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SUBJECT: UFO REPORT POLICTICAL, OFFICIAL SAYS FILE: UFO2459
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UFO REPORT POLITICAL, OFFICIAL SAYS
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By Craig Myers
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NEWS JOURNAL (TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1990)
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A report that Gulf Breeze resident Ed Walters may have faked
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photographs of UFOs is designed to hurt Walters' campaign for
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city council, a Mutual UFO Network official said Monday.
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Dan Wright, who heads UFO investigations for MUFON, said
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Monday the organization is " concerned that one of our
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investigators may have taken sides in a political dispute."
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Walters co-wrote " The Gulf Breeze Sightings," which recounts
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encounters he claims to have had with UFOs between November
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1987 and March 1988. He is a candidate for City Council in
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Gulf Breeze on the Nov. 6 ballot.
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Walters would not comment Monday, but said earlier this month
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that his alleged UFO encounters were not an issue in the
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campaign.
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The issue resurfaced Friday after Rex and Carol Salisberry,
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investigators for the UFO network, released a summary of a
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preliminary report that said Walters likely faked at least two
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photographs reproduced in his book.
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The Salisberrys, MUFON investigators of the year in 1989-1990,
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were asked in July to reopen the case.
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The new probe was prompted by the discovery of a model in the
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attic of Walters' former home in Gulf Breeze. The plastic foam
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and drafting paper model strongly resembled a drawing of an
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alleged UFO in Walters' book.
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In another incident, a former Gulf Breeze man said he helped
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Walters fake UFO photos at least once in 1987.
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On Monday, Wright said that Gulf Breeze Mayor Ed Gray, a
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longtime critic of Walters, may have "pressed" the Salisberrys
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to release their report before election.
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" It is possible that Gray may have found a sympathetic ear,"
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Wright said in a telephone interview from Lansing, Mich.,
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where he lives.
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But Salisberry said that Gray had absolutely no influence on
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the report's release. " I could care less about the City
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Council race," Salisberry said. " I don't live in Gulf
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Breeze."
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Gray would not comment on Wright's allegations.
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In his report, Salisberry questioned the legitimacy of the
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so-called " road shot " which shows a UFO hovering over a
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road.
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The reflection of the spacecraft, which should be flat,
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actually is at an angle that does not match the road's
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surface. The triangular shape of the reflection also does not
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match the round light source, Salisberry said.
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Salisberry said that he told MUFON International Director Walt
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Andrus in September that he believed Walters faked some, if
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not all, of his photos. It was then, he said, that he learned
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some MUFON members were trying to discredit him.
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Before the personal attacks began, he said he decided to make
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public his findings. " I told them we would not tolerate being
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discredited," he said. " We were already being categorized as <20>7<EFBFBD>3
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<EFBFBD>debunkers They have a history of shooting the messenger."
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Wright on Monday said evidence still indicates Walters' photos
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are legitimate and that MUFON has no interest in the City
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Council race.
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" If we find Rex didn't take into consideration all factors
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and didn't make all the necessary contacts, we may have to
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determine it is an incomplete report," Wright said.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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