Steve Hayes
2010-06-29 10:52:13 UTC
(forwarded from alt.obituaries)
Father Paul, otherwise known as Lieutenant-Commander the Reverend Paul
Inglesby, who has died aged 94, held unconventional views on the origin
of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and once tried to stop the Queen
watching Steven Spielberg's alien film Close Encounters of the Third
Kind, claiming it was a satanic plot to seize control of her mind.
Published: 6:46PM BST 28 Jun 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/7859545/Father-Paul.html
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Father Paul
From boyhood Inglesby was fascinated by reports of flying saucers and,
assuming they were piloted craft from other worlds, subscribed to Flying
Saucer Review. But this assumption in no way interfered with his growing
religious faith.
In fact, as he described in his book UFOs and the Christian (1978),
Inglesby came to believe that, far from being piloted by aliens, UFOs
were of satanic origin.
He initially developed this view while ill in pre-war Malta, after
undergoing a spiritual experience in which he had visions of a future
war against demonic forces controlling spaceships and nuclear weapons.
Such was his conviction that, during the 1960s, he corresponded with
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten and Air Chief Marshal Lord
Dowding, both of whom had publicly declared their belief in UFOs,
seeking to convince them of his hypothesis.
Inglesby was undeterred when Mountbatten, who had become Chief of the
Defence Staff, demurred, writing to say that the Chief Scientific
Advisor, Sir Solly Zuckerman, had persuaded him that there was no more
evidence for UFOs than for ghosts or the Loch Ness Monster.
Nevertheless, Inglesby wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, warning
that the Queen should not attend the premiere of Close Encounters of the
Third Kind (1977) at Leicester Square, as, he claimed, the film had a
satanic theme involving mind-control.
His attempt to have the film boycotted failed, but he had more success
at the House of Lords in its debate on UFOs in January 1979. Inglesby
persuaded Maurice Wood, Bishop of Norwich, to declare that obsessive
belief in UFOs obscured basic Christian truth.
Meanwhile, under the influence of Joe Fison (later Bishop of Salisbury),
Inglesby began to train for the priesthood at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
After ordination into the Church of England in 1964 he became a curate
in Plymouth. He was then rector of Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, and
subsequently Assistant Chaplain to the Isles of Scilly between 1966 and
1970 and of the Mission to Seamen from 1970 to 1973; and senior curate
at St Andrew's, Plymouth, until 1976.
In 1978 he placed a notice in the Church Times announcing the
establishment of the Christian UFO Research Association, a group of
ufologists and clergymen from a number of denominations whose aims were
to warn the public about the dangers of an obsessive interest in flying
saucers and the like. This interest, Inglesby cautioned, was fraught
with menace for the unwary and riddled with heresy and false belief.
Inglesby's conversion to the Greek Orthodox Church in 1980, when he took
the name Father Paul, followed a meeting at a monastery in California
with Father Seraphim Rose, who had written a treatise on UFOs as demonic
signs.
He spent the following two decades alerting friends and colleagues to
the satanic risks of UFOs, and in 1996 he collaborated with Admiral of
the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton to write The UFO Concern Report, which was
privately published but widely circulated. In the foreword Inglesby
wrote that UFOs were a religious concern rather than a military threat.
His conclusion was that, whether they appeared as physical, illusory,
delusional, psychic or psychological manifestations, they were still
working against the Peace of Christ.
He was born Eric Vredenburg on September 11 1915 during a Zeppelin raid
over London, to a Dutch entrepreneur father and an Afrikaner mother. He
was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne.
After failing to get into Dartmouth owing to his short-sightedness, in
1933 he joined the Navy as a special entry Paymaster Cadet in the
training cruiser Frobisher.
In 1933, during Frobisher's visit to Kiel, he shook hands with the
German Admiral Erich Raeder "and liked the look of him". In 1936, en
route to the Berlin Olympics, Inglesby was flown over the shipyards
where Bismarck and Tirpitz were building. The war found him in the
monitor Terror in Singapore: he saw active service in the Mediterranean,
and when she was sunk in February 1941 he was mentioned in dispatches.
Inglesby was next sent to Maleme in Crete, where he was one of the last
naval evacuees in June 1941. He was working for Combined Operations
Headquarters at the time of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942, and
remembered seeing Mountbatten visibly shaken as news of 60 per cent
casualties was received.
On being invalided out of the Navy in 1944, Inglesby became an assistant
editor at the Sunday Pictorial then read PPE at Queen's College, Oxford.
In 1946 he was secretary of the Sweet Rationing Board before his love of
sailing led him to settle in Cornwall, where he worked for the Cornish
education department from 1954 to 1963.
Inglesby always believed that the Nuremberg Trials were flawed and
politically motivated, and campaigned for the release of Raeder, who
wrote him a letter of thanks following his discharge from Spandau in 1955.
Pre-war, Inglesby represented the Navy at fencing at the Royal
Tournament; in Malta he bought a polo pony called Picador from Lord
Mountbatten; and in 1935 he learned to fly privately. He was a reserve
for the 1936 Olympics sailing team and in the 1970s was still sailing
his own boat around his Isles of Scilly parish.
Besides books on UFOs, Inglesby wrote several religious tracts. He was
an inveterate letter writer to The Daily Telegraph, using a typewriter
which he had saved from the sinking of Terror. He leaves a large archive
of papers relating to his UFO study and a complete set of Flying Saucer
Review.
Inglesby described Glastonbury, where he finally settled, as a psychic
telephone exchange, and he died there on May 26. He married, in 1956,
Anna Duke, who survives him with their two sons and a daughter.
