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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:42:37 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:14:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Roswellian 'Unearthly' Silicon Scoffed At By

> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:44:03 -0500 (CDT)
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: Dennis <dstacy@texas.net>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Roswellian 'Unearthly' Silicon Scoffed At
>   By  Scientists

> >Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:30:14 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
> >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> >Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Roswellian 'Unearthly' Silicon Scoffed At By
> Scientists

> >Give Russell VernonClark the benefit of the doubt for not having wished to
> >stay around for the press conference, after seeing what a media circus the
> >Roswell event was, and realizing that it would upset his colleagues all
> >the more if he attended.

> Dear Jim:
>
> Part of the reason _why_ it was a media circus was precisely because whoever
> was behind the "press conference" _made_ it a media circus. Every reporter
> who checked into the Convention Center for a press pass -- some 300 from 15
> countries -- found the following "Media Alert" from the PR firm of
> Abrams-Rubaloff & Lawrence in their press kit: ...

> The whole presentation was an attempt to take advantage of the assembled
> media, orchestrated by A-R&L, probably at the behest of Mr. Wyatt (someone
> had to pay for their services, after all), and probably as advance publicity
> for his forthcoming video -- which, I predict, will extol the reality of the
> Sims fragment to the highest heavens, in an effort to sell videos and make
> money.

> I repeat: A-R&L _created_ the media circus, and they did it under false
> pretenses. _No press conference was held, nor was one ever intended_.
> Derrell Sims, Roger Leir, Chris Wyatt and Russell VernonClark were all
> whisked out the back door of the auditorium and into a waiting car, while
> the press had been told that the press conference would follow the
> presentation, and would be held in the lobby in the front of the building.
> (To their credit, Paul Davids and Jesse Marcel, Jr. did face the press.)

Hi Dennis,

Well, have any ufologists then borne down on A-R&L, or whomever informed
them there would be a press conference, and let them know how crummy it
was for them to do such a thing?  I take it it's the latter, and his/her
identity is not known.  Thanks for the information about A-R&L.

> This was the way it was planned from the start, and this is the way it was
> orchestrated and carried out. No press conference was ever intended.
> Nor was any "chain of evidence" presented that would tie the small fragment,
> an inch and a quarter wide and which looks like a rock, to either 1947 or
> Roswell, only a statement by Sims that the anonymous individual who gave it
> to him _said_ it came from Roswell.

We often hear that a confession of identity will be forthcoming within the
next few months or year on related matters, but such never seems to come
about. No doubt the publicity that is whipped up discourages the
witness/finder from ever coming out of anonymity.

> I'd've been much more impressed with VernonClark's "courage" if he had stuck
> around long enough to answer a few questions, as previously promised and
> advertized.

I would hope I would have if I had been in his place, but if he had not
intended to be in on a news conference, and had never personally promised
to, that's quite a different matter.  He had to choose between the lesser
of evils, one being enhanced ridicule from colleagues if he participated
in it.

> I think the fragment may indeed turn out to be "manufactured" in outer
> space. For all I know, it may be some kind of tektite or something similar.
> In other words, it could indeed be "manufactured," but that wouldn't
> necessarily mean it was made by alien minds. Nor would it necessarily mean
> that it was found near Roswell, New Mexico, in the year 1947. I eagerly
> await the published paper.

> In the meantime, whoever perpetrated the original "press conference" has a
> considerable backlog of questions to answer.

   Jim Deardorff