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SUBJECT: ELECTROMIC UFO NEWSLETTER #12 FILE: UFO1566
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ELECTRONIC UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS NEWS
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(EUFON)
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (1 February 1993)
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Published by: | Editor:
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Baron Carlos's Castle BBS | Carlos A. Steffens
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FidoNet 1:109/160 | Primary hatching
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MufoNet 88:4202/0 | by John Komar
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For information, copyrights, article submissions, obtaining copies and
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so on, please refer to the end of this file.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
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Editorial: Fact or Fiction? ................................... 1
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2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 2
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The Politics Of Torquemada; Or, Earth
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Calling Hansen's Planet .................................. 2
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Update On The South Haven Park UFO Incident ................... 5
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Final Report On The Linda Napolitano
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Abduction (Part 1 of 3) .................................. 7
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3. BOOK REVIEW ................................................... 8
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UFO Crash Secrets At Wright/Patterson Air
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Force Base ............................................... 16
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4. ANNOUNCEMENTS/WANTED .......................................... 17
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5. EUFON INFORMATION ............................................. 21
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EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 1 01 Feb 1993
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EDITORIAL
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Editorial: Fact or Fiction?
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by Carlos A. Steffens (88:4202/19)
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A great debate has been sparked by the controversial allegations made by
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Linda Napolitano, who tells a tale of UFO abductions and government
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involvement. In our previous issue, we published an open letter written
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by George P. Hansen to the UFO community where he criticized the people
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in charge of the investigation and the way it was being conducted. This
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issue features the answer to Hansen's letter. Hansen has also released
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a critique of the case where he and other investigators attempt to
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analyze the evidence and information involved to then opine about the
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case's validity. Since the report is long, part of it is published in
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this issue, the remaining to be published in upcoming issues.
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The UFO community does not sit still while the Linda Napolitano
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controversy rages on. In Long Island, the Long Island UFO Network
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(LIUFON) has been hard at work investigating an alleged UFO crash that
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occurred in South Haven Park on November 24, 1992. Various independent
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witnesses have come forward and their stories are very similar when not
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identical. This issue features the latest report of the situation by
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John Ford, Chairman of LIUFON. The article comes to us courtesy of John
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Komar and Mike Christol.
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Finally, this month's book report is on James W. Moseley's UFO CRASH
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SECRETS AT WRIGHT/PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE. The report was written by
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Duncan M. Roads, Editor of Nexus New Times and obtained from the MUFON-
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NET BBS. If you would like to submit a book review/article for
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publishing in EUFON, please refer to end of this publication.EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 2 01 Feb 1993
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The Politics of Torquemada; or, Earth Calling Hansen's Planet
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George Hansen, who is short on ufological experience but
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long on self-righteous blather, is distributing a document
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entitled "Attempted Murder vs. the Politics of Ufology: A
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question of Priorities in the Linda Napolitano Case." In an
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October 13 memo addressed to Budd Hopkins, Walt Andrus, John
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Mack, David Jacobs, and me, Hansen grandiosely announces, "I plan
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to publish this in periodicals devoted to UFOs and mail copies to
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leading ufologists, boards of directors of MUFON, CUFOS, and the
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Intruders Foundation, and funders of UFO research. I also expect
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to post this on electronic bulletin boards and send copies to
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reporter for Omni, the New York Times, Paris Match, and the Wall
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Street Journal."
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In the extremely unlikely event that Hansen's communication
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does not end up in the CP file of these latter publications and I
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receive a call or visit from a reporter from the same, I will
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inform him or her of the following:
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Hansen claims that when he expressed a desire to "make a
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formal request for a federal investigation of Linda, "Hopkins,
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Andrus, and I "strongly urged me not to do so. They said that
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such action would be politically damaging to ufology." I cannot
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speak for Budd and Walt, though I know them to be men of
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integrity. I can, however, state flatly that Hansen's
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characterization of my remarks is, in its first half, misleading
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and, in its second, blatantly false.
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Hansen called me late on the evening of October 6, two days
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after my return from New York City and the meeting with
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proponents and critics of the Linda case. As I have told Budd
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and others, I have serious problems with the story. I told Budd
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that at this stage too many links in the chain of evidence are
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missing to sustain a suspension of unbelief. Moreover, some
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aspects of it seem to me to be impossible. At the same time I
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have problems with the charge that Linda hoaxed the entire event,
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an allegation that -- in view of the extraordinary complexity of
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this episode, not to mention what I observed of and learned about
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Linda's personality -- strikes me as simplistic and unconvincing.
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Two mental-health professionals (not counting John Mack here) who
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know Linda far better that Hansen does concur, emphatically.
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My thoughts about all this are complicated, and I could
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devote many pages to them. I shall not do so here, however. At
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the meeting in which the case was discussed, I kept an open mind;
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in fact, I may have been the only individual there who had not
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come to a firm and unshakable conclusion. Finally I suggested
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what I thought would be a compromise acceptable to all whose
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motive was to find the truth.
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I urged the critics to refrain, over the next six months,
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form pursuing the investigation, which they had indicated now
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consisted, or would soon consist, of knocking on the doors of
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government agencies looking for evidence of the elusive Richard
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and Dan. I stated that, if this story is true, it is no just a
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EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 3 01 Feb 1993
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UFO case but a "politically sensitive" event because it
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supposedly involves a political figure of international stature
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and therefore has consequences far outside the tiny world of
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ufology. If that is indeed the case, we would never find Richard
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and Dan (if they exist as who they say they are) because banging
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on the wrong doors could alert the relevant agency that two of
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its agents were leaking a huge secret. They would then be
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effectively silenced, and we would never learn the truth.
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If, on the other hand, the story is a hoax, I went on, a
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six-month delay will have no effect on that fact, and the
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evidence will be just as retrievable then as now. I assumed we
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were all in this a truth-seeker, I said, and I thought my idea of
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a compromise best served that end.
