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From: John W. Auchettl <Praufo@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:21:50 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 17:25:17 -0500
Subject: A Modern Myth, Born In The USA?
>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>Date: Mon, 01 Nov 99 17:38:18 PST
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: British Ufology Has Been Reborn!
>>From: Georgina Bruni <georgina@easynet.co.uk>
>>Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 03:30:42 +0000
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>Subject: Re: British Ufology Has Been Reborn!
>>>Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 13:29:56 -0500
>>>From: David Clarke <crazydiamonds@compuserve.com>
>>>Subject: Re: British Ufology Has Been Reborn!
>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>>A modern myth, born in the USA and exactly what you would
>>>expect in the late 20th century.
>>Nonsense! Eastern Europe was having UFO sightings before the US
>>was born. Why, they even had an encounter in July 1947, which is
>>supposedly when the US had their first known "famous" sightings.
>You're quite right, of course. The UFO phenomenon -- though it
>wasn't known by that name, obviously -- was an international
>occurrence long before anybody thought to call them "flying
>saucers." As long ago as 1864, to cite one more lurid instance,
>a French newspaper was reporting a story that sounds much like a
>modern crash/retrieval tale, and in 1877 an Argentine paper
>picked up the yarn and changed a few details. New Zealand's
>Otago Times for July 29, 1909, carried a letter from a reader
>who thought that the "airships" being reported in that nation at
>the time might be "atomic-powered spaceships" from Mars.
>In short, the UFO phenomenon -- as well as the ETH -- is neither
>a "modern myth" born in the USA (the root of all evil and
>delusion, as various list correspondents have repeatedly assured
>us) nor a fantasy we could "expect in the late 20th Century."
>Maybe the moral of the story is that a folklorist need not a
>good historian make.
>Jerry Clark
Oz & ASIA DATA RESEARCH
Phenomena Research Australia
Jerry & EBK Researchers,
Well said Jerry - 'the UFO phenomenon as well as the ETH is
neither a "modern myth" born in the USA'. That's a fact!
This is just one of our Oz facts.
1868, 25th July,
Parramatta [33:49S 151:00E]
New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
A surveyor has what he best describes as a "vision". He reports
heads floating by him and the vision of an "ark" moving along
the same path he was on. He then reports that the ark then makes
a landing in Parramatta Park. As the encounter goes on he
reports that he is shown around the ark.
In the end the report concludes - "I fell, I suppose, into my
usual sleeping state, waking next morning deeply impressed with
visions of the night."
>From the Memorandum book of Charles Burmingham, 1873.
Historic Parrarnatta Park is the site of the first Governor's
House and the first observatory in Australia.
Good hunting,
Regards
John W. AUCHETTL - Director PRA Research
DR Ron BARNETT - Deputy Director
Phenomena Research Australia [PRA]
Australian & Asia UFO
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