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- User User ID Nod Rm Name / Forum Area
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- 35 75376,1620 CVK 18 Dale B. Wedge
- 48 72135,424 PNX 18 Drax
- 67 76703,266 WBR 18 G-WIZ
- 74 76067,3777 PAR 18 Ted Markley
- 92 71250,2256 NAS SIG
- 113 76636,44 DNC 18 phil
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- (18,G-WIZ) HI PHIL.
- (18,phil) hello
- 18,Dale B. Wedge) Hi Mr. Imbrogno
- (18,phil) hello
- (18,Ted Markley) Ji all
- (18,phil) hello
- (18,G-WIZ) HI.
- 8,G-WIZ) GA
- (18,Drax) Well, should we start?
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Yessir
- (18,G-WIZ) Y.
- (18,phil) ready
- (18,Drax) OK, Phil Imbrogno is our guest,.....
- 18,Drax) he is an amateur astronomer and UFO investigator ....
- (18,Drax) in Connecticut. He's been involved with one of the....
- (18,Drax) most exciting and controversial UFO cases in many years....
- (18,Drax) called the Hudson Valley Case. Ballantine will be publishing...
- (18,Drax) his book on the case next month. Got an opening statement, Phil? GA
- (18,phil) The book was done with the Late Dr, J> Allen Hynek
- 18,Drax) OK. What's the name of the book? GA
- (18,phil) Night Siege
- (18,Drax) Nice title. please continue
- (18,phil) Since 1983 over 9000
- (18,phil) people have reported UFO encounters....
- (18,phil) in the Hudson Valley area of NY
- (18,phil) will continue
- (18,phil) We have a great deal of data and it gets...
- (18,phil) more complex by the month..
- (18,phil) The cases of high strangess are increasing
- (18,phil) Over
- (18,Drax) OK....
- (18,Drax) first, please use "GA" (Go ahead) to mean "over"....
- (18,phil) ok
- (18,Drax) and use ellipses (...) to mean you have more to say....
- (18,phil) ok
- (18,Drax) Anyone have a question for Phil? GA
- (18,Ted M) !
- (18,phil) ga
- (18,Drax) Go ahead, Ted
- (18,Ted M) What is Night Seige about? Is it a close encounter, an
- abduction....
- 18,Ted M) or just some well documented sightings? GA
- (18,phil) all of the above
- (18,Ted M) COuld you elaborate a littel?
- (18,Ted M) GA
- (18,phil) Since 1983 there have been thousands of sightings.....
- (18,phil) in the Hudson Valley of New York......
- (18,phil) Sightings range from Close encounters to abductions....
- (18,phil) On March 24 1983 the object which was reported to be the size of a
- football field.....
- (18,phil) passed over the Taconic parkway causing traffic to come to a halt...
- (18,phil) The police and papers the next day compared the sightings that night
- to the panic that took place...
- 18,phil) during the war of worlds broadcast ga
- 18,Drax) So the book is basically....
- (18,Drax) about that whole series of sightings.....
- (18,Drax) B4 I get to Dale, was that Taconic....
- (18,Drax) incident a day or night sighting? GA
- (18,phil) night
- (18,Drax) OK. GA Dale.
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) I didn't realize that this case was so involved...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) from the HBO special, etc., I was wondering if you have
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) had any input from Skeptics on your info - especially...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Mr. Philip Klass?ga
- (18,phil) Yes I have Phil also stated it is one of the...
- (18,phil) most complex series of sightings to...
- (18,phil) simply explain away ga
- (18,Drax) At this time, though....
- (18,Drax) he maintains it was planes in formation, doesn;t he? GA
- (18,phil) He states he does not know for sure GA
- 18,Dale B. Wedge) Yeah, from what I understood from Klass...he sent a letter
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) to the FAA who then went tto investigate. As soon as they
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) showed up, the sightings quit. Did they quit or go on?ga
- (18,phil) They never public investigated...
- (18,phil) I am now trying to get information on information...
- (18,phil) involving these sightings they consider..
- (18,phil) sensitive....
- (18,phil) Its a complex thing there is def goverment involvement GA
- (18,Drax) It sure sonds like it....
- (18,Drax) can you describe the most often-reported object? GA
- (18,phil) A half circle or boomerang shaped object...
- (18,phil) sometimes its circular, but all...
- (18,phil) reports indicate its the size of a footabbl field....
- (18,phil) This is not just lights in the sky....
- (18,phil) police officers in Conn got to within 1,000 feet of it and flashed a
- light up to it...
