| EDITOR AND STILL SUPREME COMMANDER: James W. Moseley, J.S. |
NON-SCHEDULED NEWSLETTER Volume 41, No. 9 December 5th, 1994 |
MAILING ADDRESS: P. 0. Box 1709 Key West, FL 33041 |
"Project Awareness" is a professional sponsor of UFO conferences, run by a lady named Vickie Lyons and a couple named Pat and Buddy Crumbley. They can be reached at P.O. Box 730, Gulf Breeze, Fl. 32562.
Interestingly, "Mr. Ed" Walters, the man who put Gulf Breeze on the ufological map with his dramatic UFO pictures and his two published books, is very stand-off-ish in regard to "Project Awareness", feeling that they are Too Far Out for him. He refused to attend the conference, and claimed he was not even aware of it when we phoned him a few days ahead of time, hoping to get together with him there. But we did have a long & interesting phone conversation. Ed is still taking UFO pictures, but now he has graduated to daylight videos. The Space Brothers are becoming bolder!
The convention was held in a major Pensacola hotel, though your editor applied too late and was put into a quaint motel a couple of long blocks away. It is said that nearly 700 people attended. There were 18 lectures and "classes" (usually called "workshops") by leading ufologists, as well as a somewhat mediocre cook-out/UFO skywatch Saturday night at a nearby restaurant, and a "Nightcap with the Speakers" party on Friday night, in the hotel lobby. More about this latter event, further on.
British author Jenny Randles was scheduled to come in from England for this conference, but failed to make it "due to the serious illness of both her parents", according to the convention schedule. In her place came the omnipresent Kevin Randle of Roswell fame, who is now actually starting a newsletter devoted solely to the Roswell case. Galled "The Roswell Update", this newsletter mysteriously lists a Wisconsin address (Box 85,Hartford, WI 53027) although Randle lives in Iowa. The price is $15.95 per year, but no mention is made of the frequency of publication.
In addition to Randle with his continually-updated Roswell spiel,there were several other speakers of interest. The lecture we enjoyed most was given jointly by four men who, as adventure-oriented art students, went on a camping trip to an uninhabited part of northern Maine in 1976, and apparently had a UFO abduction experience one evening. This event has been featured recently on the "Unsolved Mysteries" TV series, and also is the subject of a book by Ray Fowler. This very rare kind of abduction case intrigues us greatly, because it is outdoors (not in one's bedroom); it involves four people who supposedly were abducted together and tell the same story; and it involves people who apparently had no special interest in Weirdness beforehand. These men are called "The Allagash Four", from the name of the region of Maine where the event took place.
Also of interest was (former) Sergeant Bob Dean of Arizona, who has overcome his military background of clean shaves & crew cuts by now sporting a wild-looking gray beard. Dean claims that while attached to SHAPE Headquarters in Paris in 1964, he saw a highly classified evaluation which concluded that we are under observation by at least four alien civilizations. Dean states that the UFO subject is the single most important issue in the history of the human race; that the Moon and Mars are currently occupied by aliens; and that we have been genetically manipulated since the dawn of time. Dean speaks well, but as usual we ask - where's the proof?
Linda Howe came forth with some exciting new cattle mutilation stories from her former home state of New Mexico; Dr. Leo Sprinkle, whom we had not met before, presented benign observations about aliens and other kindred New Age topics; and there were several other speakers, including the dreaded Budd Hopkins, alleged mild-mannered chronicler of other peoples' abduction experiences.
We say "dreaded" in regard to Hopkins, because this
fellow's emotional level is certainly "one for the books".
Naturally Hopkins has a right to be miffed because "Smear"
has taken a very negative stance toward the infamous
Linda Cortile (aka Napolitano) abduction case, which
is dear to his heart. But when we tried to shake hands with
him at the MUFON convention in Richmond, Va.last year,
Hopkins nearly had a fit, and wanted to start a loud
debate in public, right there.
This time we spotted Hopkins (center of photo) surrounded by fans at the Pensacola "Nightcap with Speakers" party. Other people were taking pictures, so we walked up and took this one from a respectful distance. Hopkins spotted us and immediately yelled, "FUCK YOU, MOSELEY!" He then grimaced in a very menacing manner, and gave us The Finger! Your humble editor, somewhat shaken, walked away while yelling back at him, "SAME TO YOU, BUDDY!" Hopkins' fans were astounded!
