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From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:47:26 +0100
Fwd Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:13:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?


>From: Roy Hale <roy.hale@virgin.net>
>To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?
>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:34:10 +0100

>>From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>,
>>Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?
>>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:52:48 +0100

>>In my discussions with Buxton police last week I told them of my
>>25 years UFO investigation.

>Hi Jenny,

>I would like to ask you this simple question regarding the above
>statement.

>Since you have 25 years of UFO Investigation behind you, could
>you please tell us if you personally believe at anytime in
>the last 25yrs or perhaps beyond that there has been at least
>one visit to this planet by any form of Extraterrestrial craft?

>I know you have written a lot of books and columns in magazines
>and given great lectures around the world, but do you think that
>Earth has ever been visited by any form of Extraterrestrial
>life?

>Yes or No?


Hi,

You may think this is a simple question. I dont.

I think the probability of other life in the universe is high.
I think the probability it has visited our solar system at some
time in the history of this neck of the space-time continuum
maybe 50/50. I think the probability it has done so during the
few millenia we have been here maybe 1 in 100.

But that's not what you asked. In fact what you asked is a very
different question. Have any UFO sightings anywhere ever been
the result of an alien craft?

Its possible. Of course it is. But look at the facts. The vast
majority of cases (I mean 99% of them) absolutely do not offer
any indication of that origin at all. They are, in fact, other
things such as IFO and UAP. The disturbing prevalence of this
data has to make you wary of assuming too much about the 1%
because too often we have seen promising cases crumble even
years down the track.

The tiny few cases left each year (maybe 10 - 20 cases globally
per annum) have some prospect of resulting from alien contact,
but possibility and prospect do not proof make.

There are suspicious circumstances around some cases that could
indicate another intelligence. I accept that the theory is a
viable one and worthy of exploration. But another intelligence
is not necessarily ET on a jaunt from Alpha Centauri. There are
other options even here since alien is defined more broadly than
just spaceships in my book.

As we do not have anything approaching scientific evidence -
that is alien DNA, non earthly technology conclusively in our
possession, photos of landed craft or aliens that are close to
probative rather than a joke, etc. The sort of things any police
officer would need to accept, for instance, to seek to prove
that a crime has been committed, then the only proper answer to
give to this question is not yes or no but maybe. The evidence,
quite simply, is not nil but is certainly inconclusive.

That isn't your yes or no - but I cannot give you an answer that
conflicts with my approach to this field - which is let the
facts dictate what we conclude. It is easy to believe. It is a
lot hareder to accept through proof. I am saddled with that
latter philosophy of life.

To me ufology is not a matter of belief. It is a matter of fact
and evidence. The fact and evidence supports the contention that
we have unexplained UFOs. I am willing to state that new science
will be learned once we comprehend this mystery.  It is also not
opposed to the possibility of alien visitors but it is not close
to proof of that either. Other ufologists may take a leap of
faith. I wont do that. So sorry, perhaps is as far as I will go
- but perhaps certainly isn't no. I am more persuaded of the
possibility, I should add, than I was a few years ago, so maybe
that will be smal comfort.

Best wishes,

Jenny