- (18,phil) it responded by flashing back...
- (18,phil) they indicate it was a solid object 300 feet or greater
- 18,Ted M) I am most interested in the Abduction aspect of these sightings....
- (18,Ted M) Can you tell us if they follow the type as descibed in Communion
- and Intruders? GA
- (18,phil) Yes. Whitley used the hudson valley sightings to make his story more
- believeable.....
- (18,phil) I had Bud Hopkins out here and we found that there are quite a few..
- (18,phil) missing time cases....
- (18,phil) we put several "under" and they related typical abduction
- experiences...
- (18,phil) Bud Hopkins believes there are mass abductions taking place here ga
- (18,Drax) When you say....
- (18,Drax) Whitley "used" the sightings, I gather you're not comfortable with
- his story?
- (18,phil) No I am mentioned on page 38 or 39...
- (18,phil) and I have reason to beleive that Communion is partially fabricated
- (18,Drax) OK...Ted asked how many abductions? GA
- (18,phil) Well there are at least 30 experiences of this....
- (18,phil) sort coming out,but there must be more...
- (18,phil) only two or three are mentioned in the book ga
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) I would think that with a mass visitation(?) in one area,
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) that there would be good pictures or evidence of...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) landings, etc., can you advise if you have any good
- things...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) in that regard?ga
- (18,phil) Well we have a video tape that.....
- (18,phil) so far has not been explained it is perhaps....
- (18,phil) one of the best videos of something strange at night....
- (18,phil) there are also some EM effects and stills....
- (18,phil) but we do have two videos now GA
- (18,Ted M) What part of Communion do you believ to be fabricated and Why?
- (18,Drax) Wait Ted...G-Wiz was first.
- (18,Ted M) sorry
- (18,G-WIZ) ok,
- (18,G-WIZ) i'm wondering if the current
- (18,G-WIZ) missing-children problem can be related to these abductions? ga
- (18,phil) I I really don't know ga
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) ?
- (18,Drax) Good question, though. Who knows? B4 I get to Ted.....
- (18,Drax) On the videotape, Phil....
- (18,Drax) We know from the HBO special that Al Hibbs of CSICOP and JPL....
- (18,Drax) examined the tape. What were his reactions, both...
- (18,Drax) on and off camera? GA
- (18,phil) They could not explain away the lights,they did however identify a
- video tape of planes as planes....
- (18,phil) he would not commit himself,fred rosen tells me(fred by the way...
- (18,phil) is the producer who did the HBO thing)....
- (18,phil) said he was puzzled by the tape and could not explain what the
- lights were ga
- (18,Drax) That's heavy. We're invading CSICOP! GA, Ted.
- (18,Ted M) What parts of Communion do you believe were "Fabricated" and Why?
- (18,phil) Its a long story...
- (18,phil) But in a nut shell....
- (18,phil) There was a good amount of experiences taken from other cases that
- he used as his own...
- (18,phil) I really can't say more since it's a sensitive issue ga
- 18,Dale B. Wedge) By the way, I have been looking into the Powerr Plant
- (Nuclear)
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) aspect of this case by tappping other sources...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) What I can't understand, and which could verify info of
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) overflights, is the mandatory issuance of a Site Area Emer-
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) gency Declaration for unauthorized flights over a
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) nuclear power plant...I can't believe that you can't get...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) info from the NRC, plant officials, or your local person
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) in charge of rresponding to emergenices there.ga
- (18,phil) Yes Its restricted airspace...
- (18,phil) I have an inside informant now...
- (18,phil) who tells me that the military is there...
- (18,phil) all the time...
- (18,phil) what ever took place those nights is still affecting the plant...
- (18,phil) Trying to get info caused me a great deal of trouble...
- (18,phil) I was told by the NYPA and NRC to back down(nicely) ga
- (18,Drax) I should tell you, Phil....
- (18,Drax) that this is being captured for our library, so....
- (18,Drax) if we tread into sensitive waters, just tell us....
- (18,Drax) also, Phil Klass has spies on CompuServe. Just so you know, he
- will...
- (18,Drax) most likely see this. Any other questions for Phil? Dale? GA
- (18,phil) comment
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) I just wanted to state that the only reason that the
- military...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) would get involved is if their was a threat of sabotage or
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) infringement of air space by unknowns.ga
- (18,phil) Yes that's it, also they have a power drain that...
- (18,phil) they can not explain
- (18,phil) try again?
- (18,Drax) Go ahead with your comment.
- (18,phil) Ok.....
