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SUBJECT: MUFON SYMPOSIUM ! FILE: UFO2555
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The following is a report from the 1992 Mutual UFO Network
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(MUFON) Symposium held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, July
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10-12, 1992.
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This report is intended primarily for the use of members of
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the NEWAGE, ISSUES and SPACE Forums of the CompuServe
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Information Service, and is copyright (c) 1992 Joseph T.
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Walters. This report may be distributed freely and without
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restriction as long as this header is retained intact.
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Thanks!
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Joe Walters, CompuServe 76702,1007
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 12, 1992
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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1992
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Greetings from the MUFON Symposium!
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It was raining here in the desert as the Symposium began.
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This was the first night of the get-together, and there
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weren't any real scheduled events (except for the $5.00
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reception), but we got to see who all was around. Looked
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like around 1000 or so people were gathered in the
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Doubletree for the pre-symposium festivities, and the
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promised ISSUES Forum table was set up in the lower part of
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the lobby (by the waterfall, near the guitar player).
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There were 10 or so members of ISSUES and NEWAGE around
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there, and after some intros and conversation, five of us
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adjourned to Baca's Restaurant for some New Mexican cuisine
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and paranormal tabletalk.
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A good time was had by all, and we returned to the hotel.
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Joe Balsamo, David Brune and I retreated to David's room...
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ah, SUITE... and had fun trying to tie in Joe's PowerBook to
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the phone system. Finally got online, proving it can be
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done, and that pretty much did it for the evening.
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Expect some more detailed reports from us tomorrow, probably
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late evening. The symposium has events scheduled from 9:00am
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to around 10:00pm, with meal breaks.
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Looks like this is going to be a real fun time! There are
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numerous dignitaries here (Joe and David thought they might
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have recognized Bob Lazar), and we'll have detailed info on
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that as stories develop.
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SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1992
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Hello again from the MUFON Symposium in Albuquerque!
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Much much much happened today, and I took notes. We'll see
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how much of it I can cram into this Forum before it bursts.
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I first went into the Dealers' Room and checked out the
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goodies; this was just a cursory overview, and I'll go into
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more detail later.
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I again ran into Joe Balsamo and David Brune, who were
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standing around Stanton Friedman's table awaiting
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autographs. Lost sight of them shortly thereafter, and
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didn't see them again until after lunch.
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There were 14 sessions scheduled for today, ranging in
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(scheduled) length from 30 minutes to 1 hour (I thought it
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interesting that the session titled "Fifty-six Aircraft
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Sightings Involving Electromagnetic Effects" was allocated
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55 minutes).
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They got off to a late start, due to long lines at the
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registration tables. The 9:00am "Welcome" speech didn't
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start until almost 9:30, and everyone ran long anyway...
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After the welcome and intro, the first session started. This
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was one of the best of the day, titled "The UFO Jigsaw," and
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given by Linda Moulton Howe. Linda started with a quick
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overview of UFO history, from the 1947 Roswell crash to more
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recent sightings, various alien types, animal mutilations,
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and crop circles. She had an entertaining and enlightening
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slide show with some video mixed in. Many of the slides
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consisted of drawings by witnesses, and illustrated the
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surprising correlation between totally separate reports.
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Other slides covered animal mutilation shots (including some
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very recent ones) and other related material. She also
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showed a short video of Bob Lazar, a video about crop
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circles, and a real interesting video taken at the site of a
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crop circle, at which a small white object was observed
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apparently floating a few inches above the ground and moving
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about slowly, approaching the camera and moving about.
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Eerie!
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This was a particularly interesting session to me, as I had
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"heard" about much of this stuff on CompuServe, but had
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never seen the videos presented.
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The next session was the "Fifty-Six Aircraft Pilot
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Sightings..." session, given by Dr. Richard F. Haines.
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Though this contained some interesting data assembly, it was
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DRY. I faded out a few times during this one. Lots of
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reading of statistics and numbers. A few interesting graphs.
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Basically, Dr. Haines had correlated and analyzed data from
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several inflight UFO incidents, and found some interesting
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characteristics. For instance, most of the incidents
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occurred between 9:00 and 11:00pm (local) and shortly after
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midnight. However, there was no pattern of aircraft type or
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nationalities involved. Most such reports came from U.S.
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Military aircraft and foreign commercial planes. U.S.
