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Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume I Number 592
Monday, September 21st 1992
(C) Copyright 1992 Paranet Information Service. All Rights Reserved.
Today's Topics:
Hopkins Big Case Reviewed
More on Cooper radio program
Peer Review
Extraterrestrial Contact: The Meaning and the Message
Hopkins Big Case Reviewed
Alien artifact
What's New? - Roswell
Ufo/alien Themes In Ads
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From: Jim.Speiser@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
Subject: Hopkins Big Case Reviewed
Date: 10 Sep 92 03:16:00 GMT
The new issue of Phil Klass' SKEPTICS UFO NEWSLETTER (SUN) is out, and
nestled among the usual tripe and innuendo is some decent background
information on Budd Hopkins latest "big case."
Some excerpts:
<<
Hopkins (seemingly) never questioned why two police officers would not
promptly report that some sort of craft had plunged into the East River so
that rescue operations could be quickly launched....If "Richard" and "Dan
[the two police officers who contacted Hopkins] had carefully noted and
still remembered the window Linda floated out of, why had tthey not gone to
her aprtment directly without contacting Hopkins?
>>
<<
Hopkins reportedly believes "The Third Man" is: JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR, who
in late 1989 was Secretary General of the United Nations....The UN Secretary
General is accompanied by two regularly assigned security guards wherever
he travels. But neither of them matches up with Linda's descriptions of
"Richard" and "Dan."
>>
<<
HOPKINS DID NOT TELL HIS MUFON AUDIENCE SOME OF THE MORE BIZARRE ASPECTS OF
LINDA'S CLAIMS OF ALLEGED ABDUCTION BY THE "SECURITY AGENTS".
..Linda told two MUFON investigators that she was kidnapped a second time
off the streets of Manhattan by "Dan," who drove her out to a "CIA Safe
House" located on the North Shore of Long Island. According to Linda, "Dan"
asked her to put on a white nightgown...When she did, "Dan" reportedly
dropped to his knees and in a religious fervor, called her his "Lady of the
Sands."
>>
<<
Recently, New Jersey MUFON member Vince Creevy chanced to buy a
_science-fiction_ book titled "Nighteyes," authored by Garfield
Reeves-Stevens, whose plot centers on a woman named Sarah and her daugher
Wendy, who are abducted from their Manhattan apartment and beamed up to a
UFO hovering overhead. This prompts them to contact a leading UFO-abduction
expert who lives in New York City - where Hopkins lives. Later Wendy is
abducted by two Government (FBI) agents and taken to a CIA "Safe House" on
Long Island, as Linda claims.
>>
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From: STL-09SIMA.ARMY.MIL!asa
Subject: More on Cooper radio program
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:12:50 GMT
From: Will Martin on 9000 <asa@STL-09SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
Just for your info, to follow-up on my previous posting:
I spent some time listening to the tape of that broadcast again, and was
able to extract some more info which wasn't clear to me when I made my
initial posting about this.
Cooper's organization is called the Citizens' Agency for Joint Intelligence
(CAJI). To send to it, the address is:
CAJI
c/o Becker Satellite Network
Kiowa, KS 67070
Also use the above address if ordering Cooper's book, Behold A Pale Horse,
enclosing a check for $24 made out to 'William Cooper'.
The program can be heard direct from satellite by those with the proper
equipment on Spacenet 2, Channel 7, 7.5 Audio. It is aired on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday nights at 9 PM CST. (Note that he specified
'Standard' time, even though we are still on Daylight time. I don't
know if that was a mistake or deliberate. So perhaps the actual time
the program comes over the satellite feed will be an hour different
from wallclock time until we go back to Standard time.)
