RETURN OF THE ANGELS; UFOs in Israel, Past and Present by Barry Chamish
CHAPTER ONE-The Kadima Landings
In late February of 1993,a pretty woman in her early twenties,Ginat Aharoni left her home in the town of Tel Mond,some three miles from Kadima, and drove towards the coastal city of Netanya to pick her mother up at the train station. She took a dark,lonely road on this cloudless night. Near the village of Tel Yitzhak,a very bright object passed over her vehicle at a height of no more than thirty feet.
Ginat was more astounded than terrified and took the trouble of making note of details. Her object was round and about forty feet in diameter. Around its rim were some twenty lights,orange and glowing, which moved counter- clockwise slowly. She guessed than one light at a time was darkened to give an illusion of movement.
Eleven months later, she is at her spacious home recalling the event. “I knew what I saw was no plane or helicopter because it was so low I could see it. I don’t think it was much higher than the ceiling here.I told my parents and boyfriend what I saw. My father still thinks I had mistaken the object for something explainable. But what I saw was not explainable.
Fortunately,the object passed over me in a matter of ten seconds so I wasn’t traumatized by the experience.”
Ginat apparantly saw the same object that actually landed alongside the Tulkarem-Netanya road at about eight in the evening. This UFO was also described as being surrounded by orange,circling lights. Outside the village of Kfar Yonah,it landed for about a minute and cars pulled over to get a better look until it slowly rose and flew northward. The incident took place about ten miles from Kadima and was the first reported landing of as many as twenty in the next few months.
Kadima is a town of some five thousand souls in the center of the coastal region of Israel called in Hebrew,the Sharon. To locate it on a map,one looks half way between Tel Aviv and Haifa and finds the city of Netanya.
About ten miles east is Kadima.
This is citrus country and while Netanya has few open spaces,Kadima is surrounded by lush orchards and green meadows. At least,they’re green in March when the UFOs decided this was the place they would investigate.
Three quarters of Kadima’s citizens live in cramped three storey apartment blocks. They are physically separated from HaPalmach Street by about a mile and mentally by the diameter of an alien space ship. The ships did not land near the city center and people there have barely heard of the space invasion that occurred nearby. In fact,not many have even heard of HaPalmach Street.
Further separating the town from the street is what is called the Kadima Forest. In fact it is a grove of, mostly, eucalyptus trees that serves as the town’s largest picnic grounds. Hapalmach Street is the northwest border of Kadima. To its west there is no more town,just a significant meadow.
The people of Hapalmach Street live in their own separate houses and some are luxurious. They all boast spacious grounds of about a quarter of an acre. At one time Kadima was a communal farm settlement,or moshav, and,in fact,it is still a moshav on the books. HaPalmach Street in 1993 was the still an unpaved farm road connecting homes of the original settlers. But agriculture is no longer much of a source of income for the residents.
The people of moshav Kadima are a mix of European and Sephardic Jews who have very different cultures but do get along. Tsiporet Carmel and Shosh Yahud are clearly different types of people. Tziporet is Israeli-born,very fair and extremely vivacious. She speaks in the peculiar enthusiastic lilt of the landed Ashkenazi. Her father was a renowned pilot in the Israeli Airforce and she more than dabbles in literature. She is quite pretty in person and absolutely stunning in pictures and on television. She accentuates her features with her hair dyed blonder than nature intended.
She raises Great Danes and seven of them fill the air with their sounds and the house with their smells.The house is unkempt in the style of a certain artistic personality found worldwide.And in keeping with this free spirited character,she has a young daughter and no husband.
Shosh still speaks in heavily Arabic-intoned Hebrew and is a first- generation Israeli. She is dark,with hair reddened by henna.When her children misbehave she turns stern and they capitulate. Her husband is a blue-collar laborer and her home is immaculate.Like Tsiporet,she is in her late thirties but that is all they seem to have in common.Except that they both met a visitor from another planet.
At 6:30 in the morning of March 20,1993,Tsiporet awoke and went to her kitchen.This was not her usual pattern,as she explains. “I’m a late sleeper and I seldom get up that early.And this was Saturday,a day I always sleep late. But something disturbed me and I felt drawn to walk to the kitchen.
When I got there,the room was bathed in a strange light,this even though the sun was up. I went outside and checked the grounds. As I went around the storage shed I noticed what I thought was a new fruit silo in the field about a hundred meters from me.I remembered thinking,why would anyone put a silo there and in the middle of the night at that?