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Rich Butler and Joe Stefula, critics and honorable men,
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immediately saw my point and agreed. George "Torquemada" Hansen,
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however, proceeded to shout that "science doesn't work that way,"
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to which I rejoined that , if the story was true, this is not
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just a scientific matter but a political one as well. Nothing I
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said could have led anyone to think I meant the "politics of
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ufology." The context made it clear to everyone that the
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"politics" to which I referred was the national and international
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political realm of which the Third Man is allegedly a resident
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and in which (again if they are who they claim to be) Richard and
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Dan operate.
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To anyone who has read my voluminous writings on ufology's
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problems and concerns, the notion that I would urge the
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concealment of truth for any reason -- least of all "political
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damage" to ufology -- is laughable.
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My printed record shows just the opposite: a fierce
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commitment to the truth above and beyond anything else. No one
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has been so consistently, even obsessively, outspoken on the
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subject of ufologists' need for radical objectivity, vigorous
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debate, and fearless scrutiny of all issues, regardless of their
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potential effect on someone's misguided vision of ufology's
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institutional interests. Anyone who doubts any of this is
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invited to read a few IUR editorials.
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Therefore I am forced to conclude that Hansen deliberately
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misrepresented my remarks. In all the conversations I had with
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the principals of this case, I recall no one's saying that
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Hansen's proposed "action would be politically damaging to
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ufology." If anyone had used that as an excuse for inaction, I
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would have spoken up, bluntly, to state precisely what I thought
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of that.
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At any rate, what the proponents did talk about, in my
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hearing, was their concern about Linda's well being. Budd, who
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is a profoundly decent man, feels strongly that the attacks on
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Linda are unfair, unfounded and injurious to a woman who already
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has suffered enough. Valid or invalid, this concern -- not
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damage to the "politics of ufology" (whatever that's supposed to
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mean) -- dominated Budd's conversations with me.
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EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 4 01 Feb 1993
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Still, since our exchanges in New York had been entirely
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cordial, I was unprepared for Hansen's behavior when he called me
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on October 6. I thought he wanted to continue our discussion of
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the case, but as I started to explain my thoroughly ambivalent
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feelings, he cut me off, said curtly that he would be brief, and
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asked if I thought Linda was lying. I said I doubted it, for
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many reasons, which Hansen, who by now had thoroughly demonized
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the poor woman, did not want to hear. He informed me that by not
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sanctioning his plan to go to federal authorities, I was doing
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effectively aiding and abetting gross misuse of police power. I
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said that if such action were to be taken, it is Linda's
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decision, not mine or his, to make, and I could not see how
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anyone could think otherwise. Knowing more about this than
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Hansen does, I added that the story contains elements which, if
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Linda is telling the truth, seem to explain her what otherwise
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looks like a puzzling reluctance to act. In any case, I added,
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it was clear enough that Hansen, his pious assertion to the
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contrary (see the hilariously hypocritical concluding paragraph
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of his article), sought not to help Linda but to destroy her.
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Hansen was at least honest enough not to deny that. Instead
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he chose to try to intimidate me. He warned that he intended to
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turn my name, address, and phone number, along with Hopkins', et
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al, into the FBI. He then launched into a diatribe in which he
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accused my colleagues and me of "living in a delusional world."
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On Hansen's planet, apparently, those who disagree with him are
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not just wrong but deluded and, perhaps, as his paper implies,
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intellectually corrupt and, moreover, deserving of the attention
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of police agencies. I said, "George, you're full of shit," and
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hung up on him. His subsequent pronouncements have only served
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to confirm the cogency of that analysis.
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So what is the significance of the Linda case? I don't
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know. Let me repeat: I don't know. Does anybody? It is
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staggeringly complex, and the available evidence can be read in
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several ways, though certainly in none. I admire Budd Hopkins
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for his dogged, courageous pursuit of the evidence, and I respect
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those who, like Butler, Stefula, and Don Johnson, honestly
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dissent from Budd's interpretation. As an unbeliever (in other
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words, neither believer nor disbeliever), I support all rational
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debate on the issue.
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In my opinion, at this stage of an incomplete and ongoing
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investigation, the only conclusion with which I feel comfortable
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is this one: Time will tell. Then again, maybe it won't. Am
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I the only one out there with a tolerance for ambiguity?
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Jerome Clark
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October 24, 1992
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EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 5 01 Feb 1993
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Update On The South Haven Park UFO Incident
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by John Ford
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The following is the latest information release from John Ford, Chairman
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of Long Island UFO Network, i.e. LIUFON, regarding the reported crash of
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an unidentified object in South Haven Park, adjoining North Shirley,
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Long Island. Just to recap, the object allegedly went down on Nov. 24,
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1992 at 7:15 pm. It was witnessed by a gentleman who saw the object fly
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along side of his car at about 50 ft. above the ground. The object
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suddenly sped up, and made a right angle turn in front of him, crossing
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Sunrise Highway and impacting in the park. Now for the update which I
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received from John on Saturday, Jan. 9, 1993 at 10:30 PM CST.
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"The Long Island UFO Network conducted an investigation along the area
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known as Gerard Rd., in Yaphank (L.I.), NY. This area borders the
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western side of South Haven Park. The Long Island UFO Network
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ascertained from several residents in the area:
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(1) A female witness whose identity is confidential and known to our
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board of directors, that informed us that on the night of the
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UFO crash on November 24, 1992, that she was stopped at the inter-
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section of Gerard and Victory Blvds.. While proceeding along in an
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easterly direction on Victory Blvd, due to the presence of a Suffolk
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County Police roadblock, was offered the explanation that there had
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been an accident in the park and the park was closed. She
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subsequently came back from her shopping trip and attempted to
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travel north on William Ford Parkway and make a left hand turn onto
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Victory Blvd., and found that Victory Blvd. was blocked at the
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intersection of William Ford Parkway. She had to travel North and
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take the Long Island Expressway over to exit 66 and then come down
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Gerard Rd. to get back to her house, over 20 minute delay in her
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course of travel.
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(2) LIUFON has ascertained from a teenage witness that on the day
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after the UFO crash he and a group of friends were denied access to
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the park by Suffolk County Police, prohibiting them from riding
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their bicycles in the park due to the presence of a so called
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accident on the park grounds. No further explanation was offered
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by the police officers at the gate, the park was closed.
