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From: BufoCalvin@aol.com
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:43:35 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:12:59 -0500
Subject: BWW Media Alert 970110 (re-send)

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January 10, 1997

Yes, this is a re-send of yesterday's, somewhat updated (to include the
SCI-FI CHANNEL and LEARNING CHANNEL info).  There was a problem and the
updated mailing list was not (updated that is) so I wanted to re-send it.  I
apologize to people who are getting it twice, but at least you are getting
updated info as well.

Kind of an odd week, this week.  There are a few interesting things, but it's
pretty sparse.  One particularly odd one was checking out the revised
Discover Channel site and seeing a listing for THE SCIENCE NETWORK, which has
"paranormal Thursdays".  They run a bunch of Arthur C. Clarke programs,
basically.  However, the site made it look like they are running the same
episodes for about a month.  I called the 800 number to check on it, and the
"viewer relations" person there didn't even know they =had= a science
network!  The viewer relations person recommended I e-mail the site directly,
and I'll try that.  I'm not going to list it yet, because I'm not sure what
is going on.  Also, there was quite a bizarre fictional one this week.  I
happened to have COACH on, and it seemed to be a "very special episode" (you
know, the kind of thing where a sitcom does something serious about prostate
problems, or breast cancer, or something).  In this case, it was about alien
abduction!  Dauber, who is admittedly an idiot on the show, believed he was
an abductee.  The coach, noted for his insensitivity, fired him (since he
couldn't give 100 percent to the football team, given that he was expecting
to leave the planet soon).  The "sensible one" on the show, the coach's wife,
encouraged the coach to treat him kindly.  The other characters on the show
(which mostly consists of fools and dweebs) believed Dauber.  It was like
sensitivity training for dealing with abductees.  Strange.  Oh, and PSI
FACTOR wants me to alert you to a contest they have upcoming on their
website.  If you haven't been there, it's a fun site.  Go to

http:\\www.psifactor.com.

As we go to modem, the info isn't there yet, but
it should be soon.  Also, check out the four hour block of UFOS--DOWN TO
EARTH on Sunday on Discover.

FICTIONAL NOTES:

This is where I briefly cover items which are fictional but which I feel are
worth mentioning, either because of the impact they have had on the field or
vice versa. I don't list weekly shows, just special items.  If you want info
on the weekly fictional shows, see Gil Latimer's excellent CNI NEWS MEDIA
WATCH at

http:\\www\cninews.com

John Shirley, author of WETBONES and
HEATSEEKER, as written SILICON EMBRACE*, which deals extensively with the
UFO/conspiracy mythos (a word I use to mean a set of beliefs, not implying
true or false).  I haven't read the book yet, but I've read a good review
which among other things said "...too weird and unsettling to be to
everyone's taste..." which makes it sound attractive to me.  The review was
by Michael Berry in The San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner.  On TV, the X-FILES
do a cross-over on THE SIMPSONS (Homer has "an alien encounter").  Voices
include David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (and Leonard Nimoy).  That's on
Sunday at 8:00 pm.  TNT is running THE PHILADEPHIA EXPERIMENT 2 on Wednesday
at 7:00 PM.  For a golden oldie, TRAPPER JOHN, M.D., at 9:00 am on the Fox
cable channel, has Lance Kerwin claiing to be an alien (also guest stars
Nancy Walker).  Aunt Clara accidentally imports a couple of ETs on BEWITCHED
on Wendesday at 5:35 am on TBS.  The BIONIC WOMAN encounters an alien
predicting the destruction of the Earth on Wednesday at 1:00 PM on the SCI-FI
CHANNEL.  THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN has the bigfoot/alien episode on
Thursday at 2:00 PM on SCI-FI...this episode has been accused of shaping
public perception of bigfoot, given the popularity of the show.  Finally,
Mork from Ork first appeared on HAPPY DAYS: see the episode on Wednesday at
8:30 pm on Nickelodeon.

ON-LINE

No details available, but check

http://www.omnimag.com

on Monday and select PRIME TIME to see who will be on there.