“I took a closer look at the silo and realized this was no ordinary container. It was silver colored for one thing,which is not standard for silos. It seemed square shaped from the angle I was looking. Along its side were eighteen glowing square windows which looked like diamonds in a necklace. Five huge beams of powerful light shone from the roof into the northern sky. And the silo was emitting what looked like sparklers along its side. I guessed the size of the silo to be about five meters in length and about three meters high. But then it seemed to grow another storey. By that I mean,a second section materialized and doubled the height of the silo.
“Then I saw what,at first,I thought was a worker a few meters from the silo.
When I saw him,so did the dogs and they went crazy.The worker was over seven feet tall and wore metallic overalls,something like aluminum foil. He wore a sombrero with a veil that covered his face that in totality looked like a beekeeper’s hat.
“We both stared at each other for,perhaps thirty seconds and I realized finally who he was. I quietly whispered,”Why don’t you take off your hat so I can see your face?” I heard his answer clearly in my head. He said in Hebrew,’Kakha zeh,’meaning,that’s the way it is. After that,I felt impelled to go back to my kitchen and boil some coffee. When I went back outside,the ship and its occupant was gone.”
Tziporet took her time reacting to the strange morning. After a few days she told a friend,Tsipi Maayan, what happened and they walked to the field to see if any evidence of the incident remained. They found a round circle of dead vegetation,or rather “dissolved vgetation,”about fifteen feet in diameter and protruding from it a path and then another circle of about four feet in diameter where the tall visitor had stood.
Instead of calling the police immediately,the two returned from the site and told other neighbors. Rumors spread throughout the moshav and one moshavnik had the foresight to seek out both UFO investigators and the press. Both descended on the site and thus was born Israel’s most publicized UFO encounter of 1993.
Among the UFO investigators who flocked to Kadima for this and subsequent landings were,Doron Rotem,Ami Achrai,Rachel Hendl,Avi Grief and Yoram Torbatian. Also present after the first landing was a neighbour, Danny Yaacobi,who would become the most controversial researcher of the Kadima landings.
The investigators found burnt ground that emitted an acrid smell of incinerated rubber. This smell would accompany other landings and its significance has not yet been determined.Also found was a black oily substance with a sweet smell and the odd capacity of dissolving any vegetative material including plants and clothes. Later testing proved the substance was not flammable.
But Doron Reshef discovered the most significant find of all;dozens of shards of a grey,shiny material. It was like nothing the investigators had seen before.It was incredibly light,so light that it seemed to have no weight at all. Yet it was so strong it cut through glass and resisted chipping from hammer blows. Further testing proved it absorbed heat and cold instantaneously.
This material was tested in a government laboratory a few weeks later and the results were both astounding and controversial.
One side effect of the field research was sickness,as Tsiporet explains,”I was nauseous for days,had horrible diarrea, fits of shivering and couldn’t stop sleeping. It was like a bad flu.”
Others experienced the same effect,including the author of this book. Danny Yaacobi swears that after the sick feeling ended,his arthritis of the knees that forced him to walk with a cane,disappeared. Avi Grief experienced the same phenomenon as he elaborates,”I had a painfully weak ankle that always impaired me. It was repaired after visiting the Carmel landing site and has never returned. My theory is that there is something healing in the initial sick feeling.”
By the time the author arrived at the first landing site eight months later, not much had apparently changed. In the midst of thick vegetation was a circle of sandy soil where very little grew. Tsiporet warned me not to stay too long but I couldn’t resist looking for signs of the landing that might have been overlooked. After scratching through the burnt and charred remains of wood and plastic and digging through the still burnt roots of former plant life for about twenty minutes,I felt genuinely lousy like a flu was approaching and spent the remainder of the day mooching pain killers from the people I was interviewing.
I told Tsiporet that if she hadn’t have planted the suggestion in the first place,I wouldn’t have had a psychosomatic reaction. She replied,”It wouldn’t have made a difference. Everyone who stays too long at the spot gets sick after.”
The next landing behind Tsipora’s house was in the early morning of March 30. Once again a circle of dessicated and dying plant life betrayed the visit.
This time the site offered a new clue about interstellar technology. A red,oily material was streaked throughout the landing site. This material proved evcn more sickening to a number of people than whatever was left behind after the first landing,as we shall soon see with the case of Shosh Yahud.
