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From: Don Allen <dona@totcon.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 19:07:14 -0400
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:24:09 -0400
Subject: Re: May 20th edition of Saucer Smear
Apologies if this has been already been posted here. I checked my
incoming folder, but didn't see it listed.
I always get a kick out of reading Moseley's publication. No cow is
too sacred or spared his rapier-like wit. <g>
Don
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http://www.mcs.com/~kvg/smear/v44/ss970520.htm
[Saucer Smear]
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SAUCER & UNEXPLAINED CELESTIAL EVENTS RESEARCH
SOCIETY
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EDITOR AND STILL NON-SCHEDULED MAILING ADDRESS:
SUPREME COMMANDER: NEWSLETTER P. 0. Box 1709
James W. Moseley Volume 44, No. 5 Key West, FL 33041
May 20th, 1997
[Image] National UFO Conference to be held in September![Image]
* "Smear" Editor Hops Across the "Pond" To London's Fourth Annual
"Unconvention"
* Possible Interplanetary Spaceship In Sky Near Key West, Florida!
* Tidbits of Trash
* Interplanetary Love, American Style:
* Ye Olde Book Bag:
* Letters to Ye Olde Editor:
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"SMEAR" EDITOR HOPS ACROSS THE "POND" TO LONDON'S FOURTH ANNUAL
"UNCONVENTION":
On the weekend of April 19th & 20th, your humble editor attended the 4th
annual "Unconvention", held at the Institute of Education in downtown
London, England. The reason for our invitation was apparently "50 years of
Ufology", as no one can deny that "Saucer Smear", under one title or
another, has been around for most of those fifty years!
The event was sponsored by England's Fortean Times, a beautifully printed
64-page monthly newsstand magazine edited by Bob Rickard and Paul
Sieveking. Circulation is about 60,000 - far higher than any similar
magazine on either side of the "Pond"'
The other ufological speakers at the UnConvention were Phil Klass of
CSlCOP; American science writer Patrick Huyghe; British researcher Hilary
Evans; prolific UFO author Jenny Randles; and (ugh!) abduction researcher
Budd Hopkins. Each gave an individual lecture, and then on Sunday
afternoon, all were invited to participate in a UFO panel discussion.
Unfortunately, Budd Hopkins left a written message explaining why he is
unwilling to ever appear in public with Phil Klass, so Hopkins did not
appear. In the top left photo, below, we see a styrofoam alien head
(similar to the head seen in the notorious alien autopsy video), which was
placed in the empty seat next to Klass. This was done in full view of
hundreds of people in the live audience, and naturally was the cause of
some highly refined chuckling.
Ian Simmons, who also gave a lecture on circus freaks, was the moderator of
the UFO panel. At the end of it, he gave a blistering condemnation of
Hopkins' antics, which brought cheers from the audience. We don't think
Hopkins will sell many copies of "Witnessed" (the Linda Napolitano
abduction story) in England!
The top right photo shows Phil Klass kissing the alien head, in the press
room, following the panel discussion. Note that he wears a button with
"abductee" written on it.
Klass was a hit at the UnConvention, but in our presentation we tried to
distance ourselves from his totally negative viewpoint. We spoke concerning
half a dozen or so unexplainable experiences we have had over the years,
both in the UFO and psychic fields. We then went to questions but time ran
out, and we did not have the chance to lambast all of the American
researchers who deserve it! Maybe next time.
In the bottom left photo, we see (left to right) MUFON's Dennis Stacy (who
was not on the program this year) and Hilary Evans. They just happen to be
co-editors of a brand new anthology published by Fortean Times and called
"UFO - 1947-1997 - Fifty Years of Flying Saucers", which contains a
contribution by your "Smear" editor. (More details about this book further
along in this issue.)
The bottom right photo shows Bob Rickard of Fortean Times, posing under a
saucer-shaped UFO. In an Internet text written just after the close of the
UnConvention, Rickard wrote: "...Phil Klass, the great ogre of ufology,
came across as a charming and witty man, and we enjoyed his company. Jim
Moseley was a real cracker too..." Now, if we only knew what "cracker"
means in British slang!
We should emphasize that most of the speakers at the UnConvention delved
into topics other than flying saucers, as Fortean research includes just
about everything & anything that is peculiar. Among the topics: The Indian
Rope Trick; crop circles; The Creeping Coffins of Barbados; lake monsters;
the Green Children of Woolpet (a weird 12th century chronicle); Satanic
abuse cults; Remote Viewing; Who Really Wrote Shakespeare `s Plays &
Poems?; Earth Lights; Haunted Heads and Screaming Sculls; Cold Fusion; and
Conspiracies.