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commercial planes, foreign military aircraft, and private
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aircraft accounted for relatively few sightings. All but one
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of the engine failure incidents were propeller/reciprocating
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engine craft; only one jet aircraft reported such.
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The next session started up, "The Role of the Mutual UFO
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Network in UFO Research," given by MUFON International
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Director Walter H. Andrus. This was almost entirely a slide
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show depicting buildings and personnel of MUFON and a few
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other UFO research groups. Mr. Andrus had some difficulty
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with the slide projector controller, and almost every time
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he tried to change to the next slide, he jumped ahead two
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slides and had to back up one. This was mildly amusing at
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first, but after a half hour and no improvement, it began to
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resemble the Chinese Water Torture.
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Mr. Andrus broke off halfway thru his presentation to allow
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the lunch break on schedule.
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I went foraging with ISSUES Forum members Jan Murdoch and
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Terry Rodemerk; we found that most of the food
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establishments around the Convention Center (which is in
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Albuquerque's downtown area) were closed on weekends, but we
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found a little sandwich & burger place that wasn't too bad.
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After lunch, I went in to scope out the Dealer Room in more
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detail. First impression: BOOKS. Lots of books. Literally
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hundreds of titles, mostly UFO-based (natch). These and
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other titles ranged from the serious to the absurd; topics
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covered included Mu, Abominable Snowmen, Future Sex, Flying
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Serpents and Dragons, Kohoutek (Really! Kohoutek!),
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Nostradamus (but not Nostra-Dennis), Uri Geller and more and
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more.
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Besides the books were some other items, including cute
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little stuffed Greys, bumper stickers ("MJ-12 Staff Car",
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"This car stalls for UFOs", etc.), T-shirts (serious and
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humorous; my favorites were the ones with the "cattle
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crossing" sign, with UFOs or Greys depicted--another touted
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"The University of Pleiades"), some jewelry (both Native
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American silver-and-turquoise Albuquerque tourist stuff and
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UFO-related; my fave here was a bolo tie with the head of a
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Grey as the clasp), little UFO spinning tops, and several
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MUFON items (mugs, license plate covers, bumper stickers,
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etc.).
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Back to the seminar room!
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First, Mr. Andrus finished off his "faces & names" slide
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show.
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Next up was Mr. Montague Keen of Suffolk, England, to
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enlighten us on what's up with crop circles. He was a
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fascinating fellow, and gave an excellent presentation
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filled with that famous dry British humor (or humour, I
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guess I should say!). He described several theories floating
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around trying to explain these things, but it was clear that
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there is still no definitive explanation for them. He did
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mention that they've started up again this year, and that
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there have been more than 70 of these things that have
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cropped up (sorry) in England alone since April. He brought
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up the two guys who confessed to being the cause of all the
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circles last year, and pointed out that the paper that
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reported them in the first place basically retracted the
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story the next day, but the international press somehow
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missed that aspect of the story.
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The next session was "Photo Analysis: A Pictorial Primer,"
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given by Jeffrey W. Sainio, a photo analyst from Wisconsin
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who has done much analysis of UFO pics. This was a most
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interesting presentation, pretty much all slides, with
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discussion of how hoax pictures are often identified. He
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didn't seem to want to commit himself as far as any given
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pictures being outright fake or genuine, but (interestingly)
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spent a lot of time on some of the Ed Walters photos (no
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relation, though my father's name WAS Ed), and apparently
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was unable to find any indication of fakery within. He
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showed a couple of the Meier photos, and showed some
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questionable discrepancies there. Good demo of simple visual
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cues as well as some more sophisticated photo computer
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enhancement and analysis.
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Next was "Ufology in the Commonwealth of Independent
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States," given by Vladimir Ajaja, President of the Soviet
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UFO Center in Moscow. Dr. Ajaja spoke in Russian, and his
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translator was heavily accented and hard to understand.
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I had again run into NEWAGE's Joe Balsamo and David Brune,
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and we left at the beginning of this session for a dinner
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and... a little field trip.
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FIELD TRIP: MONZANO BASE
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Joe & Joe & Dave left the Convention Center, only to
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discover that for the second day in a row it was raining in
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the desert land. We headed across Albuquerque to the eastern
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edge of town, south of Interstate 40, to the area nearest to
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that part of Kirtland AFB called Monzano Base.
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The mountain range north of I40 is called the Sandias; the
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Monzanos start on the south side of the highway. In recent
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years, the city has developed right up to the fence marking
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the boundary at Monzano, so we were able to drive right up
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to the edge of the base.
