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From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:28:42 -0700
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:41:02 -0400
Subject: Socorro: The Zamora 'Insignia'


 >From: Serge Salvaille <sergesa@connectmmic.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
 >Subject: Re: Socorro: The Zamora 'Insignia'
 >Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:20:08 -0700

 >From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
 >To: 02 - UFO UpDates Subscribers <":;"@connectmmic.net>
 >Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 15:41 Fragment
 >Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: Socorro: The Zamora 'Insignia'

 >>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:44:00 -0400
 >>From: Andy Roberts <Brigantia@compuserve.com>
 >>Subject: Socorro: The Zamora 'Insignia'
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

 >>>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:53:14 -0300
 >>>From: Donald Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >>>To: updates@globalserve.net
 >>>Subject: Re: Socorro: The Zamora 'Insignia'

 ><snip>

 >>With any UFO case it's perfectly reasonable (before you all
 >>start yipping) -nay, essential - to fit any relevant parts of
 >>the sighting to phenomena we already know exist. Which in this
 >>case is why the balloon theory is perfectly feasible.

 >My explanation of the Socorro case...

 >I believe Zamora saw a flying tatooed elephant experiencing an
 >intestinal disorder known as meteorism. I leave to your
 >imagination (pun intended) how some huge fart got ignited.

 >This explanation - which I hereby copyright - covers every angle
 >of Zamora's sighting: the size of the thing, the roar, the
 >exhaust. You name it.

 >The landing marks? Come on: you can't winch up a crashed
 >elephant into thin air. I propose four 30 foot beams chained
 >together by amateurs to lift the dead elephant and put it in the
 >back of a truck.

 >Fits the bill.

 >>Oh, alright, I'm a pelicanist and proud!

 >What exactly do you pride yourself in?

 >Honesty?

 >Coherence?

 >Pelicanism?

Dear Serge:

I wrote this really nice repartee about an hour ago, but my
machine threw a fit. Nevertheless, the gist was:

1) As interesting as a balloon solution for the Zamora events
may have seemed, it just doesn't wash. Personally, I am keeping
the Zamora sighting listed with the same ratings they had for a
long long time.

2) When a "pelicanization" becomes really really absurd, as has
NOT yet happened here, I would like to offer another word: "
Penguinization ".

Penguins are not only cute, comical and suicidally devoted to
their young, they are also better swimmers than the fish they
eat ( obviously! ).

They have one big limitation. Zoos aside, they only live in the
polar extremes of the Southern Hemisphere.

I therefore suggest that the term " Penguinization ", with all
its variants, be reserved for UFO explanations which not only
are at variance with most of the the facts [ like some recent
Socorro arguments ], but which are so bone-headedly stupid as to
make the Hollow-Earth types cluck their tongues and roll their
eyes..

With (mostly) good intentions:

- Larry Hatch