On top of its sickening powers,the oil was not easily removed from skin as Rachel Hendl recalls.
” I gathered a vial full of the stuff and put it in my car. But when I got back home I got scared and threw it out. I didn’t know what it was,maybe it was radioactive. When I returned inside,I tried to wash it off my hands but it wouldn’t come out. I scrubbed so hard my hands almost fell off but it took days before it went away. I couldn’t understand it,the material wasn’t sticky and was easily removed from my clothes but it stuck to skin.
Luckily,it didn’t cause any harm.”
The next day,March 31,another circle was discovered,the third in eleven days. Once again the investigators descended and again,they took back a significant haul of the strange,shiny material they had collected at the first site.
And thus ended the landings behind Tsipora Carmel’s home. However,the effects remained within her. To this day Tsipora sees auras around peoples’
faces and believes she has gained healing power.As we shall see,she is not alone among witnesses who shares that belief.
Nor was she the last person in Kadima affected by the UFOs.
At 2:30 in the morning of May 31,Shosh Yahud was awoken by a huge bang,”like a big picture fell.” She then,”woke up and saw this strange,human- looking creature standing over me,just looking. I wasn’t frightened because I wasn’t certain I was awake.I heard a voice in my head saying,”Don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you.”He then circled my bed and looked around for as short time.
“The room was lighted just enough for me to get a good look at him.He was over seven feet tall,thin and bald. His eyes were round and had the look of traffic light. His face was round too and quite kind.He seemed to be walking on air,rather than on the floor. The whole experience lasted only a few minutes.
“For the rest of the night,my whole body was itchy and I scratched. I never scratch, so that was a unique reaction.About two hours later I walked to my balcony and saw two circles on the lawn below. Then I went back to sleep and sort of forgot about the whole night.
“The next day,I was talking with a neighbor and found out lots of people had seen a UFO the night before. The whole neighborhood was gossiping about it.
That jarred me and I told her what I thought happened to me several hours before. We both walked to my backyard and there were the two circles. The grass inside them looked like it had been swirled clockwise by a big fan.”
The neighbor ran to another neighbor,Yossi Yitzhak, a contractor with a good collection of tools in his home. He brought a magnetometer to Shosh’s home and began testing.
The two circles registered very high magnetism. So did Shosh’s bedroom.
Magnetic levels were normal everywhere else on the property. Within the circles was the red fluid that had sickened Tsipora Carmel. For three days after the visitation Shosh,too,suffered from nauseau,severe headaches,goosebumps and shivering. After she recovered,she made the mistake of going into her backyard and the symptoms returned. The lesson learned,she waited months before venturing there again.
The ufologists descended on the home and made notes. Shosh’s husband was sleeping downstairs on the living room couch. He had not heard the boom nor was his sleep disturbed. All doors were locked in the morning and the windows showed no signs of forced entry. In order to enter,the alien had to float through the wall to get to Shosh’s second storey bedroom.
Unlike Tsipora’s landings,which were in an open field,Shosh’s two UFOs landed precisely in a fenced yard not much bigger than the ships themselves.
Their diameters were measured at 4.5 meters each.Eight months later,the circles were clearly visible as the grass within had grown to only half the height of the surrounding grass.
The ufologists tried to draw conclusions from the incidents and a consensus reached was that the ships were suffering mechanical trouble.That would explain why Tsipora saw them in broad daylight and why they chose to hide in Shosh’s yard. Doron Rotem believed the trouble may have started on May 20,when one of the ships tilted and touched the ground while it was spinning.
Hence the shards that were scattered about the field behind Tsipora’s house.
He was convinced that the material was part of the protective shield covering the UFOs.
The explanation was only partly satisfying. What had yet to be answered was why the aliens did so much exploring in Kadima. The mystery only deepened when the strange story of Mara emerged.
Shosh lives about two hundred yards south of Tsipora. About the same distance north,at the very end of HaPalmach Street,a new immigrant couple from Russia was renting a home. The wife’s name was Mara and she could not be located for the purposes of this book. She had moved and cut all contact with the nightmare moshav of Kadima. Her story is recorded from the scrupulous interviews conducted with ufologists Doron Reshef, Yoram Torbatian and Avi Grief.
Mara’s story was discovered as an afterthought. One day in the summer of 1993,her husband told a neighbor that he was thinking of moving because the house he rented was “haunted.” He described his wife hearing voices and strange bangings on the walls that they both heard. Word reached the ufologists who separately made trips,once again to Kadimah.
