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From: Keith Woodard <qwoodard@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:43:53 -0800
Fwd Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:09:04 -0500
Subject: Re: On Jerry Black's Challenge to Strieber


>Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 02:52:55 +0200
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>From: Jorma Kosonen <unicab@laatikko.saunalahti.fi>
>Subject: Commentary on Jerry Black's Challenge to Whitley Strieber

>>From: Glenn Joyner <infohead@airmail.net>
>>Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 03:03:12 -0600
>>Fwd Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 15:01:48 -0500
>>Subject: Jerry Black's Challenge To Whitley Strieber

<snip>

>I regard his review valid as well as a sharp and holistic
>insight on this issue.

<snip>

That reminds me.  I never saw what I considered Black's best
point addressed by anyone

********* Begin Black text ***********

First of all, he claims, in his books, Communion and
Transformation, to have been basically traumatized by these
continual encounters with the Visitors at his isolated cabin in
New York, during 1985 and 1986, especially. He describes, in
dramatic detail, his being fearful to the point of tears, and
frightened to the point of physiological shock, at these
continual encounters with the Visitors during the numerous
weekend trips that he took to the New York cabin.

However, we are asked to believe that he regularly took his
young son, Andrew, as well as his wife, Ann, with him on these
weekend trips, knowing that the odds were very high that he was
going to be confronted with more experiences with these
terrifying Visitors. I find no logic in this course of action
whatsoever. In fact, if these encounters are indeed real, I find
it very disturbing that he would allow his young son, Andrew, to
possibly be subjected to the vision of these terrifying beings
on any given weekend that he took the boy along. If Andrew had
been subjected to an encounter with the Visitors, the
psychological trauma which he may have suffered could have
required some very extensive psychiatric help for years.

It is equally perplexing that he would subject his wife to the
possibility of these horrifying encounters. So I found this to
be completely out of what one would consider the normal actions
of a loving father and husband, in subjecting his son and wife
to such a scenario, weekend, after weekend, after weekend.

********* End Black text ***********

Bruce Maccabee called Black a "skeptic," and perhaps by today's
standards he is.  But I can still remember a time when skeptics
had reservations about some of the adventures of Travis Walton.

Kind regards,

Keith