- (18,phil) Phil Klass can do what he wants...
- (18,phil) I was the one who first proposed the plane in formation...
- (18,phil) theory to explain some of the sightings....
- (18,phil) he even holds that statment to me till this day ga
- (18,Drax) Can you tell us about....
- (18,Drax) the press conference, with Discover Magazine walking out, etc. ?
- (18,phil) We debated discover and we destroyed there...
- 18,MARIO) WHAT IS THE ISSUE?
- (18,phil) so called evidence in phila. They could not defend...
- (18,phil) There evidence they stormed out of...
- (18,phil) the studio
- (18,phil) ga
- (18,Drax) Ha! Hi Mario, we're talking about the Hudson Valley....
- (18,Drax) UFO sightings. Our guest is the primary investigator. Any other....
- (18,Drax) questions?
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Phil, you stated that they still have a power drain at the
- plant...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) have the sightings ended, or are they continuing...and what
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) was the last sighting date?
- 18,phil) The last sighting date was Aug 11 1987 north of Albany...
- (18,phil) There were also sightings In june and july of 1987 in Waterbury ctga
- (18,Drax) OK, Mario, signal a question just with a "?". Go ahead.
- 18,Drax) Mario?
- (18,Will) Hello!
- (18,MARIO) ?DID ANY ONE REPORTED ANY STRANGE PHENOMENA IN ELECTRONICS WHEN THE
- SIGTING TOOK EFFECT
- (18,Drax) (Hi Will)
- (18,phil) There werer some, mostly to home appli
- (18,phil) shall I repeat
- (18,Drax) continue...mostly to home appliances?
- (18,phil) Yes. The number of...
- (18,phil) EM effects are small
- (18,MARIO) ?IN MAGNETIC OR JUST BIO-MAGNETIC?
- (18,phil) Magnetic
- (18,MARIO) IN ELETROSTATICS?
- (18,phil) Some ga
- (18,Drax) OK, GA Dale.
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) By the way, I wiill buy the book, but what would you say is
- the
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) most astonishing aspect of your book - if you can pick one
- out?
- 18,phil) Its all astonishing,you have to read...
- (18,phil) it it will be a very interesting true story ga
- (18,Drax) May I make a comment?
- (18,phil) ga
- (18,Drax) I am basically a skeptic, and follow the skeptical line of....
- (18,Drax) thinking in all these issues....
- (18,Drax) I am regaled daily with headlines from the National Enquirer....
- (18,Drax) and think nothing of it until I read the Skeptical Inquirer to....
- (18,Drax) see what is really going on...
- (18,Drax) I think the most astonishing aspect of this....
- (18,Drax) particular set of sightings is the ....
- (18,Drax) complete inability of "organized Skepticism" to even deal....
- (18,Drax) with the sightings...I have not heard one hypothesis from them
- on....
- (18,Drax) this one that stands up to scrutiny. In short, I think we've....
- (18,Drax) got a live one here, folks. GA, Ted.
- (18,Ted M) I must have missed the HBO special on Hudson Vally. When was it on?
- (18,Ted M) Also when will you're book hit the stands?
- (18,phil) October or late Sept of this year ga
- (18,Drax) And the Special was on how long ago?
- (18,phil) 1984
- (18,Drax) OK, Mario GA
- (18,MARIO) MY QUESTION IS DID ANY OF THE FRQ EXPECTRUN GAT AFECTED?
- (18,Drax) Could you repeat that?
- (18,phil) ?
- (18,Drax) I think he means the frequency spectrum. Yes, EM effects would....
- (18,MARIO) DID ANY FRQUENCY (IN ELECTRONICS) GAT AFECTED..I MEAN DID THE
- MILITARY GAT AFFECTED?
- (18,phil) I am not sure....
- (18,phil) but an agent from the NSA...
- (18,phil) Involved with Sat Communications contacted...
- (18,phil) me for info...
- (18,phil) my guess is that there was ga
- (18,Drax) That's VERY interesting. GA, Dale.
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Yes, that is interesting. Just as an aside Ted, if you
- want..
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) a copy of the HBO special and other tidbits...
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) leave me your address in mail at 75376.1620 and I'll send
- you a copy.ga
- (18,Ted M) Great!
- (18,phil) comment
- (18,Drax) Will...before we get to the HC, I want to ....
- (18,Drax) finish up this conference. OK, GA Phil
- (18,phil) as drax can tell you...
- (18,phil) iam not a UFO hound or true believer..
