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SUBJECT: CAUTION RECOMENDED FOR UFO INVESTIGATORS FILE: UFO1613
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BBS: Flite-Line
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Date: 06-15-92 (15:59) Number: 4188
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From: MIKE KEITHLY Refer#: NONE
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To: ALL Recvd: YES
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Subj: Caution For Ufo Investiga Conf: (46) UFO Networ
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* Forwarded from "Internet Alien Visitors Conference"
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* Originally by Jon Roland
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* Originally to All
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* Originally dated 15 Jun 1992, 12:15
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From: jdr@starflight.Corp.Sun.COM (Jon Roland)
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Date: 15 Jun 92 05:50:13 GMT
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Message-ID: <l3obslINN6th@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
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Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
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CAUTION
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for UFO Investigators
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Copyright (c) 1991 Jon Roland
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There is an old saying, "Be careful what
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you ask for. You might get it." It applies to
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UFO investigators, most of whom are
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motivated to try to find out what is behind
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what so many people are reporting by a
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mixture of curiosity, fear, and a nagging
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suspicion that we are not being told
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something that we have a right to know. The
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UFO mystery has emerged as perhaps the
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major unsolved mystery of our time that is
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not being openly researched by organized,
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governmentally supported science.
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One family of hypotheses concerning this
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subject, first advanced by Charles Fort, one
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version of which I have discussed elsewhere
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(see "Speculations on UFO Technology and
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Operations"), supposes that at least one, and
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perhaps many, alien races are based in the
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vicinity of Earth, perhaps underground, and
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have been for a long time; and that lifeforms
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on the surface of Earth, including ourselves,
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are the subject of long-term study and
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perhaps experimentation by at least one of
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those races.
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The importance of this hypothesis is that, if
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valid, it could be dangerous to verify it,
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either for the investigator and his friends, or
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even for humanity as a whole.
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Much speculation on alien visitors tends to
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suppose that they are occasional visitors to
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Earth, based elsewhere, who regard us as
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less developed than themselves, but who still
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respect us as fellow sentients that may
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someday join them among the family of
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spacefaring civilizations. This may be
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wishful thinking, a projection of our
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attitudes toward primitive peoples in recent
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history. We must consider the possibility
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that they rather regard us as we regard
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laboratory rats, with little or no sympathy,
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as things which exist for their edification or
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amusement, and which they are prepared to
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manipulate or terminate when it suits their
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purposes to do so.
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If their purposes are scientific, then our
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continued existence may depend on us
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remaining interesting to their scientific
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studies.
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Experimenters don't care whether rats know
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about them, because rats can't discuss their
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situation among themselves, or contemplate
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different ways of behaving that are affected
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by their knowledge of the existence of the
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experimenters and their purposes. Rats that
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developed the ability to do that during an
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experiment would thereby become useless
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for behavioral studies. It would be a classic
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case of the problem of the subject being
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excessively altered by the act of observation.
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Although there is already a widespread
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belief among people that UFOs are evidence
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of alien beings, the lack of official
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acknowledgement that they are at least
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leaves most people not behaving much
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differently than they would if they were
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unaware of the phenomenon -- much like
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rats. Proof of the existence of aliens and of
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their role in our fate could change that
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situation suddenly. Before we find such
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proof, we need to consider the consequences
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of finding and disclosing it.
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We also need to consider the role of our
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species among other surface lifeforms,
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which may also be the subject of alien study
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---
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