Regards, Will
wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Peer Review
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:14:02 GMT
* Forwarded from "Sci.Skeptic"
* Originally from Mischa Sandberg
* Originally dated 09-06-92 12:12
From: Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg)
Date: 5 Sep 92 21:12:44 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Message-ID: <14867@mindlink.bc.ca>
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
One pillar of scientific inquiry is peer review. In the face of an onslaught
of poor data, pseudo-data and out-and-out wishful thinking in numeric form,
it seems to have become much more common that the worst of this stuff spills
out into the popular press, esp. if its producers become caught up in
the notion that Their Discovery is of Earthshaking Importance, and cannot
wait for general verification. This sort of spill tends to be accompanied
by acrimonious statements about hidebound colleagues and journal editors,
not to mention immediate requests for exceptional funding.
Well, peer review certainly has its warts. Worse, it has limited capacity.
Even worse, in these times of really tough funding and an administrative
view that "businesspeople can do it better", there's plenty of incentive
to sidestep the system altogether.
If it weren't for the fact that businesses find it easiest feeding at
the public trough, I'd say, bring on the phlogiston generators and
perpetual motion machines: "business" can enjoy the less abstract
side of natural selection for a change, too. But the reality is, the more
pseudo-science impresses the marketing department, the more we all
suffer.
Yes, I'm sure none of this is news to sci.skeptics. My point is,
the notion of what good science is, needs promotion, in simple terms,
loud and clear, wherever we have the public ear. Every day, I deal
with people who have pretty vague notions about causality, to say
nothing of repeatability. To paraphrase an old saw, you can lead
them to conclusions, but you can't make them think ...and yet,
that's exactly what I try for. I think it's important to encourage
one another, not just to tsk tsk at the "TOP SECRET PHOTO OF UFO"
tabloid headline, but to realize that at least one person in the
check-out line is seeing that and thinking, "wow! for real!".
Either you find the point at which you can speak out for rationality,
or no one does.
I hope that this is not out of line for sci.skeptics --- which of late
seems to be carrying more ad hominems and quadruple-quoted postings
than usual. But the notions of reasonability, provability and skepticism
are NOT what I see in the high school and university graduates among which
I live; and I suspect that such notions are pretty thinly understood
by a lot of the people that you the reader know. CSICOP and skeptics
in general are getting a public reputation as people who like to
get together and snicker, with little actual skepticism evident, and
little new information presented and defended. Such reputation I
have heard from a local newspaper reporter, who feels that it is
proper that she give equal space to itinerant graphologists, psychics
and such, but that skeptics occasionally feed her a printable sarcastic
one-liner response.
Well, I've said my bit. Think about the consequences of general unreason,
and about what is not beyond your doing; then try to rationalize why
you aren't doing it :-).
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Physicists think reality is an approximation of the equations.
Mathematicians never make the connection.
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From: wrs.com!davidj
Subject: Extraterrestrial Contact: The Meaning and the Message
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:16:16 GMT
From: davidj@wrs.com (David Jones)
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The Society for the Advancement of Civilization Presents:
Extraterrestrial Contact The Meaning and The Message
Saturday, October 10, 1992 10:00am to 9:30pm
Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, UC Berkeley
At Gayley Road across from the Greek Theater
A public forum on the legitimate scientific inquiry into one of the most
controversial issues facing our planet today. Why does extraterrestrial con-
tact have value for the people of Earth? There are increasing numbers of
aware, articulate people from a variety of professional and cultural back-
grounds who have been contacted by extraterrestrials. Come, hear and meet an
impressive group of research experts and persons who have had close
encounters.
R. Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Wyom-
ing, Laramie, where he was director of counseling services, and founder of the
Institute for UFO Contactee Studies, is an early investigator of hundreds of
Close Encounter cases beginning in 1955. He served with APRO as a consultant
for psychology and is the principle investigator of the John Salter case. He
is the organizer of the Annual Rocky Mountain UFO Conference.
James A. Harder, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus of Engineering, U.C. Berkeley,
pioneered the use of hypnosis in close-encounter cases since 1962, and the
study of E.T./human interactions and their influences on this planet. He will
describe emerging information about the characteristics of advanced civiliza-
tions and how this information could help inspire us to a more hopeful view of
Earth.