RADIO AND TELEVISION

SYNDICATED RADIO: END OF THE LINE seems to be having a lot of interesting
guests, but they don't list info for the following week on the website at

http://www.endoftheline.com

However, Michael Lindemann does a UFO report
on Wednesdays each week, I hear.

SYNDICATED TV:

COULD IT BE A MIRACLE?: no details available

PSI-FACTOR see

http://www.psifactor.com

for stations and airdates and other info)
--week of 1/6, in one case, INFESTATION,  NASA scientists are found dead near
a meteorite; and in HUMAN APPORTATION,  a mother and daughter are teleported
(a word coined by Charles Fort...an apport is a word generally used in
seances where physical media ((mediums, to you)) would make things appear)
from California to Canada
--week of 1/13 (new episode): THE CURSE (which is a King Tuttish thing); and
ANGEL ON A PLANE, wherein a disabled plane is landed by a mysterious pilot.

Saturday, January 11

LOCAL TELEVISION, KING COUNTY WASHINGTON, CHANNEL 29, 3:00 PM: JOURNEY:
Robert Gribble, founder of the National UFO Reporting Center, gives his first
tv interview.  Includes a photo of a UFO over Alcatraz, etc.

8:00 AM, CNN, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, looks at religion and its attitudes
towards ET life
11:00 AM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, SIGHTINGS (#5053): no details available
2:00 PM, THE LEARNING CHANNEL, EXTREMELY WEIRD (this show ran on broadcast
originally, and features host Jay Thomas with (literally) a talking head.
 Among other things, covers spontaneous human combustion.
2:30 PM, THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL,  ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S MYSTERIOUS WORLD: OUT OF
THE BLUE (weird things that fall from the skies)
4:00 PM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, SIGHTINGS (#5053):  no details available
11:00 PM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, SIGHTINGS (#5053): no details available

Sunday, January 12

1:00 PM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, UFOS--DOWN TO EARTH, REASON TO
BELIEVE (starting with the one that started the modern era and caused the
term "flying saucer" to come into popular parlance in 1947)
2:00 PM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, UFOS--DWN TO EARTH, GREAT BALLS OF LIGHT
(explores the Persinger theory that electromagnetic "earth lights" cause
people to hallucinate)
3:00 PM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, UFOS -- DOWN TO EARTH, UNCOVERING THE EVIDENCE
(crash and retrieval stories, like Roswell)
4:00 PM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, UFOS -- DOWN TO EARTH, DEEP SECRETS (are
secret weapons responsible for UFO sightings?  And are we flying H-PACS
((Human-Piloted Alien Craft))?)
5:00 PM, A&E, THE UNEXPLAINED, PSYCHIC DETECTIVES
7:00 PM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S MYSTERIOUS WORLD, SECRETS
OFANCIENT WORLDS (Atlantis, etc.)
SYNDICATED RADIO, 7:00 PM, ART BELL'S DREAMLAND (see http://www.artbell.com
for stations and program info)

Monday, January 13

SYNDICATED TV, MONDAY, STRANGE UNIVERSE:   (see website at

http://www.rysher.com/strangeuniverse

for stations and playtimes in your area.)

LOCAL TELEVISION, SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON, 3:00 PM: JOURNEY (no details
available)

10:00 AM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, MAGIC, MYSTERIES, AND MIRACLES (#4): Roswell
Incident (in which the U.S.Army Air Force announced that it had recovered a
"flying disc"...compare to 10:00 PM Tuesday on THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, and 3:00
pm Sunday on THE DISCOVER CHANNEL)
9:00 PM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, SCI-TREK, CURSE OF THE COCAINE MUMMIES (traces
of cocaine and nicotine were found in Egyptian mummies...how could it get
there?)