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(3) The Long Island UFO Network has ascertained from another 16 yr
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old witness, living on Gerard Ave., that he knows of two close
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personal friends he goes to school with, who were traveling west
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bound on Sunrise Hwy. the night of the incident and saw the object
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impact in the park! We are now conducting an attempt to contact
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those two additional witnesses.
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(4) LIUFON has ascertained from additional witnesses in the area of
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Gerard Ave., bizarre electromagnetic pulse effects to wit digital
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clock readouts losing control as to the exact time and having to be
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reset constantly two to three days after the incident. VCRs, wiping
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out video tapes. Power surges in the power lines. There was also a
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black out for one hour in the area of Gerard Ave. the night of the
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occurrence. Telephones ringing with nobody at the other end, and
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also ringing with the receivers off the hook.
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EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 6 01 Feb 1993
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(5) On the night of Tuesday, Nov. 29, 1992, the Reverend K.S
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(address and telephone number given. It can be obtained from me
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directly at (502) 683-6811). reported at 7:38 PM that evening, his
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Mercury Marqui, a 1990 Mercury Marqui sedan, burst into flames in
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his driveway while the car was trying to start itself. Yaphank fire
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department was called and so was the Suffolk County Police. The
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Reverend was under the impression that it was arson. The Suffolk
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County Police and the Yaphank fire Marshall took it down as an
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electrical fire. We are rather suspicious of this report since it
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indicates that there may have been latent electromagnetic pulse
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effect damage to the electronic ignition or car's computer, causing
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it to short out and also to try and start itself. We've also gotten
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reports too in that area of frequent helicopter overflights of
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unmarked helicopters, days after the UFO incident in the park. We
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are also getting reports in, we have talked to a gentleman tonight,
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a 17 year old gentleman, by the name of Mike P., of Yaphank,
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(address and phone number given. I have both), who has agreed to
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come forward with full public disclosure. At 7:00 PM on the
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night of Nov. 23, 1992, 24 hours before the UFO incident over South
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Haven Park, the witness reports a formation of four very bright
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white lights doing a triangular movement over the park at a high
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altitude. No visible structure behind the lights, no engine sounds
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as the objects passed the witness while parked in his car on Gerard
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Road. Subject will talk to news media, identity not confidential,
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going for full public disclosure. At 2:15 PM this afternoon
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(Saturday, Jan 9), the Long Island UFO Investigative team, composed
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of John Ford, LIUFON members, Brian Levins, and Andrew Cerceoni
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(sp?), were stopped and detained by the Suffolk County Police,
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police car # 522; Police officers refused to identify themselves.
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We were detained for questioning concerning the distribution of
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fliers in the area of Gerard Ave., concerning the UFO incident in
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South Haven Park on Nov. 24, 1992. Today's incident involved
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intimidation and threats made by the Suffolk County Police in an
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effort to stop us from distributing literature concerning the
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incident. The officer told us point blank, he said, `I'm here
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because you people are handing out this garbage. Because you're
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scaring people and causing a panic.' The police said if we continued
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to do so they would be back to harass us. The incident is reported
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on Suffolk County Police blotter number 93-13373 at the Suffolk
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County Police Headquarters at Yaphank New York. One police officers
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shield number is 3453, of the Suffolk County police, fifth precinct.
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The Officer refused to identify himself, but he was in car number
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522. The incident was photographed by LIUFON investigators.
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Government intimidation and threats, as of now we do plan to
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continue our investigations. We do intend to continue it, we do
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intend to take legal action. We will be in contact with the ACLU in
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the next 24 hours and we do intend a letter going to the police
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Commissioner and also notification to the news media concerning this
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threat. I would like letters of protest from
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investigators/researchers all across the country to be sent to the:
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Police Commissioner
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% the Suffolk County Police Dept,
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Yaphank Ave.
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Yaphank, New York 11980
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protesting the harassment of the LIUFON investigative teams attempt
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EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 7 01 Feb 1993
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to investigate the incident in South Haven Park. Refer to:
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Police Report Number 93-13373
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Jan. 9, 1993 involving car number 522
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and police officer shield number 3453.
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As of Jan. 9, 1993, LIUFON has marked its investigative folder on
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the South Haven Park case, no longer as a suspected UFO Crash, but
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as a confirmed UFO incident!
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After this incident, LIUFON was informed by the mother of Mike P.,
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that after they harassed us, they were going back, stopping and
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questioning the people that we had talked to."
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John Ford, Chairman - LIUFON
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We consider this a most URGENT request and ask each of you reading
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this message to pen a letter to the above address and voice your
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displeasure with the treatment of fellow investigators. We feel the
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public has a right to know. This may be the opportunity we have all
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been looking for. Don't let this opportunity to let your voice be
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heard pass you by.
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Mike
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Final Report On The Linda Napolitano Abduction (Part 1 of 3)
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by Joseph Stefula
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Richard Butler
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George Hansen
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Enclosed is our report on the much acclaimed case of the UFO
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abduction of Linda Napolitano. We invite your comments.
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Hopkins' claims have generated enormous publicity and have
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been mentioned in the New York Times, Omni, the Wall Street Journal,
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and Paris Match, among others. As such, this case is likely to have a
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substantial impact on the field of ufology.
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Leadership in both the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the J. Allen
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Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) aggressively opposed our
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investigation, and both previously refused to publish our criticisms.
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This raises grave questions about the scientific and journalistic
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integrity of MUFON and CUFOS.
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Those organizations have many members, and we are unable to provide
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more than a few copies of this paper to others. We ask you to help us
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with the distribution. Please feel free to make copies of this article,
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post it on electronic bulletin boards, and print it in periodicals.
