The report says wind tunnel research has not been carried out. Thus the performance estimates are speculative. Other technical difficulties (example the ground effect) have not been researched according to the report.

(26.6) Contrary to the report, Hepple claims the Silver Bug design flew.

(26.7) Would the curved 'Coanda effect' slot deliver the radical degree of thrust claimed, or just dissipate the thrust? We think the latter.

(26.8) The report does not deal with the gyroscopic effects of the 19 ft diameter engine rotor, one fifth of the aircraft weight, whose spinning would render the Silver Bug difficult or impossible to control.

(26.9) The report makes no mention of any German input into the design, eg Miethe. Yet this is part of Hepple's claim. Consequently, the Silver Bug report does not support Hepple's thesis.

Ch 27 PUTTING THE 'D' INTO MESSERSCHMITT

HEPPLE'S WEAK GRASP OF TECHNOLOGY pages 94 - 97

Hepple is poor on technology.

The swept wing (Dunne and Geoffrey Hill) did not originate in Nazi Germany.

Hepple ignores earlier examples disproving his thesis.

(27.1) Hepple/Matthews' grasp of technological concepts is poor, as shown by his failure to explain the boundary layer , a basic aeronautical concept. If he can't get this right, how can we take him seriously on more complex matters?

(27.2) Contrary to revisionist myth-making about Nazi technological superiority, the Allies outclassed wartime Germany in many technological areas, (nuclear weapons, radar, penicillin, codebreaking, jamming) enough to win them the war. Radar is particularly telling, as it shows there was no Nazi stealth technology. While German aeronautical achievements are acknowledged (eg the V2 rocket and in jet engine design) many developments towards the end of the Third Reich were joke products of panic.

(27.3) Hepple conceals examples of Nazi technological failure. Innovative wing designs, particularly are shown to have originated outside Germany or before the Nazi period; the delta wing at least as far back as the Nineteenth Century, or swept wings flown as early as 1908.

Ch 28 THE REAL ORIGINS OF STEALTH pages 98- 99

Hepple makes the false claim that the Germans invented stealth in WW2.

Examination of evidence shows stealth technology came out of Vietnam and Yom Kippur War.

(28.1) Hepple/Matthews does not provide a detailed explanation of the principles behind stealth technology.

(28.2) Downplaying its actual origins in Vietnam (1960's) and the Yom Kippur War, (1973) Hepple claims Germans in WW2 invented stealth. The Germans did not have the computer simulation techniques, radar absorbent materials, or computer stabilisation systems necessary to do this. Hepple's claim is therefore false.

(28.3) The claim that plywood, used in the Horten plane, does not reflect radar, is demonstrably false, as seen in Exercise Post Mortem, 25th June to 7th July 1945, Denmark, Exercise 10, where plywood Mosquito aircraft were detected by reactivated Luftwaffe radars.

(28.4) Kelly Johnson's claim about discs being stealthy, is wrong, as shown in the curved McDonnell Douglas Quiet Attack Aircraft (1971-3) Curves reflect radar with 'specular' returns and flare spots. Stealth aircraft are dart shapes with flat surfaces.

(28.5) The search for stealth is beyond the merely technological, it has a mythic aspect -- but this has nothing to do with the Nazi myth Hepple tries to graft on to it.

Ch 29 HEPPLE AND NAZISM AN ASSESSMENT pages 100 - 102

Hepple's core belief is Nazism, for all his postures as an anti fascist.

The hidden Nazi technologies thesis is a new way to rehabilitate his core belief.

(29.1) Hepple/Matthews' behaviour is explicable by understanding Nazism is his core belief.

(29.2) Hepple at once betrays his Nazism, by his posture of anti-Fascism, and at the same time expresses his Nazism, eg through this thuggery, his ego, and his superiority complex.

(29.3) Hepple's eulogy for hidden Nazi technology is a new way for him to rehabilitate the Third Reich, and his own fascist past.

(29.4) Hepple has a sub conscious wish to be found out, born of self-loathing, which is expressed in his self betrayals - example; printing the Belgian UFO distribution list directly opposite his lie that the MOD were on this list.

(29.5) In UFO Revelation, he makes no criticism of the use of slave labour, instead lamenting the lack of aluminium in the Reich. The lack of slave labourers owning up to producing the Miethe disc is indicative of the fact there were no such discs.