- (18,phil) I have investigated many cases.. and explained a good number of
- them... but when pilots, police officers, scientists and other
- (18,phil) people say they have seen this thing i have..
- (18,phil) to believe them ga
- (18,Drax) I don't think there's any doubt they're seeing something.....
- (18,Drax) and its not a formation of planes, either....
- (18,Drax) But if you had to come down on one side or the other,....
- (18,Drax) "Secret Experimental Craft" or "Alien Spacecraft",.....
- (18,Drax) which would it be, Phil? GA
- (18,phil) I would say...
- (18,phil) Secret Exper craft,but It could be from another world....
- (18,phil) It sure is not planes in formation ga
- (18,Drax) Any guesses as to why the particularly intense govt. interest in
- this? GA
- (18,phil) Something to do...
- (18,phil) with interference with an NSA tracking station in..
- (18,phil) the area...
- (18,phil) and the sightings over the nuclear reactor ga
- (18,Drax) OK, Mario GA
- 18,MARIO) Q-DID THE BIO-SENSOR(FOR SECURITY ALARM) REGISTER ANITHING?
- (18,phil) No the alarm system shut down...
- (18,phil) when the UFO approached the gate...
- (18,MARIO) DID!
- (18,phil) it was 300 feet above reactor... number three
- (18,phil) ga
- (18,MARIO) ? TYPE OF FUEL REACTOR WAS USING?
- (18,Drax) And the guards drew their guns on the thing?
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Uranium
- (18,phil) yes,fuel type uranium 238?
- (18,George) ?
- (18,MARIO) ANY "SALT" USE IN THE PROSSES?
- (18,phil) yes
- (18,Drax) OK, George GA
- (18,George) I am curious, why "alien"?
- (18,Drax) George...I was the first....
- (18,Drax) to use the word "alien" in this conversation....
- (18,Drax) Phil is not stuck on proving this thing is an alien....
- (18,Drax) spacecraft....he's trying to show that there's an anomaly out there.
- (18,Drax) that's all. Jeez, that's enough! GA
- (18,phil) True...
- (18,George) I came in late and only caught someone asking him "alien or exp.
- craft?
- (18,phil) I really don't know what the hell
- (18,George) I assumed he had some evidense either way
- (18,George) ga
- (18,Drax) He has evidence of an anomaly, and there is Missing Time. GA
- (18,Drax) ANyone else?
- (18,phil) comment
- (18,Drax) GA Phil
- (18,MARIO) ?
- (18,phil) The book is a report of a series of UFO...
- (18,phil) sightings that will not go away...
- (18,phil) I report the facts in the book...
- 18,phil) there is enough evidence... to prove that people are... seeing
- something... the matter should be investigated fully ga
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) ?
- (18,Drax) OK, Mario, and then we gotta wrap it up. GA
- (18,MARIO) MY COM IS THAT I THINK, THE FREQU BELOW 120M/S AND THE ATOMICS
- ATRAC X , BUT WHAT IS IT?
- (18,phil) you got me ga
- (18,Drax) Dale?
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) I missed part of the questionn.
- (18,Drax) No you didn't. Did you have a question?
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) OH. Not important.ga
- (18,Drax) OK.....well, Phil, ...
- (18,Drax) like I say, I think we've definitely got something here....
- (18,Drax) and it may one day all turn out to be something strange but
- earthly....
- (18,Drax) but as you say,...
- (18,Drax) and as I keep saying,.....
- (18,Drax) curiosity is the mother of science, and I see no reason....
- (18,Drax) not to look into these things with as much energy as we can....
- (18,Drax) muster. Thank you for devoting so much time to it, for writing the
- book....
- (18,MARIO) MAY BE NOT EARTHLY?
- (18,Drax) and for being here today. GA
- (18,Ted M) Good luck with you're book Phil.
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Thanks Phil
- (18,George) Yeah, good luck phil
- (18,phil) good night all
- (18,phil) Bye all
- (18,Drax) Good night....you available for a voice call now?
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Bye Phil
- (18,phil) sure
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Gotta run. Night
- (18,Drax) OK. Take it easy, yall. The preceding was a production of....
- (18,Drax) The Issues Forum, Georgia Griffith, Producer....
- (18,Drax) Jim Speiser, Moderator.
- (18,Don Pardo) This is Don Pardo. Goodnight everyone.
- (18,Will) All=-> "Harmonic Convergance" Bunk -or- Substance?
- (18,Dale B. Wedge) Bunk
- (18,Drax) Bunk
- (18,Shirley MacLaine) What Harmonic Convergence?