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From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:19:03 +0100
Fwd Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:15:21 -0400
Subject: The Plot Behind The Book


>From: Roy Hale <roy.hale@virgin.net>
>To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Max Burns UFO Hoax Exposed
>Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 04:34:28 +0100

>>From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
>>To: <updates@globalserve.net>
>>Subject: Re: Max Burns UFO Hoax Exposed
>>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:49:31 +0100

>>But also Dave, Andy Roberts and I have been
>>writing a book together.


>Interesting this, speaks volumes!

>Do you have a working title for the book!

>Roy..


Hi,

We have a definite title for the book, since it is written and
being edited as we speak. The book is called 'The UFOs That
Never Were' and is due out around Christmas. Its a series of
case reports, written individually by each of the three of us,
describing UFO investigations that we consider led to IFOs
rather than UFOs as the outcome - primarily through our own
first hand experience. It certainly is not an attack on
investigators, but a study  of what we regard as sober
investigation methods into initially puzzling cases. Some are
big cases that will cause surprise. Others are lesser known ones
that offer illuminating insights.

By writing up these solved cases we hope to show some of the
value of this kind of work. It fits in with my DC lecture
premise (one of my 12 points) that IFOs are regarded as failures
to find aliens by most ufologists when in truth they should be
perceived as successfully doing ones job -  resolving a mystery,
often with beneficial effects to society as we show.

Although it sounds like a negative book, it isn’t. We all make
clear that we consider there to be unsolved cases and are not
diehard sceptics (and in one or two cases the 'solved' label is
fairly said to be contentious).  I have certainly written enough
books about still unsolved evidence to prove that I am neither a
debunker nor a disbeliever, as such. But this was a book we felt
was useful to Ufology. It is also different enough to offer a
new angle on a subject that can be very repetitive, so appealed
to me as a writer of 43 books for that reason.

I am curious to know why - in your words - 'this speaks volumes'
about something or other (you don't specify what) as the recent
debates are not a factor in the book if this is what you were
surmising. It was written before they happened. Please elaborate
as to what you meant by this cryptic comment. Don't be shy. Tell
us straight! From my point if view there is nothing dishonest
about this book and nothing I am ashamed to discuss openly.

Best wishes,

Jenny Randles