First on the scene was Torbatian who discovered a flattened circle in Mara’s backyard and four clear indentations within. He measured the circle at 4.30 meter’s diameter while the diameters of the indentations were 325 cm.,245 cm.,270 cm. and 290 cm. Totally convinced the Russian couple had been visited,the ufologists pieced together their story.
At 12:30 A:M, April 24,1993,the couple’s house was shaken by a boom so powerful,it jiggled the 300 lb. air-conditioner out of the wall. Their first reaction was that they had felt the effects of an unusually powerful sonic boom.
A half hour later,a second boom rocked the house,this time accompanied by the terrified barking of the neighnor’s dog. The couple called the police.
Officers arrived and offered no explanation for the noise but did not dismiss the couple as cranks since the evidence of the air-conditioner was in full view and the dog had not quietened.
For the next few months,Mara heard distinct voices,not within her head as Shosh and Tsiporet reported,but from the walls, calling to her in her childhood nickname. The message most often repeated was,”Come to us,Marishka. Come to us.”
While Shosh gives reluctant interviews to this day,and Tsiporet enjoys the limelight,Mara found her UFO experience terrifying. She abandoned Kadima and has broken all contact with her former neighbors and the ufologists.
Danny Yaacobi lives three houses south of Tsipora on HaPalmach Streeet. He is the only resident claiming to have been abducted by the aliens and before reporting his story,we will jump ahead.
After the first Kadima landings,the city of Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee was the scene of some dramatic UFO appearances. The sheer number of witnesses impelled Israel Television host,Manny Peer to conduct an hour-long show dedicated to the subject of UFOs. At the time,Israel had only two television channels and as much as half the country’s viewing population would tune into Manny Peer.
As we shall soon see,the show was the impetus for other witnesses to come forward but more to the immediate point, Peer revealed a remarkable document to the Israeli public.
The Israeli government’s Geological Survey Institute (GSI) had tested the material found in the field behind Tsiporet’s house and Peer had the report.
The fact that a branch of the government had tested the material was important but what made the report even more authoritative was that it was signed by the head of the institute’s chemical testing laboratory,Dr. Henry Fohner.
The document begins by explaining that the material was subjected to two tests and that the results are corroborative thus are to be considered conclusive.
The report’s conclusion was that,”The material is composed of elemental silicone,” and then underlined for emphasis,”A material not found on this planet.”
This is remarkable testimony. In a rare instance of official openness,a government document admits that UFO detritus cannot be explained in earthly terms.
The significance of the report was explained by Peer,who throughout the show, played the role of the bemused skeptic. He told the viewers that,”The kind of pure silicone produced on earth,is created out of a combination of sand,polymers and acids in laboratories. The silicone tested at the GSI has so signs of artificial manufacture. It is,in fact,an element on its own.”
The ufologists have different interpretations of the report. According to Doron Rotem,”Our technicians leave microscopic impurities in manufactured silicone. The material from Kadima was purer than anything made on Earth.”
Ruth Hendl sees the importance in different terms. She insists,”The form of the silicone was unique,as if it had been mined. No company manufactures silicone rocks.”
Yoram Torbatian has investigated the material left behind at Kadima more closely than anyone and it was he who first submitted the various shards and oils to another laboratory at the Biological Institute of Israel, located at Ness Tziona.His interpretation is the most educated in this case.
“The laboratory subjected the materials to a number of tests including differential thermal analysis and x-ray spectograph. After determining that the material was silicone,they photographed the surface and discovered that it was pocked with pores with a diameter of about half a millimeter each.
It’s as if the pores were drilled into the material. This is what distinguishes their silicone from ours.
“My contact at the lab was Dr. Michael Dvorchik. He told me that the year before,he had tested the same material. It was brought to him by a resident of the Negev Desert,Dr. Akiva Flexer. Flexer claimed that it fell from the sky but would not elaborate.”
(Ruth Hendl received a report from a soldier that he found a great deal of the material he saw on the Manny Peer show in the Negev while on a training mission).
Torbatian collected the red oil that sickened Shosh,Tsipora and others and placed it in a container made of anodized aluminum and covered it with almuninum foil. Two weeks later the aluminum had corroded and partly dissolved. He was later told by Dvorchik that it was the magnesium used in the anodizing process that had dissolved.
