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INSIDE UFOLOGY
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February 1988
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There already seems to be some controversy surrounding the series of UFO
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sightings reported in Gulf Breezes, Florida. In that case, a building
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contractor claims to have taken as many as 16 Polaroid photos and one Beta
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videotape of an object hovering near his home, not far from Pensacola. The
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sightings started around the middle of last November, and were exciting
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enough to MUFON State Director Donald Ware that he immediately called Walt
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Andrus, MUFON's Grand Poobah, in Texas and said, "You better get over
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here." He did get over there, and was duly impressed by what he saw. "Very
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high quality stuff," was Andrus' reaction.
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Budd Hopkins has reportedly just returned from Florida, where he, too,
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viewed the evidence, and he, too, was very excited. And so was MUFON's
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Director of Investigations, Dan Wright. "This stuff puts Billy Meier to
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shame," seems to be the general reaction.
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But the comparisons with Meier are more than just casual. For one thing,
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despite repeated appearances by the object, no other witnesses have
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stepped forward, although word has it that several ANONYMOUS witnesses do
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exist. For another, its amazing how lucky one man can be, to be in the
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right place at the right time, several times running, to knock off a few
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good UFO pictures, when the rest of us slobs go entire lifetimes without
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even seeing a strange light in the sky. And its been our experience that
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cases that seem too good to be true, always are.
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Further, its reported that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has given the
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videotape a cursory examination, and considers it a probable fraud. But
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the examination did not make use of JPL's sophisticated computer analysis
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facilities; rather, it was one man's opinion based on an eyeball of the
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video.
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Its entirely possible that we finally have definitive photographic proof
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that alien spacecraft are operating in our atmosphere, and only time, and
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widespread distribution of the video, will tell at this point. Certainly,
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judging by the animated reaction of the normally stoic Wright, something
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worth looking into has occurred, and its guaranteed to be one of the
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classics of the field. We don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but we
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counsel equal doses of caution and enthusiasm.
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Speaking of JPL, those three letters seem to be coming up more and more
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often these days. In addition to the above analysis, at least two high
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priests of that high-tech temple of Empiricism have held forth on the
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Brewster video of the Hudson Valley Object, one pronouncing it an unknown
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and the other putting the lie to the "planes in formation" theory.
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Abduction expert Tracy Torme' visited the lab a while back (in the guise
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of the new Executive Story Editor for Star Trek), and managed to elicit
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curiosity in UFOs from some of the lab technicians and scientists. And Dr.
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Lew Allen, the lab's director, has been mentioned as a possible MJ-12
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member. Recall that JPL is the West Coast outpost of mega-skeptic Carl
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Sagan....I'll bet they have some DANDY conversations there....
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An extremely reliable ParaNet source has uncovered confirmation, of sorts,
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that a group calling itself Justice for Military Personnel did exist as
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recently as 1975/76. It was apparently a paralegal organization which
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specialized in providing legal assistance to military types and their
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families. Our source tells us that one of their assignments was to help
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cut through some red tape at Bentwaters AFB in England, site of a famous
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UFO landing. (See JMP.UFO, Library Section 1).
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AND FINALLY...
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Allen Benz, president of the Foundation for UFO Research, on the
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cancellation of that group's highly touted banquet in Tucson:
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"Oh, well, no use crying over crashed saucers...."
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---Jim Speiser
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