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About your edits to the Southern Television broadcast intrusion article
editHi Endlesspumpkin! I've noticed that you added newspaper reports at the time as sources for the article mentioned above. The issue (for me) is that most of the ones you added are locked behind a subscription or paywall. Do you mind taking screenshots of them and sending them to me for me to read personally? Thank you!
P.S. I also noticed that you mentioned someone on Wikipedia claimed to have a "World's Greatest" book containing a transcript of the hijack. Have you tried contacting this user or mind telling me who this user was?
-LB ~2026-23470-50 (talk) 01:42, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
- The user who claimed to have the book was @Nea10086, who made 4 edits in 2009 and hasn't been seen since. I decided it wasn't likely I'd get an answer, but who knows. Maybe they'd get a notification email of a comment on their talk page and feel inclined to check it out.
- It's really irritating that the sources are paywalled. I have access to them because of wikipedia, actually. If you make over 500 edits and 10 per month you get access to the wikipedia library, which has a wealth of normally paywalled newspaper, archival, and academic resources. strongly recommend it. :)
- I did actually find some of them as screenshots on a random tumblr blog, which is obviously paywall free (though I think you need an account to view some posts? I think I remember having some issues), but unfortunately also not at all suitable for a wikipedia citation (but having compared them to the originals they're legit). I can dig it out of my browser history, if you want. Endlesspumpkin (talk) 10:07, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi! Thank you for the reply! Do send that Tumblr post.
- -LB ~2026-23470-50 (talk) 15:02, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
- https://www.tumblr.com/lickthecow/818773471910920192/the-following-christian-science-monitor-story
- Enjoy! Incidentally, I forced myself to listen to the podcast about interruption that people keep trying to add to the page. By and large it's excruciating listening but I do believe he stumbled onto the correct answer, despite his best efforts. Some old broadcast pirate friends were talking in a facebook group and named the hoaxer as Bob Tomalski. Everything else about the podcast though makes it clear that it is absolutely not a reliable source as far as wikipedia is concerned. The podcast's renamed itself as Archive, and 'The Interruption' is season one. If you're interested you can very safely skip the first six episodes and just listen to 7-9. Endlesspumpkin (talk) 15:22, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for the response again! Speaking of the Interruption podcast, it was mentioned in episode three that there was a UFO newsletter publication called "Viewpoint Aquarius", and that its January 1978 issue contained a transcript of the hijacking which mistakenly refers to the speaker as "Gramaha" and the Ashtar Galactic Command as the Ashdown Galactic Command. Unfortunately, this specific issue is nowhere online to my knowledge. Maybe try looking for it in a library if you're in the UK?
- -LB ~2026-23470-50 (talk) 19:35, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
- The 'Ashdown' Galactic command appears in a couple of newspapers, too, but Gramaha seems reserved for UFO groups/sites (who I assume all got it from Viewpoint Aquarius) I couldn't find a copy of the newsletter, but I'm pretty sure the transcript is this one. The publication is from 2007, but the transcript is in an article about Rex Dutta, who founded Viewpoint Aquarius. Endlesspumpkin (talk) 08:08, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
Thank you!
editI wasn't reading carefully and didn't see "Cronus" listed in the alternate genealogy. Entirely my mistake. Jaguarnik (talk) 17:50, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
- No worries. I'll shift Cronus to the front of the list to make it clearer anyway. :) Endlesspumpkin (talk) 18:31, 9 June 2026 (UTC)