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A Critique of Budd Hopkins' Case of the UFO Abduction
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EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 8 01 Feb 1993
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of
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Linda Napolitano
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by Joseph J. Stefula, Richard D. Butler, and George P. Hansen
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ABSTRACT: Budd Hopkins has made a number of public presentations
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of a purported UFO abduction case with multiple witnesses. The primary
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abductee is Linda Napolitano, who lives in an apartment building on the
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lower east side of Manhattan (New York City). She claims to have been
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abducted by extraterrestrial aliens from her 12th floor apartment in
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November 1989. It is claimed that three witnesses in a car two blocks
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away observed Linda and alien beings float out of a window and ascend
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||
into a craft. One alleged witness was United Nations Secretary General
|
||
Javier Perez de Cuellar. It is also claimed that a woman on the
|
||
Brooklyn Bridge observed the abduction. Linda has reported nose bleeds,
|
||
and one X-ray displays an implant in her nose.
|
||
|
||
To date, Hopkins has provided no full, detailed written report,
|
||
but he did publish a couple five page articles in the September and
|
||
December 1992 issues of the Mufon UFO Journal and made a presentation at
|
||
the 1992 MUFON symposium. We have made use of that information as well
|
||
as records from other presentations, and we have interviewed the
|
||
abductee. A number of serious questions arose from our examination.
|
||
The case has many exotic aspects, and we have identified a science
|
||
fiction novel that may have served as the basis for elements of the
|
||
story.
|
||
|
||
Several prominent leaders in ufology have become involved, and
|
||
their behavior and statements have been quite curious. Some have
|
||
aggressively attempted to suppress evidence of a purported attempted
|
||
murder. The implications for the understanding of ufology are
|
||
discussed.
|
||
|
||
Budd Hopkins is the person most responsible for drawing attention to
|
||
the problem of the extraterrestrial (ET) abduction experience. His
|
||
efforts have been instrumental in stimulating both media attention and
|
||
scientific research devoted to the problem. He has written two popular
|
||
books (Missing Time, 1981, and Intruders, 1987), established the
|
||
Intruders Foundation, and has made innumerable appearances at
|
||
conferences and in the media.
|
||
|
||
Although Hopkins is neither a trained therapist, an academic, nor
|
||
a scientist, he has involved such people in his work. John E. Mack,
|
||
M.D., a Pulitzer Prize winner and former head of the psychiatry
|
||
department at Harvard Medical School, has praised Hopkins' work and
|
||
acknowledged his indebtedness to him (Mack, 1992a, 1992b). Hopkins has
|
||
collaborated with university professors in co-authoring an article in
|
||
the book Unusual Personal Experiences (1992), which was sent to 100,000
|
||
mental health professionals. He has testified as an expert witness at
|
||
a hearing regarding the medical competence of a physician who claims to
|
||
have been abducted (McKenna, 1992). Because of such strong endorsements
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
and impressive affiliations, and because of his untiring work on behalf
|
||
of abductees, Hopkins has become the single most visible figure in the
|
||
UFO abduction field. His contributions, positive or negative, will be
|
||
quickly noticed by those inside and outside ufology.
|
||
|
||
Last year, Hopkins made a number of public presentations about a
|
||
spectacular UFO abduction case occurring in November 1989 and having
|
||
multiple witnesses. The primary abductee was Linda Napolitano, a woman
|
||
living on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment building in lower
|
||
Manhattan (New York City) [Hopkins has previously used the pseudonym
|
||
"Linda Cortile" in this case]. It is claimed that three witnesses in a
|
||
car two blocks away observed Linda and three ET aliens emerge from a
|
||
window and ascend into a craft. Further it is claimed that a woman who
|
||
was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge also saw the event.
|
||
|
||
The case has generated enormous interest and drawn international
|
||
attention. It has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal (Jefferson,
|
||
1992), Omni (Baskin, 1992), Paris Match (De Brosses, 1992), the New York
|
||
Times (Sontag, 1992), and Hopkins and Napolitano have appeared on the
|
||
television show Inside Edition. The Mufon UFO Journal labeled it "The
|
||
Abduction Case of the Century" (Stacy, 1992, p. 9). Even the technical
|
||
magazine ADVANCE for Radiologic Science Professionals carried a
|
||
discussion of Linda's nasal implant (Hatfield, 1992). We should expect
|
||
continuing coverage of the affair not only in the UFO press but also in
|
||
the major media.
|
||
|
||
In a short article previewing his 1992 MUFON symposium presentation,
|
||
he wrote: "I will be presenting what I believe to be the most important
|
||
case for establishing the objective reality of UFO abductions that I
|
||
have yet encountered" (Hopkins, 1992, p. 20). During his lecture at the
|
||
symposium he stated: "This is probably the most important case I've
|
||
ever run into in my life" (tape recorded, July 1992). In his abstract
|
||
for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abduction Study Conference
|
||
held in June 1992 he wrote: "The importance of this case is virtually
|
||
immeasurable, as it powerfully supports both the objective reality of
|
||
UFO abductions and the accuracy of regressive hypnosis as employed with
|
||
this abductee." Because of Hopkins' renown, and because of his
|
||
evaluation, this case warrants our careful scrutiny.
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE AUTHORS' INVOLVEMENT
|
||
|
||
The first two authors had learned of the case before Hopkins had
|
||
spoken publicly of it, and they decided to monitor its progress. They
|
||
regularly briefed the third author as their investigation progressed.
|
||
As the affair became publicized, all three became concerned about the
|
||
long term effect it might have on abduction research.
|
||
|
||
For several years Richard Butler attended Hopkins' informal meetings
|
||
organized for abductees and abduction researchers. Butler became
|
||
familiar with the case during those meetings, and he invited Stefula to
|
||
a gathering in early October 1991. At the meeting, Hopkins outlined the
|
||
case, and afterward, Stefula had a chance to chat with Linda about her
|
||
experiences. Butler and Stefula gave Linda their telephone numbers.
|
||
She was advised that if she needed any assistance she could contact
|
||
them.
|
||
Stefula told her that he had numerous contacts in federal and state law
|
||
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||
|
||
|
||
enforcement agencies that could be of aid to her. The same information
|
||
was provided to Hopkins.