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We took some pictures (and will scan & upload before long)
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and saw some interesting things. The area in question
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consists of a joined series of four hills, arranged
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north-south. Inevitably, this area has become known as the
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"four hills" area.
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The northernmost hill (the largest, several hundred feet
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high) was the closest, and apparently the most interesting.
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There was some sort of structure on the top of this hill
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(might be a couple of trailers or small white buildings; two
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antennas are visible as well); it was the only man-made
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thing visible on any of the four hills themselves. Around
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the base of the hills are several smaller structures; a few
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house-sized buildings, some groups of buildings among some
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trees, and several trapezoidal-shaped concrete walls with
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doors (identical to the entrances to bunkers you see at
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nuclear weapons storage facilities) leading into the hills.
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It is well known that these hills are riddled with caves and
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tunnels (man-made), and that nuclear warheads have been
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stored here. Every year or so, a local camera crew gets to
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go inside and shoot some footage. This usually consists of
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long empty hallways with a few people walking about. We
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never get to see what, if anything, is stored in there.
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However, a TV news report here just last week showed that a
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new nuke storage facility underground on the southern part
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of Kirtland had been opened, all the nukes from Monzano had
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been moved to this new facility, and that the Air Force had
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given over the Monzano facility to the Department of Energy.
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They had no idea what was in there.
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This is the place often rumored as the final storage site
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for the 1947 Roswell saucer, among other related relics. I
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don't know; could be anything.
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Circling (I use the word "circling" here loosely) the entire
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facility is a wide strip (about 100 meters wide) of
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clean-scraped earth, on which rest 4 concentric rings of
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fence. Within the fence is a circular set of power lines,
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with power poles alternating with light fixtures (the area
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is not visibly lighted at night; they may be UV or some
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such). Not an easy area to sneak into! We could see that
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there were signs at intervals along the internal fences, but
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we could not get close enough to see them. We speculated
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that they might be "Deadly Force" warning signs, but could
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not tell. Perhaps another time...
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The fence we were actually up against was a couple of
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hundred yards away from the high-security fence, and was
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topped with barbed wire. Signs warned us that entry was
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forbidden without the Base Commander's permission; this was
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the true boundary of Kirtland Air Force Base. I expected it
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would be safe enough to cross that fence, and that we could
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probably make it up to near the security fence, but would
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probably make some new acquaintances at that point. Local
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housing developments literally reach right up to this fence.
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In the four years I've lived here, I've never seen a sign of
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life in or near the Monzano base. As far as I could tell by
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sight, the thing could have been abandoned. Imagine our
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surprise when a tan Suburban truck suddenly appeared,
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driving slowly around the perimeter on obvious patrol. This
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was inside the high-security fence, too far away for us to
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read any markings on the truck.
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Whatever is in there, whatever, it is clearly considered
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important enough to someone to warrant nuclear-level
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security and constant patrols (in vehicles, not just on
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foot!).
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During my own time in Strategic Air Command in the Air
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Force, as a KC-135 pilot, I saw many of the typical nuclear
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weapons storage facilities at SAC bases with bomber wings;
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this looked far more secure.
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Rumors abound locally of dog patrols, ground-based motion
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sensors, mines between some rows of the fences, electrified
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fences and more. Just rumors. Who knows?
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DINNER & BACK TO THE SHOW
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Following the Field Trip, the three of us adjourned to
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Garduno's (put a squiggle over that "n") for the best
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available meal experience in Albuquerque. Amidst the live
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mariachi music, we stuffed ourselves full of chips & salsa,
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some terrific New Mexican entrees, sopapillas, and a couple
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of large margueritas (except for the designated driver), and
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we conversed over the events of the day.
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All this took a little longer than planned, so we missed the
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next scheduled session, "Forbidden Science: The UFO
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Phenomenon and the Research Community" by Dr. Jacques
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Vallee. We arrived just as that had ended, and there was a
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small crowd around Dr. Vallee, including a TV crew with the
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attendant bright lights.
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The last session of the night was the eagerly-awaited
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"Abduction Observed by Independent Witnesses" by Bud
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Hopkins.
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Just before this started, I realized I had left my name tag
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in my car, so I had to go back and get it so the Men In
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Badges would let me back in to the conference room. I made
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it back just in time, and as I reentered the Convention
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Center, I had to hold the elevator door for three folks
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hurrying to get on board. I didn't realize until they were
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up on the stage that these three folks were Hopkins, "Linda"
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(more about whom later), and another woman with them. Dang!
