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SUBJECT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT FROM A GENIE FORUM FILE: UFO2499
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PART 2
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Filename: Phoenix2.Edi
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Type : Editorial/Opinion
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Author : John Pickens
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Date : 08/22/92
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Desc. : Observations on Phoenix Project's K2/Pilot's Peak report
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REFLECTIONS ON THE K2 REPORT & OBSERVATIONS AT PILOT PEAK
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Having read the Phoenix Project's K2 report and having visited the
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Pilot Peak area I offer some of my impressions and observations.
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Animal Sounds: The K2 Report suggests there is curious lack of animal
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sounds and indicated there is an unnatural quiet in the area.
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Having spent 2 nights in the immediate area in question I can say there
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was nothing I observed, either by night or by day, to support this
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contention. The level of animal sounds was consistent with what I have
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heard in other forested areas.
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Animal Life: The K2 report makes much of the fact that there was an
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absence of animal life in the area (this additionally supported by the
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claim of lack of animal sounds). In particular the report comments on
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the apparent absence of squirrels, chipmunks, rodents, owls and birds
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flying over the area.
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On my first night at the Pilot Peak area I spent the night at a spot
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over-looking the location of the "landing zones." I had an unobstructed
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view of the area. I was there while the Moon was still below the
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eastern horizon and I used a high-powered spotlight to illuminate the
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area. I saw no less than two (possibly three) deer - one of which was
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very close by, if not on, one of the "landing zones." Throughout the
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night, owls could be heard hooting. During the day birds could be seen
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flitting about the meadow that contained the "landing zones" and both
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squirrels and chipmunks were easily seen. At the very top of Pilot Peak
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there is a lookout station which I explored. There I found two
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exhausted boxes of D-Con rodent killer and rodent droppings in the
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first and second floors of the station - clearly evidence of rodents.
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Another variety of rodent - bats - were seen in no small numbers around
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the Pilot Peak area.
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I will comment on the K2 report itself concerning their claim of
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absence of animal life and animal sounds. I found it a curious
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contradiction that one of their observers (and I do not recall how they
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identified him/her, it was perhaps Contact #2, but it was the one who
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forgot their camera and had to come back the next day to make
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photographs) indicated that there was a sighting of a UFO and once it
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came into view all the animal noises ceased. I have to ask - If there
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was a curious and noteworthy lack of animal sounds how could they
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cease?
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Landing Zones: Having seen the purported "landing zones" personally,
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and in some cases having walked over them, I have to say there seems to
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be a more prosaic explanation. There was an abundance of deer tracks
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throughout the area. It is not unreasonable to assume these are places
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where deer have rested. I found it odd that in the midst of the
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flattened grass there was, in some instances, a variety of tall weed
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that was still standing, unbent, in the area of flattened grass. In
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addition, the "landing zones" exhibited none of the swirling patterns
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associated with UFO "nests" or the more recent crop circles. Very low
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strangeness index and certainly subject to more "Earthly" explanation
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than landed craft. I also found other, smaller, areas of flattened
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grass which looked exactly like the purported "landing zones" but which
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could clearly be discounted as such.
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There are two other factors which weigh heavily against these areas
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being "landing zones" which I will address next.
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Camping Area: Far from being the desolate area one might imagine from
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reading the K2 report there is a camping area immediately adjacent to
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the "landing zones." To the southwest, and just behind a moderately
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dense stand of trees, this camping area did not remain unoccupied
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during the time of my visit. On the first night there were three
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carloads of people camping and on the second night there was one family
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there. The area of the "landing zones" is easily seen from this camping
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area and access to the "landing zones" from the camping area is
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immediate. It is not the sort of area one would choose if one wanted
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any sort of privacy. In addition, the area of the "landing zones" is
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clearly seen from the road which passes nearby and the view from the
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road is unobstructed, save for two small trees, for over a quarter mile
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of travel.
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The Road: The report mentions a road which passes the K2 site. This is
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not the unused and long-forgotten road one would envision from reading
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the K2 report. Quite the contrary. During the day logging trucks, pick-
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up trucks, residents of the La Porte & Quincy areas and campers travel
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this road. While it will never resemble rush hour, I was somewhat
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surprised at the number of vehicles traveling that road as I thought we
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were well off the beaten track.
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At night the traffic is much less active. The first night there was no
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traffic from 9 PM until 4:15 AM the next morning. The second night
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there was traffic on and off throughout the night. Again, the meadow
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with the "landing zones" is clearly and unmistakably visible from the
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road.
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Forest Service: The K2 report alludes to the Forest Service personnel
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being mind-controlled minions of the Greys and says they were
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questioned about their reasons for being there. The report paints a
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picture of the Forest Service watching their every move and questioning
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their every action. I found quite the opposite to be the case. Not once
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did the Forest Service exhibit the slightest interest in what I was
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doing - even when I passed a Forest Service truck on the mine road (a
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dirt road that leads right to the base of the summit of Pilot Peak).
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The only reaction I received from the Forest Service was a smile and a
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wave as they drove past in their trucks.
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My observations cover a brief period of time - from the evening of
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Wednesday, August 19 to the morning of Friday, August 21. My comments
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and observations can be verified and confirmed by Mr. Ed Stuart who
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accompanied me to Pilot Peak.
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As Ed has asked, "If the facts we CAN verify are false then are the
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facts we CAN'T verify false?" To which I must reply, not necessarily,
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but they are certainly called into question.
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Other lines of inquiry come to mind. IS the corrdor from the west to
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Pilot Peak actually RADAR blind as put forth by the Phoenix Project K2
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report? I'm sure any ATC person from the area can answer that easily
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enough.
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I also think a discussion with Forest Service personnel is in order.
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Are they aware that some of their members are being presented as
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unwitting allies of the Greys? Did they have occasion to question the
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activities of a group of people investigating the Pilot Peak area? Has
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there ever been a female member of their team, and if so, who was she?
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And if so, what does she think of the seduction for information
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scenario as described by the K2 report?
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I think I'm ready to go ask some questions.
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