Dvorchik’s lab found that the red oil was mostly cadmium,a material used on Earth in the manufacture of batteries and known for its ability to withstand high temperatures.
After the Peer Show,the GSI and Dvorchik were given strict instructions by unnamed authorities to desist from making official reports. Dvorchik persisted in leaking reports to the ufologists for a week after the order was given,then broke off contact. It is one of his analyses that will play a huge role in the veracity of Danny Yaacobi’s story.
Torbatian sums up the silicone controversy. “Dr. Dvorchik told me that silicone could be purchased and pores drilled into it if someone wanted to perpetuate a fraud. But whoever did it,would have to be very wealthy since silicone,in the amount found would cost thousands of dollars even before its appearance was changed.It’s just not a remotely feasible con.”
Before delving into the claims of Danny Yaacobi,one more character in the Kadima flap must be introduced. He is Eli Cohen,the man who captured a Kadima UFO on videotape.
All the ufologists and interested witnesses agree;Eli Cohen is one of the most genuine of the personalities in the Kadima drama and that his evidence is essential to unravelling the whys of the invasion.
Eli lives in Pardessia,a moshav three miles north of Kadima. He is young,good-looking and ambitious. I am privileged to catch him at an opportune moment. He has just returned home with his latest product. It is an AM/FM radio shaped like a space ship with an inner disc and upper and lower domes. The speaker is in the lower dome while the upper dome can be turned to adjust the stations.
He proudly displays it and in a speedy,animated voice exclaims,”They just arrived from Hong Kong today. It’s my design,no one else has thought of it.
I’ve already received orders from Europe and the Americans will love it.”
This is not Cohen’s only UFO money-making project. His collection of UFO anecdotes was professionally recorded and will soon be sold in cassette form. He pulls out a fax and announces that a company will back him to open an 800 telephone service,providing UFO stories to callers for two dollars a minute.
“I never used to read,I’m not proud of that but it’s true. But after I saw the spaceship I couldn’t stop reading. Every book was about UFOs. I became obsessed with them.”
His wife is lovely,maybe twenty-five years old.She enters the living room with their month old baby. Eli rushes to her with the radio and begs her to examine it. She ignores it and hands him the infant. She walks away muttering,”More UFO nonsense.”
Eli holds the baby and begins to tell his story. He becomes more animated as the tale unfolds.
“My first sighting was at three in the morning,on September 26,1991. I woke up with this strange feeling that someone was outside. I took my gun from the drawer and went to the kids’ room. I saw a light outside and thought it was a car so I went back to my bedroom and woke up my wife. My wife saw the
same thing as I did,a ray of light,like a searchlight,beamed on the orchard outside from a strange object in the sky. Then it was gone.
“The next night at the same time, I woke up with a feeling that it’s out there. I opened the bedroom window and I saw a light in the sky,like a fireball,shaped like an eye. It hovered above the orchard and bounced like a yo-yo. Thirty seconds later it flew away at tremendous speed.
“That day I took action. First, I phoned Hadassah Arbel. Everyone now says she’s nuts but she handled my conversation professionally.”
Hadassah Arbel is Israel’s pioneer ufologist and her name will reappear in conjunction with other incidents.
“She told me to gather evidence and I went to work. I had a friend in Herzlia with a video camera and I invited him to come over that night and asked a couple of friends to stay the night to act as witnesses.
“We played cards until five past three in the morning and then it appeared.
It was less impressive than the times before but it still lit up the room.
We filmed it for three hours. It would appear then disappear and we’d go back to the cards.Then it would come back and we’d film it. The film from the middle of the night turned out to be unclear but just as the sun rose at six,we filmed it for about thirty seconds and there is no mistaking what I had seen.”
Eli’s film shows a distant and tiny object bouncing in the air above the orchards of Pardessia. Doron Rotem had the film enlarged and the result is a clear picture of a hat-shaped vehicle with a flat bottom and dome above. The airship is grey-colored and two wings forming a V half-way up the dome from the flat bottom are visible. Whatever Eli Cohen filmed,it was not an airplane that anyone recognized.
The contrast between earthly aircraft and this ship was illustrated at 5:AM of Eli’s second sighting,when an Israeli Airforce plane crossed paths with the UFO. Eli believes the plane was a cargo vehicle not jet and it did not give chase.
Eli’s story and the indisputable proof of his film complicates the Kadima saga deeply. What his film proves is that a year and a half before the landing behind Tsiporet Carmel’s house,the aliens were scouting the area.
