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From: Jan Aldrich <jan@cyberzone.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 06:23:39 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 23:34:00 -0400
Subject: Re: UFO History Workshop

>Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:37:45 -0700
>From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
>Subject: UFO History Workshop
>To: PROJECT-1947@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

>Greetings List,

>On the 29th and 30th of June a number of us met at the
>International Holiday Inn at Chicago's O'Hare Airport to

The message previously posted on the Chicago UFO History
Workshop has the event happening in the future.  Sorry,
we haven't solved time-travel yet.  The real dates of were
29-30 May.

In any case, UFO History exists whether or not UFOs, in fact,
exist.  There is no question that UFOs were studied by the Air
Force, Keyhoe wrote his "Flying Saucers Are Real," numerous
accounts were chronicled in newspapers, magazines and by
official and unofficial bodies.  While UFOs may be dismissed,
UFO history *does* exist and can be studied.  Many historians
might not consider it worthy of study, but it cannot be denied
that the history of the phenomenon exists and has had effects on
the culture.  In fact, in the study of the cold war or aviation
history or contemporary culture, this is nearly virgin territory
for scholars, something like North America in 1600.  The
Europeans knew North America was there, and they had actually
taken halting steps to exploit it, but in realty it was vast
unknown area, a continent whose actual form was unknown.

The same is true about the history of "ufology."  Scholars, like
the searchers for the Northwest Passage, have tested the margins
with treatise on the history of the belief in extraterrestrials.
Jodi Dean in her "Aliens in American" appears no different from
Cabot mapping some of the coast and hunting for the Northwest
Passage, but starting off with a false assumption and missing
the potential of a whole continent.


--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
P. O. Box 391, Canterbury, CT 06331, USA
Telephone: (860) 546-9135