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From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@li.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 09:01:39 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 08:23:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Pentagon Denies Interest In UFOs

>Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 21:34:02 +0000
>From: United Kingdom UFO Network <ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk>
>Organization: Federation
>Subject: United Kingdom UFO Network - Pentagon Denies Interest In UFOs

>To: UFO@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU

>United Kingdom UFO Network

>Source: CNI News
>Date: April 1st 1997

>CNI News notes with interest and amusement that the Pentagon chose
April Fool's Day to reiterate their stock position on UFOs. The
following text ran on the AP wire. Thanks to Erik Beckjord for
alerting us to this story.

>Copyright 1997 The Associated Press

>WASHINGTON (AP) - Convinced there is no extraterrestrial threat, the
U.S. military long ago stopped keeping track of UFOs, Pentagon
spokesman Kenneth Bacon said Tuesday.

....snip....

>The Air Force stopped the practice because virtually all the UFOs it
>investigated were explainable as aircraft or weather phenomena and
>posed no threat.

JC:   For those people new to this list, how the Air Force was able
to make that claim is partially explained by the Air Force's own
civilian astronomical consultant to Project Blue Book, Dr. J. Allen
Hynek. He worked in this capacity for approximately 20 years. The
following fully footnoted essays will explain what Dr. Hynek
discovered during his tenure with that "study." Your local library
can be used to confirm a great deal of what is discussed therein.

http://www.li.net/~rjcohen/ocr.5a.html

To find out more about Dr. Hynek's life:

http://www.li.net/~rjcohen/ocr.3a.html

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>Bacon said the Air Force investigated UFO reports from 1947 to 1969
>but out of 12,618 reported sightings found no evidence of
>extraterrestrials or even of any aircraft representing exotic
>technology or a threat to the United States.

JC:   After reading "ocr.5a.html" from above, you will discover that
Dr. Hynek, himself, had called the Air Force statistics used in Blue
Book, "a travesty." At the "Center for UFO Studies" (CUFOS), Dr.
Hynek's own organization, he reexamined the 20 year Air Force data
from Blue Book. The outcome regarding same may be found at:

http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/1997/mar/m23-031.shtml

That "reevaluation" was included in one of a series of posts I and
others had made to Paul Devereux, a scientist researching the
phenomenon known as "Earth lights." I was delineating where I believe
Dr. Hynek would have placed the "Earth lights" phenomenon within the
entire spectrum of reported UFO phenomena. I simply restated Hynek's
reevaluation of the Air Force's own 20 year study as a basis for my
statements.
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>Asked about the possible existence of UFOs, Bacon said the U.S.
>overnment "cannot substantiate that they exist."

JC:   After researching the information provided above (and perhaps
reading more of the Oberg/Cooper rebuttals, and examining them
closely for yourselves,) one can begin to realize Kenneth Bacon's
words are most probably not telling the entire story.

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For more excellent information regarding the topic of UFOs,
researchers and a plethora of other topics, please see Glenn
Campbell's UFOmind database located at:   http://www.ufomind.com/

Glenn's database, although in its initial stages, is rapidly becoming
an extremely valuable tool any serious researcher can use to help
condense and solidify his/her studies relating to UFOs (and other
phenomena as well.) I highly recommend it.

Reading UFO UpDates posts on the Web at Glenn's database archive will
enable one to click directly to all references in these letters.
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