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From: Sean Jones <tedric@tedric.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 14:54:32 +0100
Fwd Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 22:52:31 -0400
Subject: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity
>From: clark@canby.mn.frontiercomm.net [Jerome Clark]
>Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 12:25:19 PDT
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: RE: UFO UpDate: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity
Hi Jerry, Linda, Scott, Errol and everyone else
>If a UFO witness requests anonymity, it is our ethical responsibility
>to guarantee it and protect it. Period.
>Jerry Clark
Jerry and all
Whenever a witness comes forward with a sighting (or whatever) and they
request anonymity they get it.full stop.period, whatever.
The only place that their name is placed/put/mentioned is the form which
I fill out with their details on. After that their name is never mention
again, even when I update other ufologists on the case, (if they are
working with me on it), we use the pseudonym that I and the witness has
agreed on.
It has only been since programs like the X Files and Dark Skies have
witness's not been ridiculed to pieces. I know I've seen it happen.
This fact alone is probably one of the major factors in why more and
more people are willing to come forward now with their accounts of
strange happenings. I also acknowledge the work of others like Budd
Hopkins, John Velez etc for educating the masses but it is the TV that
has made more difference these last few years and lets face it before
that nearly every witness was afraid to come forward fearing the worst
kind of ridicule from their _friends_. I know of one witness who a few
years ago would not tell a soul about a plain and simple unidentified
light in the night sky that he saw on a regular basis fearing that
people would label him a nutter or worse, when he did eventually mention
to someone who told me I was able to put his mind at rest and tell him
all about the planet Venus.
So in conclusion, I agree 1000 percent with your statement, anonymity is
exactly that, TOTAL anonymity. Full stop end of story.
There are things in the universe billions of years
older than our human race. They are vast, they are
timeless. If they are aware of us at all we are of
no more consequence to them as ants are to us.
Sean Jones
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