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SUBJECT: ARTIST'S RENDERINGS FILE: UFO1583
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Mutual UFO Network Newsletter
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103 Oldtowne Road Dan Wright
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Seguin, Texas 78155 Deputy Director, Investigations
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November 1, 1989
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THE INVESTIGATOR'S EDGE
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The witness has just concluded his account of a dramatic, prolonged close
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encounter with an object of unusual shape, including exterior trappings. You
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ask that he spend a few minutes in sketching the vehicle's design. After a
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bit, he produces a two-dimensional, asymmetrical scrawl and says sheepishly,
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"Never could draw."
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The woman has described two identical entities in her bedroom that she was
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permitted to inspect in a conscious awareness for long minutes. Asked to
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reduce to paper what they looked like, she prepares with some care a drawing
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that is nevertheless remindful of a 4-year-old's rendering of Daddy.
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Sound familiar? Conquering such a problem is really not at all mysterious, as
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every major police department long ago discovered: An artist is brought in to
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work with the witness to reconstruct the villain's appearance.
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For the limited purpose of devising an accurate rendering of a craft or
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entity, the facilitator need not be either a professional artist nor have
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formal MUFON membership (though the latter is certainly preferred). At least
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some several million people have a marked ability in this area and have taken
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some classes. Frankly, given the horrible drawings that so typically
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accompany case reports, anyone with an acumen for drawing would be appreciated
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and should be utilized.
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The reality in our business - and in the art world generally - is that
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vehicles and portraits involve fundamentally different skills. So, consider
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the idea of having two persons available to press into duty. In that CE-1s
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are far more commonly reported than CE-3s or CE-4s, a person with *mechanical
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drawing* skill will likely be valuable more often. For the occasional entity
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case, someone who has had an art class in human anatomy would be the wiser
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selection. Certainly, someone who has both types of abilities is ideal.
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A few considerations in utilizing an artist: First, of course, the person
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must realize that, in agreeing to offer this assistance, (s)he may be called
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upon with no forewarning - even raised from his/her bed on occasion. Second,
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the drawing is to be a faithful rendering of what the witness describes, i.e.
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without artistic license. [Certainly, questions of the witness along the way
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are both appropriate and necessary.] And third, when the drawing is completed
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to the client's satisfaction, it should be *signed and dated* by both the
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client and artist. Naturally, the investigator must clarify in the case
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report that the drawing was made with the assistance of the person named. For
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the sake of objectivity, the witness should be asked to attempt a drawing
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without assistance before the expert is brought to bear, and that drawing, no
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matter how crude, should accompany the report.
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It cannot be overemphasized that we as an organization fail to make critical
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ties among UFO events occurring at different times and locations because of a
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lack of adequate drawing skills at the ready. Every college and most high
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schools in America have at least one instructor and several students able to
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fill this critical need. Please make a concerted effort to find one or more
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to assist yourself - and encourage your members to locate additional volunteer
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artists in their own locales.
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