We heard few of the lectures other than our own, as it was just too cozy to
sit in the spacious press room, where one could drink endless coffee, smoke
cigarettes, and give interviews to the many real and semi-real press
representatives who were there.
On the Thursday before the UnConvention, Patrick Huyghe and your "Smear"
editor sat in one London location all day and did nearly twenty radio
interviews that had been set up for us by the Fortean Times' publicist. One
interview had to be canceled at the last minute because the IRA had just
set off a bomb in the town (Leeds) where the radio station was located!
All in all, the UnConvention was a well-attended (about 1500 people) and
extremely well organized event. Our compliments to the chefs!
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Following the UnConvention, we spent three days sightseeing in southern
England, hosted by Paul Fuller, editor of "The Crop Watcher" and co-author
with Jenny Randles of a 1990 book entitled "Crop Circles - A Mystery
Solved". Our sincere thanks to Paul Fuller for his kind hospitality!
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POSSIBLE INTERPLANETARY SPACESHIP IN SKY NEAR KEY WEST, FLORIDA!
On April 15th, a mysterious unidentified object was seen in broad daylight
making strange maneuvers in the sky over Big Coppitt Key, just a few miles
from your editor's home in Key West. It was observed by several people
driving on U.S. Route One, and was photographed for our local newspaper.
The picture, too faint to reproduce here, shows a round object in the sky;
but "experts" at the newspaper claimed the blue dot on the film is "most
likely a film defect". But how can a film defect be seen in the sky, we
wonder!?
Several years ago, your "Smear" editor was appointed by MUFON to be their
Section Director for Monroe County, Florida, where Key West is located. We
made a vow to ourselves that during our tenure in this high post, the
Monroe County skies would be safe from all interplanetary intruders - and
as far as we know, this was the case. Then we were fired from our high post
by the Florida State Director, for not doing enough to help their Cause.
Now that we are merely a "Journal Subscriber" (J.S.) in MUFON, we no longer
have any obligation to keep the skies here safe from invasion, and thus you
really don't know what terrible things may appear in the Monroe County
skies in the future! (Shudder!!)
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TIDBITS OF TRASH
* Again we hear, as previously reported in "Smear", that pilot Kent
Jeffrey, author of the "Roswell Declaration", has changed his opinion
completely and now believes that the Roswell Incident was definitely
not an interplanetary event. His change of heart will be described in
detail in a future issue of the MUFON Journal...
* We knew this would be an outstanding issue of "Smear" when we came
across the story of the levitating frog! Ain't science grand!? In
mid-April, British and Dutch scientists succeeded in floating a small
frog in midair, by using a magnetic field a million times stronger
than that of the Earth. Plants, grasshoppers and fish have also been
made to float, and these scientists say it is possible with a human
being, as well. Anti gravity is finally upon us. Wheee!...
* The latest issue (#7) of Greg Bishop's zine "The Excluded Middle" has
some really good stuff in it, including a mostly favorable review of
the Gray Barker documentary "Whispers from Space". There is also a
fascinating article about UMMO. UMMO was the longest, most complex
hoax in UFO history, centering in Spain and France in the 1960s and
1970s. We have long been intrigued with this case, and we urge you to
send for this zine at: P.O. Box 481077, Los Angeles, Ca. 90048...
* The Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide apparently has put a damper on
plans for the Roswell (N.M.) Festival, planned for the first week of
July. An all-night rock concert and a two-hour television special are
now both in doubt, due to the fact that potential sponsors incorrectly
connect the cult suicides with UFO study in general. The Festival will
go right on, however, and your humble "Smear" editor will be there!...
* Perhaps it was the shadow of Heaven's Gate that also put a damper on
Dr. Steven Greer's Washington, D.C. conclave, last April 9th & 10th,
in which he attempted to present to the carefully-screened press a
parade of pro-UFO witnesses, in hopes of bringing about Congressional
hearings on the subject. By "carefully-screened", we refer to the fact
that Phil Klass, whose press credentials are far more authentic than
most peoples', was physically barred from the press conference. What
madness on the part of Greer and his followers! As if a hostile word
from Klass could send our interplanetary visitors scurrying back to
their home planet!
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INTERPLANETARY LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE:
At the right you see a black & white drawing by artist and [Image]
abductee/interplanetary lover David Huggins. In our March 20th
issue, we tried to reproduce a Huggins painting that did not have enough
contrast for proper photo offset reproduction. This time, the basic subject
of the drawing is abundantly clear, we feel. In fact, perhaps children
under 40 years of age should be warned against reading this issue of
"Smear".