Earlier, we had run into Linda Napolitano, sitting alone, and had a brief conversation with her. Linda has no love for us, either, but at least she knows how to act like a lady - and a rather attractive one at that. She was not on the Pensacola speakers program, though she has lectured elsewhere about her famed 1989 abduction out the window of her New York City apartment. Hopkins plans a book about this, and perhaps his severe unhappiness with his critics is caused by the fact that it's hard to sell a UFO book to a major publisher when there are continuing howls of disbelief from his own peers in the UFO field!
In any case - "Project Awareness' knows how to put on a professional, well-organized convention, and they are to be congratulated. There will be more such conclaves around the country in the months and years to come, starting with one in Tampa, Florida on the weekend of May l9th-21st, 1995,
And - our thanks to Ed Komarek of "Operation Right To Know", who manned a ORTK propaganda display at the convention, and spent a lot of his valuable time picking our brain for the latest tidbits of disinformation from our alleged CIA sources!
"Steven responded with three little words all right, `THEY DID WHAT?
AIEE-YAH!!!' He karate chopped the table! Before I knew it, the linguini
clung to the wall! My veal scallopini fell to the carpet! The Italian
cheese cake I had baked from scratch - all mushed together. `Steve!', I
yelled. The table cloth was on fire! I tried to put it out with a glass
of wine! Not a good move... With the fire out, Steve threw his jacket on,
`I'm going to find my brothers!' He has six brothers - all hotheads! I
didn't want him to see them that evening...
-LINDA NAPOLITANO (aka CORTILE), telling how she broke the
news to her husband about her kidnapping by alleged government
agents Rich and Dan. Quoted from the MUFON Symposium Proceedings,
Page 250.
"...That evening we sat down at the beautiful table I had prepared.
Candlelight shined on our faces in a special way. Steven's face was calm,
and he seemed so pleased in anticipation of what may lay ahead. We smiled
at each other lovingly. Steven led the toast, `Good health and happiness'.
I needed self-assurance. If he would only say those three words, `I love
you'. I wanted to get this over with. Nervously and too quickly, I blurted
out the seizure and interrogation story.
You see, Christa is quite understandably mad at Inner Earth advocate Harley Byrd for having lifted large parts of her book "The Bennewitz Papers" together with other material, and he now offers this material for sale for his own profit, in a book called "The Dulce Papers". Christa's expose includes a series of letters to her from Byrd. First there were love letters, when he thought she would come into town and lecture at his recent Los Angeles convention. Then came the hate letters, when she didn't show up and when she also threatened to sue him for the above-mentioned lifting of material.
Also included in this tome are a number of fake threatening legal forms & letters that Harley has a habit of writing, and misspelling; and there is a copy of a real legal paper indicating that Harley was convicted of indecent exposure in 1991.
Christa is charging a mere five dollars for this priceless gem of non-UFO non-research, and she can be reached at: 2163 S. 78th East Ave,, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74129-2421....
In the course of his attempts to obtain restitution, Long spoke by phone with Zechel's parents, who seem to have a low opinion of their son's work habits. Awhile back your "Smear" editor also ran afoul of the shadowy Todd Zechel, partly because we too made the mistake of phoning his mommy and daddy at their retirement location. We also made a brief, friendly call to Zechel at the place he was then working as some sort of salesman on commission. Since then we have been Cut Off, and needless to say, if there are any more tracts being published by AIG (Associated Investigators Group), which seems to consist mainly of Zechel himself, we have not received them, alas! ...
".. The kind of UFO cases that interest me usually fall into Jacques Vallee's sixth or seventh degree of strangeness, e.g. the Travis Walton case. I don't literally believe in aliens who molested Walton, but a lot of details leave me with the feeling that nobody consciously lied. All the witnesses and Walton tried to tell the truth about something for which they had no neurolinguistic grids (`mental categories') except those of bad sci-fi movies. In other words, my hunch about this and some similar cases comes down to the two ideas that (1) Weird Shit Happens, and that (2) when it happens, nobody at this stage of evolution knows how to talk about it.We too were disturbed by this very excessive statement in Hopkins' FATE article & we were going to do a scathing editorial about it - but Space does not permit. - Editor."The other kind cf case that still interests me falls into the UMMO type. I don't believe the UMMO messages come from aliens, but I find the `more reasonable' explanations (a deliberate deception by some intelligence agency and/or by the Crazy Billionaire I have elsewhere hypothesized) a bit unconvincing and a little paranoid, so I go on wondering. ...
