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From: Bob Shell <bob@bobshell.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:45:06 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:48:37 -0400
Subject: Re: UFO Name Change?


>Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:53:05 +0100
>From: Donald  Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: UFO Name Change?

>>From: Leanne Martin <leanne_martin@hotmail.com>
>>To: updates@globalserve.net
>>Subject: Fwd: UFO name change.
>>Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:34:52 PDT

>>List,

>>I thought this may be of interest.

>>Leanne

>>>From: Peter & Lynette Johnson <prlfj@netyp.com.au>
>>>To: <Aussiepost@listbot.com>
>>>Subject: UFO name change.

>>>The Keith Basterfield Network Australasia -

>>http://www.fan.net.au/~tkbnetw

>>>It has been suggested by Hal Mckenzie, I believe, that the name
>>>'UFO' be changed to 'Off World Craft' (OWC) to remove the stigma
>>>associated with the former, it also removes associations with
>>>natural unidentified objects.

>>>What do you all think.

>>>Peter J. :+AD4-) ooroo.

>Hi Leanne

>How about an ETC - Extra-terrestrial Craft?

>Don Ledger


A LONG time ago I wrote an article in Gnostica in which I
proposed that the term UFO had too much of a stigma attached to
it and that it implied things which were assumptions.

Both of these suggestions now use "Craft". We do not know that
this is the case. Nor do we know that they are "Off World" or
"Extraterrestrial". These are unproved assumptions, and may well
be wrong.

When I wrote the Gnostica article back in the early 70s, I
suggested that we all adopt the term UAP, "Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena", which carries no unfounded assumptions.

BTW, I do not take credit for coming up with this acronym. My
old friend Ivan Sanderson came up with it and promoted it as
well.

Bob