Regarding the drawing, Huggins writes:
"...While I was in the country this woman showed up (at night). I
was not totally `out'. I was allowed some control in the
situation. We made love. (We) heated up the bed a few degrees. I
remember feeling my climax. After we were finished, we stood
looking at each other. She was at least a head taller than me...
A month and a half went by and one night there was the woman and
she was holding a baby!..."
Huggins has several showings of his interplanetary paintings scheduled
during the next few months.
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YE OLDE BOOK BAG:
* In this the Year of the Saucer, nearly everyone in the Field has a
book just out or a book about to come out. Who is going to read all
this stuff, we ask! Our own book, co-authored with Karl Pflock, is
called "Shockingly Close to the Truth!", and should be available some
time early next year (hopefully).
In the meanwhile, there is the new book already referred to, "UFO -
1947-1997 - Fifty Years of Flying Saucers", with contributions by
James Moseley; Karl Pflock; Jerome Clark; Michael Swords; Jacques
Vallee; John Rimmer of England's "Magonia" magazine; Raymond Fowler;
Richard Haines; Patrick Huyghe; (ugh!) Richard Hall; Robert Durant;
Jenny Randles; Hilary Evans; and several others. Just published by
John Brown Publishing Ltd., London...
* Next, "The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials - A Complete Overview of
* Next, "The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials - A Complete Overview of
[Image] Alien Lifeforms - Based on Actual Accounts and Sightings".
Written by science writer Patrick Huyghe and published by Avon
Books (see illustration at the left). Says Huyghe, "I have done the
same thing for aliens as other people have done for birds." Right
On!...
* Next, Kal K. Korff comes forth with another book from Prometheus
Books, the publishing arm of the dreaded CSICOP organization. (Last
year they published Korff's expose on contactee Billy Meier.) This new
tome by Korff is called "The Roswell UFO Crash - What They Don't Want
You to Know". It will be followed later this year by a somewhat
similar anti-Roswell book by Phil Klass, from the same publisher.
* Finally, a re-issue of Gray Barker's 1956 classic "They Know Too Much
Abcut Flying Saucers", with an insipid new introducticn by John Keel.
Of ccurse, your humble "Smear" editor is one of the main characters in
this fascinating semi-fictional book, and we urge you all to read it!
Published by IllumiNet Press, P.O. Box 2808, Lilburn, Ga. 30226...
There are still more new UFO & related books here at our Headquarters, but
no more Space to write about them till next time!
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LETTERS TO YE OLDE EDITOR:
* KAL K. KORFF writes as follows:
Just a short note to share a few things with you: I have a
new book that just came out called "The Roswell UFO Crash:
What They Don't Want You to Know" and it represents 16 years
worth of research. For the first time ever the true nature
of what was recovered near Roswell is DEFINITIVELY proven,
the book is loaded with "smoking guns."
The book breaks my silence on many issues that I have held
inside me for 16 years, remember, people like Stanton
Friedman and Bill Moore USED to be mentors of mine. Now, for
the first time ever, I reveal new insights into their
methods and claims, the details of which will shock many
people. I really wish Friedman, for example would quit
DUCKING the research of Robert Todd, whose conclusions are
independently VERIFIED and VINDICATED in my new book. Also
Friedman has called me a "Johnny come lately to Roswell" on
his WEB page. I expect Friedman to APOLOGIZE and CORRECT
this mistake because he KNOWS BETTER! (I first started
investigating Roswell when I used to visit Friedman at his
home in Union City when I was in high school, a fact
Friedman conveniently "forgets"!)
My new book also corrects the numerous errors in other
Roswell UFO books, especially the up-and-coming hilarious
tome panted by Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle. While
they call their work "Beyond Roswell," a more accurate title
for it should be "Beyond Gulliblity."
Speaking of Hesemann, I am reminded of Eduard "Billy" Meier.
Hesemann is licking his wounds here too, since yes it is
TRUE that Kalliope Meier (Meier's Greek wife) has DIVORCED
him now and has told the Swiss courts UNDER OATH that she
NEVER BELIEVED her husband's claims of "Pleiadian" contact!
She's even ADMITTED to the courts of helping her husband LIE
about them and FAKE material and photos! Of course, NONE of
this has detoured either Hesemann or Wendelle Stevens, the
latter of whom has remained curiously SILENT about the Meier
case ever since my expose book came out last year.
Back to Roswell, I interviewed everyone from the Mayor of
Roswell to the late Dr. Donald Menzel's widow and daughter
for my new book (so yes, it even addresses MJ-l2). The
inside "scoop" is also presented on Bill Moore being a
"disinformation" agent' and there's a chapter on alien
autopsy and some behind-the-scenes info there.
