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Sunlite 2 2.Pdf SUNlite Shedding some light on UFOlogy and UFOs Seldom has a subject been so invested with fraud, hysteria, cre- dulity, religious mania, incompetence, and most of the other unflattering human characteristics. Arthur C. Clarke Volume 2 Number 2 March-April 2010 Cover: Photograph of a Minuteman III launch from USAF website. Left: Photograph taken by me of Ice Pillars which I saw from my backyard on February 2nd. belief that I would not reveal it. I must have let the comment slip in casual com- munication with Mr. Moseley. It was not done on purpose even though it appears that way. I can only admit my error in revealing this piece of information when I should not have. Speaking of potential hoaxes, it seems that MUFON needs to get their act to- gether. You will see in the “blogging” section that they are dealing with more and more hoaxes. Worse yet is that one of their STAR teams appeared to have let one get by. Somebody caught the red flag but it was not before the UFO Examiner revealed that this case was one of those that remained unexplained after initial investigation. I would hope that these STAR teams would approach such cases skeptically and check for hoax potential. Finally, James Moseley wrote me an inter- Bad Aliens run amok esting note regarding the articles about Stan Romanek. His comment was that he was aware of Romanek being “the One might find the cover a hint at what who say they are abducted. Kitty is very only professional abductee” and that he might be in this issue of SUNlite. Yes, I understanding and stated she tries not is “unimportant”. He implied I was tar- plan on discussing the Malmstrom AFB to be judgemental of all those who send geting, what we used to call in the Navy, missile shutdown. I had asked James her their stories. She is trying to provide “low hanging fruit”. I agree that Romanek Carlson to write the article on the sub- direction for her contacts. While Kitty is and Peckman are “easy pickings” but, as I ject. James is the son of the Eric Carlson, not a doctor, she tries to direct potential stated in my article, individuals like these who was in charge of Echo flight the day abductees towards medical assistance. should be scorned by all UFOlogists. If the missiles were shutdown. Mr. Carl- Her argument is that no matter what UFOlogy wants to be taken seriously, they son wrote a rather extensive piece that the reason for the story being told, real need to clean house and expose such in- is so lengthy, I would have to spread it or imagined, these people need some dividuals for what they really are. out over 6 issues. Instead of making actual medical attention. Hopefully, her my readers wait for parts 2-6, I decided advice is being taken. TABLE OF CONTENTS to summarize his article. If you want to read Carlson’s piece, you can find it at the The Socorro story continues to have Who’s blogging UFOs..................................2-3 scribd web site. I am sure that there will some legs. Dave Thomas’ efforts to find be repercussions regarding what James evidence for the student hoaxers has pro- The Roswell Corner .......................................4 wrote about the stories that have arisen duced no results to date. Once again, we Astronomers locate unidentified space regarding this event. However, he makes are treated with rumors and such. Most object ..................................................................5 a convincing argument that the pres- of the respondents to his search have ent theory of alien spaceships shutting indicated they are sure they would have 21st Century UFOlogy Part III by Matt down the missiles is one based on belief known about a student created hoax. Graeber.........................................6-10 and not any real facts. Like I stated two issues ago, there seems The Malmstrom missile shutdown....11-14 to be no good evidence for this rumor 21st Century UFOlogy part IV - Socor- In other personal news, I attended a being true. As a side note, James Mo- ro revisited by Matt Graeber.......15-21 meeting of the Granite state skeptics seley recently published a rumor about in January and was pleased with the something Mr. Bragalia had stated about Donning UFO Goggles......................22-23 speaker. Barbara “Kitty” Mervine runs Lonnie Zamora in Saucer Smear. I regret UFOs on the tube..........................................24 the web site www.badalien.org and it to reveal that I am the original source for Buy it, borrow it, bin it.................................24 was interesting to hear her speak about this information. Mr. Bragalia had made