Ch 30 HE IS NOT ALONE

THE FAR RIGHT AND UFOLOGY page 102 - 103

Other known about far right figures have little influence on ufology.

It is the one people deny or do not know of which is most dangerous.

(30.1) There are others in the same area, Zundel, William Cooper, and Icke, Nexus magazine and George Spurgeon. These quantities are well known about. Less known is the fact that Patrick Harrington (formerly National Front, now Third Way) printed the BUFORA magazine UFO Times at one point, when Hepple allies Mantle and Randles were committee members.

(30.2) Fascists may try to influence naive Ufologists. Naive UFO magazines may accept advertisements from fascists. This does not mean ufology is implicitly fascist.

(30.3) All in all, Hepple/Matthews, his ideology and tactics are the main threat.

PART FOUR TWILIGHT OF THE THUGS ?

Ch 31 LATE 1997 THINGS START TO UNRAVEL page 104 - 105

Hepple got away with a lot until his new identity was exposed in Lobster magazine, December 1997.

(31.1) Hepple/Matthews had some initial success infiltrating ufology, until his name change was publicised in Lobster magazine, December 1997.

(31.2) Hepple responded to criticism with abuse, threats and wild accusations. (eg the mythical coal shed break in)

(31.3) Hepple put out a poor defence document with minimal circulation (see Chapter 5, 'A Sort of Defence' point 5.1) most of his strategy involves covering up his past.

(31.4) Hepple has a number of techniques to evade internet discussion about the truth -- watch for them...

Ch 32 HEPPLE AND MORRIS MEN OF THE SHADOW page 106 - 107

SHADOW, a smokescreen dummy denunciation of Hepple, circulates prior to his Jan 1998 Southport UFO conference.

These were intended to pre-emptively discredit criticism.

The one who benefits did it.

(32.1) The SHADOW bulletin was a smoke screen put out in advance of the Southport UFO conference to distract attention and pre-emptively discredit criticism against Hepple/Matthews.

(32.2) Hepple has made at least four different attributions of the SHADOW bulletin (a) Rogers and O'Hara did it. (b) non specific attribution to Lushman (c) Blunn and Gale of the NARO ufo group. (d) People in the Midlands? Any other offers?

(32.3) It is certain that at least one of the SHADOW documents was produced by Hepple associate, the useful idiot Eric Morris.

Ch 33 SOUTHPORT NUREMBERG OF THE NORTH? page 108 - 109

Hepple displays his stormtrooper behaviour at Southport.

Some of the ufologists cover up what happened.

(33.1) The violence at Southport, and Hepple/Matthews' verbal abuse was taped/filmed. Hepple and his goon squad attacked O'Hara and pushed him out of the hall. Hepple's supporters drowned out the questions with chanting, but a proportion of the audience left.

(33.2) The complaint about Hepple's behaviour 'disappeared' from police records.

(33.3) Some of the ufo 'community' disgracefully covered up the Southport violence.

Ch 34 TROUBLE IN THE VALLEYS page 109 - 111

Morris the Hepple proxy causes trouble in Wales.

(34.1) On 18th August 1998, Hepple proxy Eric Morris, along with a couple of goons, staged an incident at WFIU (Welsh ufo group, Menai Bridge, Anglesey) Alleging threats and assault, Morris didn't immediately complain to the hotel staff, where the meeting was being held, but arranged for the fracas to take place outside the room. Morris's version got suspiciously easy media coverage. The aim was expansion into Wales/Cymru (Hepple as Edward I without the charm?)

(34.2) Hepple more recently demanded Margaret Fry should be 'banned' from ufology. He and Morris presumably don't think the same sanction should apply following their much worse conduct at the Southport Conference in January 1998.

Ch 35 NO LIE TOO FOUL A BOGUS MURDER PLOT page 111 - 114

July 1998 claims Morris's car was sabotaged, like the SHADOW, yet another bid for sympathy, a fake murder plot on the motorway.

(35.1) Following circulation of the Anti Deception Committee leaflet throughout ufology after Southport, Hepple/Matthews became increasingly desperate to separate past from current activities. Whilst presenting himself as a victim to ufologists, he did not draw attention to the content of criticism from Green Anarchist and Class War. Highly suspicious.