|
||
|
||
On January 28, 1992, Linda requested a meeting with Richard Butler,
|
||
and on February 1, 1992, Linda, Stefula and Butler met in New York City,
|
||
and Linda provided additional details about her experiences (described
|
||
below). During that meeting, she asked them not to inform Hopkins of
|
||
their discussions. At the 1992 MUFON convention in Albuquerque, New
|
||
Mexico in July, both Hopkins and Linda appeared on the podium and
|
||
presented the case. Stefula attended the convention and heard the talk,
|
||
and disturbing questions arose. Some of the statements directly
|
||
contradicted what Linda had earlier told Stefula and Butler. We
|
||
contacted Hopkins in an attempt to resolve these matters, but he
|
||
declined to meet with us, saying that he didn't want to discuss the case
|
||
until his book manuscript was submitted. Despite his initial
|
||
reluctance, eventually a meeting was arranged on October 3, 1992 at
|
||
Hopkins' home, and a few more details then emerged.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SUMMARY OF CASE
|
||
|
||
In order to compile this summary of alleged events, we have relied
|
||
upon Hopkins' and Linda's talks from the podium of the 1992 MUFON
|
||
symposium, on our interviews with Linda, on Hopkins' talk at the
|
||
Portsmouth, New Hampshire UFO conference, September 13, 1992, and
|
||
Hopkins' two five-page articles in the September and December issues of
|
||
the Mufon UFO Journal.
|
||
|
||
In April 1989 Hopkins received a letter from Linda Napolitano, a
|
||
resident of New York City. Linda wrote that she had begun reading his
|
||
book Intruders and had remembered that 13 years earlier she had detected
|
||
a bump next to her nose. It was examined by a physician who insisted
|
||
that she had undergone nasal surgery. Linda claimed that she never had
|
||
such surgery, and she even checked with her mother, who confirmed that
|
||
impression.
|
||
|
||
Hopkins took an interest in the case because there was a potential
|
||
for medical evidence and because Linda lived relatively close to
|
||
Hopkins, which facilitated their meeting. Linda visited Hopkins and
|
||
discussed her past experiences with him. She recalled some pertinent
|
||
earlier events in her life but believed that she was no longer directly
|
||
involved with any abduction phenomena. Linda then began attending
|
||
meetings of Hopkins' support group for abductees.
|
||
|
||
On November 30, 1989, Linda called Hopkins and reported that she
|
||
had been abducted during the early morning hours of that day, and she
|
||
provided some details. A few days later, she underwent regressive
|
||
hypnosis, and Linda remembered floating out of her apartment window, 12
|
||
stories above the ground. She recalled ascending in a bluish-white beam
|
||
of light into a craft which was hovering over the building.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Richard and Dan
|
||
|
||
Over a year later (February 1991), Hopkins received a letter signed
|
||
with the first names, Richard and Dan. (We have no hard evidence that
|
||
"Richard" and "Dan" actually exist. In order to avoid overburdening the
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
reader, we will typically omit the word "alleged" when mentioning them.)
|
||
|
||
The letter claimed that the two were police officers who were under
|
||
cover in a car beneath the elevated FDR Drive between 3:00 and 3:30 a.m.
|
||
in late November 1989. Above a high-rise apartment building, they
|
||
observed a large, bright reddish-orange object with green lights around
|
||
its side. They wrote that they saw a woman and several strange figures
|
||
float out a window and up into the object. Richard and Dan said that
|
||
they had come across Hopkins' name and decided to write to him. They
|
||
went on to say that they were extremely concerned about her well being,
|
||
wanted to locate the woman, talk to her, and be assured that she was
|
||
alive and safe. The two also mentioned that they could identify the
|
||
building and window from which she emerged.
|
||
|
||
After receiving the letter, Hopkins promptly called Linda and told
|
||
her that she might expect a visit from two policemen. A few days
|
||
later, Linda telephoned Hopkins to tell him that she had been visited by
|
||
Richard and Dan. When they had knocked on her door, introducing
|
||
themselves as police officers, she was not too surprised because she
|
||
reports that police frequently canvass her apartment complex looking for
|
||
witnesses to crimes. Even with Hopkins' prior call, she did not expect
|
||
Richard and Dan to actually appear. After they arrived and entered her
|
||
home, there was an emotional greeting, and they expressed relief that
|
||
she was alive. However, Richard and Dan were disinclined to meet with
|
||
or talk to Hopkins, despite the fact that they had written him earlier
|
||
and despite Linda's entreaties to do so. Richard asked Linda if it was
|
||
acceptable for them to write out an account of their experience and then
|
||
read it into a tape recorder. She agreed, and a couple weeks later
|
||
Hopkins received a tape recording from Richard describing their
|
||
experience.
|
||
|
||
Some time thereafter, Hopkins received a letter from Dan giving a
|
||
bit more information. The letter reported that Richard had taken a
|
||
leave of absence because the close encounter had been so emotionally
|
||
traumatic. Dan also mentioned that Richard secretly watched Linda.
|
||
(This information is from Hopkins' oral presentation at the 1992 MUFON
|
||
symposium in Albuquerque. At the Portsmouth, New Hampshire conference,
|
||
Hopkins said that he had received a letter from Richard saying that Dan
|
||
was forced to take of leave of absence. It is not clear if Hopkins
|
||
misspoke at some point, or whether both individuals took leaves of
|
||
absence.)
|
||
|
||
Hopkins received another letter from Dan which said that he and
|
||
Richard were not really police officers but actually security officers
|
||
who had been driving a very important person (VIP) to a helicopter pad
|
||
in lower Manhattan when the sighting occurred. The letter claimed that
|
||
their car stalled, and Richard had pushed it, parking it beneath the FDR
|
||
Drive. According to Dan, the VIP had also witnessed the abduction event
|
||
and had me hysterical.
|
||
|
||
|
||
The Kidnappings
|
||
|
||
Linda claimed that in April of 1991 she encountered Richard on the
|
||
street near her apartment. She was asked to get into a car that Dan was
|
||
driving, but she refused. Richard picked her up and, with some
|
||
struggle, forced her into the vehicle. Linda reported that she was
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
driven around for 3 1/2 hours, interrogated about the aliens, and asked
|
||
whether she worked for the government. She also said that she was
|
||
forced to remove her shoes so they could examine her feet to determine
|
||
whether she was an ET alien (they later claimed that aliens lack toes).
|
||
Linda did remember another car being involved with the kidnapping, and
|
||
under hypnotic regression she recalled the license plate number of that
|
||
car, as well a part of the number of the car in which she rode. Hopkins
|
||
reports that the numbers have been traced to particular "agencies" (he
|
||
gave no further details).
