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Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume 1 Number 557
Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume I Number 557
Monday, June 1st 1992
(C) Copyright 1992 Paranet Information Service. All Rights Reserved.
Today's Topics:
Belgian UFOs
Ufo Related Shows
What can we do?
Jacobs' Book
What Can We Do?
Re: Belgium
Re: Ufo Related Shows
Re: What can we do?
Re: Belgium
"anza Ufo" Video
Gulf Breeze
Re: Article: Earth Moves In An Extra-terrestrial Way.
Interesting Klass Item
Announcement
Ufo Related Shows
Ufo Related Shows
Ufo Related Shows
Jacobs' Book
Re: Jacobs' Book
NSW Australia activity
Gulf Breeze
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From: Marc.Michalik@p0.f150.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Marc Michalik)
Subject: Belgian UFOs
Date: 26 May 92 03:26:00 GMT
I have recently become very interested in the Belgian UFO case. I
would very much like to get the VHS recording of the F16s RADAR
display. Michael Corbin has suggested that you may be able to help
me find it. Do you know where I might obtain this?
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From: Don.Sudduth@p0.f26.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Don Sudduth)
Subject: Ufo Related Shows
Date: 26 May 92 03:46:00 GMT
> mostly we need good journalism. I agree with you that,
> so far, Unsolved Mysteries has done a very credible
> job, FOR AN ENTERTAINMENT SHOW. The real jackpot lies
> in getting a segment on PrimeTime Live or a similar
> vehicle.
Amen, Jim! What did you think of the Intruders miniseries? I think that again
it was presented on the level of entertainment - the line YOU WILL BELIEVE
really turned me off. Once they said that I was ready not to believe.
Also, the depiction of the victims understanding of the aliens from being
frightening and evil to being good and working for a higher purpose was a
little bit of a shallow viewpoint for me. (Not to mention the character
development was pretty bad). It was a limited viewpoint.
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From: Don.Sudduth@p0.f26.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Don Sudduth)
Subject: What can we do?
Date: 26 May 92 03:55:00 GMT
> Now, gang, HOW DO WE GO ABOUT GETTING THIS ATTENTION?
> Does anyone here know Roone Arledge?
The ParaNet system (in conjunction with UFO magazine) should try to become THE
forum and movement toward respect in this field! There are many on this system
in professional fields and who know others in other fields. Talk and spread
the word. Some of the new Radio talk shows have been GREAT ways! There are
many public access radio and public access cable stations that need material.
Start your own radio or cable show. All you need is a video cam - granted, it
may look and sound cheap but it is a start! If you can't do that then promote
the current shows and try to get them on air in your community.
Should we start writing our congress men and women? I think its about time.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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From: Don.Sudduth@p0.f26.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Don Sudduth)
Subject: Jacobs' Book
Date: 26 May 92 03:58:00 GMT
> Yes, you are right about "Communion." When I read it
> back in early
> l988, we were living in an apt. near a stairwell
> (while were waiting for our house to be built). I'd
> read the book just before going to
> sleep. Sometimes the desert winds would pick up
> during the night and howl during the night through the
> stairwell. That, combined with
> reading "Communion," was very spooky!!
Yikes! I was along the north shore of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota
alone with my wife. We were on vacation in a cabin far away from any
civilization. I was reading "Communion" alone in the living room with just
one light on (My wife was reading in bed). With no lights outside and just the
one on inside, I really started to spook out! I went outside just for a minute
and couldn't see a thing because it was soooo dark. Of course, I ran back in
without ever looking back!
Gotta go cover the tomatoes in the garden - great Minnesota weather today - 43
deg and snow in western MN today! Ugh!!!
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From: Marc.Michalik@p0.f150.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Marc Michalik)
Subject: What Can We Do?
Date: 26 May 92 20:20:00 GMT
Ideas? Well this may be going off of the deep end but over the last
several weeks I have been running an idea through my head. What if
we were to orginize a Dr. Martin Luther King type march on
Washington. It would only work if we were able to get at least
about a thousand people to go -- but itr certainly would raise some
eyebrows! I think it might work, if we were able to get enough
people to go, a big if.
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From: Jim.Speiser@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
Subject: Re: Belgium
Date: 26 May 92 14:49:00 GMT
Mark:
Yes, I'm still on GEnie. I've been inactive for a while, but am back in
action. (To all: rumors of my disappearance from ufology, especially those
circulated by myself, were greatly exaggerated. Looks like I'll have a
little time to spend here after all. Thanks for the private messages and
mail of support).
