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From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 03:20:17 -0700
Fwd Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 09:36:56 -0400
Subject: The depressing news about UFO news
In the course of trying to obtain a story on a
UFO sighting in 1968 from the Orlando Sentinel,
I decided to take the opportunity to browse their
archives for stories on UFOs over the last 4 years.
Of 368 stories retrieved with this keyword, 3 were
serious news pieces. Of the rest, about 50%
seemed to be derogatory references to UFOs as
equivalent to Elvis sightings, or comparing various
stupid things to UFOs. Many of the rest were
announcements of events or lectures.
Here's one of the least offensive examples:
LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S CHINESE
SUPERMUSHROOM!
Published on 03/05/93, Article 309 of 584 found.
Was it an angel? Or was it a giant flying mushroom?
The sky over China's largest city, Shanghai, was filled
with an unidentified flying object for more than an hour
Tuesday, the Xinmin Evening News said in an edition
received in Beijing Thursday.
On a more stupid note -
NEW DOWNTOWN TOWER OF LIGHT IS
ACTUALLY ANTENNA TO ALIENS!
Published on 07/26/92, Article 335 of 584 found.
For months, baffled Orlando residents have wondered
why the city would put something so silly as the ''Tower
of Light'' sculpture in front of the new City Hall.
But now the riddle has been solved: The Tower of Light
actually is a transmission facility used to communicate
with aliens from outer space!
Or perhaps...
UFO SIGHTINGS PROVE TO BE CLOSE
ENCOUNTERS OF EXPLAINABLE KIND
Published on 03/08/91, Article 394 of 584 found.
E.T. or not E.T.? That is the question.
A flurry of celestial activity has led to an increase in UFO
sightings in Central Florida over the past three days. In
all, about a dozen people have phoned The Orlando
Sentinel wondering if Florida is being invaded by little
green men.
or...
UFO FANS' CONVENTION IS FAR OUT
Published on 05/11/91, Article 387 of 584 found.
TUCSON, Ariz. Omnec Onec, who landed here from
Chicago, says life on her native planet, Venus, isn't all
that different from life on Earth.
''It's like the desert areas here. It's amazing how adaptable
the human species is,'' said Onec, one of 30 speakers at
the World UFO Convention that landed here this month.
It's clear from my exhausting perusal of the gratuitous
UFO insult that journalists are not seeing the same
universe of reports that researchers are. No, they're
watching "Sightings" or perusing the most purile of
the UFO newsgroups, or visiting Roswell.
You can't really get the feeling I developed by reading
these few short shots. You need to go to the Sentinel
archive, do a search on UFO and page through 10 or
eleven pages of summaries of throwaway stories to
see what I mean.
Someone on a list I subscribe to recently claimed that
things were going well for UFOlogy, that we had shows
and books, and the debunkers weren't. Well, this night
is a sobering experience that wipes away that optimism.
Sure we have books. They're mixed in with the astrology
books. Sure we have shows, and after five minutes of
UFO coverage, we get a piece on ghosts or police
psychics.
Hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of
good reports, physical and medical effects. Fifty years.
And this is the result. Nothing. Arrgh!
Go visit - get sober.
http://archives.orlandosentinel.com
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