|
||
|
||
At the MUFON symposium, Linda was asked if she had reported the
|
||
kidnapping to the police. She said that she had not and went on to say
|
||
that the kidnapping was legal because it had to do with national
|
||
security.
|
||
|
||
In conversations with Butler in early 1992, Linda had expressed
|
||
concerns about her personal safety. A meeting was arranged with Stefula
|
||
because of his background in law enforcement. During the afternoon and
|
||
early evening of February 1, the three met in New York City, and Linda
|
||
described further details of the kidnappings.
|
||
|
||
She reported that on the morning of October 15, 1991, Dan accosted
|
||
her on the street and pulled her into a red Jaguar sports car. Linda
|
||
happened to be carrying a tape recorder and was able to surreptitiously
|
||
record a few minutes of Dan's questioning, but he soon discovered and
|
||
confiscated it. Dan drove to a beach house on the shore of Long Island.
|
||
There he demanded that Linda remove her clothes and put on a white
|
||
nightgown, similar to the one she wore the night of the abduction. He
|
||
said he wanted to have sex with her. She refused but then agreed to put
|
||
on the nightgown over her clothes. Once she did, Dan dropped to his
|
||
knees and started to talk incoherently about her being the "Lady of the
|
||
Sands." She fled the beach house, but Dan caught her on the beach and
|
||
bent her arm behind her. He placed two fingers on the back of her neck,
|
||
leading Linda to believe that it was a gun. He then forced her into the
|
||
water and pushed her head under twice. He continued to rave
|
||
incoherently, and as her head was being pushed under for the third time,
|
||
she believed that she would not come up again. Then, a "force" hit Dan
|
||
and knocked him back onto the beach. She started to run but heard a
|
||
sound like a gun being cocked. She looked back and saw Dan taking a
|
||
picture of her (Linda mentioned that pictures from the beach were
|
||
eventually sent to Hopkins). She continued running, but Richard
|
||
appeared beside her, seemingly out of nowhere. He stopped her and
|
||
convinced her to return to the beach house and told her that he would
|
||
control Dan by giving him a Mickey Finn. She agreed. Once inside,
|
||
Richard put Dan in the shower to wash off the mud and sand from the
|
||
beach. This gave Linda a chance to search the premises; she recovered
|
||
her cassette tape and discovered stationery bearing a Central
|
||
Intelligence Agency letterhead.
|
||
|
||
In a brief conversation on October 3, 1992, Hopkins told Hansen
|
||
that Linda came to him shortly after she arrived back in Manhattan after
|
||
the kidnapping. She was disheveled, had sand in her hair, and was
|
||
traumatized by the experience.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Further Contacts with Richard and Dan
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
During the February 1 meeting with Butler and Stefula, Linda
|
||
reported that she had met Richard outside a Manhattan bank on November
|
||
21, 1991. He told her of Dan's deteriorating mental condition. During
|
||
the Christmas season, Linda received a card and a three page letter from
|
||
Dan (dated 12/14/91). The letter bore a United Nations stamp and
|
||
postmark (the UN building in New York has a post office which anyone can
|
||
use). Dan wrote that he was in a mental institution and was kept
|
||
sedated. He expressed a strong romantic interest in Linda. Some of his
|
||
remarks suggested that he wanted to kidnap her, take her out of the
|
||
country, and marry her; Linda seemed alarmed by this (she gave a copy
|
||
of the letter to Stefula and Butler).
|
||
|
||
Linda also asserted that on December 15 and December 16, 1991, one
|
||
of the men had tried to make contact with her near the shopping area of
|
||
the South Street Seaport. He was driving a large black sedan with
|
||
Saudi Arabian United Nations license plates. During the first incident,
|
||
to avoid him, Linda reported that she went into a shop. The second day a
|
||
similar thing happened, and she stood next to some businessmen until he
|
||
left the area.
|
||
|
||
|
||
The Third Man
|
||
|
||
At the February 1 meeting, Linda mentioned that Hopkins had received
|
||
a letter from "the third man" (the VIP), and she was able to repeat
|
||
entire sentences from this letter, seemingly verbatim. It discussed
|
||
ecological danger to the planet, and Linda indicated that aliens were
|
||
involved in ending the Cold War. The letter ended with a warning to
|
||
Hopkins to stop searching for "the third man" because it could
|
||
potentially do harm to world peace.
|
||
|
||
Linda also related a few more details of her November 1989
|
||
abduction. She said that the men in the car had felt a strong vibration
|
||
at the time of the sighting. Linda also claimed that in subsequent
|
||
hypnotic regressions she recalled being on a beach with Dan, Richard,
|
||
and the third man, and she thought somehow she was being used by the
|
||
aliens to control the men. She communicated with the men telepathically
|
||
and said that she felt that she had known Richard prior to the November
|
||
1989 abduction, and she suggested that they possibly had been abducted
|
||
together previously. We also learned that the third man was actually
|
||
Javier Perez de Cuellar, at that time Secretary General of the United
|
||
Nations. Linda claimed that the various vehicles used in her
|
||
kidnappings had been traced to several countries' missions at the UN.
|
||
|
||
At the Portsmouth, New Hampshire conference, Hopkins spoke of the
|
||
third man saying: "I am trying to do what I can to shame this person to
|
||
come forward."
|
||
|
||
|
||
Witness on the Brooklyn Bridge
|
||
|
||
In the summer of 1991, a year and a half after the UFO abduction,
|
||
Hopkins received a letter from a woman who is a retired telephone
|
||
operator from Putnam County, New York (Hopkins has given this woman the
|
||
pseudonym of Janet Kimble). Hopkins did not bother to open the letter,
|
||
and in November 1991, he received another one from her marked on the
|
||
outside "CONFIDENTIAL, RE: BROOKLYN BRIDGE." The odd outside marking
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
and the fact that she had written two letters, seem to have raised no
|
||
suspicions in Hopkins' mind. The woman, a widow of about sixty, claimed
|
||
to have been driving on the Brooklyn Bridge at 3:16 a.m., November 30,
|
||
1989. She reported that her car stopped and the lights went out. She
|
||
too saw a large, brightly lit object over a building; in fact, the light
|
||
was so bright that she was forced to shield her eyes, though she was
|
||
over a quarter mile away. Nevertheless, she claimed to have observed
|
||
four figures in fetal positions emerge from a window. The figures
|
||
simultaneously uncurled and then moved up into the craft. Ms. Kimble
|
||
was quite frightened by the event, and people in cars behind her were
|
||
"running all around their cars with theirs (sic) hands on their heads,
|
||
screaming from horror and disbelief" (quoted in Hopkins, 1992d, p. 7).
