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SUBJECT: LANGTON SPEAKS OUT ON COOPER MATERIAL FILE: UFO1918
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The following is a point of reflection on the current state of the UFO
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community as it is being portrayed by some of the material that has been
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circulating through Paranet.
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Brad Langton : 1 December 1988
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Over the course of the last few months I have been watching the drama
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unfold over the UFO enigma. In this time I have seen many examples of
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thoughtful, deliberate dialog on a subject that is at the very least, highly
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controvertial. Unfortunately, I have also seen examples of the very worst in
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behavior exhibited by what I will call zealots within the UFO community.
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Most recently this charge would have to be awarded to Bill Cooper who has
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just uploaded one of the most animated and paradoxical documents I've yet
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seen.
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While stating his allegience to the Republic, he has gone to extreme
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lengths to discredit 90% of all the FOIA documents that have been tossed
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around over the past few years. Additionally, Mr. Cooper states that he has
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known that Majestic 12 was not a legitimate document. Mr. Cooper draws a
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vieled inference regarding his association with John Lear who along with
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himself "...know the real truth." I have to wonder why Mr. Cooper has become
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so nervous as to run about proclaiming his allegience to the government
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over and over again. I am also concerned about Mr. Cooper's claims that the
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Aquarius and MJ-12 materials were "obviously a hoax" when those are the very
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documents of "proof" that John Lear sent to me earlier in the year in
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support of his hypothesis.
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Does Mr. Cooper want us to believe that he is being pressured from above
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to defuse documents that are being widely referenced both in this network,
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the UFO books, and the recent plethora of television specials? In a similar
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vein, is he trying to set himself and John Lear as the GURUs of UFOlogy?
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This is all very confusing to me, especially in light of the materials John
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Lear sent me.
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Looking back over the Paranet message base dumps of the last few months,
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I'm equally confused by the online behavior of Mr. Lear, Mr. Cooper, and
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some others that were cooresponding with him at the time. I am in no way
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surprised that Jim Speiser finally had to act to prevent total anarchy in
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the message base!
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Here at Paranet Lambda, one of our users has attempted to cast a viel of
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mystery around the removal of the B-49s (Flying Wings) from the Airforce
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back in the '50s. I went on to cast a fictitious viel around the possible
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"hidden agenda" of my BBS! Tongue in cheek, I think I have demonstrated how
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being too anxious to find mystery where in fact, none exists, can easily be
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constructed around ANYTHING.
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Jim referenced my perspective of "open-minded skepticism" in a mid
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November post regarding the mission of Paranet. I would like to examine that
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perspective at this time. Basically, I feel that there are clearly
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mysterious circumstances surrounding many aspects of the UFO phenomenon.
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Each incident must be examined critically with an open, rather than an adle
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mind. This is to say that we do not procede from ANY premise except that
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there is a strange event... only after examining the facts, and this can be
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expert testimony, can we ascribe an S/P rating to the event. We should
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NEVER eliminate traditional explanations or assume that every blinking light
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is an extraterestrial craft. Likewise we should NEVER assume that ONLY
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traditional explanations can possibly account for all UFO sightings or that
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UFOs can NOT be extraterrestrial or even interdimensional in nature. The key
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is to make NO assumptions that we can't place a probability on based on
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testimony or physical evidence. Lear's initial approach of placing his
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conclusions in the form of a hypothesis was faithful to this end.
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Unfortunately, subsequent coorespondence produced other, less professional
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responses and claims. We should never discourage hypotheses but we must
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clarify them as such and not get carried away without reason.
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So where does this leave Paranet? In my understanding, we are to be a
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clearing house for UFO and paranormal information. All material is worthy
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of an initial investigation and subsequent debate. We should NOT be a
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mirror of CSICOP. As I see it, CSICOP begins with the assumption that
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everything is explainable in terms of commonly known phenomenon or basic
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fakery. We don't want to assume that everything is automatically strange
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and outside of our sphere of experience... we must be the middle ground. Jim
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is doing a great job of mediating this fine line and is to be commended
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for all of the tremendous effort that this takes. In my small way, I try
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to do likewise here at Paranet Lambda, although I don't have the supurb
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resources and contacts that Paranet Alpha has developed.
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Another possibility, and well within the scope of this network, is the
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possibility that the EBEs are not necessarily from another planet, but
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from another dimension or perhaps, even our own future. A recent article
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presented within the physics community (who I am sure are revered by
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CSICOP) states that it may in fact be theoretically possible to travel not
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only forward, but BACKWARD in time! The philosophical implications here
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are incredible and threaten to force us to completely alter our
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perceptions of causality, religion, everything! This would also explain
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why EBEs do NOT want to become visible to us, their past. See how easy it
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is to present hypotheses? For the record, I am NOT proposing the above as
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anything more than an intellectual exercise but I hope it makes my point
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without ruffling too many feathers.
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Well, I've probably already said enough to become a controversy all my
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own so I'll leave now and encourage you to give Paranet Lambda a call at
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716-377-3985 and let me hear from you... I'm sure that some of you have
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plenty to say regarding my ruminations. Lambda does support 2400 baud so
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if money is a problem, as it is so often with me, compose a response
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offline as I have here and upload it to Alpha or preferably to Alpha
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AND Lambda. I look forward to hearing from you all!
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Brad Langton --<< Paranet Lambda >>--
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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