As for Eli Cohen,his career and outlook were altered dramatically.His focus became UFOs. “I don’t know why it happened to me,” he says,”But my life changed forever.”
Danny Yaacobi is a sculptor, aged about forty-five. His studio is behind his spacious house on HaPalmach Street. Inside the studio are statues in various stages of preparation,plaster casts,metal moulds and an oven for baking ceramics.
Also in his studio is a drawer full of UFO debris,photos and a map. The map is very important to him for it tracks all the UFO landings of Kadimah.
The are twelve sites clearly marked. Number one is Tsiporet’s field,dated May 20,30 and 31. The other sites follow Rehov HaPalmach to the Kadima Forest at approximately 500 yard hops every eleven days or so. Landing 2 was on 11/4/93,landing 3 on 21/4/93,500 yards from the previous spot,4 was on 22/4/93,another 500 yards east of the previous site and on until the tenth to twelfth landings which are marked in almost the exact spot in the forest.
“It got to the point,”he claims,”that we knew when and where there would be landings.” The we he refers to is a cadre of about ten residents he organized on a UFO watch.
In Danny’s drawer are six vials of UFO refuse. Two vials contain clear liquid which Danny says was analysed as liquid silicone.One vial smells foul and a leaf is floating within. It was found sprayed on trees and the unpleasant odor is from ammonia mixed in the silicone,probably as a plant preservative.Yoram Torbatian had the liquid tested at the national Biological Institute and says it was found to be liquid polyesterin.
Another vial is filled with a black gunk. Danny says it was originally glowing red and was found in one of the holes in the center of a landing circle. (The holes,about a meter deep, were in the center of the circles found at Tsipora and Shosh’s sites).It was originally glowing red but when touched with a stick,it immediately turned black.
Other vials contain the silicone shards but one example was special to him.
It was a chip from an actual interstellar device.It is rough on the inside,smooth on the outside and is about three inches by two in size.
The story of the device will soon be recounted and it is astounding but Danny has another story to relate first. He hasn’t even told his wife,which is just as well since she is exasperated by his UFO compulsion, but he was abducted by aliens.
“At 2:AM on May 13,”he begins,”I had a restless night,and felt compelled to get in my car. I drove to the forest and saw a ship shaped like a big egg. I got out of the car and immediately,a tiny being,maybe a meter and a half tall appeared. He said to me,’We were waiting for you.’He floated in front of me while I walked to the ship. I don’t remember how I got inside but it seemed huge,far bigger than it could have been judging by its outside dimensions. In the middle of the room was a pillar with an enormous pedestal. There were thirteen aliens in the room but only two led me to a side chamber where I was laid on a very comfortable sofa. As I lay down,one told me telepathically not to worry. I asked why I was there and he said,”You’re on a mission. You’ll know what it is in time.” Then they made an incision in my left wrist.The next thing I know I’m in my car travelling home.”
Yoram Torbatian says,”If he was on a mission,it was to drive us all crazy.
He set the tone for all the later sightings.” On another occasion Danny stood in the midst of a heat field.Outside the field,the weather was normal while inside it rose to 120 degrees F. Danny put his arms inside,then took them out several times. The next morning his arms were burnt red and would not return to normal for three weeks.
The device was spotted under a tree near three previous landings,on May 29.
It took four men to lift it out of the ground and seemed to weigh 300 lbs.
Once out of the ground,the weight dropped to 25 lbs.
The device looked like a round fruit cake with a hollowed middle and holes bored around the rim. Danny chipped off a piece and returned it to the ground. He posted a twenty-four hour guard from a distance of fifty yards away around the device and rushed to a friend who runs a security firm and returned with four infrared sensors.
The next few days were filled with adventure. At least three ships landed though they were not always visible. They lit up the small valley outside the forest but their form was not perceived.Danny photographed the phenomenon and the result is impressive. The little valley outside the forest is glowing in unnatural light while darkness envelops the forest behind. He also managed to take a photo of a UFO above the forest but it is far less convincing than the distinct image captured by Eli Cohen.
Two of the guards walked towards the light to confront the visitors. Danny and the others warned them not to but they ventured ahead anyway. Once the light disappeared and presumably the UFO had risen,the men went looking for the two adventurers. They were found,literally,frozen in their tracks in a catatonic state. Danny slapped them to snap them to life and when they awoke,they were shivering with cold.