Yes, I would be VERY interested in your QSO with the science RT. Can you zip
it and email it to me at JSPEISER?
Thanks,
Jim
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From: Jim.Speiser@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
Subject: Re: Ufo Related Shows
Date: 26 May 92 14:52:00 GMT
Again, I think we're being a bit quick to criticize. Given the massive
problems this project had from the beginning, the format, the task of
weaving believable fiction from unbelievable fact, and the subject matter
being addressed, and making it palatable to a mass audience, I think it was
a very good effort.
Jim
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From: Jim.Speiser@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
Subject: Re: What can we do?
Date: 26 May 92 14:55:00 GMT
Good suggestions, Don. I think its a project we can all get invovled in. As
to writing our congresscritters, I definitely do NOT think its time yet. We
need to line up some more grass roots support, on the order of what is
happening with the Perot movement. I think that getting the press on the
bandwagon should be our first priority.
Jim
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From: Jim.Speiser@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
Subject: Re: Belgium
Date: 26 May 92 14:56:00 GMT
Oh, yeah, about Belgium, I think you would have to write to SOBEPS to get
the info you need. I believe Mike Corbin may have the address.
Jim
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: "anza Ufo" Video
Date: 27 May 92 02:25:00 GMT
> Just a point of information here Mike... The "starlight" camera the
> team was using amplifies available _visible spectrum light_, not
> infra-red as you suggest. I am quite familiar with the Fujinon
> PS-910 night vision scope, which I have employed many times while
> sailing. Shape and detail of viewed objects ARE readily perceived
> with this scope, almost as easily as during daylight observation.
> The only difficulty in discerning detail may originate from
> overexposure - due to failing to attenuate the scope's output when
> a bright object comes into it's field of view. The team probably
> had the scope set on automatic, which did not properly compensate
> for a small, bright object against a rather dark background.
Thanks for clarifying that point Sheldon. I also agree on what the object
could have been. Very impressive that they took the equipment out there, but
disappointing that they didn't use it to its full potential.
> I found that brief video segment most intriguing, but judging by
> the apparent "linear drifting" motion of the object, my best guess
> would be that it was some type of lighter-than-air inflatable
> device.
>
> BTW, I just read the headlines at the grocery check-out that Adam
> and Eve's skeletons were recently unearthed in a Denver suburb! Not
> Arvada, was it?
hehehehehehehehe...No it was not Arvada. Too bad. This place needs some
excitement.
Mike
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Gulf Breeze
Date: 27 May 92 02:32:00 GMT
> I was watching last night Steve Dunklevy's "The Friday File". The
> first segment shown was all about UFOs in Gulf Breeze. I have seen so
> much about it on Paranet and heard from my overseas contacts, but having
> seen these "UFOs" with my own eyes on the TV, I am wondering who is
> behind all this. There is no doubt whatsoever that the whole thing is a
> hoax and the "UFOs" are flares. As a matter of fact a piece of burning
> material fell off one of these flares. Is someone writing another book
> on the "Gulf Breeze UFOs?"
So right you are! As a matter of fact, at the IANS symposium this weekend,
they showed this video while a MUFON representative from Florida narrated it.
As was clear on the soundtrack, most people watching the spectacle were
completely enthralled with the aspect that the UFO was dropping little UFOs
from it, while to most people, these were pieces of the flare and balloon
dropping off.
A good question: Why has no one attempted to send a small aircraft to the
location while the light is being observed? You might think that as much
money as some folks have made off the book sales, there would be a few hundred
dollars left to charter a small plane for this purpose. Another question:
Why has not a certain "scientific" UFO research organization used a small,
hand-held spectrometer to analyze the light? This would give some clear
indication of its composition, which might turn out to be magnesium.
Mike
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Re: Article: Earth Moves In An Extra-terrestrial Way.
Date: 27 May 92 02:35:00 GMT
> According to Mark Rodeghier, that Roper poll was commissioned by
> Hopkins' Intruders Foundation, and was geared towards finding out how
> many individuals had abduction-like elements, such as missing time,
> unknown scars, etc. - NOT finding out how many actually believed they
> had been abducted (as was reported by the media). There's quite a
> difference, but I guess one too subtle for the media.
