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From: Ted Viens <drtedv@smart1.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:05:29 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:52:48 -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.

> >Jim Deardorff

> 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:

...snip...

> 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.)

> 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.

...snip...

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

> If you want to see what VernonClark himself has to say about the
> fragment between appearances on the Art Bell Show, try:

> http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/~ruvernon/Odds.n.ends/Analysis/talk

> Dennis


After a mad dash across 400 miles of Texas scrub brush, following a
near spontaneous urge to attend the, as expected, Roswell 50th
anniversary Street Circus and extravaganza on pennies a day, I almost
reluctantly, not expecting to learn much, entered the Roswell UFO
Museum and Research Center.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that
the directors were offering a weekend full of free presentations and
questions with many of the principle writers, researchers, and
witnesses.

Sunday afternoon wrapped up with an unplanned presentation by Paul
Davids and Derrel Sims.  There openings remarks were a prolonged and
detailed apology for the press conference on Friday.  They claimed
that the public relations firm that they had hired orchestrated the
presentation and instructed them to leave quickly without taking
questions.  Having paid for the media advice, they, with some
reservation, went along with the plan.  They knew that their data was
not ready for public release, and they knew that many of the academic
researchers analyzing the material were becoming wary of widespread
knowledge of their involvement.  Stanton Friedman harangued them (in a
continuing, supportive, fellow researcher kind of way) with his
suggestion that they only use forensic testing laboratories.  And when
audience questions were taken, I suggested that they and their
researchers were being presented as bumpkins from where I was
watching.  I then suggested that they simply stay quiet until they had
corroborative reports from laboratories that would publicly stand
behind their work...  They appeared receptive to the criticism.

Bye...  Ted..