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- INSIDE UFOLOGY
- February 1988
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- There already seems to be some controversy surrounding the series of UFO
- sightings reported in Gulf Breezes, Florida. In that case, a building
- contractor claims to have taken as many as 16 Polaroid photos and one Beta
- videotape of an object hovering near his home, not far from Pensacola. The
- sightings started around the middle of last November, and were exciting
- enough to MUFON State Director Donald Ware that he immediately called Walt
- Andrus, MUFON's Grand Poobah, in Texas and said, "You better get over
- here." He did get over there, and was duly impressed by what he saw. "Very
- high quality stuff," was Andrus' reaction.
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- Budd Hopkins has reportedly just returned from Florida, where he, too,
- viewed the evidence, and he, too, was very excited. And so was MUFON's
- Director of Investigations, Dan Wright. "This stuff puts Billy Meier to
- shame," seems to be the general reaction.
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- But the comparisons with Meier are more than just casual. For one thing,
- despite repeated appearances by the object, no other witnesses have
- stepped forward, although word has it that several ANONYMOUS witnesses do
- exist. For another, its amazing how lucky one man can be, to be in the
- right place at the right time, several times running, to knock off a few
- good UFO pictures, when the rest of us slobs go entire lifetimes without
- even seeing a strange light in the sky. And its been our experience that
- cases that seem too good to be true, always are.
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- Further, its reported that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has given the
- videotape a cursory examination, and considers it a probable fraud. But
- the examination did not make use of JPL's sophisticated computer analysis
- facilities; rather, it was one man's opinion based on an eyeball of the
- video.
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- Its entirely possible that we finally have definitive photographic proof
- that alien spacecraft are operating in our atmosphere, and only time, and
- widespread distribution of the video, will tell at this point. Certainly,
- judging by the animated reaction of the normally stoic Wright, something
- worth looking into has occurred, and its guaranteed to be one of the
- classics of the field. We don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but we
- counsel equal doses of caution and enthusiasm.
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- Speaking of JPL, those three letters seem to be coming up more and more
- often these days. In addition to the above analysis, at least two high
- priests of that high-tech temple of Empiricism have held forth on the
- Brewster video of the Hudson Valley Object, one pronouncing it an unknown
- and the other putting the lie to the "planes in formation" theory.
- Abduction expert Tracy Torme' visited the lab a while back (in the guise
- of the new Executive Story Editor for Star Trek), and managed to elicit
- curiosity in UFOs from some of the lab technicians and scientists. And Dr.
- Lew Allen, the lab's director, has been mentioned as a possible MJ-12
- member. Recall that JPL is the West Coast outpost of mega-skeptic Carl
- Sagan....I'll bet they have some DANDY conversations there....
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- An extremely reliable ParaNet source has uncovered confirmation, of sorts,
- that a group calling itself Justice for Military Personnel did exist as
- recently as 1975/76. It was apparently a paralegal organization which
- specialized in providing legal assistance to military types and their
- families. Our source tells us that one of their assignments was to help
- cut through some red tape at Bentwaters AFB in England, site of a famous
- UFO landing. (See JMP.UFO, Library Section 1).
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- AND FINALLY...
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- Allen Benz, president of the Foundation for UFO Research, on the
- cancellation of that group's highly touted banquet in Tucson:
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- "Oh, well, no use crying over crashed saucers...."
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- ---Jim Speiser