Thanks for clarifying that point for me. In any event, the poll was not
indicative of what we have been hearing out in the UFO community about what it
was supposed to represent.
Mike
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Interesting Klass Item
Date: 27 May 92 03:16:00 GMT
UFO LANDS IN KLASS' BACKYARD
Just when Phil Klass thought he was making headway into exterminating
UFO-mania, it appears that it may have caught its "second-wind." In this
month's Aviation Week and Space Technology, the magazine that Phil Klass is
avionics editor for, there appears a curious advertisement. This full page ad
shows the infamous Daniel Fry UFO picture with a sub-caption that states: ONE
OF THE FEW AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS WE HAVEN'T WORKED WITH. YET.
It just goes to show you, Phil, if you can't beat 'em, maybe you ought to
consider joining 'em.
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Announcement
Date: 27 May 92 04:32:00 GMT
This is to announce a new conference on the ParaNet Information Services
system. It is titled ParaNet Skeptic's Conference. Anson Kennedy, of the
Georgia Skeptics group will be the topic moderator. We are proud to have
Anson in this position.
More information will follow.
Michael Corbin
Director
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From: Richard.Salts@p0.f28.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Richard Salts)
Subject: Ufo Related Shows
Date: 27 May 92 04:52:01 GMT
Hello Don!
25 May 92, Don Sudduth writes to Richard Salts:
>> and I would like to add a thought or two here. I'm an
>> Unsolved Mysteries watcher myself and I do not believe
>> this particular show to be on the Micheal Jackson, A
>> Current Affair, etc level at all. From what I've seen
>> of Current Affair, Unsolved Mysteries IS a cut above
>> some of the shows you talked about in that there have
>> but should NOVA, Frontline, etc., air UFO type and
>> other paranormal events in anything resembling an
>> intelligent, sober, respectful manner, they can always
>> be accused of sensationalism and "pandering to
>> pseudoscience" by the ever vigilant "skeptical" crowd.
>> presented on, at least it IS getting public exposure
>> and maybe sparking some positive public interest.
DS> Rich, I definately agree with you that getting public exposure is VERY
DS> important. I also agree that the show Unsolved Mysteries has somewhat of
DS> an air of more respectability than say, Hard Copy.
DS> Nevertheless, the fact is that Unsolved Mysteries is entertainment FIRST
DS> and investigation second. This show uses material based purely on its
DS> entertainment value! It must grab viewers and keep ratings up or be
DS> cancelled. Thus, material shown on UM still has a connection
DS> to entertainment, not fact!
DS> Yes, NOVA has taken an extremely cautious (and mostly negative) view of
DS> all paranormal phenomema. When they did their UFO story in the early 80's
DS> they basically debunked every witness.
DS> I will repeat what I said earlier. As long as UFO material is presented
DS> on an entertainment level and not on a journalistic or factual level,
DS> respect will be LONG in coming!
DS> Thanks for your response, Richard. I hope this dialog continues with
DS> everyone on this board!
That's well said but I might counter with an observation that facts can be
presented in an entertaining manner but they ARE still facts as witness the
captures of suspects that came to be because viewers saw the suspects and
alerted authorities resulting in the subsequent arrests. That is fact.
Incidentally, I saw the Belgan cases presented on the Unsolved Mysteries
program. Very impressive!
Richard
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From: Richard.Salts@p0.f28.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Richard Salts)
Subject: Ufo Related Shows
Date: 27 May 92 05:01:02 GMT
Hello Jim!
25 May 92, Jim Speiser writes to Richard Salts:
JS> Good message Richard, but there is a danger I would like to point out.
JS> Public exposure is not ALWAYS good, especially if its exposure of the
JS> wrong cases. "A Torrid Affair" recently ran a segment on Act II of the
JS> Gulf Breeze saga, and basically oohed and aahed over what is probably a
JS> road flare. If it is ever -proven- to be a road flare, not only will A
JS> Torrid Affair probably never touch the subject again, but all the people
JS> who saw that segment will consider themselves to have been duped, and will
JS> likely not pay the subject much attention either. We need exposure, but
JS> mostly we need good journalism. I agree with you that, so far, Unsolved
JS> Mysteries has done a very credible job, FOR AN ENTERTAINMENT SHOW. The
JS> real jackpot lies in getting a segment on PrimeTime Live or a similar
JS> vehicle.
