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From: Tim D. Brigham <devilsad@ksinc.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:05:35 -0600
Fwd Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:30:31 -0500
Subject: Y2K and UFOs


>Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:04:49 +0000
>To: Masinaigan <Masinaigan@aol.com>
>From: John Hayes <jhayes@cableinet.co.uk>
>Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 4, Number 6

>    UFO ROUNDUP
>Volume 4, Number 6
>February 8, 1999

>Editor: Joseph Trainor

>Masinaigan@aol.com

<snips>


>PENTAGON CHANGES NAME OF Y2K READINESS EXERCISE

>According to WorldNet Daily, the Pentagon is still planning a
>nationwide call-up of the National Guard for May 1 but has
>changed the name of the exercise.

>WorldNet Daily "has confirmed that the National Guard is indeed
>planning a nationwide mobilization test. But due to the
>publicity surrounding the original plans, the name has been
>changed from COMEX/MOBEX to Communications CPX," or Exercise
>COMMO CPX 99.

>Lt. Col. Kirk Krist, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Y2K Task
>Force, said the exercise is just a test of the Army's
>communications system in the event of Y2K-related blackouts and
>not a dress rehearsal for Operation Abacus.

>"'We are still planning on holding the COMEX/MOBEX but we have
>officially changed the name to COMMUNICATIONS CPX to avoid any
>assumptios that we plan to mobilize the entire (USA) National
>Guard on 31 December 1999. We do not plan to do that,' explained
>Lt. Col. Kirk Krist of the Y2K Task Force."

>"'The purpose of the exercise...is to test the high- frequency
>radio network the Guard will use in the event there is a failure
>of telephone communications" as a result of the expected Y2K
>computer crisis.

>Over 460,000 National Guardsmen in all fifty of the USA's states
>will participate in the three-day exercise beginning May 1,
>1999." (Many thanks to Y2K Newswire for February 2, 1999 for
>this item.)

Y2K is a subject which I have seen discussed on UFO web pages,
in UFO discussion groups (not this one though, at least as far
as I have seen), email and print UFO related bulletins, etc. Not
until now did I really bother to ask why.  The Y2K issue is one
that interests me, as it probably interests most people to some
degree or another, but why is it being more and more commonly
associated with UFOs, or is this just an incorrect perception on
my part?  Why do publications which cover UFOs seem more likely
to cover Y2K than, say, a bird watching mailing list, a journal
on evolutionary biology or anything else?  I do not see the
Clinton impeachment affair (no pun) mentioned in American UFO
publications or discussion groups, and that is a major news
event in US circles, so why Y2K?  I ask this with no disrespect
to the UFO Roundup crew (their e-zine is one of the best ways to
catch up on the happenings in the UFO field, IMO), I mean this
as a general question regarding what some people seem to feel is
some sort of relationship between the subjects (or else it
wouldnt be covered).

In what way does Y2K relate to UFOs?  Is it some conspiritorial
aspect? hints of government quietly planning for social
instability (as some maintain they must do for 'when the reality
of UFOs is disclosed'?  My fear is that it merely provides
fodder for those who say that the UFO field is just "saucer
groupies" who are all millenialists, paranoid people awaiting
any sign of armaggeddon, or people who have nothing to do but
await the end of the world, be it brought by "the alien threat"
or riots in the streets.

Tim Brigham


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