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From: Wendy Connors <ProjectSign@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:50:54 -0600
Fwd Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:49:57 -0400
Subject: P-47: The Stupidity Within Ufology


After rereading Bill Jones posting I sat back and thought for a
while. Here's what came out of that exercise.

About a week ago I released to the Project 1947 List and the
Current-Encounters List the news that a tape that had been
"lost" for over 30 years had been located. It was an excessively
important tape because it contained the actual voice and ideas
of Colonel Howard M. McCoy, former Commanding General of T-2
Technical Intelligence at Wright Field in 1947 and the man who
was the final decision maker about Project SIGN. SIGN being the
first official investigation of UFOs by the new USAF.

Just locating that tape took over seven months of blood, sweat
and tears. Then, never having heard the voice of Col. Howard
McCoy I went to probably one of probably only two people
remaining in the field of Ufology who could identify his voice,
because he sat next to Col. McCoy when the tape was being
recorded. That man is Richard Hall. In my opinion the absolute
Dean of Ufology because of his longivity in Ufology from the
early days of Major Donald Keyhoe. Richard became NICAP after
Keyhoe, so a living history library is still among us and we
should all be eternally grateful. As a matter of fact, if I can
scrape up the money (and even if I can't, I'll walk) I am going
to be visiting Richard Hall in October to sit down with him and
capture for future generations his living history and
participation in the field of Ufology. Anyway, as I said, Dick
is the one of the few people left besides Major Dewey Fournet
who could identify Col. McCoy's voice. We worked hard together.
I dubbed the tape and sent it to him. We both listened intently
and Dick told me what wonderful memories listening to that tape
brought back to him. Not only was I touched by that, but when he
emailed me with great excitement and told me where McCoy really
speaks out on the tape, I went right to work to make a full clip
of what McCoy had said in Isabel Davis's home way back in 1966,
grateful for the expertise and assistance of Dick Hall.

Col. McCoy, after retirement was a member of NICAP and attended
many of the NICAP meetings and functions. During that day in
1966 he finally spoke out and being the consumate military man,
as well as a man honed in military intelligence and engineering,
he chose his words carefully. He spoke his thoughts on alien
visitation. At first listening it sounded like general
discussion, but I listened to him dozens of times before I
realized he was saying a lot more than just general discussion
with a group of people in that apartment. I came to this
conclusion based upon historical acumen by spending many years
in search of the factual history of Project SIGN.

What went through my mind was astounding to me. Here was a man
who believed in the expertise of his own men and his own
investigations to have the intestinal fortitude to forward a T-2
Technical Intelligence Estimate of the Situation to the highest
levels of command with a conclusion based on hard investigation
under extreme shortages of manpower and monetary budget that the
only logical answer to the flying disc phenomenon was that they
were probably from outer space, under intelligent control and
nothing else at the time made any better sense. Well, Col. McCoy
suffered a great deal for his action, as did many of his people
who were friends and colleauges. He lost his chance at promotion
to Brig. Gen., yet his own accomplishments during his career
where without question outstanding and of the highest calibur.
Now he sat in an apartment in Washington D.C. and listened to
other NICAP members discuss many topics. He finally opened up
and gave his "thoughts" regarding the topic of the possibility
of alien visitation.

McCoy wasn't discussing just anything. He was giving an inside
look at his thinking and the thinking of the Project SIGN group
and their conclusions. He was saying in effect, that aliens
walked among us. He was certainly in a position to know many
things and had done more analysis and investigation than any
other military group to follow, so to take his thoughts lightly
didn't make sense to me. To me, he was telling a great deal
more. Now, I don't know if aliens walk among us; I don't think
anyone really knows that, but the fact that he had reached the
conclusion as to it's being possible is absolutely astounding
and of the greatest historical importance. It's the closest
we've ever come in Ufology to at least a military man discussing
it.

Having come to these conclusions I took the time to start and
stop the tape a thousand times until I could share with you list
members a written transcript of what Col. McCoy said. I posted
it and waited in anticipation for the discussion I thought sure
would follow. I even looked forward to the bickering and puffing
of the Greg Long's and Kal Korff's among the list members. But
ya know what? Absolutely nothing happened. Zip. Zero. Zilch.

"OK," I said to myself. Pelicans were being discussed at the
time and important historical information obviously ain't too
important to the list, so I posted it on the Project SIGN
Research Center website along with the only known photo of the
people who did the first official investigation of UFOs in
history. Man, action happened immediately. Well over two
thousand hits in 24 hours, yet not one email to me or discussion
on any list - P-47, Current-Encounters, UFO UpDates. Zilch.
Zero. Zip. People came in droves to listen and look, but nobody
bothered to say anything.

My conclusions: Damn near everyone on this list is either brain
dead, totally ignorant of what Ufology actually is, or only here
to take up space, waste the few true researchers left in
Ufology's time or debunk at any cost, under any guise because
you don't have an ounce of common sense or imagination. Pretty
intense I know, but only a few of you do anything. The rest of
you ain't worth the time or effort from those of us who talk the
talk, walk the walk and proceed to the truth. But I also know
something else...when the truth, whatever it may be comes, those
of you who do nothing but get in the way, posturize and
pontificate will be the first in line to spout to the world how
great you are because of all the research you've done and the
contributions you've made to the field of ufology. There will
just be one thing wrong...you didn't do squat but sit in your
comfy chair, emailed your opinions and maybe read a book.

Bitter? Nah. Very disappointed? Nah. Just the truth as I see it.
So, Kal...shut up. I don't wanna hear it cause nothing you say
is of any social redeeming value.

Wendy Connors