|
||
She wrote: "I have never traveled back to New York City after what I
|
||
saw and I never will again, for any reason" (Hopkins, 1992d, p. 5).
|
||
Despite her intense fear and all the commotion, she had the presence of
|
||
mind to rummage through her purse to find her cigarette lighter to
|
||
illuminate her watch in order to determine the time.
|
||
|
||
Hopkins has interviewed this woman in person and over the phone.
|
||
The woman claimed to have obtained his name in a bookstore; she called
|
||
the Manhattan directory assistance for his telephone number and then
|
||
looked up his address in the Manhattan White Pages. She alleges that
|
||
she was reticent about speaking of the incident and had only told her
|
||
son, daughter, sister, and brother-in-law about the event.
|
||
|
||
|
||
The Nasal X-ray
|
||
|
||
In November 1991 a doctor, whom Hopkins describes as "closely
|
||
connected with Linda," took an X-ray of Linda's head because she knew
|
||
about the story of the nasal implant and because Linda frequently spoke
|
||
of the problem with her nose. The X-ray was not developed immediately.
|
||
A few days later the doctor brought it to Linda but was very nervous and
|
||
unwilling to discuss it. Linda took it to Hopkins, who showed it to a
|
||
neurosurgeon friend of his. The neurosurgeon was astounded; a sizeable,
|
||
clearly non-natural object could be seen in the nasal area. Hopkins has
|
||
shown a slide of the X-ray during his presentations, and the implant is
|
||
strikingly apparent, even to a lay audience. The object has a shaft
|
||
approximately 1/4 inch long with a curly-cue wire structure on each end.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other Unusual Aspects of the Case
|
||
|
||
During our meeting with Linda on February 1, she gave us additional
|
||
miscellaneous details that might be pertinent. We were told that she
|
||
believed that she was under surveillance and described a light
|
||
silver-gray van that had parked near her apartment. She also claimed
|
||
that she had once been a professional singer and the lead on a hit
|
||
record, but she had lost her singing voice one day while in the shower.
|
||
Linda mentioned that she was given to understand that her blood was
|
||
quite unusual. A doctor had informed her that her red blood cells did
|
||
not die, but instead they rejuvenated. She wondered whether this might
|
||
be due to an alien influence; some time later she attempted to locate
|
||
the doctor but was unable to do so. Linda seemed to imply that she now
|
||
believed that she was part alien or somehow worked with the aliens.
|
||
|
||
Linda also told us that she had an agreement with Budd Hopkins to
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
split equally any profits from a book on the case.
|
||
|
||
(Continued in the next issue of EUFON)
|
||
|
||
|
||
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||
|
||
|
||
-=< BOOK REVIEW >=-
|
||
|
||
|
||
Title: UFO CRASH SECRETS AT WRIGHT/PATTERSON AIR FORCE
|
||
BASE
|
||
Author: James W. Moseley
|
||
Publisher: Abelard Productions (USA)
|
||
Price: $20.00
|
||
Reviewed by: Duncan M. Roads, Editor - Nexus New Times
|
||
|
||
|
||
James Moseley has been tracking UFOs since the early 1950s,
|
||
and is the former editor and publisher of Saucer News, a
|
||
magazine that at one stage had nearly 10,000 subscribers. In
|
||
1967 he staged the largest UFO convention of all time,
|
||
attracting 15,000 people to a three day event at New York's
|
||
Commodore Hotel. In short, he has been around UFO research
|
||
since before I was a twinkle in Dad's eye.
|
||
|
||
The book itself is a well written "diary" of the period of
|
||
Jim's life that involved the famous Long John Show, a radio
|
||
talk back show dealing with UFOs and other subjects.
|
||
|
||
It was also the time of rumors of crashed UFOs in New mexico,
|
||
of secret government experiments, and of clandestine cover-
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ups.
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One such cover-up alleged that crashed or captured UFOs and
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their occupants were being held/kept at specially designated
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Air Force Bases, Wright Patterson Air Force Base being the
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primary place of suspicion.
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The author leads us on his "journey" of leads, tip-offs and
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meetings, encounters which include the famous Adamski, UFOs in
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Antarctica, access to US Air Force files and mysterious
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visitors - they certainly make you wonder what is really going
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on.
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Metro DC MUFON UFO Conference
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Metro DC MUFON UFO Conference: Saturday February 6, 1993. $15.00.
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Quality Hotel, Silver Spring, MD.
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- Kevin Randle
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- Major Ed Dames
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- Panel Debate: Should the US government publically
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acknowledge the reality of UFOs?
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- <Other speakers to be announced>
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For more information contact Mike Regimenti 410-974-0649.
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Ozark UFO Conference
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The Fifth Annual Ozark UFO Conference will be held on April 2-4, 1993.
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The location will be the same as in previous years, the INN OF THE
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OZARKS in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
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A minimum of 125 rooms will be set aside for people attending the
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Conference, with special room rates of $36.00 for single occupancy and
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$42.00 for double occupancy. Room reservations may be made at any time
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by calling the Inn at (501) 253-9768 or by writing the Inn at P.O. box
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431, Eureka Springs, AR 72632. Please indicate that your reservations
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are for the Ozark UFO Conference in order to obtain the special room
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rates. The Inn's total of 125 rooms were completely sold out last year
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at least one month before the conference, so make your reservations
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early. Additional rooms are available at other local-area motels.
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The registration fee for the Conference is $35.00 per person, if paid in
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advance (through March 27, 1993) or $40.00 per person at the door.
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Payments for Conference registrations should be made payable to OZARK
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UFO CONFERENCE FUND and may be mailed to :
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Ozark UFO Conference
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Route 1, Box 220
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Plumerville, AR 72127
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The Conference will begin at 1:00 PM on Friday, April 2nd, and will
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conclude at noon on Sunday, April 4th. Additional information may be
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obtained by calling (501) 354-2558.
