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From: Brian Cuthbertson <brianc@fc.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:02:45 -0600 (CST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:31:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Sighting at sea - 12-97

Folks,

Regarding the recent report posted here of the huge UFO
supposedly observed off the Texas coast near Corpus Cristi:

>From: "Ben Field" <ben@abcfield.force9.co.uk>
>To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: UFO Report - Sighting at sea
>Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 17:44:29 -0000

>I thought this may be of interest to some of you, again it is a UFO
>Report reported on the B.U.F.O.D. Space, Above and Beyond website :

>http://www.abcfield.force9.co.uk

>All the best....Ben Field
>ben@abcfield.force9.co.uk

> <report text snipped - see above web site>

I forwarded this report to an old college friend of mine now at
NASA/Marshall.  I thought his response (below) was worth posting
to the list.  He makes some good points.  Any report this
dramatic should make ripples somewhere.  If not, it has to be
suspect.  There were 250 supposed witnesses and cameras as well.
So as the ad says, "Where's the beef?".  I'm not saying its
bogus, but it should be taken with a grain of salt until
corroborating evidence appears.  (Sorta like an autopsy film most
of us are acquainted with :-)
_____

To: Brian Cuthbertson <brianc@fc.net>
From: ***** <*********.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: interesting sighting
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:26:56 -0600

Brian,

This just can't have happened.  For one thing, I have no idea
what the guy is talking about when he mentions a "bore" "140.65
feet thick" that "drills the hole into the ocean floor."  Oil
drill stems aren't within two orders of magnitude of that
diameter.  Next, if something disabled a drill rig 30 miles off
Corpus it would be international headline news that very night --
we're talking many thousands to millions of dollars of damage to
a private company.  If no one else, at least their insurance
company would be mounting a huge investigation as to how the
damage was done.  And 30 miles off shore is about twice the
distance to the horizon, so a huge craft lifting off would become
visible in Corpus itself after rising only a few tens of feet
from the surface.

Again, think of it.  Kilobucks of damage, maybe more, and 250
witnesses, and this DOESN'T make the news except on a ufo
website?  It ain't reasonable!

_____

-Brian Cuthbertson