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From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:20:03 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Fwd Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:37:16 -0400 Subject: Re: URGENT NEWSFLASH - Belgium 1989/90 >Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 15:40:16 +0000 >From: Philip Mantle - QUEST <pmquest@dial.pipex.com> >To: updates@globalserve.net >Subject: URGENT NEWSFLASH - Belgium 1989/90 >From: Tim Matthews <matthews@zetnet.co.uk> >To: Philip Mantle - QUEST <pmquest@dial.pipex.com> >Subject: URGENT NEWSFLASH - BELGIUM 1989/90 >Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:09:01 +0100 >URGENT NEWSFLASH <snip> >...important discovery today at the International Air Show at >Woodford (British Aerospace), near Manchester. >In long and casual conversation with a Belgian Air Force pilot >Eric encouraged him to talk about the Belgian "UFO" incidents of >1989/90. Amongst other things, Eric claimed not to be able to >remember... <snip> Hi Philip, Hi Tim. Yesterday I drove out to the Quinte International Air Show at Canadian Forces Base Trenton (about 200 km. east of Toronto). I spoke with several of the pilots of our CF-18 fighter jets and asked them if it was true that Canada would soon be retiring the CF-18s because they were all close to the end of their useful lives. One of them told me that that these are just one of many rumours going around and implied that the CF-18s were in great shape. Never-the-less two other CF-18 pilots (Captains 'Pepe' Prevost and Mike Mirza) presented me with a personalized signed CF-18 poster promoting Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GE Aircraft Engines and Hughes - several companies that would make many hundreds of millions of dollars through the sale of any new fighter aircraft to Canada. What is the point in my above reply? Well, just because this Canadian pilot expressed his views, it doesn't mean they were correct or true or even reflected official Canadian government plans. Also, even if UFOs were not extraterrestrial in origin, would there be any good reasons for our pilots, Belgian or Canadian, to be filled in on the truth about top secret projects or plans, even when they had encounters with these 'UFOs', especially when they can and do talk to the public (me)? Even with the supportive(?) evidence that was included in Tim's post to try and make this interview with the Belgian pilot more important than it really was, to me Tim actually strengthened the case that the Belgian UFO sightings were truly unknowns. Maybe Tim is now willing to consider the possibility that some UFOs which cannot simply be explained as top secret terrestrial projects may be of E.T. origin. Nick Balaskas
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