"Budd Hopkins had a diatribe in the November issue of FATE saying everybody who doubts Linda Napolitano must, logically, claim she has a sociopathic personality, and that's not nice to say. Does that mean nobody can ever doubt anything anybody else ever says? If not, why not? I suspect Budd knows even less about general psychology than about ethical hypnosis...
"I was interested to learn that the initial vote for MUFON's Outstanding Ufologist Award was so light that Don Ware (reportedly) was the likely winner. Inasmuch as one ballot is included with each copy of the MUPON UFO Journal, I plan to buy 1,000 subscriptions so that I can win hands-down in 1995. (The $25,000 is a small price to pay for this great honor, and I'm sure that the IRS will consider it an allowable business expense.)"Smear" has obtained a copy of a Oct. 18th, 1994 letter from Richard Seifried of Oklahoma MUFON to the MUFON Board of Directors. In it, he pretty well proves the gross irregularities in the above-mentioned Ufologist cf the Year election, and he makes other serious charges that we will comment further on at a later date. - Editor."To avoid raising MUPON's suspicions, I plan to enter each subsoriptiox under a pseudonym and have it sent to a P.O. Box. If you reveal my dastardly plan in `Smear', I shall arrange for your UF0 abduction - one way!"
"Thanks for the latest copy of `Saucer Smear'. It was interesting to read another letter from creepy John Alexander. He assumes we need a police state - the only choice we have is to be shot on sight or kept in live `non-lethally'. It's nice to know our commissars see the L.A. riot/rebellion as only a taste of the future. Maybe there's hope yet. And what a waste of time his wife's survey of religious leaders was. Who really cares what the local pastor thinks about `the phenomenon'. On the other hand, it would be interesting to know more about this Bigelow guy and his foundation! Maybe you could get your pal Curtis Peebles on the case. As William Burroughs said - Paranoia is having all the facts!..."
Left to right: Retired colonel John Alexander of Los Alamos National Laboratories; the super-mysterious Gordon Novel; and John's wife Victoria.
"O.K. Karl Pflock never was a CIA agent. I apologize to him for this big mistake. Probably my eyes were blinded by an article published in `UFO Magazine', authored by a man named Karl Pflock, and with this title: `I WAS A UFOLOGIST FOR THE CIA'. O.K., Karl: You were never a CIA agent, but only a CIA ufologist. It is indeed an enormous difference!"One minute, please: What are the chances that the woman who is working for Rep. Steven Schiff happens to be the spouse of K.T. Pflock? Answer: About one in a hundred million, which is the number of women living in the U.S.A. Another minute, please: What are the chances that the woman who `trapped' John Mack happens to be the spouse of a former co-worker of Phil Klass? Same answer as above: One in a hundred million!
"As was said by the great and famous Sherlock Holmes - THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES!...
"...Now I see that Moseley has committed both libel directly and perjury. Referring to Moseley's claim that he witnessed me attacking and badgering Harley Byrd at a convention while allegedly drunk, I can swear on 50 Bibles that at a `UFO Expo West' convention in 1992, I, stone cold sober, went to Byrd's booth and asked him what institution gave him a PhD. His reply was that the Press Club gave it to him. I then suggested that since this constituted fraud (in Britain it is illegal to claim degrees you don't actually have) on his audiences, that he ought to drop that and list any degree he really did have. He said he had a `law degree from Harvard' (which has never heard of him). I then left. Jim Moseley was nowhere to be seen. He was not there. He was not a witness. And I never touched Byrd...."The confrontation occurred at the 1993 `UFO Expo West', not 1992, and we were there! Re that convention, `Smear' commented as follows, at the time: "Beckjord claimed (privately) to have received a death threat letter from Harley Byrd, an `Expo West' speaker who claims (falsely, many say!) to have a doctorate and to be a nephew of the late polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd. Byrd speaks, among other things, about the Inner Earth, which Beckjord takes to be nonsense - unlike the faces which Beckjord himself claims to see on nearby planets:" - Editor.