JS> Jim
Don Sudduth said something similiar in his reply to me and you can read my
onswer to him as a reply to you, too. I can understand, though, how you feel
about some of these shows that DO sensationalize the UFO subject.
If memory serves me correctly, back in '87, or thereabouts, Ted Koppel did a
program on his "Nightline" series about the abduction phenomena when Strieber's
"Communion" (which I thought then and still do that it is a very good book) and
Hopkins' "Intruders" first came out. Unfortunately, at that time, I didn't
know it was on and missed it but would a show like that qualify in terms of
credibility for our subject? Did you see that edition of "Nightline"?
Richard
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From: Richard.Salts@p0.f28.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Richard Salts)
Subject: Ufo Related Shows
Date: 27 May 92 05:15:03 GMT
Hello Don!
25 May 92, Don Sudduth writes to Jim Speiser:
>> mostly we need good journalism. I agree with you that,
>> so far, Unsolved Mysteries has done a very credible
>> job, FOR AN ENTERTAINMENT SHOW. The real jackpot lies
>> in getting a segment on PrimeTime Live or a similar
>> vehicle.
DS> Amen, Jim! What did you think of the Intruders miniseries? I think that
DS> again it was presented on the level of entertainment - the line YOU WILL
DS> BELIEVE really turned me off. Once they said that I was ready not to
DS> believe.
DS> Also, the depiction of the victims understanding of the aliens from being
DS> frightening and evil to being good and working for a higher purpose was a
DS> little bit of a shallow viewpoint for me. (Not to mention the character
DS> development was pretty bad). It was a limited viewpoint.
I thought the show was very good, myself. Entertainment, well, yes it was but
a more sobering variety than the usual "Us Good Humans Versus Them The Bad
Space Invaders" type of show. Since the kind of (abduction) events Budd
Hopkins and others are looking into are years in the making in the lives of the
people so affected, one has to imagine a time compression in the people's lives
as they slowly become aware of what is happening to them in the movie as these
events ARE NOT lived out in the space of a two-hour movie format.
Agreed, that YOU WILL BELIEVE line turned me cold, too when I heard it.
What might have been a better format to take would have been a serial like L.A.
Law where (minus the YOU WILL BELIEVE claim) "things" happen to the people that
defy any "rational" answer (the audience isn't clued in as to what is
happening, either) and keep building up in strangeness and intensity until
. . . . well, hehehehehe, if I were writing such a series, I could think up
some situations that would make our 'medical exam' abduction scenario (which
would be included but by no means limited to that) seem conservative and
prosaic by comparison . . . situations that if they did have some reality to
them, the UFO community would find them as difficult to swallow as they did
the standard abduction scene a while back . . . .and the poor people involved .
. . well they would have to figure it out themselves and if they had to seek
out help of any kind it would have to come from sources our culture would
dismiss outright as unbelievable . . .
Are there any writers who would like to collaborate, hehehehe?
Richard
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From: Richard.Salts@p0.f28.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Richard Salts)
Subject: Jacobs' Book
Date: 27 May 92 05:57:04 GMT
Hello Linda!
23 May 92, Linda Bird writes to Don Allen:
LB> Hi Don,
LB> Yes, you are right about "Communion." When I read it back in early
LB> l988, we were living in an apt. near a stairwell (while were waiting for
LB> our house to be built). I'd read the book just before going to sleep.
LB> Sometimes the desert winds would pick up during the night and howl during
LB> the night through the stairwell. That, combined with reading "Communion,"
LB> was very spooky!!
Hi, Linda,
"Communion" didn't frighten me at all. I read it as I would read a mystery
thriller. It was pretty gripping. What did you think of the part where
Strieber delves into the UFO's past history, etc., the chapter titled, "A
Structure In The Air"? I think that chapter is the best part of the book. What
did you think? The part about his experience was very good, too.
Richard
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From: Linda.Bird@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Linda Bird)
Subject: Re: Jacobs' Book
Date: 27 May 92 05:44:00 GMT
Hi Don,
Thanks for your story on how "Communion" spooked you, too! <:-) I'll
bet it spooked everyone.
What weird weather you're having. We're still sitting on the 100 mark,
and today the pool water read 80, so at 5:30, I jumped in for 45 min.
