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From: Henny van der Pluijm <hvdp@worldonline.nl>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:37:31 +0200 (MET DST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:39:27 -0400
Subject: Re: Arnold Saw Pelicans


>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:44:11 -0400
>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
>Subject: Arnold Saw Pelicans
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

>EASTON MAKES GRAB FOR PUBLICITY
>BECOMES THE LATEST TO BE STUCK TO THE
>ARNOLD-EXPLANATION-TARBABY

>James Easton has gone public with his pelican theory.

>>N E W S  R E L E A S E

>>Is the 'Flying Saucer' Mystery Finally Solved


Hello list,

I have made a promise to myself not to comment negatively on
someone else's theorizing about UFOs, but on this occasion I
have to make an exception. Twice on this list in the last two
years I have seen James Easton defending his pelican theory as
an explanation for Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting of anomalous
objects above the Cascade Mountains.

Twice I have witnessed the process of James defending himself
against the criticism of his theory coming from several noted
students of the UFO phenomenon. Twice I have seen James totally
ignoring an endless string of extremely rational arguments as to
why the Arnold sighting simply cannot be explained by a flock op
pelicans. Twice I was simply horrified by the extent to which
someone can close his mind to anything, no matter how
scientific, that disproves his theory. But twice the result was
that James stuck to his pelicans.

Well, let him. If his theory proves anything then it is that no
matter how flawed a theory can be, some people believe what
they want to believe.