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SUBJECT: B.LANGDON RESPONDS TO LEAR FILE: UFO1824
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PART 1
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Brad Langton's Response to the John Lear Document (Lear.Txt)
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Downloaded from ParaNet
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This hard copy is provided by: UFINET NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICE
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770 GRANADA CTR., ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO, 88310
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The text that follows represents my views on Lear.txt and are not
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necessarily those of Paranet or any of its other users or staff.
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Brad Langton / February 4th, 1988
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Sec: B - UFOlogy
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04-Feb-88 03:27 AM
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Subj: Contentions on EBEs (R)
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To: John Lear
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First of all, I want to thank you for taking the time to
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participate in the interview of 02/03/88. I do however, feel that
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its appropriate that I make a statement of my own regarding the
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issue at hand.
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During the interview, I tried to rem(ain) helpful to those users
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who have clamored for more information. I believe that I have met
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this responsibility.
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For myself, I'm afraid that I find a great deal of the material
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wanting in proof, or even reasonable expectations for such an
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advanced culture. (You) said that these are the facts, but without
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proving these facts in some objective, verifiable way, you must
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understand that your allegations are without substance. If you are
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sincere about establishing the validity of your claims, you're
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going to have to g(et some)credible witnesses, dates, times,
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records, physical evidence, and whatever (else by any) means
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possible to support what you are saying.
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I'm not saying that within the framework of your story, there are
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not elements of strangeness that have been reported in other media
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(during) the last 40 years. All I'm saying is that the statement
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without proof is doing more to harm credible UFO research than it
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is helping it. I hope this was not your intention, but lets look
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at this objectively, the story makes a lot of the material you read
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i(n the tabloids look reasonable by comparison. For example,
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Aliens) Align with US to Harvest Human Enzymes!" You've got to
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admit, that sounds pretty silly.
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My final point is one that regards my beliefs about intelligence
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in the universe and is no more valid than your contentions, but
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given a civilization "BILLIONS" of ye(ars old they hardly) need
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bodies let alone spaceships... the more primitive instincts would
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be barely a race memory. I can't buy the "backside of an
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evolutionary curve " theory either. I don't even know what that
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means! De-evolve? De-evolve to me is nonsense. Evolution is(a
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process that goes) in the direction of greatest survivability. We
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can argue that point until the end of time and never meet minds...
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its like philosophy, you either believe
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the contention or you don't.
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I'll grant you that the UFO issue has been around a long time and
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yes, the government DOES cover things up very well.. but judging
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from the initial impact this story had, gauged against more
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reasonable inspection after the initial
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shock wears off, users that were leaning in the direction of
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supporting more active efforts to learn (more about UFOs are
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skeptical) themselves.
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I'm afraid I can't swallow this story John, I've thought about it,
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I've talked about it, and I've read other peoples views on it, and
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it just is too fantastic to believe.... EVEN IF ITS TRUE!
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That last point is important, if you do have some (solid facts.
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This) is not the way to garner support.
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I respect your right to express your beliefs, but please respect
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our rights to have a high degree of proof before going off
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half-cocked in a blitz to stop the aliens!!
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Brad Langton Paranet Lambda
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