Ah, Southwest living cannot be beat...and the air is clear enough to
see UFO's.
See ya,
Linda
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From: Bill.Chalker.UFORA.Associate.NSW@f8.n1040.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Bill Chalker UFORA Associate NSW)
Subject: NSW Australia activity
Date: 24 May 92 19:19:00 GMT
The Central coast of New South Wales has become something of
a focus of activity in recent weeks.
My group UFO Investigation Centre which tries to cover the
NSW scene as part of a loose networking arrangement in
consultation with UFORA has been busy trying to get the
bottom of this.
We have had reports from numerous parts of NSW.
As for the reports that caught the public eye.
At about 2.30 am, April 28th, 1992, Toukley, Wyong and other
area police recieved a number of calls in quick succession.
The Toukley calls (central coast) became the focus of media
attention. 6 calls there described a large object with red
and white flashing lights over the Norah Head area. It
allegedly left at high speed heading north.
The witnesses, according to the police (who I spoke with
within 4 hours of the incidents), seemed genuinely
frightened and concerned about what they had seen.
One was describing being frightened as lights appeared to be
coming into her bed room window. Another, a man walking his
greyhound dog, said his dog became so agitated that it broke
its lead. My sources indicated that this man was bonafide
and I was advised he was still looking for his dog a day or
two later. My group asked the police to recontact the few
people who had left names and contact details to determine
if they would talk with us. Already media attention was
reaching a hysterical crescendo. Police advised us that
upon checking none of these details checked out. Either the
people concerned were trying to protect themselves or the
reports were not genuine.
Independent reports started to come forward but none of
these appear to be of an extraordinary nature, and seem to
be low weight events, principally of the nocturnal
light/object variety.
One TV channel presented an interview with one Bill Browne
of Norah Head who described his close encounter experience
in which his car refused to start while a large object was
nearby. Smaller objects were seen coming out of it heading
to the ground. A nearby kiosk light had been flicking on
and off and went out completely. With the departure of the
object everything returned to normal and Bill and his friend
were able to drive away. The TV news report decribed how
this had occurred at 2.30 am, 28th April, 1992. I can
personally vouch for the fact that this is an excellent
case. I investigated it personally along with Harry
Griesberg and Bart Carter back in the 70s!. The event
actually occurred in February, 1973! - one more reason why
you should not get too worked up if the media present a
sensational UFO story. Often such trival details as correct
dates and the facts are either glossed over or presented
incorrectedly, either unintentionally or intentionally for
the sake of a good story. Now I know you find that hard to
believe - that the media gets it wrong more often than
not!!!
Explanation: A substantial part of a large US and
Australian naval group part of a anniversary affair were off
the NSW and Queensland coast that week. Some had helicopter
capabilities and other aerial equipment. Numerous other
explanations were put forward, but the naval connection
seems the most likely. Another candidate became obvious
when further reports came to public notice on May 13th.
This time reports, again from the central coast, described a
very bright light seen over Crackneck area, with 2 beams of
light coming down and some small lights coming out of it.
Reports came in from all over the central coast that night
and the following weekend.
A local businessman, Brett Phillips, of Dizzy Height Kites,
the Entrance, stepped forward claiming his activities were
responsible for many of the reports over the last 2 weeks.
He had been doing test runs of a luminescent kit appartus
which he was trailing behind a bike on a 1/2 kilometre line!
Harry Griesberg, a local researcher, confirms that many of
the locations, directions, and details fit this explanation.
At least on local Sydney "expert" rejects this explanation
but on what seem to be fairly dubious grounds.
The bottom line is that there has been a rich cavalcade of
prosaic stimuli around these last few weeks (naval activity,
intense auroral activity, peak meteor shower, "dizzy kites",
"dizzy media", extensive media interest etc etc) that
widespread reports were expected by experienced researchers.
This does not rule out the possibility of bonafide reports
amongst this mess, but it sure makes it hard to sort it all
out. Some very interesting older reports have emerge from
all the hype. So it has not been a complete waste of time.
Regards, from Bill Chalker.
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From: Keith.Basterfield@f12.n1040.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Keith Basterfield)
Subject: Gulf Breeze
Date: 17 May 92 23:05:00 GMT
Thanks for the update John, I will pass this on to my colleague who is
reading all he can on Gulf Breeze at the moment. Much appreciated.
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