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The scheduled speakers for 1993 include Dr. John Mack of Harvard
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University (one of the country's foremost researchers of UFO abduction
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cases), Norman Oliver (UFO cases from England), Linda Moulton Howe,
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George Wingfield, Antonio Huneeus and Forest Crawford. A number of
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"surprise" speakers is also planned, as well as a panel discussion
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featuring "abductees" and abduction researchers.
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For those who have not visited Eureka Springs previously, the town is
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located on U.S. Highway 62, approximately 48 miles west of Harrison,
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Arkansas, 35 miles northeast of Fayetteville, and about 10 miles south
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of the Missouri border. Air travellers will fly into Drake Field at
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Fayetteville and a shuttle service will be provided between the airport
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and the Inn.
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OZARK UFO CONFERENCE
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REGISTRATION FORM
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Registration Fee: $35.00 per person
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||
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||
|
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Please send completed form and fee to:
|
||
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
PLUMERVILLE, AR 72127
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Lincoln, Nebraska Conference
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||
EXPLORING UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON V
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||
APRIL 30th to MAY 2nd, 1993
|
||
Lincoln, Nebraska
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||
|
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
|
||
|
||
Dr. John Salter: The Salter UFO Encounters; A Comprehensive Update.
|
||
Professor and Chair of American Indian Studies at
|
||
the University of North Dakota, where he teaches a
|
||
course on UFOs, ETs, and Close Encounters. He will
|
||
discuss a 1988 UFO encounter and abduction experience
|
||
he and his son had while driving across Wisconsin.
|
||
|
||
Kevin Randle - Stanton Friedman: The Roswell Incident.
|
||
Kevin Randle is a former Air Force intelligence officer
|
||
and co-author of the book UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL. Stanton
|
||
Friedman is a nuclear physicist and co-author of CRASH
|
||
AT CORONA. Both authors have done extensive research
|
||
EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 19 01 Feb 1993
|
||
|
||
|
||
into the alleged crash of a UFO in the New Mexico
|
||
desert in 1947, and have come to somewhat different
|
||
conclusions.
|
||
|
||
Harry Jordan - Jack Kasher: NASA UFO Images / Iowa Mini-Flap Update.
|
||
Harry Jordan is a science teacher and founder of the
|
||
Mars Project in Omaha. Dr. Jack Kasher is a professor
|
||
of physics and astronomy at the University of
|
||
Nebraska-Omaha and MUFON state director for Nebraska.
|
||
Their presentation will be on the videotape taken
|
||
during a space shuttle flight allegedly showing
|
||
unidentified objects, and an update on a series of UFO
|
||
sightings and landing traces in southern Iowa.
|
||
|
||
Linda Moulton-Howe: Aliens, Abductions, & Scientific Findings on Crop
|
||
Circles. Winner of local, national, and international
|
||
awards for her documentaries on science, medicine, and
|
||
the environment and author of AN ALIEN HARVEST. She
|
||
will present an update on her current and past
|
||
research.
|
||
|
||
Budd Hopkins: New Revelations About UFO Abductions.
|
||
The best-selling author of INTRUDERS and MISSING TIME,
|
||
and one of the researchers most credited with bringing
|
||
serious attention to UFO abductions.
|
||
|
||
Rosemary Ellen Guiley: Crop Circles & Unusual Ground Markings
|
||
Worldwide.
|
||
Director of the Center for North American Crop Circle
|
||
Studies and the author of HARPER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
|
||
MYSTICAL AND PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE.
|
||
|
||
MORE SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED
|
||
|
||
REGISTRATION:
|
||
$40.00 before February 1st
|
||
$45.00 afterwards and at the door
|
||
(Members of the Fortean Research Center receive a $5.00 discount)
|
||
|
||
SPEAKING PROGRAM. Each presentation will be for approximately two
|
||
hours, so that an in-depth presentation and exchange can occur between
|
||
the speakers and the audience.
|
||
|
||
OTHER EVENTS. There will be a dinner Friday night, a tour of haunted
|
||
and ghostly sites around Lincoln, and a Saturday night banquet. Details
|
||
on these events have yet to be finalized, but if you're interested
|
||
please check the spaces in the registration form and we'll send you
|
||
information when it's available.
|
||
|
||
HOTEL. The Nebraska Center for Continuing Studies at 33rd and Holdredge
|
||
St. Lincoln, Ne. 68583-0901. Phone (402) 472-3435. A block of rooms has
|
||
been reserved. Please make your reservations directly with the hotel.
|
||
|
||
QUESTIONS? Call Scott Colborn at (402) 421-1701, Monday through Friday,
|
||
1:00 - 7:00 pm CST. Or write to: THE FORTEAN RESEARCH CENTER
|
||
PO BOX 94627
|
||
Lincoln, NE. 68509
|
||
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||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Registration received before January 1, 1993:
|
||
Number of people _____ Member $35.00 _____ Non-member $40.00 _____
|
||
|
||
Registration received after January 1, 1993:
|
||
Number of people _____ Member $40.00 _____ Non-member $45.00 _____
|
||
|
||
Membership in the Fortean Research Center -
|
||
No. of people _____ $20.00 _____
|
||
|
||
Interested in the Friday evening dinner _____
|
||
Saturday banquet _____
|
||
Ghost tour of Lincoln _____
|
||
|
||
TOTAL enclosed __________
|
||
Check or money order in U.S. funds, please no cash. Payable to the
|
||
F.R.C.
|
||
|
||
Name ___________________________
|
||
|
||
Address___________________________________
|
||
|
||
City ___________________________
|
||
|
||
State _________________ Zip _______________
|
||
|
||
Affiliation ____________________________________ PLEASE PRINT
|
||
|
||
Photocopies of this form and written orders accepted.
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
||
|
||
|
||
The Electronic Unidentified Flying Objects News (EUFON) is published
|
||
monthly with the purpose of providing up to date information to those
|
||
persons interested in the research of UFOs. It is a compilation of
|
||
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|
||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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