Father Paul, otherwise known as Lieutenant-Commander the Reverend Paul
Inglesby, who has died aged 94, held unconventional views on the origin
of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and once tried to stop the Queen
watching Steven Spielberg's alien film Close Encounters of the Third
Kind, claiming it was a satanic plot to seize control of her mind.
Published: 6:46PM BST 28 Jun 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/7859545/Father-Paul.html
Loading Image...
Father Paul
From boyhood Inglesby was fascinated by reports of flying saucers and,
assuming they were piloted craft from other worlds, subscribed to Flying
Saucer Review. But this assumption in no way interfered with his growing
religious faith.
In fact, as he described in his book UFOs and the Christian (1978),
Inglesby came to believe that, far from being piloted by aliens, UFOs
were of satanic origin.
He initially developed this view while ill in pre-war Malta, after
undergoing a spiritual experience in which he had visions of a future
war against demonic forces controlling spaceships and nuclear weapons.
Such was his conviction that, during the 1960s, he corresponded with
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten and Air Chief Marshal Lord
Dowding, both of whom had publicly declared their belief in UFOs,
seeking to convince them of his hypothesis.
Inglesby was undeterred when Mountbatten, who had become Chief of the
Defence Staff, demurred, writing to say that the Chief Scientific
Advisor, Sir Solly Zuckerman, had persuaded him that there was no more
evidence for UFOs than for ghosts or the Loch Ness Monster.
Nevertheless, Inglesby wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, warning
that the Queen should not attend the premiere of Close Encounters of the
Third Kind (1977) at Leicester Square, as, he claimed, the film had a
satanic theme involving mind-control.
His attempt to have the film boycotted failed, but he had more success
at the House of Lords in its debate on UFOs in January 1979. Inglesby
persuaded Maurice Wood, Bishop of Norwich, to declare that obsessive
belief in UFOs obscured basic Christian truth.
Meanwhile, under the influence of Joe Fison (later Bishop of Salisbury),
Inglesby began to train for the priesthood at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
After ordination into the Church of England in 1964 he became a curate
in Plymouth. He was then rector of Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, and
subsequently Assistant Chaplain to the Isles of Scilly between 1966 and
1970 and of the Mission to Seamen from 1970 to 1973; and senior curate
at St Andrew's, Plymouth, until 1976.
In 1978 he placed a notice in the Church Times announcing the
establishment of the Christian UFO Research Association, a group of
ufologists and clergymen from a number of denominations whose aims were
to warn the public about the dangers of an obsessive interest in flying
saucers and the like. This interest, Inglesby cautioned, was fraught
with menace for the unwary and riddled with heresy and false belief.
Inglesby's conversion to the Greek Orthodox Church in 1980, when he took
the name Father Paul, followed a meeting at a monastery in California
with Father Seraphim Rose, who had written a treatise on UFOs as demonic
signs.
He spent the following two decades alerting friends and colleagues to
the satanic risks of UFOs, and in 1996 he collaborated with Admiral of
the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton to write The UFO Concern Report, which was
privately published but widely circulated. In the foreword Inglesby
wrote that UFOs were a religious concern rather than a military threat.
His conclusion was that, whether they appeared as physical, illusory,
delusional, psychic or psychological manifestations, they were still
working against the Peace of Christ.
He was born Eric Vredenburg on September 11 1915 during a Zeppelin raid
over London, to a Dutch entrepreneur father and an Afrikaner mother. He
was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne.
After failing to get into Dartmouth owing to his short-sightedness, in
1933 he joined the Navy as a special entry Paymaster Cadet in the
training cruiser Frobisher.
In 1933, during Frobisher's visit to Kiel, he shook hands with the
German Admiral Erich Raeder "and liked the look of him". In 1936, en
route to the Berlin Olympics, Inglesby was flown over the shipyards
where Bismarck and Tirpitz were building. The war found him in the
monitor Terror in Singapore: he saw active service in the Mediterranean,
and when she was sunk in February 1941 he was mentioned in dispatches.
Inglesby was next sent to Maleme in Crete, where he was one of the last
naval evacuees in June 1941. He was working for Combined Operations
Headquarters at the time of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942, and
remembered seeing Mountbatten visibly shaken as news of 60 per cent
casualties was received.
On being invalided out of the Navy in 1944, Inglesby became an assistant
editor at the Sunday Pictorial then read PPE at Queen's College, Oxford.
In 1946 he was secretary of the Sweet Rationing Board before his love of
sailing led him to settle in Cornwall, where he worked for the Cornish
education department from 1954 to 1963.
Inglesby always believed that the Nuremberg Trials were flawed and
politically motivated, and campaigned for the release of Raeder, who
wrote him a letter of thanks following his discharge from Spandau in 1955.
Pre-war, Inglesby represented the Navy at fencing at the Royal
Tournament; in Malta he bought a polo pony called Picador from Lord
Mountbatten; and in 1935 he learned to fly privately. He was a reserve
for the 1936 Olympics sailing team and in the 1970s was still sailing
his own boat around his Isles of Scilly parish.
Besides books on UFOs, Inglesby wrote several religious tracts. He was
an inveterate letter writer to The Daily Telegraph, using a typewriter
which he had saved from the sinking of Terror. He leaves a large archive
of papers relating to his UFO study and a complete set of Flying Saucer
Review.
Inglesby described Glastonbury, where he finally settled, as a psychic
telephone exchange, and he died there on May 26. He married, in 1956,
Anna Duke, who survives him with their two sons and a daughter.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk