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From: Kathleen Anderson <KAnder6444@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:32:59 EDT
Fwd Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:16:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Kenneth Arnold's 'Flying Discs'


 >From: Roger Evans >moviestuff@cyberjunkie.com>
 >Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 21:35:20 +0000
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto >updates@globalserve.net>
 >Subject: Kenneth Arnold's 'Flying Discs'

 >let's face it;
 >Arnold's stories were so inconsistent that just about anything
 >could fit the mold, even, I'm sorry to say, Pelicans.


Sorry, Rog, I feel like I could possibly get a brain hemmorage
over the pelican theory. I can't seem to get it across  that we
don't have pelicans in Washington state. Canadian Geese yes,
Pelicans no. But you did make a good point that there is some
Arnold points that don't fit.

To James Easton, perception is a major key with the Arnold case.
Its a hard thing to visualize when you are sitting in the UK. A
map will never take the place of being at the actual location. I
have read the coverage by Jenny Randles  and also Larry
Warren/Peter Robbins about Rendlesham Forest. I did not see a
forest. I saw a stand of skinny tall trees that looked more
sparse than most backyards in the Pacific Northwest. How can
anyone be "scared" in this little group of trees? I was puzzled.
Again it goes back to perception. What is it in comparison to.
How do we logically see and analyze something? By comparing it
to what we already know? If we have never been to a mountain, a
hill would seem very large. We we have never seen an ocean, a
lake would be huge.

I am off again this weekend to Mt. Rainier. I will take plenty
of video if anyone is interesting in seeing. Granted I am not
totally convinced Arnold had a good perspective of any object
near Mt. Baker over 60 miles to the north. It would have to be a
large object to see it. Much bigger than a 747!

No, I am not the expert here. But I have yet to come across many
other people who can  match my hours over the years of sitting,
hiking and sleeping on that mountain wondering what Kenneth
Arnold did actually see.

P.S. But of course I've really enjoyed the debate of it all!!!

Kathleen Andersen
MUFON State Section Director
Seattle