how it was run. She deals with people the statement in an e-mail to me in the 1 A different perspective spent some about the reports themselves, they time on the Betty Barney Hill abduc- Who’s blogging should have been sent to the garbage tion. Kevin Randle has commented on can almost immediately. Betty Hill’s star map drawing. Randle UFOs? suggested the latest data be examined Another item that was brought up was to verify her map as well as look for other one of the nineteen STAR team cases I matching patterns. David Rudiak pro- Hot topics and varied opinions mentioned briefly last issue has turned claimed it to be something authentic, out to have some problems. While the that the stars are all sun-like, and config- case was supposedly a first-time event for ured correctly. To him it seals the reporter, it was discov- the deal because the odds of ered that the same person this happening by chance is had made similar reports in astronomical. Unfortunately, the past. The case now ap- Mr. Rudiak and Mr. Randle have pears to be a hoax. While one been just simply accepting the should praise the STAR team Fish map based on old data. for identifying the hoax, I am Brett Holman commented to curious as to why it was not set the record straight. He had identified in the first place? published an article in the No- I would think the first thing vember 2008 edition of Fortean to look for in any UFO case is Times called “Goodbye Zeta Re- the possibility of a hoax. ticuli”. He used the more recent Hipparcos satellite data. As a It seems that many people result, he rejected six out of the are calling in hoaxes to the fifteen stars in the Fish map. MUFON database. This was That means 40% of the stars in a similar complaint by Peter her map are not valid matches. As a re- Davenport of NUFORC. It is not surpris- sult, the Fish map appears to be an align- the Moscow flying pyramid videos. ing to see that various individuals on the ment by chance. See http://airminded. He is asking Jim Diletosso to analyze the internet are now attacking these UFO re- org/2008/11/05/goodbye-zeta-reticuli/ videos. Diletosso’s resume’ is less than porting sites with fake stories. The STAR stellar and his work on the Phoenix vid- teams/UFO groups should be very dili- I was alerted to a most interesting eos of 1997 was exposed as flawed long gent in their investigations. newsletter web site. It is called “News ago. Why would Hastings be interested of the paranormal and beyond” and in what seems to be an obvious Youtube In another Examiner UFO case, some- is produced by the Alliance studying hoax and then invite one of the worst body posted some pictures of the moon paranormal experiences (ASPE). It ap- UFO video experts to examine it? Jupiter and a UFO. Marsh seemed to think pears to be based in New Mexico and this was a good case but close examina- there are lots of UFO stories there. One James Carrion stepped down as MU- tion of the low resolution pictures indi- thing I noticed was that there were lots of FON international director. He states cated the most likely source for the UFOs advertisements in a newsletter! We see the position was too demanding on him. in the picture is an internal lens reflection ads for Jerry Pippin, The Journal of Abduc- However, I received an e-mail that had of the moon. Because of the low resolu- tion research (JAR), Angelfire properties, been distributed from somebody called tion images displayed, I could not tell for and Laguna Vista lodge (Which seems to Timothy WhiteEagle. He seems to have sure. I find it interesting that nobody in guarantee that there are ghosts in the ho- been terminated as the Wisconsin state MUFON suggested this. Maybe they did tel and UFOs in the sky!). The web site for director without cause and claims it was and Marsh never mentioned it. ASPE asks for “open minds”, which is the a “racist” decision by Carrion. I have no usual buzz word for “please believe this”. idea who is right on this matter but it Imagine my shock with the on-line sounds like the typical in fighting that magazine UFO digest posted an article Mark Easter describes his participation happens in these kinds of organizations. by Linc Alexander discussing Roswell in the MysteryQuest episode about Too many egos are involved and some as a “crashed spaceship myth”. That Area 51. His description of the events people desire to control things so only seems sacrilegious from a blog that pres- pretty much agrees with what I observed their version gets out. It makes one won- ents some rather wild UFO stories! Is it and learned from Peter Merlin.
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