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Had them all alone and didn't know it!
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Hopkins wasted no time getting into the details of an
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interesting case, one that has been discussed online to some
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extent recently. This event occurred in New York City in
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November of 1989.
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He had received a letter from this "Linda" (we didn't yet
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know she was present) detailing an abduction event; he had
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interviewed her and basically filed the info away with other
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reports. Some time later, he got a letter from two policemen
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who had witnessed an abduction and wanted to come forward;
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turns out they had seen Linda's abduction. Drawings made
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independently by the cops and another witness who later came
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forward matched astoundingly well, and corroborated Linda's
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story.
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As time went on, the story began to take strange turns. The
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cops had a hard time dealing with what they had seen, and
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took on some strange behavioral patterns (including watching
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Linda in her apartment without her knowledge, sleeping with
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weapons ready against the possibility of the aliens coming
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after them, and more). Then it turned out they weren't cops,
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but were intelligence agents for an unnamed organization;
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they had been escorting an unnamed government VIP, who had
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also witnessed the event, and were trying to determine the
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correct actions to take.
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Hopkins made it clear that he had determined what agency
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these two worked for, and who the "third man" was, but
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wouldn't reveal these sources, a condition of their coming
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forward. He indicated that he felt that they would reveal
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themselves before long.
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Well, it wasn't over yet. Linda had long complained to her
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doctor about a sensitive spot in her nose; he finally
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convinced her to allow him to X-ray her. Hopkins showed a
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slide of the X-ray, which showed a spiral-shaped implant
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clearly visible within the nose. He said that the night
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after the X-ray was taken, Linda awoke suddenly with blood
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on her lower face and hand and no idea of what had happened.
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She hadn't received the developed X-rays yet, but after they
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arrived and she saw the implant, she had another X-ray taken
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and the implant was gone. Hopkins speculated that bombarding
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the thing with X-rays may have set off some alarm somewhere,
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and they may have come back to retrieve it.
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In a later conversation with her young son, Linda was
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horrified to learn that he had been abducted some months
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before her event; he asked why she didn't wake up and help
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him while he was screaming and crying at being taken by
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these little grey characters. She took her son to see
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Hopkins, who had him draw a picture, which he showed us on
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the slide screen. A typical child's drawing, it nonetheless
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clearly depicts exactly the same type of scene witnessed at
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her abduction.
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But wait, there's more! The two cops/intel guys showed up at
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her place unannounced one day and demanded to talk to her
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alone; she offered to have them come in, call Bud Hopkins
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over, and they could talk. They didn't like that, and after
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further refusal, bodily carried her out to their car and
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drove off with her. They interrogated her for some time,
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asking if she was trying to trick or hoax them, if she was
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trying to mess with their lives. They had her take her shoes
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off so they could examine her feet--they said that they
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thought she might be one of "them," and that they knew what
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their feet looked like: they had no toes.
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They discussed National Security with her and took her home.
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Some time later, she awakened at night choking on something;
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turns out she had a nosebleed on the right side. Her husband
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awoke too, also with a nosebleed on the right side. Her son
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and a friend sleeping over also awoke with nosebleeds on the
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right side. This was apparently very recent, as they haven't
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followed up on it yet; Hopkins said they would be X-raying
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them all, but hadn't yet.
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He said there was still more to this story, but as time was
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running out, he brought Linda up on stage, and she answered
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a few questions from the audience.
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Well, this was a pretty spooky session, and the last item on
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the agenda was a Q&A session with all the day's speakers on
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the panel. Not much new came up here, and this was cut short
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by the fire alarm going off. False alarm, but it did clear
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the building. There was much joking speculation as to who
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set it off...
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That's it for today (and that's ENOUGH!). Tomorrow is the
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last day of the Symposium, and features five sessions and a
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few other events.
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SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1992
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The 1992 MUFON Symposium is over, and, though I can't speak
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for the others, I'm about UFO-ed out! And it was the third
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consecutive day of rain here in the desert.
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Well, apparently I was up too late last night typing
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something (can't imagine what), as I overslept about an hour
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today. I made it to the Convention Center today during the
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last part of the first session. Sorry! Sue me. Hopefully,
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someone else will give a comprehensive report of that
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session.