John Salter, Ph. D., Professor of Indian Studies Univ. of North Dakota, will
lead several people with close encounter experiences in a round table discus-
sion. Dr. Salter will also tell of his own continuing encounters. He was
featured in the May 1991, CBS prime time special 'Visitors from the Unknown'
He teaches a very popular university course which accepts the reality of
extraterrestrial contact.
Richard F. Haines, Ph.D., Psychologist and research scientist. His interest in
discovering the core nature of UFO phenomenon spans 20 years with special
interest in sightings by pilots, photo analysis, and CE4. He recently founded
and co-directs the Joint American- Soviet Aerial Anomaly Federation.
Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D., A psychologist in private practice. He has assisted
in the understanding and the integration of ET experiences into everyday life.
He will speak about the 'mind field' of new information developing for those
with extraterrestrial close encounters and for the Society of Planet Earth.
Cathy W., A California person with some very interesting close encounters, and
whose events were thoroughly recorded by a well- known
researcher/investigator. Her experiences were shown in a documentary on a
prime-time NBC program.
A special two hour question and answer period in the evening will be hosted by
the participants in the above program.
A special multi-media presentation of ET close encounter experiences will also
be presented.
Doors open at 9:15 am. Events begin at 10:00 am and end at 9:30 pm. Cost is
$30.00. Free educational video with reservations received by October 6th,
1992.
Seating is limited, so please reserve your seats in advance. Priority is given
to those who have paid advance reservations & who have arrived by 9:45am.
Tickets will be sold at the door. Please no video/tape recording. Videos and
tapes will be made available to attendees at the forum.
=============================================================================
Extraterrestrial Contact: The Meaning and the Message
Saturday, October 10, 1992, 10:00 am to 9:30 pm
Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, UC Berkeley
An open forum presented by the Society for the Advancement of Civilization, a
not for profit corporation formed to study extraterrestrial civilizations as
they may pertain to the future of Earth and to create an environment for all
those interested in extraterrestrial contact to share with others their
experiences and viewpoints in an open and non-threatening atmosphere.
Directions: From hiway 80, take the University Avenue turnoff in Berkeley,
east, toward the hills. Turn left on Oxford, go two blocks and turn right on
Hearst Avenue. The parking garage is 6 blocks up Hearst. Turn right on Gayley
Road (it will be La Loma to your left) and go about two blocks, across from
the Greek Theater, on your right, a round short building.
We have reserved 100 spaces at the parking garage (marked H above) located at
the corner of La Loma Avenue and Hearst Avenue, on a first-come first-serve
basis. Parking in this garage will be $3.00 for the full day. Show the atten-
dant this flyer, or tell them that you will be attending the Extraterrestrial
Contact symposium. We encourage everyone to bring a bag lunch and eat with one
another on campus in one of the many tree lined grassy park areas. We will
provide a map of local restaurants for your convenience for those who wish to
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October 1st.
Sponsored by The Society for the Advancement of Civilization & The First Sun-
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Please reserve ________ seats at $30.00 each
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Make checks payable to: Berkeley Symposium
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Send to: Berkeley Symposium
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From: John.Hicks@f29.n363.z1.FIDONET.ORG (John Hicks)
Subject: Hopkins Big Case Reviewed
Date: 12 Sep 92 06:05:01 GMT
> ...Linda told two MUFON investigators that she was kidnapped a second
> time
> off the streets of Manhattan by "Dan," who drove her out to a "CIA Safe
> House" located on the North Shore of Long Island.
There was some conversation about Linda's trip to the safe house on CI$; I believe the gist of it was that Hopkins told either the audience or a few individuals that Linda had been taking to a house by "Dan," but no details were mentioned that I can recall.
jbh
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From: Brian.Wood@p0.f150.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Brian Wood)
Subject: Alien artifact
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:38:00 GMT
Thanks for the info. If it isn't too inconvenient, I would like to
know what books it was reported in. I would tend to agree that it
was probably a hoax, or the government would have been willing to
pay what he asked. However, if he never gave in, he lost out on
a lot of money, which seems odd. Amazing, isn't it, how much
people want to cash in on mysteries? I would hope that I was more
altruistic than that, especially for the find of the eon.
