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From: Bryan Butcher <being@concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 23:44:36 +0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 01:21:48 -0500
Subject: Re: The Next Step


> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 11:50:23 -0800 (PST)
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>, updates@globalserve.net
> From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: The Next Step


<very big snip of a very well written rebuttal...kudos jim>

> I believe Alex's orb sighting is probably one more sighting of
> this nature. Agreed it may only be a coincidence that it
> resembled a lens flare, or as Bob Shell would emphasize, perhaps
> it is a lens flare and the real UFO eluded capture on film.  (But
> Alex's other photos of it, though less distinct, suggest this
> isn't the case.)

> We need to keep in mind the category of UFO sightings wherein the
> object passed itself off, under cursory examination (but not
> detailed or complete examination), as a mundane human or natural
> object, and not forget that this category of UFO exists when we
> come across others of the same nature.  Don't treat Alex's
> evidence in isolation from the rest of the UFO phenomenon.

>   Jim Deardorff


Jim..

I enjoyed and appreciated the insights you gave describing how
one should look at evidence brought before us...it was quite
inspirational.

But, Bruce and I have also asked Alex if he would post the
additional images he has of the orb he captured on film and have
received one scanned photo with an array of enhancements of the
same photo.  I believe this issue of a lens flare could be
resolved simply and quickly if Alex would post additional
images...if even it's just one more.

I have been promoting on this list the validity of photography as
hard evidence to the existence of unknown phenomenon within the
reality of the known.  To ignore the photographic evidence is
anti-productive to advancing our understanding of that which is
around us.  All pictures are not explainable, nor are they
hoaxes.

With the exponential growth of cameras in the hands of everyday
people around the world, the more abundant images become
available.  The more abudant the images..the more we can decipher
which is authentic and which is not. If we disallow these images
from becoming evidence of an event because we fear them to be
hoaxes, without proving them to be so, and we can not believe the
eyewitness testimony of our fellow human beings because we
believe them to be looney, even though they have been leading
normal productive lives before the encounter...then perhaps we
have found the reasons why these "unknowns" remain unknown.

cheers,
Bryan!

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