The book is in hardcover format, has dozens of photos in it,
some of which have never been published before and has
hundreds of footnotes. It is available in bookstores across
the country or from services like Arcturus, and has already
been mentioned on MSNBC and in U.S. News & World Report
magazine. The book's lSBN number (if anyone wishes to onler
a copy) is: 1573921270. Ofcourse, Supreme One, you are
mentioned in the book and in the index as well.
Editor's Note: A long, bitter blast from Billy Meier's Web page
attempts to refute Kalliope's statements against Billy.
* ROBERT TODD writes as follows:
"Thanks for your recent postcard, and for all of your
kindness (and especially your tolerance) over the past
several years. Enclosed please find $lO.OO in cash to renew
and/or extend my non-subscription to `Saucer Smear, perhaps
the best publication in the UFO field.
"I am - finally - winding down my operations, with the hope
of being out of the UFO field in the very near future."
* Author & researcher PATRICK HUYGHE writes;
"Robert Todd is the best researcher in the entire UFO field
- bar none. But I don't believe for a second that he `can't
wait to be finished with the UFO subject', as he states in
his last letter to you. I've known him for almost two
decades, and he's always threatened to quit the UFO field.
Trouble is, he's hooked. As you and I well know, UFOs are a
drug.
"In the same vein, Todd says he's waiting for the fat lady
to sing at the Roswell opera house. I think he's in for a
long wait. The day Roswell gets an opera house is the day
aliens will land on the White House lawn (to get a
presidential injunction against fat ladies singing at....)
* Roswell star KEVIN RANDLE writes as follows:
"Enclosed is a page from Don Schmitt's most recent issue of
`Roswell Reporter' (though dated Summer 1996, it was
actually just published). Also enclosed is a copy of a brief
letter that I sent on to Stanton Friedman about this. I find
it interesting that Schmitt is publishing a letter today
that was sent to him more than six years ago. If you read it
carefully, you will see that it had to be sent before the
publication of my first Roswell book. And, as you can see,
there is no date on the letter, so the impression can be
left that it is something that Friedman just recently sent
to him!
"Given what we now know about Schmitt, I'm not surprised by
this tactic. I find it interesting that he is using praise
from six or seven years ago to bolster his position today.
What does that tell us about the man? Why not ask Stan
Friedman for a new letter about how he feels today? How
would Stan address the issues of Schmitt denying he worked
at the post office when he does, and his claim that he holds
academic degrees when he does not?"
* PHIL KLASS, the hottest vaudeville star in London, writes:
"This letter is prompted by Bill Moore's denial that he
might have created a counterfeit General Schulgen Draft
Collection Memo (SDCM). IF it is counterfeit, as Robert
Todd's rigorous analysis indicates, let Moore study Todd's
analysis and issue a statement as to whether he agrees that
the SDCM he first made public in 1986 is indeed counterfeit.
Then we can consider who might have created the counterfeit
document.
"My own list of possible suspects includes the following;
Dolly Parton, Sgt.Richard Doty, Richard Nixon, Bill Moore,
Pope John Paul, Boris Yeltsin, Sir Edmund Hillary, and you.
I did not visit the National Archives from mid-1976 until
mid-1987 (following release of the MJ-l2 papers), which
disqualifies me as a suspect...
"Jean Sider ought to check the facts before he pontificates
about debunkers. This debunker `emerged' more than three
years before the USAF shut down Project Blue Book, not
aferwards as Sider claims."
* JEFFREY KING writes:
"Does Bill Moore expect anyone to take seriously his wild
accusations regarding who faked the Schulgen draft
collection memorandum that he published? If Moore is really
interested in getting to the bottom of the mystery, why
doesn't he accept Robert Todd's challenge in `The Spot
Report' and name the source for his copy of the document?
This would at least allow an independent check of Moore's
sources..."
* Roswell Researcher JERRY LUCCI writes:
"...Let me start by complimenting you on another great
non-issue of `Smear'. I think your latest non-issue proves
beyond any shadow of a doub that Ufology has become the
study and research of the individuals who claim they study
and research UFOs. As a matter of fact, perhaps the two
greatest sources of information are `Smear' and `SUN'.
(Would anyone have believed thirty years ago that in 1997
Moseley and Klass would provide the major forums for the
truth?)
"I'm sure that by now you have heard or seen `The Alien
Interview'. Just in case you haven't, there is a video
allegedly taken at Area 51 showing a live alien, Grey type.
I have seen about thirty seconds of footage, and while it is
very impressive, it's nothing we haven't seen on the
`X-files' or `Independence Day'. However, Whitley Strieber,
famous fiction writer and abductee, has endorsed this as
showing one of his beloved `visitors'. In any event, we will
be hearing lots more about this in coming months. "By the
way, just what is Bill Moore doing or not doing these days?
