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From: TotlResrch@aol.com [Kal Korff]
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:54:01 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:19:43 -0400
Subject: Re: Bursting the Balloon


>From: Andromeda0@aol.com [Jared Anderson]
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 05:14:10 -0400 (EDT)
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Bursting the Balloon

>How have some of the ballon theorists (e.g., Robert Todd, Pflock, Kal Korff)
>reacted to the report?

While I cannot speak for Robert Todd or Karl Pflock, here's MY opinion for
what it's worth:

1) The USAF is sometimes its' own worst enemy -- I think they did a horrible
job at communicating the real, significant message of their report. Here's
why:

a) Rather than call some of these Roswell alien body "witnesses" liars or
other adjectives which are similar and certainly appropriate, the Air Force
(like the U.S. media at large) has treated these untruthful bozos with kit
gloves. This is unfortunate, because some of these people are NOT telling the
truth and need to be called on the carpet for doing so. That's why in my new
book, "The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know," I pulled no
punches: "spades are called spades" as they say.

b) I was on MSNBC ALL DAY off-and-on on July 4, 1997 when they were
broadcasting from Roswell and cutting to the Pathfinder landing on Mars. On
the show with me were Walter Haut, Colonel Kittinger and Capt. McAndrew.
Others who were scheduled to be there to debate the issues (three
pro-alien/Roswell advocates including Showtime/Roswell Producer Paul Davids)
never showed up, for reasons they will have to explain.

At any rate, to make a long story short, I was asked about the Air Force
report by MSNBC and stated my opinion that it did not go far enough by its'
refusal to call some of much harder on the witnesses.

I thought this was an important point and admission to get the Air Force to
address and that's why I raised it.

2) The Air Force report that Jared Anderson refers to that's on line is NOT
the complete report. Therefore, commentary on it (and subsequent judgement
thereof) is inappropriate. One should read the COMPLETE report before making
assumptions and passing judgement.

3) Finally, I have been extremely DISAPPOINTED with the media's coverage of
Roswell. Hardly any of it was even remotely critical (from an objective
cross-examination standpoint of the facts) and it has been pretty brain-dead.
The notable exception to this was the Discovery Channel's documentary which
brought Professor Charles Moore and Warrant Officer Irving Newton together
for the first time.

Meeting at Moore's house in New Mexico, the two of them went over some Mogul
component and decayed (due to the ultraviolet rays of the sun) balloon debris
that Professor Moore still has. Newton CONFIRMED that the debris he saw in
Ramey's office was identical to what Moore showed him at his house for the
first time. In other words, folks, it WAS Mogul!

I am glad that the Discovery Channel aired this documentary...when I last
spoke to Professor Moore earlier in February of this year while doing
research for my Roswell expose/book, he expressed his concern that they might
not air the segment. Although Moore was extremely pleased to finally have met
Irving Newton.

And as I note in my book, at the end of the chapter where I interviewed
Professor Moore, he says he tried to tell Stanton Friedman and Don Berliner
that it was Mogul that caused the Roswell saucer myth, but Friedman got up in
the middle of their meeting at a hotel in Soccorro, and then accused MOORE of
being "part of the cover-up"!! Most peculiar....and VERY revealing.

For a commentary on how pathetic and uncritical the media's coverage of
Roswell has been, one should read an excellent article by investigative
reporter Arthur S. Levine in last week's issue of U.S. News & World Report.
The URL/WEB address is:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970714/14MEDI.HTM


4) Finally, it has been over a month since I last posted anything to this
forum. In the interim I have made a lot of progress on my new website. My
URLs are www.KalKorff.com and www.TotalResearch.com. My web sites will be
"up" in a matter of just a few more days.

I mention this, because people like Dave Rudiak and Henny have accused and
attacked me for "ducking" their questions. The truth is, I address MOST of
Rudiak's comments in my book, and certainly on my new web site with lots of
graphics. Since I quickly became the target of everyone's venom because I
DARED write a book exposing Roswell, I simply became too overwhelmed to
respond to what was more than 400 emails a day.

The WEB sites I have spent quite a lot of money on developing and sponsoring
are the best way to address my "critics" concerns...and I do just this. As I
said before, I am ducking NO ONE, but others can't say the same thing.

The UFO field has sunk to new, all-time lows...and we have people like Ray
Scamtilli, Richard Hoaxland, Jim DileNoShow, Art $ell and others to "thank"
for this.

I have learned a lot from having written my Roswell book and for deliberately
deciding to solicit Prometheus Books to publish it. This action of mine was
deliberate, and it helped "smoke out" those of you who have a religious or
other emotional axe to grind regarding Roswell/Prometheus, etc. Since WHEN
does the publisher matter...it's the DATA in the book that's important, NOT
the publisher.

Because of these recent events, I have decided (barring unforseen
circumstances) that my next book will be an expose of Mr. Richard Hoagland,
his criminal past, etc. On the other hand, I will also continue to focus on
efforts to get the U.S. government to release whatever additional UFO
documents they possess...and will work with a very small group of UFO
researchers to do this. I have no intention on working with some of the more
famous "names" in this field because if they can't see the REAL TRUTH about
Roswell and what caused it, there's no point in doing so.

This document-retrieval effort is a very serious (and expensive) affair, and
cannot afford to be bastardized by those Roswell/conspiracy nuts that have
misused and misquoted declassified government documents for the WRONG
reasons.

I have found the overwhelming SILENCE to be most revealing from the UFO field
regarding the General Schulgen memo for example. Those people who used to
trump the Schulgen memo as "proof" of Roswell's "UFO/ET" reality have
remained conspicuously SILENT ever since Bob Todd's awesome expose that the
memo is a fraud. Why haven't these SAME researchers SAID ANYTHING or BOASTED
ALOUD with the same religious fervor as they did when their ignorance
compelled them to use the fake memo for their own propaganda purposes??

The UFO field is in a sorry state, and unless heads start to roll per se and
we do a better job at policing ourselves, then we might as well quit studying
UFOs because unless one REALLY does crash and land in our collective, inept
laps, we will get nowhere and it is entirely our fault.

Instead, I and others get slammed for exposing cases as hoaxes (not all of
them come up "aliens" folks) and I get accused of being everything from a CIA
agent to a debunker. Well, as my new web site proves, I am not this, and I
dont have time for these conspiracy nuts anymore and if people want to be
this delusional in their beliefs regarding me, well, it's their right to be
so. In the meantime, I intend to push credible research forward and yes,
whenever and wherever it makes sense, expose frauds when it is logical to do
so. There is nothing wrong with clensing the database of UFOlogy whenever
possible, and one should not be scorned for doing so.

End of tangent and opinion,
Kal Korff

P.S. I noticed that Robert Todd and Karl Pflock have also submitted a post in
response to the balloon posting of Anderson. For the record, my decision to
post was independent of Pflock's and Todd's and there was no collusion
between us. I mention this as my last and final "courtesy" to the more
radical, extreme conspiracy nuts in the UFO field who tar Todd, Pflock and I
with the ridiculous "CIA spy" or "disinformation plant" label. While my
mentioning this may not convince them, that's their delusion. I'm through
with these types.