Skeptics ufo newsletter: Phil Klass questions FUFOR funding,
Date: 03-25-92 23:39
From: Don Allen
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Article 16201 of sci.skeptic:
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From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
Subject: Klass comments on FUFOR video
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Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 17:24:20 GMT
From "Skeptics UFO Newsletter By Phillip J. Klass" [aka SUN],
#14, March 1992, p 5.
Quoted without permission.
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FUFOR HOPES TO CONVINCE CONGRESS, NEWS MEDIA OF CRASHED SAUCER COVERUP
WITH NEW TWO-HOUR VIDEO:
Fund for UFO Research is finishing up its latest video production,
"recollections of Roswell: Part II," containing interviews with
what FUFOR describes as "more than 30 witnesses to the recovery of
both alien craft and bodies in New Mexico in July 1947." FUFOR
says its objective is "to bring the Roswell case to the attention
of the American people." (At least 60 million persons already have
viewed a dramatic presentation of the alleged incident on the
"Unsolved Mysteries" TV show.)
FUFOR, which admits that its earlier video and lobbying failed
to generate a Congressional investigation [see SUN #13, p. 8] already
has spent $50,000 to support research into the alleged crased-saucer(s)
in New Mexico incident, and recently received an additional $7,000
in contributions to support its crashed-saucer efforts.
FUFOR prefers to spend most of its resources on "ancient history"
rather than to get close-up photos of UFO which shows up frequently
in the vicinity of Gulf Breeze, Fla. [See SUN #12, p.1] During the
past year, there have been more that 120 appearances of the Gulf-Breeze
UFO [GUFO], according to FUFOR chairman Bruce Maccabee, who has
strongly rejected the possibility that GUFO's might be balloon-borne
road flares or balloons outfited with battery operated mini-Xmas tree
lamps.
SUN wonders why FUFOR does not use its funds to hire a small
aircraft or helicopter pilot to stand by nightly at the nearby
Pensacola airport. Pilot could be alerted by radio when the GUFO
appears and could take off and be vectored by radio to the
sometimes-hovering or slow-moving GUFO for close-up inspection and
photos. If the GUFO is really an ET craft and not a balloon-borne
road flare, this could provide hard evidence which Congress would find
far more impressive.
--
Robert E. McGrath
Urbana Illinois
mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
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Don
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