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From: RGates8254 <RGates8254@aol.com> [Robert Gates]
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:28:49 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 01:02:41 -0500
Subject: Re: Jim Dilettoso Finally Exposed for Good?


>  To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" <updates@globalserve.net>
>  From: "Jerome Clark" <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>  Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Jim Dilettoso Finally Exposed for Good?
>  Date: Tue, 10 Mar 98 20:22:52 PST

<snip Bob Shells msg>

>  Hi, Chris, Bob, and everybody,

>  This continuing discussion raises an interesting question, one to
>  which I, as a historian of this subject with long memory and long
>  experience in it, increasingly give thought. Are we living in the
>  golden age of the saucer charlatan, or is it just that with all
>  the media outlets available today that did not exist in the
>  earlier history of the UFO controversy, the charlatans and
>  bullslingers are more visible than ever?  I still don't have an
>  answer to that question.

Jerry,

Personal opinion is that we DO NOT live in a golden age
of the saucer  charlatan   We do live in an age where anybody
and everybody can post their tale on a Web site, go on the
lecture circuit, release their own videos etc etc.

Had Adamski or Van Tassel been around today they probably would
have had their own videos, web sites with their tales and stories
and would have been invited on to the UFO lecture circuit.  The
sponsors of the lectures would have justified with the rational
of "well our job is to just put the story out so that people can
agree or disagree with them and come to their own conclusions.

The ease and availability of mass communication has also led to a
marked (in my opinion) increase in UFO documentarys, videos etc.
Unlike the 50s when the movie U.F.O. was considered to be the big
"event" of the UFO community.

Overall, I think this is and has been good, you just must
hopefully use sound judgements in the material that we see.

My opinion, for whatever its worth.


Cheers,
Robert