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The first session was "UFOs and Ufology in Brazil," by
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Phillippe Piet van Putten, listed as MUFON National Director
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for Brazil. He spoke decent enough English that we could
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understand him very well. As I arrived, he was just showing
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a slide of some runners in a footrace, with an amorphous
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blob visible in the sky in the background. Missed what that
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was about.
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He then showed a video that appeared to me to be taken from
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a Brazilian TV show (or several shows and news reports). The
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sound was off, as the soundtrack was in Portuguese anyway;
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van Putten narrated. The video showed several Brazilian
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military and air traffic control officials, talking about
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live and on-radar sightings of UFOs; there were also shots
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of some of the 150 passengers on a Brazilian jetliner that
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witnessed a UFO flying near their plane. Officials included
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the Minister of Aeronautics, who stated outright that "we
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have secret UFO files in the Air Force." There was a
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description of a sighting (on radar) of a group of 21
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objects, and fighters (F-5s and Mirages) were scrambled. We
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saw some of the pilots, and the video had an animated
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recreation of what they were describing (similar look to the
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animations we see on US network news shows). These UFOs
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appeared to be spherical in shape, slightly smaller than the
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planes, and changing colors rapidly. The planes and UFOs
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were depicted as moving at the same speed, with the spheres
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moving around the planes in flight.
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There was a long shot of what appeared to be a sphere of
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indeterminate size floating above Sao Paolo and changing
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color and perhaps spinning (hard to tell). In addition,
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there were many shots of blurry objects in the sky and
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witnesses on-camera. He also showed some slides of toy
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balloons, which he said are often launched into the air at
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night in Brazil with fireworks attached; the resulting light
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show (a) is entertaining, and (b) tends to generate lots of
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UFO reports.
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He described several incidents and eyewitness accounts,
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including some with numerous witnesses. He concluded by
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mentioning that these reports came from military officers,
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government Ministers, air traffic controllers, professional
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people and others. He said, "These people... are... not...
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idiots." This clearly heartfelt line, delivered with much
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emphasis and emotion, drew lengthy applause.
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Either he started late or ran long (or both), as I was still
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able to get so much from this presentation. van Putten was a
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most entertaining speaker.
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The second session was "Operation Blue Fly" by Clifford
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Stone, UFO researcher from Roswell, New Mexico. He began
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with the basic history of the Roswell crash of 1947 (I won't
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duplicate it here, as there are at least three good books
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out on the subject!), and mentioned two military programs,
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called Project Moondust and Project Blue Fly; Moondust was
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ostensibly designed for recovery of space debris from US
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sources, but according to a mission document Stone showed,
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its true purpose was the recovery of "Soviet and unknown
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space debris." He had received a copy of the mission
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document in (I think) 1952, which was at the time mostly
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uncensored; he then showed a later copy of it he had
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petitioned for via Freedom of Information (hoping to get the
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few parts of the doc that had been blanked out on his
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original), and what he got was a document composed entirely
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out of blank pages. It had been classified after the fact,
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and when he wrote back with some sample text from his copy,
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he was accused of violating national security.
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Stone then went into the Blue Fly project, which he said was
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formed for the purpose of rapid deployment, quick response
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for recovery of Soviet equipment. He learned of 38 documents
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relating to this project, and sent for them; all were
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unreleasable.
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From there, he detailed attempts by New Mexico Senators Jeff
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Bingaman and Pete Domenici to acquire information on the
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Roswell incident, and went into long detail as to the
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stonewalling they encountered.
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Stone had some interesting info, but was highly
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disorganized, often stopping in mid-sentence to page thru
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his notes looking for something. Still, it was a decent
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presentation. And if the two Senators are still interested
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in trying to get some of this data out, perhaps something
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will come of it eventually.
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Next was "The Missing Embryo/Fetus Syndrome" by Richard M.
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Neal, M.D., a gynecologist and MUFON consultant. This was
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rather clinical, and a bit hard to follow for us non-medical
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types; basically, he noted that many of the reported
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abductions by women include mention of examinations and/or
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interference of this type, some of these turn up apparently
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pregnant sometime after the incidents, only to find that
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there is no fetus present. If there were any conclusions
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from this, they were probably summed up in a slide which
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stated that there was no indication of missing pregnancy
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(i.e. feti generated and removed) in abductees.
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There were slides of examinations of some patients, mostly
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ultrasound and a few internal fiber-optic camera fetus
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shots.