Yoram Torbiatan interviewed the two men.”Neither of them remembers being frozen and they deny Yaacobi’s account. However,a circle was found the next day on the spot.”
Sometime during the early morning of May 29,the device disappeared and the four sensors surrounding it were burned out. The next night the device reappeared but in different form. It looked newer and it was cold,very cold.
The men searched for an industrial thermometer and measured the temperature of the device at 160 degrees C below zero.
The next night,the device disappeared never to reappear again. Eight months later the field surrounding the tree is flush with vegetation. Yet under the tree where the device was buried,is a circle with a diameter of about four feet, where nothing but a few sprouts of grass survives.
The leaves of the tree on the side where the device was buried are withered and sick. On the other side,they are full and healthy. I cut two branches,one from either side of the tree and took them home.
My wife never gets headaches. The next day she had a nasty one that persisted until I removed the branches from our house. Then she was cured.
Danny believes he has solved the mystery of Kadima. The UFOs were scouting the area until they located the device. That was the purpose of their invasion. Once the device was recovered,the Kadima flap ended.
At the time of the flap and after,all witnesses saw tall aliens.Only Danny’s were tiny. He believes that two races of aliens were after the device.He is also convinced the device was left behind,tens if not hundreds of thousands of years ago.He has no answer why it was still on the surface after so many eons had passed.
Nonetheless, he has a few advocates. Israel’s ufologists fall into two categories. The first are the Jack Webb types who only want the facts,ma’am.
They include Rotem,Torbatian,Hendl and Grief. This group deeply distrusts the ufologists who accept mystical or religious explanations for the phenomena. Those few who are willing to accept Danny’s conclusions fall into this category.The unelected leader of this school is Hadassah Arbel,who is convinced that the current wave of UFOs in Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Arbel notes that,”It’s written that the messiah from the house of David will be found in Kedem (Kadima). After Kadima,the next flap will be in Jerusalem.”
Danny Yaacobi is neither a pragmatist nor mystic.Having fallen between the cracks,he has few people in the Israeli UFO world who are prepared to say he is the man who cracked the mystery of Kadima. Of all the witnesses of the aliens in the Kadima area,he is the only one who claims he was informed that he was chosen for a mission, and one of two abductees. (The other will be discussed in Chapter Three).
Doron Rotem warned me ahead of time to,”Take everything Danny says with a grain of salt,he’s a bit crazy. But he’s collected a lot of factual data that you’ll find very interesting.”
An Israeli Air Force radar operator we have to call Yonah and who will give testimony later in this book adds,”You have to filter out Yaacobi’s information. Ninety percent is off the wall.”
Avi Grief bluntly states,”I ignore him completely. He endangers the integrity of our studies. The other landings at Kadima fall into a worldwide pattern and are objectively and provably real. Yaacobi is a loose cannon who can make a mockery of all our work.”
As far as Yoram Torbatian is concerned,”Danny rigged the whole device. I had it tested and it was composed of just the ceramic materials a sculptor could cook up in his furnace.”
Except for one problem,the outer covering of the device. Danny told me,”The scientist from the biological laboratory phoned me up and actually shouted at me,”This material contains practically every element found in the earth’s crust. It’s physically impossible to bond every element.”
Torbatian concurs,”Dr. Dvorchik told me the same thing. The covering is composed of an intricately linked compound of just about every element. What was missing was cobalt and lo and behold,Danny managed to find some cobalt near the device site right after.”
Despite his skepticism,the fact that the material covering the device is so unexplainable gives Danny a lot of backing for his claims.Then there is that bald spot under the tree. Ruth Hendl asks,”Is he really capable of spreading some powerful herbicide in a circle just to fool us? It’s hard to accept.”
But Eli Cohen does accept that Danny is capable of such an act. He has told ufologists that he saw him spreading powder of some kind around a purported landing site.
Despite the dilemma of the device’s outer covering,the author remains skeptical of Danny Yaacobi.The most believable incidents involve Tsiporet Carmel,Shosh Yahud,Mara the Russian immigrant and Eli Cohen. Combined, their experiences and the physical evidence left at the landing sites,provide a most persuasive argument that Kadima was the focal point of a UFO invasion,whose purpose,despite Danny Yaacobi’s protestations,are still unknown.
As if the events at Kadima were not powerful enough evidence of UFO visitations,they are backed up by astounding events nearby the moshav.