I don't read this board every day, which accounts for my delay in
responding, but be assured I would like any help you can give.
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From: Don.Allen@p1.f81.n363.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Don Allen)
Subject: What's New? - Roswell
Date: 14 Sep 92 05:45:00 GMT
I saw this on Usenet the other day and did a double-take while
reading it. Please note #3 on the list. I usually don't see
*any* mention of UFO's in this regularly posted newslettter
in the Physics newsgroups.
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WHAT'S NEW, Friday, 4 September 1992 Washington, DC
1. THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD COMMISSION ON THE FUTURE OF THE NSF
(WN 28 Aug 92) will hold public meetings on Sept 17, Oct 16 and
Nov 7. Written public comments are invited on how NSF can advance
the health of academic physics and do more to link academia and
industry. Comments should reach the Commission by 15 Oct 92.
The Executive Secretary of the Commission is Charles Brownstein,
Director, NSF Office of Planning and Assessment, Room 546,
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC 20550. (202) 357-1201
The 15 member Commission will be announced Tuesday, September 9.
2. UNITED STATES AGREES TO BUY WEAPONS-GRADE URANIUM FROM RUSSIA.
The highly-enriched uranium will be blended with either depleted
or natural uranium in the U.S. to produce fuel for power plants.
At least 10 metric tons is to be imported each year for the first
five years, and 30 tons per year thereafter. Even so, it will
take a long time to put a serious dent in the Russian inventory
of bomb-grade uranium, which is estimated to be over 1,000 tons.
Moreover, the agreement does not deal with plutonium, which would
be more expensive to process into fuel, nor does it prevent the
Russians from continuing to make enriched uranium and plutonium.
Burning fissile material in power plants is the safest means of
disposal. There is concern about transporting large amounts of
fissile material around the world, but the risk of diversion if
it were processed into fuel in Russia might be even greater.
3. PHYSICISTS IN THE NEWS! From MIT to MIU, physicists are making
news. At Maharishi International University, the chair of the
Physics Department, John Hagelin, is running for President on the
Natural Law ticket, and expects to be on the ballot in 40 states
by November. The Harvard trained physicist wants to create a
meditation corps of 7,000 military volunteers; that is the square
root of 1% of the world population--the number needed to generate
super radiance for global scale effects. In Washington, a press
conference featuring nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, author
of Crash at Corona, revealed newly unearthed information about
the government cover-up of a 1947 crash of a flying saucer in New
Mexico. One alien, a humanoid with suction cups on the ends of
its fingers, survived. At MIT, there was a conference on alien
abductions organized by David Pritchard, an APS Fellow. Although
the conference was confidential, a report should be out by the
end of the year. According to Pritchard, 1% of the population has
abduction experiences--the square of the number needed for super
radiance. The physical evidence is not conclusive, but abductees
do exhibit spots on MRI scans corresponding to the location of
brain implants inserted through their nostrils by the aliens.
4. TAIWAN IS EXPECTED TO BE THE NEXT FOREIGN PARTNER IN THE SSC.
According to generally reliable sources, Taiwan is prepared to
contribute $40M. Combined with $50M committed by India, that ups
foreign participation to 1% (or is it the square root of 1%?).
** End of article **
Don
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Ufo/alien Themes In Ads
Date: 16 Sep 92 18:06:01 GMT
* Forwarded from "Alt.Alien.Visitors"
* Originally from Keith Rowell
* Originally dated 09-13-92 12:52
From: krowell@agora.rain.com (Keith Rowell)
Date: 8 Sep 92 03:39:55 GMT
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Message-ID: <Bu8q6L.9FG@agora.rain.com>
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
I'm trying to catalog the use of UFO/alien themes in
advertisements, especially in nationally distributed ads
in the print or electronic media. Here's what I have so far.
If you have any information on others, please email me or reply
to the net. Thanks a lot.
I'll periodically send out what I have so we can see how this
current infatuation with UFO/alien themes develops through the 1990s.