And have you heard anything from our old friend Todd
Zechel?"
Zechel is apparently in well-deserved ufological retirement. Moore
writes us that he will be traveling semi-mysteriously for the next few
weeks.- Ed
* KARL PFLOCK, co-author of the forthcoming book "Shockingly Close to
the Truth!", writes as follows:
"John Alexander's letter (in the April 20th `Smear') re Lt.
Colonel Phillip Corso is interesting both for what it does
and does not say: Taking the latter first, in a March 24th
telephone conversation, John told me he not only had checked
out Corso's military career but had extensively researched
the histories of earthly technologies (e.g., transistors,
computer chips, lasers) which Corso claims are the spawn of
alien artifacts recovered from (which?) one of the many
alleged Roswell `crash' sites and provided to American
industry by himself and his conveniently late boss General
Arthur Trudeau, beginning circa 1961.
"John told me his investigations confirmed what he (and I)
thought to be true: (1) The historical record of these
technologies is clear, complete, and unambiguous,
establishing without a doubt that they are products of good
ol' homo sap skull sweat, with no help of any sort from
alien know-how; and (2) Some were developed before Corso
claimed he and Trudeau gave American industry a jump start
with alien goodies. Why John didn't include this information
in his letter, along with his 'character reference' for
Corso, only he can tell us.
"As for Corso`s alleged heroic exposure of sordid and secret
Cold War activities concerning POWs and decades of U.S.
incursions into Soviet airspace with significant losses of
aircraft and aircrews - baloney! Most of what Corso had to
say to Congress was old news, and much of the rest was
highly questionable. And Project Horizon, the Army's
moon-base plan? Anyone who has paid any serious attention to
U.S. space programs since the 50s has known about it for
decades. I think I first heard of it from the late
science-fiction great Robert Heinlein in the mid-60s, and
somewhere in a box in my garage, I have a fairly lengthy,
unclassified summary of the Army plan.
"And as for Corso being a `fine gentleman' and `no bulishit
artist', well, I guess we all have our own standards. In
January 1993, my wife and I had the `pleasure' of spending
several hours with the good colonel in and around Roswell,
and, as I noted in an earlier missive in `Smear', at best
he's Frank Kaufmann with credentials!
"A final thought: If Corso was such a big deal, why is it he
retired from the Army as a dime-a-dozen lieutenant colonel
after only 20 years of service?"
* And, DR. BRUCE MACCABEE writes:
"Thank you for giving the book by Ed Walters and me the most
valuable endorsement: `Buy this book!' However, your
comment, `We are astounded that Dr. Maccabee has signed on
as co-author, though his reputation for scientific
objectivity is not likely to decrease any further than it
already has', puts into doubt your 'scientific objectivity'.
It indicates to me that you still don't `get it'.
"Perhaps this is because you didn't read the book before you
made your comments, or perhaps you didn't believe what you
read, or perhaps your mind is made up and you don't want to
take the chance that your opinion might be swayed by the
analyses presented therein. I have carefully described the
controversy over some of Ed's photos and demonstrated how
they are not simple double exposure hoaxes, as loudly
claimed by the skeptics. In 1988 the skeptics, which
included me, were quite correct in proposing the double
exposure method as a potential explanation for Ed's photos.
However, since 1988, photographic evidence and analyses have
shown that there are photos which could not have been made
by this method. Moreover, any other more complex method
(Hollywood-level techniques) would be far beyond Ed's
capacity. In other words, there are photos which are
definitely not hoaxes!
"And then there are hundreds of other sightings. Of the
photo/video cases, 25 are from Gulf Breeze (including 9
non-Ed cases) and 9 are from other states and countries.
There are a total of 91 Gulf Breeze sightings (only 25 by
Ed) which include my sighting and your sighting. Of the 91,
33 are analyzed in detail. 45 non-Gulf Breeze sightings are
also presented.
"I can be reached by E-mail at: 72326.3625@compuserve.com.
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[Image] London's Institute of
Psychiatry has been treating
666 - the number of the Beast "George", a shy 20-year-old who fell
800 666 6666-- the toll-free in love with his Austin Metro. Its
number front end reminded him of a smiling
2 x 4 x 666-- the lumber of child and its rear aroused him; he
the Beast would crouch by its smoking exhaust
668-- the neighbor of the and masturbate. The Institute is
Beast trying `orgasmic reconditioning',
666a -- the tenant of the encouraging "George" to masturbate
Beast with photos of cars, switching at the
last moment to pictures of naked
women.
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