Foreword Written by Christian Pfeiler (UFO Info)

Hello and welcome to the fourteenth issue of the magazine

It comes late, but it comes . Sorry again for the delay - especially to all readers from the online archive who haven´t read my first apology - but it was really impossible for me to finish the magazine this month in time. Unfortunately, UFO research is not the kind of job which you´re paid for (except you´re a famous author, an actor or an FBI agent ) so all researchers have to do a normal job and to live a normal life and sometimes there is too much to do in this normal life so that we don´t have enough time for the UFO business (I think most of my colleagues will agree.) However, I´m a little bit worried about the decrease of the number of pages and articles and also about the decrease of the quality of my own articles. When I look back on previous issues, we had sometimes over 30 pages and 14 or 15 articles from various contributers, but the last two or three issues were pretty small with just a few articles. This is a pretty bad development and I´ll try to do something against it.

To prevent the loss of quality and further delays in future, I´ve decided to stop publishing the magazine every 4 weeks. From this issue on, the magazine will be published every 6 weeks, so the next issue No 15 will be published on October 28, 2000. I think this is better for me and better for the contributers who will have more time for their articles. Who knows, maybe we will have more contribution and feedback now. However, feel free to tell me if you don´t agree with my 6-weeks-decision.

By the way, I will be in England from September 26 to September 30. I will be in and around Southampton and for some hours on Tuesday and Saturday in London. Just let me know if anyone wants to meet me there for a discussion about UFOs or about other stuff (or if you want to offer me a job in England ). I think I´ll have plenty of time during the day, so feel free to ask me if you live in this area or if you have a possibility to come to Southampton.

But back to this issue: I´ve written a new article called “The Simplest Explanation” and I tried to find the simplest and therefore correct explanation for the UFO phenomenon. Read the article and let me know what you think. We have also a very interesting article written by Tessa B. Dick about the very strange experiences of her former husband, the famous scifi writer Philip K. Dick and we have a great article written by Ray Cecot.

Best wishes

Chris