From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@JPS.NET>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:49:26 -0700
Fwd Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 10:59:36 -0400
Subject: P-1947: MUFON Accomplishments
Jan Aldrich wrote:
>Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:04:11 -0700
>From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
>Subject: Re: MUFON Accomplishments
>To: PROJECT-1947@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
>>Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 02:37:06 -0700
>>From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@JPS.NET>
>>Subject: MUFON Accomplishments
>>To: PROJECT-1947@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
>Hi Larry,
><snip>
>>I don't want to enter this debate.
>>I must add, however that the Mufon UFO Journal, with one of the
>>longest runs in a spotty publishing world, has provided me and
>>my *U* UFO Database with no less than 1005 sightings as the
>>primary source .. some 5.8% .. which is pretty considerable.
>>Only one or two other sources (books/journals etc.) have
>>contributed more, out of a list of hundreds.
>>The MJ is credited as a secondary source for an additional
>>383 listings.My biggest complaint is that an awful lot (or so
>>I hear) of very good reports lie hidden somewhere in Texas,
>>and never saw the light of day in the MJ or anywhere else.
>Larry, you would probably be surprised. I visited MUFON after
>the Austin Symposium. They did have large amount of
>reports--filed by location, then by date--but not as many as I
>would have thought. They did not have many for 1952 and before,
>the time I was interested in for that visit. Appearances are
>deceiving.
>I think much of the material is decentralized and not
>necessarily at Seguin. (See the earlier post about Georgia
>sightings.)
>One fatal error that Walt made was turning down George Fawcett's
>collection. ("I don't want these scrapbook and all those
>clippings. Just junk.") Talk about infuriating mistakes this
>one is a whopper. George's collections contain many reports--no
>just clippings--from the time before MUFON. Fawcett's early
>report forms were inadequate, and they were hardly worth
>anything unless people wrote additional details one the back,
>which many people did. Fawcett's collections would have nearly
>doubled the material on hand at Seguin and Walt could have sold
>off the books, magazines and other material and used the
>proceeds for the MUFON treasury. A big mistake! Certainly not
>an effort to preserve useful material.
>>Best wishes
>>- Larry Hatch
>--
>Jan Aldrich
>Project 1947
>http://www.iufog.org/project1947/
>P. O. Box 391, Canterbury, CT 06331, USA
>Telephone: (860) 546-9135
Jan: Thank you for your timely post.
I had gotten quite a different impression from someone once
close to the inaction there .. lots of good reports held back
from the UFO community at large for various petty reasons.
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