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SUBJECT: VATICAN STORY DEBUNKED FILE: UFO1179
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SPECIAL RELEASE: PARANET
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MEMBER DEBUNKS VATICAN STORY
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ParaNet Alpha 12/05 -- Contrary to a published story, there is no
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evidence that the Vatican has any plans to send missionaries into space to
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convert extraterrestrials to Catholicism, says a respected UFO researcher.
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The story, which originally appeared in the London _Evening News_ in
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July, claimed that a Fr. Pierre Thorel of the Vatican University had set
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up a program to train missionaries to preach the Gospel to any aliens that
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may be encountered in space ventures. The story was later sent to the UFO
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Newsclipping Service by British Ufologist Timothy Good.
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But John Andrews, Vice President of Testors Corporation and a Para-
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Net member in San Diego, says the story is bogus. "I contacted the editor
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of a regional Catholic Magazine," says Andrews, "who contacted the Cathol-
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ic Media Office in New York."
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"They had heard of the story. Apparently there is no Fr. Pierre
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Thorel, there is no new Chair at the Alfonsian Academy in Rome, and there
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is no effort to develop 'missionaries in space.'"
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Andrews, a pro-UFO researcher whose stated goal is to market the
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first authorized plastic model of a genuine flying saucer, says the story
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had him fooled as much as anyone. "I, too, was taken in...but only for a
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little while.
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"It proves the reason to verify whatever we hear."
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Copyright 1987 National Fringe Sciences Information Service
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