(35.2) In a stunt to win sympathy and stifle criticism, Morris got Philip Mantle (16th July 1998) to spread the story Morris's car had been sabotaged on the way to a July 1998 ufo meeting in Sheffield, an attempt to kill him and Hepple. Claiming the SHADOW author was responsible, targets ranging from Irene Bott to Rory Lushman were accused of the murder plot. When Lushman demonstrated the plot was bogus, Hepple/Morris/Mantle had no reply. Case closed.

(35.3) Given the murder plot was staged by Hepple and Morris, their continued harping on about it can only be seen as classic provocateur tactics, used to 'justify' retaliation and the upping of violence/preparation for it within ufology.

Ch 36 MORE STUNTS AND STUNTMEN DE MAYO AND WENHAM page 114 - 118

Jaimie the infiltrator turns up at UFOKENT 98.

Wenham the Searchlight asset at a Knutsford March 1999 ufo 'sighting'

Both these incidents were staged by Hepple.

(36.1) Hepple/Matthews and Morris kicked up a great fuss about excluding 'James Tees', a supposed agent of Larry O'Hara, from the UFOKENT October 1998 conference. Tees turned out to have been exposed as an agent of Hepple's allies, Searchlight, by O'Hara, November 1997. Another Hepple stunt.

(36.2) In March 1999, the Matthews' reported a sighting by Caroline Sutton and Graham Wenham at Knutsford, only to denounce them as hoaxsters two days later. Wenham later turned out to be a Searchlight/state asset and clumsy disclosure by Eric Morris of a 'dry run' for the March 1999 sighting suggests Hepple was in on the hoax.

Ch 37 POWERFUL ALLIES SEARCHLIGHT AND CASSELLS PITCH IN page 118 - 120

Cassells publish 'UFO Revelation'

Hepple pulls lying stunts to keep his publisher on board.

(37.1) Hepple/Matthews had 'UFO Revelation' published by Cassell, a mainstream publisher, despite them knowing it was Nazi apologetics. This shows his powerful allies.

(37.2) A number of Hepple stunts were staged to ensure Cassell published this book, by casting himself as persecuted victim. (eg Jaimie, and the January 1999 Searchlight stalking allegation) Southport Police confirmed the stalking claim as yet another Hepple lie.

Ch 38 THE MAX BURNING ISSUE page 121 - 122

Max Burns is jailed for drugs, hypocrite Hepple crows on the internet.

Burns criticised Hepple on the net.

Hepple once wrote (31st March 1993) 'late at night, need more E.'

(38.1) Ufologist Max Burns recently (September 1999) jailed for drug dealing, claims this was due to his investigation of a 1997 ufo incident in Sheffield. He may well have been set up, but for other reasons, annoying local police or indeed criticising Hepple on the internet.

Ch 39 LIES UNLIMITED - HEPPLE ON LARRY O HARA page 122 - 125

Lancaster police confirm the coal shed accusation is bogus.

(39.1) Hepple/Matthews has lied endlessly about Larry O'Hara in an attempt to dissuade Ufologists from looking into his allegations. Hepple's claims, particularly about an attack on his parents' coal shed and stalking him -- have been proven false, as even the police confirm.

(39.2) Most of Hepple's lies are projections of his own techniques onto critics.

Ch 40 ERIC MORRIS USEFUL IDIOT page 125 - 126

Alas, poor Eric!

Morris changes his tune on alien abductions. Wot ? No Implants?

Now he runs errands for Hepple, like an eager cabin boy.

More dupe than asset. Insignificant.

(40.1) Morris made bizarre and incredible claims about alien abduction before meeting Hepple/Matthews. He now repudiates these claims. Morris is a liar, then, now, or both.

(40.2) Morris eagerly runs errands for Hepple because he is insignificant and his life is otherwise empty. He is more Hepple dupe than state asset, lured into compromising situations by him and now increasingly sidelined.

Ch 41 BEYOND A JOKE page 126 - 128

Hepple brings out a glossy one-off scam magazine.

(41.1) Hepple/Matthews' nominal monthly 'Beyond', launched September 1999, has the making of a disaster. The style is 1980s retro, content poor, and on paranormal themes Hepple previously disparaged. Philip Mantle and his wife have already quit, and publishers Top Events had a 1998 court judgement against them, probably over money. At first sight it looks like a glossy version of Hepple's typical one-off, rip-off publication scam.

(41.2) Psychic and CIA/Mossad asset Uri Geller's involvement in Beyond as a special consultant suggests it could just be a vehicle for some spook agenda. The Knutsford hoax suggests Hepple went to considerable effort to involve Geller.

