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SUBJECT: NOTED EXPERT FINDS ACCOUNT CONVINCING FILE: UFO2698
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The following was taken from a newspaper from Springfield, Missouri,
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dated Sunday, December 9th, 1990. The name of the newspaper I think,
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is the NEWS-LEADER and article is in the section called Ozarks Accent.
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NOTED EXPERT FINDS ACCOUNT CONVINCING
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BY: Mike O'Brien
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What sets Gerald Anderson appart from the thousands of other
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American's, including scores of Ozarkers, who say they've seen UFO's or
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even insist they've been kidnapped by creatures from outer space?
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Why are Gerald Anderson's childhood recollections stirring
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international interest among UFO researchers whose reputations have
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been built on healthy skepticism and willingness to debunk hoaxes?
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Because of little things he has to say and how he says them. Stanton
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Friedman, a nuclear physicist who has lectured on more than 600 college
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campuses about UFOs, decribes Anderson as "a really significant,
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potentially the most important" witness to what both men believe was
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the aftermath of one of two space craft crashes in New Mexico in mid-
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summer 1947. Friedman is co-authoring a book based upon several years
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of painstaking investigation into the haunting mystery. He was
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startled, upoln meeting Anderson for the first time only a few months
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ago, to hear the Springfieldian echo details of the yet to be published
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research.
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"There's no way he could know some of these things unless he had been
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there at the time," Friedman believes. Example: only days before first
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talking with Anderson, Friedman coaxed a heretofore reluctant New
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Mexico mortician into recounting a run-in he'd had in 1947 with an
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especially unpleasant red-headed captain who was heading up a team
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recovering bodies from a hush-hush aircraft crash. Anderson, too,
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spoke of a red-headed captain with a mean disposition. Friedman says
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the descriptions of the ornery officer provided by the two match
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precisely, although Anderson and the mortican never have met.
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In sketches of the desert crash scene drawn by Anderson in Springfield
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following a hypnosis, a lonely windmill appears in the distance. When
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Friedman later arranged for Anderson to return to New Mexico to
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pinpoint the long-ago crash site, no such windmill could be see on the
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horizon-- until, almost by accident, the windmill wa spotted behind
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tress that had grown up during the 43 years since Anderson was last
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there. "I got shivers over that one," says John Carpenter, who has
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extensively debriefed Anderson over the past 4 months and went along on
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Anderson's return trip to New Mexico in October. Capenter holds degrees
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in psychology and psychiatric social work from DePauw and Washington
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universities and trained in clinical hypnosis at the Menninger
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Institute. He's in his 12th year of work at a psychiatric hospital
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facility in Springfield.
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"When Gerald tells his story, it's not just a story -- it's his life
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he's telling you, intermixed with his feelings and his beliefs and all
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that is Gerald," Carpenter says.
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"When someone is spinning a hoax or tale, they only give you enought to
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reaise your curiosity. Not Gerald. He gives you everything, in
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detail, much more than you ask him for. He'd be setting himself up to
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be found out if it wasn't true. He's so confident, he goes so much
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further than a hoaxer would ever dare."
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Carpenter puts great stock in Anderson's recountings under hypnosis.
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"It's what he didn't say that was significant." Caprenter says,
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explaining that despite clever prodding, Anderson never commited a
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hoaxer's mistake of "recalling" something that shouldn't be a part of
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his own memory. "And when he's under hypnosis, all the bigger, adult
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words drop out when he describes events from his childhood," Carpenter
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found. "He relates what he was in child-like terms."
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Carpenter also detected "genuine amazement" when Anderson heard what
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had been dredged from his subconscious memory under hynosis. "The look
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on his face was priceless when he realized he'd produced details he'd
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forgotten on a conscious level so long ago."
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Most subtle but perhaps most telling, in Carpenter's view, was
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Anderson's reaction to being accepted as a viable witness to an
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extrordinary encounter with a spacecraft and creatures from beyond
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Earth. "He was so grateful at being taken seriously. You could see the
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relief and release after all those years, and the great hope that other
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people would take him seriously too, once and for all."
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Ironically, Friedman points to Gallup Poll results indicating that 60
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percent of Americans who have college degrees say they believe UFOs are
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real. With such a receptive constituency, why would government
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officials persist in what Friedman calls the "Cosmic Watergate" -- the
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coverup and denial of the New Mexico crashes? Perhaps, some speculate,
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because it would be too embarrassing now to admit that some supposedly
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made-in-USA technologies actually were plagiarized from confiscated
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spacecraft.
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Friedman emphasizes that he's not as interested in uncovering past
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misdeeds as he is in encouraging future progress. "I believe we should
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have an 'Earthling" orientation rather than nationalistic orientation.
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The easiest way to demonstrate the wisdome of this is to prove that
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lifeforms from other planets are coming here. If we can do that, then
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everyone will be forced to look at our world differently, as a part of
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a galactic neighborhood."
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Ozarkers wishing to learn more about UFO research may attend meetings
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of the local chapter fo the national Mutual UFO Network. The next
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MUFON gather is scheduled for 7pm Tuesday, Jan 29, in the private
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meeting room at Mr. Gatti's Pizza, 1508 E. Battlefield Rd.
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