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From: Henny van der Pluijm <hvdp@worldonline.nl>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 14:59:25 +0200 (MET DST)
Fwd Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:50:32 -0400
Subject: Re: The Unmentionable Dr...

>Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 00:33:41 -0400
>From: Peregrine Mendoza <101653.2205@compuserve.com>
>Subject: The Unmentionable Dr...
>To: Errol Bruce Knapp <updates@globalserve.net>


>The Duke of Mendoza presents his compliments.

>About a year ago a post by Yrs Trly to UpDates contained the
>following (one name has been censored):

>"I will wager with Doc B----, payable via our esteemed Keeper of
>the List, my ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN US CURRENCY (US$1000) to his
>ONE DOLLAR IN US CURRENCY (US$1.00) that no national government on
>Earth or agency thereof publicly and officially discloses, on the
>record, "UFO reality" before midnight GMT on 23 April 1997. This
>wager and payment of this sum by either party is conditional


Hi Duke,


You could have lost your shirt doing such bets. Yesterday I reread
'Aliens from Space' by Don Keyhoe (1973).

At the end of the book he says that the Chilean government had
admitted to the press that a UFO had landed somewhere in that country.

You'll find similar announcements in Timothy Good's book 'Beyond
Top Secret' (1996), be it not from governments per se, but from highly
ranked military officers from the former Soviet Union, Spain and
Belgium.

You'll also find that US presidents Carter and Reagan have admitted
the reality of UFOs, but I think everybody on this list knows that.

Of course, if you would call an average government spokesperson,
say from the Spanish Air Force, he would probably not say that UFOs
are real. This has nothing to do with cover up or that UFOs don't
exist, but the whole subject is simply too embarrassing.

Summarizing, while large parts of the UFO community are eager to
await a "government announcement" about UFOs, in fact such
announcements have already been made. I have not yet drawn
my conclusions about what this tells you about the phenonmenon
itself - the elusive properties - and about the UFO community.




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                      Henny van der Pluijm
                       hvdp@worldonline.nl
                     Leiden, The Netherlands
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