Tuesday, January 14

SYNDICATED TV, TUESDAY, STRANGE UNIVERSE:   (see website at

http://www.rysher.com/strangeuniverse

for stationsa nd playtimes in your area)

12:00 AM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, SCI-TREK, CURSE OF THE COCAINE MUMMIES
(traces of cocaine and nicotine were found in Egyptian mummies...how could it
get there?)
10:00 AM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, MYSTERIES, MAGIC AND MIRACLES (#5): ORIGIN OF
THE UNIVERSE (there's a bang-up story :) ); CHICAGO GHOSTS (and one might
imagine that there are quite a few); and PAST LIFE REGRESSION (I don't think
there could be a "future life regression", could there?  I know Paul Reubens
certainly hopes there are past lives...)
9:00 PM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE,
FALLING PHENOMENA (how is this different from the previous episode?  Not
sure, they both deal with stuff falling from the sky)
10:00 PM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, WHAT IF...?  EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT (new
series, not sure what to make of this.  It takes a postulate, such as that we
receive intelligent ET signals, and creates a fictional scenario around
it...in this case, including it forcing the government to fess up on Roswell,
since that info is needed to decode it...if you see it, let me know what you
think, and why you think it is on this channel)

Wednesday, January 15

SYNDICATED TV, WEDNESDAY, STRANGE UNIVERSE:  (see website
at http://www.rysher.com/strangeuniverse for stations
and playtimes in your area)

12:00 AM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, ARTHUR C.CLARKE'S MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE,
FALLING PHENOMENA (things that fall out of the sky)
1:00 AM, THE DISCOVER CHANNEL, WHAT IF...?  EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT (new
series, not sure what to make of this.  It takes a postulate, such as that we
receive intelligent ET signals, and creates a fictional scenario around
it...in this case, including it forcing the government to fess up on Roswell,
since that info is needed to decode it...if you see it, let me know what you
think, and why you think it is on this channel)
10:00 AM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, MAGIC, MYSTERIES & MIRACLES (#6):MATH &
MYSTICISM; WYOMING PRISON GHOST; AURA READING
3:15 PM, AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS, THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA
(dramatization of the amazing case witnessed by thousands...miraculous
contact, group delusion, or UFO?)
7:01 PM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, SIGHTINGS (#4051): no details available
11:01 PM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, SIGHTINGS (#4051): no details available

Thursday, January 16

SYNDICATED TV, THURSDAY, STRANGE UNIVERSE:  (see website at
http://www.rysher.com/strangeuniverse for stations and playtimes in your
area)

2:00 AM, AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS, THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA
(dramatization of the amazing case witnessed by thousands...miraculous
contact, group delusion, or UFO?)
10:00 AM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, MAGIC, MYSTERIES AND MIRACLES (#7): HAUNTED
HOLLYWOOD, PART 1; TAROT READING; MARIAN VISIONS (no, these are not about Mr.
C.'s erotic dreams...sheesh, get your mind out of the gutter!  These have to
do with the Virgin Mary: you know, the one on the used car financing building
in Florida?)
10:00 PM, A&E, THE UNEXPLAINED, THE POWER OF PRAYER

Friday, December 17

SYNDICATED TV, FRIDAY, STRANGE UNIVERSE: (see website at
http://www.rysher.com/strangeuniverse for stations and
playtimes in your area)

2:00 AM, A&E, THE UNEXPLAINED, THE POWER OF PRAYER
10:00 AM, THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, MYSTERIES, MAGIC AND MIRACLES (#8):  HAUNTED
HOLLYWOOD, PART 2; ASTROLOGY (no, this is not the study of the Jetson's
dog!); KAMBUCHA MUSHROOM (mushroom tea as a healing food...note, don't pick
your own mushrooms, unless you want to find out about your future lives a
little prematurely :) ).

This is Bufo saying, "If =everything= seemed normal, that =would= be weird!"
____________________________

*You can order the books by calling 1-800-905-8367 (615-896-1356
outside the USA).  Alternatively, you can mail your check or money order to:

Greenleaf Publications
P.O. Box 8152
Murfreesboro, TN 37133
U.S.A.

Add $4 for the first item and $1 for each additional item for S&H in the U.S.
 My foreign correspondents should add $5 for the first one, $1.50 for each
additional (plus $3 if shipped by air).  PLEASE TELL THEM BUFO SENT YOU.
 This is not a paid ad, but if you order something and identify me, I get
something.  Anything I get will go towards my work in this field.  Greenleaf
is operated by Marc Davenport and Leah Haley.  Their website is

http://www.debshome.com/glptitlepage.html

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