Keith Rowell
Advertisements Featuring UFOs/aliens as a Theme
1. 1991. LEVI's cotton dockers TV ads of a year ago with
murmured conversation about EBE's while we watch
gentlemen at a backyard barbecue party.(KR)
2. 1988? Ad in Av Week showing torso of typical gray
alien. Copy was minimal. Company?(KR)
3. 1991. TCBY TV ad showing a night scene of a TCBY store,
a UFO arriving, an alien disembarking, going into the
store, coming out with a yogurt, embarking, and
disappearing into the night.(KR)
4. 1991. Taco Bell's place mat with tabloid theme with a
UFO part. (KR)
5. 1991. A well known battery maker is putting out the
older couple in front of a vast pasture, where they are
there ostensibly to capture UFO's on film (message -
make sure you got the BEST battery to do it)... "Where's
Wilbur?"(Don Allen)
6. 1991? A well known Cereal maker...puts out a real fast
intro blurb "The UFO's have landed"..goes right into the
rest of the commercial without any further
explanation..(Don Allen)
7. 1991? A HARDEES commercial for their burgers...the car
driving off in the last few frames of the
commercial...has "UFO" on NEVADA license plates...(Don
Allen)
8. Summer 1984. LEVI's sponsored finale to the 1984
Olympics wherein a UFO is lowered into a darkened LA
Colisseum.(KR)
9. June 1992. Miller Lite commercial features a dog in a
rural ranch setting hearing something. He goes out back
where a party of 20 or more aliens is having a good
time. This segues into a segment on crop circles ending
with the work "Lite" as a crop symbol.(KR)
10. June 1991. AT&T magazine ad appearing in Newsweek,
Achitectural Digest, and elsewhere?, showing to men
golfers in a golf cart on a golf course at sunset being
lifted in a beam emanating from a hovering flying
saucer. (KR)
11. 1991. Universal Studio ad for their ET exhibit. (KR)
12. June 1992. Logitech ad in various consumer computer
magazines showing a bust of a typical alien holding a
Logitech Trackman mouse. Copy says "Trackman. The
Intelligent Way to Conquer Space." (KR)
13. July 1992 Esquire and other magazines. American
Express Card ad showing a bust of a goofy looking
typical alien (but with ears!) holding an American
Express card. Copy says "You're right of the plane. They
don't know you from Adam. And you expect to be
recognized as a respected, responsible person of the
world? Absolutely." (KR)
14. August 1992 Newsweek and other magazines. Ad for
diamond jewelry from Mayer's Jewelry Company. It
shows two ging fortysomethings lounging on their
porch. Copy says "Nehru Jackets. Hip Huggers. Bean Bag
Chairs. Strollers. Tricycles. Bicycles. Skateboards.
UFOs. Disco. Needlepoint Pillows. New Age Music. Shin
Splints. Your love flourished through it all." (KR)
15. May 18, 1992 Aviation Week and Space Technology. One
page ad has a classic Daniel Fry saucer photo. Copy says
"One of the few aircraft systems we haven't worked
with. Yet." (KR)
16. 1991 & 1992 Portland Oregonian and Trimet bus
company. Ads for KUFO, a local soft rock radio station.
Logo features a stylized UFO streaking across "101
KUFO". (KR)
17. August 26, 1991, Business Journal of Portland, OR. Full
page ad for a local ad agency Rosen/Brown Direct.
Shows employees with shaved heads and alien make up.
Copy says "Secret to Rosen/Brown Success
Discovered!" (KR)
18. 1991. A page from the American Express Card Video
Service Catalog shows space and science fiction
related videos you can order: a Ray Bradbury movie The
Martian Chronicles, the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey,
the Eduard Meier UFO videos, and NASA space footage
videos. Meier copy says "Filmclips of U.F.O.'s! In the mid
1970s, Swiss farmer Eduard Meier experienced *and
documented* [emphasis in original] a series of contacts
with extraterrestrials. His encounters are the best
documented ever, with crystal clear photos, 8mm film,
sound recordings, and metal specimens that aren't
found on earth!" (KR)
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