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From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 05:07:15 -0700
Fwd Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 22:56:45 -0400
Subject: Re: Kenneth Arnold's 'Flying Discs'

 >Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 00:30:16 -0400
 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >Subject: Re: Kenneth Arnold's 'Flying Discs'
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

 >>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:07:00 -0400
 >>From: James Easton <pulsar@compuserve.com>
 >>Subject: Kenneth Arnold's 'Flying Discs'
 >>To: UFO UpDates <updates@globalserve.net>

 >>In response to various comments concerning the recently
 >>published proposal that Kenneth Arnold's celebrated, inaugural
 >>'UFO' (not 'flying saucer') sighting of 24 June, 1947, was
 >>resolved.

 >>The two main accounts which Arnold gave of the entire incident
 >>were in a letter he subsequently sent to the US Air Force and in
 >>his much later book, 'The Coming of the Saucers'. It doesn't
 >>help matters that both accounts seem to be significantly
 >>different.

 ><snip>

 >..........Dear Jim,

 >We've heard all this before. Nice that you are now very
 >confident that the Pelican Theory is not for the birds.

 >Do us a favor, Jim.

 >Draw a map showing how pelicans can explain the sighting so we,
 >too, can be confident that the sighting is explained.

 >Shouldn't be too hard.... pick starting locations for Arnold and
 >the pelicans. We don't know exactly where they were so you have
 >lots of freedom. Allow Arnold to be flying a slowly as 100 mph
 >if you like, although 110, 120 mph would be more likely. Allow
 >pelicans to be flying as fast as 50 mph. Demonstrate that they
 >could _appear_ to come from a location north of Rainier and last
 >be seen _appearing_ to pass by Mt. Adams (be in the same
 >direction as Mt. Adams) while not getting so close to Arnold's
 >plane that he would recognize them. Explain wat he meant by
 >turning and opening the window to get an unobstructed view.
 >Specify which window he opened and which way he turned the
 >plane.

<snip>

 >>Alternatively, having looked at the full picture of Arnold's
 >>various reports, inconsistencies and proclivity to make some
 >>claims which at times bordered on the absurd, I'm satisfied that
 >>overall there's sufficient evidence why a formation of White
 >>Pelicans is demonstrably the 'best fit' by a long way for
 >>Arnold's nine, perplexing, 'flying discs'.
 >>(C) James Easton
 >>22 July, 1999.

 >Well, it's nice to be satisfied.

 >I won't be satisfied (and perhaps a chorus in the wings could
 >speak up at this point) until you prove pelicans could at least
 >marginally explain the sighting by Drawing A Map.

Dear sirs:

Draw a map! Don't just go take a nap, go ahead and take
a ____ if need be, but please, please draw a nice map!

-  (signed)  The Chorus.