Well, Beckjord is right - You always have demonstrated a sincere desire to inflict damage, and take glee in spreading falsehoods. The nice thing about UFO lawsuits is that you can always be sure that both sides deserve to lose. As with Randi's case, it might be concluded that you are guilty, but no more rotten than your opponent. There was a time not long ago (yesterday) when I would have deplored the wasting of the U.S. court system on such idiocy. But since reading Kirkpatrick and some other idiots in Hamilton's glorious New York Post, I have concluded that this country is no more nor less than the joke that you yourself act as if it were. So if you and Beckjord were to bankrupt each other in litigations, I don't think that could possibly debase the U.S. justice system one iota at this point..
"I do hope you haven't given my address to that litigious Mr. Beckjord. If he knew what I had to say about crap circles, he might well sue me, and though I am in the porno industry now, and porno is a billion dollar business (so we are told) I have seen about as much return on my zine as you have doing `Saucer Smear' - so I couldn't afford to pay him bribe money. Luckily, those lawyers who finish at the bottom of their class here in Ohio all go into politics and run for the Senate. Otherwise I might really be scared that he'd be able to hire one and bring me to court..."
"Thanks for `Saucer Smear'. I had heard of you through Russ Estes and was wondering how I could get it. I'd be pleased to exchange newsletters and have added you to the subscription list....Campbell's address is; HCR Box 38, Rachel, Nevada 89001. - Editor."The Government hasn't yet succeeded in its land grab, but it may prevail in 1995."
"Yes, `Saucer Smear' is worth $10 a year for the same reason that I would turn to the comic pages first every Sunday morning. The subject matter and its cosmic implications are so bizarre and so scary, that we need `Saucer Smear' as an escape valve from the pressure of trying to solve a riddle that is beyond our ability to comprehend."I suggest that you copyright `Saucer Smear' as the name of a new parlor game like Monopoly. The moves would follow the laws (?) of quantum physics and the 4th Dimension. No beginning, no end. The game would start in the middle. Instead of dice, players would throw little saucers of 15 different shapes, and would draw cards from each other by asking a series of questions that attack each other's integrity, honesty, character, etc. The first player to assemble the essential elements of a hoax is told that he wins, but secretly he is tagged for a fall. When his back is turned, one player next to him or her, hands him a court order to answer charges of slander and moral turpitude brought by the other players, etc. You can see the endless permutations of the game!"
"Just a note to thank you for your card and to show you the enclosed mini-debate between Jacques Vallee and David Jacobs from the latest number of the `Journal of Scientific Exploration' I have enormous respect for Vallee. He has the courage to say that things are not always what they seem and that data aren't always so orderly that theories and solutions fall out of them automatically. Unfortunately, that is heterodoxy in ufology. Note that Jacobs questions Vallee's credentials as an `abductionist' for disagreeing with other `abductionists'."I can do no better at parodying Jacobs' position than to quote his closing statement: `That data he (Vallee) analyzed in detail does not match that of most other serious researchers of this phenomenon is further testament to the confusion he entertains.' (And of course who gets to define who the `serious researchers' are? Why, people who are already `serious researchers, of course!) This type of unscientific, ad hominem attack wouldn't be tolerated even among Jacobs' fellow historians - so he can't even point to his lack of training in the scientific method as an excuse: Jacobs' tactics are nothing more than the last refuge of the mediocre and unimaginative. Vallee's books will be around much longer than Jacobs' will, I can assure you, precisely because they acknowledge the elusiveness of the UFO mystery. Anybody who isn't confused by the UFO phenomenon is either lying or selling a religion. Jacobs can choose which one he thinks he's up to...."
"...The witness accounts (via Randle & Schmitt) that I find truly a astonishing are those of Roswell superstars Sappho Henderson and mortician Glenn Dennis."Sappho claims that after decades of nary-a-peep about crash/retrievals, her dear husband Pappy broke down upon perusing a tabloid article (National Enquirer, no doubt) about Roswell and felt freed from the death threats to himself, his family, and their houseplants, and confessed that he had transported alien wreckage by cargo plane and had even seen what we hear more and more of as time surges forward - alien bodies! But Sappho, wise woman that she is, didn't ask for any details. (Well, certainly; who'd dream of it?) R&S dare to imply... that Pappy met with an untimely demise as a result of his loose patter, but decline to offer details. (Details just mess up a saucer crash!)
"I'm pleased to observe how Glenn Dennis, ambitious soul that he is, has worked his way up from mere second-hand witness to full-fledged first-hand witness of saucer wreckage and Egyptian-like hieroglyphics. Way to go, Glenn!..."
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