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From: Gary <galevy@pipeline.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 01:43:02 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 02:41:52 -0400
Subject: Coincidence or Debunkery?

Here is a little episode I'll recount regarding a recent posting to UFO
UpDates, judge for yourself if episode is a mere coincidence or an
example of debunkery.

The other day a copyrighted article was posted on UFO UpDates which
offered a erudite discussion on the application of physiometric
polygraph testing and voice stress analysis to UFO cases.  This article
made several points, one important point was to discredit, based on an
appeal to authority, the validity of voice stress analysis.
Interestingly this authority was the DoD, the Department of Defense.
Now this might not strike one as a matter of import and with good
reason.  However, the unheralded appearance of this article and the
point it was making struck a chord with me.  This is because I had been
researching the issue of the validity of Voice Stress Analysis (VSA) -
and related it to the appearance of an obscure article published in a
tabloid, in which an expert on VSA had analyzed the US Air Force
spokesman's recent report on Roswell and declared that the analysis
proved that the spokesman was lying.

I think that the underlying reason for the unheralded and timely
appearance of this lengthy article "Lie Detection in UFO Controversies"
is really related to the article of which appeared last week in the
National Enquirer in which one of the proponents and experts on the use
of Voice Stress Analysis - analyzed the speeches of the Air Force
spokesmen on Roswell  and concluded that they were deliberately
deceptive, lying.  Now this has not hit any mainstream media I have
seen. In fact it hasn't even hit UFO UpDates, except for this attack on
VSA which just happened to come along.  In my own research of the web on
VSA I found the DoD's attack on VSA.  Its unsubstantiated, unscientific
and highly publicized, in short debunkery of VSA.  If you are wondering
about the utility of VSA, ask the law enforcement authorities in your
community, you may be surprised at its widespread application and
acceptance.

Is it coincidence that that this material is appearing now? - of course,
and I can offer you a 99 year lease on a bridge in the East River...

Would be dangerous to have the yahoos conducting independent tests on
recognized authorities using VSA?  High speed home computers with a
microphone and the appropriate software are capable of performing voice
stress analysis, think about it.

Below is the article on the application of VSA to the Air Force
spokesman's statements followed by the DoD's statement.  The article on
the application of physiometric testing by polygraph and voice stress
analysis, "Lie Detection in UFO Controversies" by Geoff Price was posted
on July 22, 1997 and will be in the UFO Update archives so I am not
including it here.


Air Force is lying about UFO crash at Roswell
- LIE DETECTOR PROVES

The U.S. government is STILL lying to the American public about the
Roswell UFO crash incident!

That's the stunning conclusion of a top lie-detector expert after
analyzing a U.S. Air Force spokesman's recent report on a two-year study
into the sensational UFO sightings in Roswell, N. Mex., in 1947.

Air Force Col. John Haynes debunked the famous incident in a June 24 TV
press conference. He claimed the "UFOs" seen by witnesses were actually
box kites and test balloons, and that the bulbous-headed "aliens" were
Air Force crash-test dummies.

But Col. Haynes was lying and showing deception, says voice stress
analyst Alfred F. Starewich - who studied a videotape of the press
conference at The ENQUIRER's request.

Starewich, a licensed private investigator, used the lie- detecting
machine. Called the Latern D6000, it pinpoints untruths through stress
in the voice.

The machine is so supersophisticated that it can even detect
fluctuations in the heart rate through voice stress alone. Lies show up
as square blocks and spikes on the machine's printout.

"Col. Haynes is covering up!" the expert told The ENQUIRER. "He doesn't
even believe what he is saying.

At times his voice is showing so much stress, his heart is
fibrillating-it's almost as if he's having a mini heart attack!"

Here are some of Haynes' key statements, and Starewich's conclusions:

HAYNES: "Bodies observed in the New Mexico desert were probably test
dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons
for scientific research."

STAREWICH: "The colonel's stress levels jump 125 percent on that
statement. He doesn't believe the sightings were crash dummies!"

HAYNES: "Claims of bodies at the Roswell Army air field hospital were
most likely a combination of two separate incidents. One was a 1956
KC-97 aircraft accident in which 11 Air Force members lost their lives
or a 1959 manned balloon mishap in which two Air Force pilots were
injured."

STAREWICH: "The high degree of abnormal stress indicates the colonel
disbelieved what he was saying."

HAYNES: "The unusual military activities in the New Mexico desert were
high-altitude research balloon launch and recovery operations."

STAREWICH: "His stress levels are continuing to l build. He doesn't
believe any Air Force personnel were engaged in dummy operations."

-LARRY HALEY

This article excerpted from:
National Enquirer issue for week
of July 28, 1997, page 21.


The Department of Defense Polygraph Institute made the following
statement in September of 1996:

"To date, we have found no credible evidence in information furnished by
the manufacturers, the scientific literature, or in our own research,
that voice stress analysis is an effective investigative tool for
determining deception. ... The preponderance of evidence indicates the
polygraph is far more accurate at detecting deception than is voice
stress analysis."

Ask yourself who do you believe and why?

Gary