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From: Ted Viens <drtedv@freewwweb.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:42:49 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:28:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Charles Schmid?


> From: Ktperehwon <Ktperehwon@aol.com> [Karl Pflock]
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:08:50 EST
> To: pulsar@compuserve.com, updates@globalserve.net
> Subject: Charles Schmid?

> >Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:26:48 -0500
> >From: James Easton <pulsar@compuserve.com>
> >Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: 'Alien Autopsy' film 'Danger' sign
> >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

> JAMES -- Quoting from your recent post on UpDates:

> >Another witness to the debris, Charles Schmid, described "some
> >material that looked like wood" and which "had some writing that
> >looked like flowers on just one side". He added, "it had pink
> >petals, centred like a flower".

> Who's Schmid?  He's a new one on me.  What's your source on him?

> BTW, as I'm sure you know, the description of the "members" as "I
> beams" comes only from Dr. Marcel, and this not until sometime
> well after he was first interviewed by Moore/Friedman.  (This
> fact somehow always gets swept under the ufological rug in
> discussions of who saw what when.)  All other credible witnesses
> to the debris found on the Foster Ranch, including Dr. Marcel's
> father (Schmid, too?), describe the "members" as being of square
> or rectangular cross section, 3/8 of an inch or so, and
> balsa-like (or, flat out, balsa) to boot.

> -- Cheers, KARL


You're right, Karl, them hucksters in Roswell were so dumb in
blowing this all out of proportion.  Why, you would think that
when handed some light, rigid strange struts, they would have
been a little more creative in comparing it to something
familiar.  Really, couldn't one of them compare it to, say,
extruded anodized aluminum tent poles?  Or fiberglass plant
stakes?  Maybe at least one could have compared them to carbon
fiber composite fish poles.  Why didn't one of these yokels
compare these weird struts to aluminized polycarbonate?  Damn
fools, why you would think that Balsa Wood was the only commonly
known feather light construction material available at the time.
And we all know how deceptive Balsa Wood can be.  Its very hard
to bend it and break it.  The  military was always machining it
to a smooth finish and painting it with a hard metallic coating.
You can't mark it with your thumbnail or small tools.  After you
pound on it, it always regains its shape.  And it is so hard to
set it on fire.  And of course, you can't blame some hayseed for
being confused when the broken ends don't reveal any grain or
pores or rings.  If only they would have been smart enough to
really recognize balsa wood when they saw it, why we wouldn't
have to be bothered talking about this neoprene and Rawin target
retrieval.

Thanks for clearing this up for me, Karl...

Bye...  Ted..