(41.3) Geller disagrees with Hepple about the military hypothesis. Like his other source on Nazi flying saucers, Verga, Geller believes them to be ultimately of extra terrestrial origin.

Ch 42 REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE

HEPPLE/MATTHEWS IS ENGAGED IN A STATE OPERATION p 128 - 132

(42.1) Hepple/Matthews lies about his past.

(42.2) He has state connections.

(42.3) Produces bogus UFO sightings.

(42.4) Produces dummy magazines and groups.

(42.5) Address list collection mania.

(42.6) He stages stunts

(42.7) He tried to set up ufologists to target bases.

(42.8) He has a cycle of praising people to get them on board, pumps them for whatever he can get out of them, and then ditching them, often with engineered conflicts.

(42.9) His research is fraudulent.

(42.10) Why would aerospace insiders talk to him? it is implausible.

(42.11) He has powerful allies, the state, Searchlight and Cassells.

(42.12) He spreads disinformation.

(42.13) He spreads confusion and trouble.

Ch 43 WHAT IS TO BE DONE NEXT? page 133 - 134

Eight points to respond to the Hepple/Matthews problem:

(43.1) Non violent response.

Part of his agenda is to hype up violence in ufology. Do not let him succeed in this.

(43.2) Telling the truth.

This disarms much of his activity, because he works through, and depends on lies.

(43.3) Not following Hepple's agenda.

Not to let him influence your choice of topics or of speakers at meetings. Not to scapegoat people like Max Burns. Not to be taken in by Hepple's stunts or smokescreens.

(43.4) Full and frank discussion.

Open discussion rather than closed minds will expose what Hepple is up to.

(43.5) Don't be intimidated.

Partly Hepple works through fear. He bullies people into silence, he threatens people. The existence of the 'At War With The Universe' pamphlet, the fact that you are reading this shows he cannot silence criticism. Don't let him evade awkward questions.

(43.6) Public debate.

Open debate in public - we challenge Hepple to debate the issues raised in this pamphlet. The fact he will not take up this offer shows who is hiding, and who is telling the truth.

(43.7) Check it out!

Don't take our word for it, check it all out for yourselves - the NLUFOIG photograph planting, 1996 Kendal, UFOKENT, Knutsford, and the rest of this.

(43.8) Isolate Hepple.

Above all, don't let him have access to your membership lists.

HEPPLE MATTHEWS' MODUS OPERANDI see page 33 - 35

Hepple/Matthews' MO falls into 12 points.

At the start, we said if we are correct, the MO will have predictive power. Here is a list of things he has got up to in ufology.....

(6.1) Urging others to undertake illegal activities. Examples: His base invasion scam 'To all spooks and spies, keep this photograph in your security files - we're coming to a top secret base near you SOON!' - Hepple in Grey Area January 1997.

(6.2) Immunity from the law: example his violence at Southport, January 1998, getting the complaint about this 'disappeared' from police records.

(6.3) Address list kleptomania: example the BUFORA address list scam, Chapter 16, page 60. He helped post out their publication 'UFO Times' October 1997, later complaining they still owed him for the stamps.

(6.4) Setting up transient and dummy groups, and publications: many of these, Stealth Study Group, several UFO secrecy campaigns, Black Dawn Military Research, and Beyond magazine.

(6.5) Trying to induce others to publish compromising information: example Quest and the detailed aerial photographs of Warton aerospace factory.

(6.6.) Disrupting groups: NLUFOIG, Redfern and Bott in Staffordshire, Margaret Fry in Wales.

(6.7) Rapid changes of allegiance: Extra Terrestrial flip to Military Hypothesis, Pope and anti Pope, Armen Victorian and anti Victorian. Bott and Redfern.

(6.8) Utter disregard for truth or loyalty to anyone: Numerous internet postings, abuse. The coal shed lie. The stalking lie.

(6.9) Pulling stunts when under suspicion: Kendal fake, HMS Shetland, SHADOW, Bogus murder plot. Jaimie and Wenham.

(6.10) Pathological addiction to violence: Southport violence. threats.

(6.11) Support from powerful allies: The state, Searchlight, and Cassells publishing his book. Links to journalists, eg the 'Pope on a Rope' affair.

(6.12) Nazi ideology: The material about Nazi stealth technology planes in 'UFO Revelation'