FROM THE FILES: 1990's and Computer Interruptus

The recent focused and then fizzled look at the missing and disappeared scientists caused me to reflect on experiences of many doing UFOlogy (the study of UFOs).

In the mid to late 1990's the anniversary of the ROSWELL INCIDENT led to many people, me included, turning back to earlier research and earlier experiences with a settled view. Answers. We all wanted answers.

This was also the time period where there was a lot of focus on so-called "reptilian" aliens. Some were a little extreme and were very demanding that their view was the only right one. In attempting to do research, I was harassed by email from a woman living in the southwest.

This was the time of the infamous claims about Dulce Base in New Mexico emerged through presenters such as Phillip Schneider were making their stories of witnessing unground battles and vats of human body parts.  Phil said if they say he committed suicide - "he didn't" and sure enough in 1996 he died. Police labeled it a suicide. His body, from autopsy photos, does appear to bear bruising as if he had been beaten or his body moved.

I created a free webpage and began discussing the Roswell case, see holes in the new government story, and urging for more truth telling after fifty years. I sent some research to CUFOS and a copy of email correspondence from Robert Todd (a man famous at the time as somewhat of a phantom in the field). My computer began to act up, suddenly the page there, and then black and back up. No power surges, nothing to explain what was happening.  Then, the page showed the "blue page of death" meaning the page was no longer useable. I could reach other pages, do other things, but for 48 hours I had no access to my Roswell page.

Then...it was back...but with some differences.  At the time I had a daisy wheel printer and had both backed up the contents of the page to "flopping disc" but had also printed them out on the daisy wheel printer (one long roll of papers with separation tears built in).   I compared the printed to the on-screen version and some parts had been deleted...some words changed to twist the meaning. Some links had been deleted or subtly changed. 

I was not paranoid...just annoyed.  I took the papers, files and the web address to the public library where I worked and asked our new IT guy. He had a lot of experience in computers, the internet, and things electronical.  We decided to use a public computer.  I reserved one for my break and we met there at the appointed time. He had reserved the one next to me where he could access a master view of the service and the online activity.  He said that I had not had the webpage opened for five minutes when he detected a "third party" was there.  He attempted to kick the third party of the server and it left as another "blue screen of death" popped up.

I have to assume all that the IT guy did, I was a newbie after all, newly graduated from college, just learning all the ropes of everything. 

I heard from other people in the time - through emails, talk shows, and periodicals - that they too were having similar odd happenings

Was it simply coincidence, early faulty systems designs, network overwork, or something else?

Share your experiences when you could easily believe....they were watching.