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There were also a few external exam photos explicit enough
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to make me wonder if the patients in question knew their
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more personal areas were being displayed openly on a big
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screen to an audience of thousands...
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These latter shots were shown primarily to show some scars
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and incisions that apparently occurred during the abduction
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events; they were horrifyingly mindful of some of the scenes
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in cattle mutilation shots, but on a smaller scale.
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What a great session to put just before lunch!
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David Brune and I, along with Cherry Kilgore (a
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telecommunications user from a GEneric non-CIS online
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service), went exploring for lunch sites, and happened into
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a what turned out to be a horrible greasy-spoon place called
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Lindy's. Worst chicken fried steak I've ever eaten in 30+
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years of CFS connoisseur-ship. At first, I thought they had
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put brown gravy on the thing (Horrors! A sure sign of yankee
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influence!), but it turned out not to be gravy--rather, it
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was a brownish substance roughly the consistency of water,
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which quickly made the Fries inedibly soggy. Well, sometimes
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life gives you fish cookies.
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We took our time on the lunch break, and returned during the
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next session, "Global Ufology: Worldwide Cases, Official
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Policies, and Ufological Attitudes" by J. Antonio Huneeus,
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MUFON International Coordinator from New York City.
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He covered a lot of international incidents, and was into
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the Belgian flap when we came in. He showed slides, almost
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all of which were "artists' conceptions," depicting the
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incidents that have occurred recently in that part of the
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world. He showed a video of a production shown in Russia,
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with a few very blurry shots of glowing lights in the night
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sky. Some indistinct photos appeared here. He also showed
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some shots from various other European countries and Japan,
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including some Japanese crop circles. He said there had been
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over 100 crop circles in Hokkaido alone in 1991.
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The pictures from Japan were a pleasant sight, after the
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fuzzy blurry European shots. Huneeus mentioned this point,
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and said that there were more good UFO pics coming out of
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Japan than anywhere else. He didn't think that there were
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more UFOs there, but that there were more cameras! He has a
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point. He told us to compare with what's coming out of
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Russia: lots of text reports, few pictures.
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Walter Andrus (MUFON Director--see yesterday's report) came
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up at this point to present an annual MUFON award (sorry I
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missed its name!), and there was much applause.
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The final session was Stanton T. Friedman's presentation on
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"Crashed Saucers, Majestic-12, and the Debunkers." Much of
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this was description of the Roswell incident, which is
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covered in detail in several books; Friedman himself has a
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new book on the subject, called "Crash at Corona." (Corona
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is a little town northwest of Roswell, near the ranch where
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the crash occurred.)
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He spent some time discussing this and debunkers (I gather
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he doesn't like debunkers; he gave this subject a lot of
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time, and put them down throughout the talk).
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Lastly he went into Majestic-12, describing the events
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around the revelation of the documents describing this
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organization. He talked of attempts to debunk the MJ12
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papers, and went into some detail as to why he believed them
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genuine.
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Friedman was a very dynamic speaker, and gave a terrific
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presentation, including some slides. Good conclusion to a
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good show!
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After this, David Brune and I went thru the Dealer Room for
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one last time, just to see if there was anything left to
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tempt us. David bought a T-shirt, and we both almost
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collapsed on the floor laughing when we picked up a book and
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looked thru it. The book was "Galactic Gourmet." That's
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right, a gen-u-ine UFO cookbook. Recipes included the
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ever-popular Alpha Centauri Meat Loaf, Andromeda Chicken and
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Rice, Martian Tacos (they have tacos on Mars now? What do
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they call it, Mars-Mex??), the dreaded Neptune Frankfurter
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Lima Bean Bake, a frightening concoction called Asteroids
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Zucchini Loaf, Flying Saucer Pancakes, UFO Apple Crunch
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Residue, and, for dessert, Unidentified Frozen Object.
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Jeez!!! We noted that most--if not all--of the recipes,
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interestingly enough, consisted of only Terrestrial
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ingredients.
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David and I ran into Joe Balsamo, and we decided to skip the
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final Q&A session. I left for home.
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Great show! It's a real advantage to have a national show
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come to your home town, but most of the crowd was
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nonetheless from out of town. Pretty much everyone seemed to
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enjoy themselves, and the presentations left much to think
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about.
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It was also fun to meet Joe Balsamo, David Brune, Terry
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Eckert, Terry Rodemerk, Jan Murdoch, and a few others from
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NEWAGE and ISSUES Forums.
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Keep watching the skies!
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-JTW
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