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From: James A Diss <76710.234@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 97 20:36:49 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:49:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Wingfield Bytes

>Date:  14-Mar-97 07:10:01  MsgID: 822-20231  ToID: 76710,234
>From:  UFO UpDates - Toronto >INTERNET:updates@globalserve.net
>Subj:  UFO UpDate: Wingfield Bytes

Erik, on behalf of George, forwarded another directed missive;

>Chad Deetken's criticism of Rob Irving

Like, no-one with an axe to grind with reference to crops....

> which was forged using computer software

Perhaps I'm being dense, but how is it possible to 'forge' a photograph?

> There was at that stage no suggestion that the photo was a forgery and
>no clue as to how it had been produced.

Ah, so we assume that pictures of disks in hangers are automatically
alien craft without clarification?

> "Computer enhanced" has a very different meaning to "computer created".

Indeed, it is semantically different.  'Enhance' being the
exaggeration, 'creation' being the...erm...creation.  As I
recall, the Aviano base exists, the saucer model exists
(indeed, it's probably the best known saucer, and who
would've thought that Testor would have got it right first
time), with both being combined.

> Naturally it caused quite a stir with several UFO researchers,
>especially in Italy, who assumed that it was genuine.

Key word here.  'Assumed'.

>Only much later did Irving and Fortean Times admit that the
>picture was produced using 'Photoshop' computer software to
>digitise and combine two images:  one of an open hangar for
>jet fighters at Aviano and one of a model UFO

Three images, allegedly.  The 'no hunting' sign was put in for
visual interest, and I thought was interesting wordplay.  I
mean everyones seen the 'take no photographs' signs at Area 51.

>there were quite a few people at the Fortean Times UnConvention
>in London last April who were far from satisfied with what
>appeared to have been deliberate trickery.

While through May-September in Wiltshire.....

A nobody,
JaMeS a DISS,