SUN 03 (May 1990)
SUN 03 (May 1990)
SUN 03 (May 1990)
By Philip J. Klass
UFO NEWSLElTER
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May 1990
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Walters Urged To Al9ft Congress to UFO Dangers:
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Reviews of the Walters' book have been mixed.
Most favorable
review seen todate, other than one in the MUFON UFO Journal
(whose .. leadership has strongly endorsed the Gulf Breeze case) was
a brief, error-filled review in the prestigious Washington Post.
It read:
"They took lie-detector tests and pd~S~d th~m.
(Frances did not take a polygraph test.)
They were offered a
deal by The National Enquirer and turned it down. (Wrong, The
National Enquirer declined to exercise its option to buy Ed's
photos and story after photo-analyst Dr. Robert Nathan, of NASA'S
Jet Propulsion Lab, said photos looked very suspicious.) They
have herewith submitted their findings to skeptical analysts.
Clearly Ed and Frances Walters, pillars of Gulf Breeze, Fla., do
not want to be lumped with the dunderheads who fill supermarket
tabloids with their maundering claims, yet they believe they have
seen and photographed UFOs ... "
PJK Comment: The Washington Post's book reviewer probably
believed President Nixon when he said he knew nothing about the
Watergate Break-in.
If Ed and Frances Walters "believe they have
seen and photographed UFOs" why didn't they earlier alert their
local police d~ai"'tment, or officials at nearby Navy/USAF . bases,
or Congressman Hutto??
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There is growing suspicion that Stanton Friedman's longawaited report on his $16,000 FUFOR-funded study of the authenticity of the MJ-12 papers may have been abducted by a UFO. The
report originally was scheduled to be complete late last ye~r,
but by late last year the date had slipped to "spring of 1990,"
according to FUFOR spokesman.
Summer is nearly here--but where
is Friedman's MJ-12 report?
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Whitley Strieber's movie "Communion" is now available in
video cassette, only a few months after it first opened last
November in movie h~uses. Typical of the reviews for the movie
is one that appeared in ~.e.op_l _e_ magazine (Nov.
27, 1989) which
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that it comes from is as meaningful as saying that a barrel wi~h
a crumb is fuller than one that's empty."
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Is Whitley Strieber suffering depression as a result of the
critical reception accorded his movie and most recent book? This
unconfirmed rumor arises in part because Strieber admitted in
"Communion" that he was subject to depressed moods--long before
he alleged encounters with "aliens."
A possible straw in the
wind: the next (March} issue of Strieber's quarterly newsletter,
"The CO'mmunion Letter," is several months overdue. However, a
full-page advertisement on the inside cover of a recent issue of
"UFO" magazine seeks new subscribers.
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Plans to build a major UFO landing facility, near Elmwood,
Wise., have run into a small snag.
Thomas Weber, who achieved
international fame last summer when he announced his plan,
explained to the Associated Press: "We got tens of thousands of
letters ... if people had slipped $5 or $10 or $20 in each
envelope, we'd still be operating."
Gulf Breeze would seem a better location for a UPO landiny
site in view of the frequent UFO visits repo r ted by Ed and
friends. Perhaps Ed Walters will make a generou s c ontribution
based on the $200,000 cash advance obtained for his book and
another $450,000 reportedly paid for TV rights.
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pro-UFO speakers.
No "UFO-skeptics 11
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The STAR PEOPLE TOUR to PERU: The Only UFO Expedition in
1990. 11 according to a flyer in "UF0 11 magazine, will depart Miami t
on Sept. 12 for the 16-day junket.
Tour lectd~rs will be Brdd ~
Steiger--former teacher at an obscure junior college in Iowa who ~
hit the jackpot when he started writing books on the paranormal-and his beautiful wife Sherry.
Tour is slated to include a
flight over the Nazca Lines, 11 speculated to be an ancient UFO
landing field ... Also, a night sky viewing at Lake Titicaca,
which allegedly is 11 well-known for frequent UFO sightings. 11 Allinclusive tour price is $2,799.00 (double occupancy).
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Competition, held
received $1,000.
by the
Fund for
Knapp
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PSYCHIC PREDICTION: Watch for new claims of confirmation of u.s.
government recovery of a crashed-saucer by a respected Britishborn scientist who reportedly served in the Pentagon during the
1940s, later became dean of engineering at Penn State. His name:
Dr. Eric Walker.
Walker, now 80 years old, claims to have
attended Top Secret meetings at Wright-Patterson AF Base "dealing
with a recovered crashed saucer."
In a letter written on Sept.
23, 1987 to a UFO researcher
when Walker was 77 years old, he says he believes the crashed
saucer "still exists and is kept someplace near Wright Field."
But Walker denies any dead ETs were recovered.
Instead, he says,
"there were four very normal [live]
individuals, all male They
learned the English language within a few hours and it wa~ our
decision .. (to) allow them to be absorbed into American culture
as soon as we were sure that they did not bring any contamination
with them."
According to Dr. Walker, "all four have done this very
successfully.
One ... became the president and innovator for one
of the largest and most successful com.Eute......9E.3~n~-z~_t..~?_!1_s_. [PJK:
Could this be Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, who is cor1sidered a
little "off-beat"?] A second one became a world fa mo us athlete.
[PJK: Mohammed Ali?] ... the third ... made himself famous as a Wall
Street raider, and is ver
rich.
[PJK:
Ivan Boesky or Mike
Milken?
The fourth, I have lost track of." [PJK: Could this be
Ronald Reagan, who sometimes mentioned ETs in his speec hes?]
According to one of SUN's reliable sources, Jerome Clark,
editor of the "International UFO Report" (IUR) is impressed with
Walker's tale. Stanton Friedman, who reportedly interviewed
Walker in June, 1989, also is said to be impressed by his
credentials.
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Perhaps Walk er will make his formal debut in UFOlogy as a
key witness in Friedman's long overdue $16K FUFOR-funded MJ-12
report?
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FOR THE RECORD:
I no longer can deny claims that I have been
paid by the U.S. government for my UFO activities, as I did on
George Knapp's TV program, which was taped last year. Within the
past month I received a check for $100.00.
It was payment for
my appearance on a Voice of America radio talk-show, where Mark
Rodeghier (scientific director of CUFOS) and I discussed UFOs.
Rodeghier also received a $100.00 honorarium for his appearance.
Based on my 24 years of UFO-debunking, this government payment
averages out to roughly $4.00 per year.
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Ed Walters refused to appear on the popular Larry King Live
TV talk-show on the Cable News Network on March 21 when he
' learned I would also be a guest. The previous day, Walters
threatened to walk off the set of a local Boston morning talkshow on station WCVB-TV when he learned I would participate
briefly by telephone line from Washington.
Walters finally
agreed to stay.
Bruce
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First issue of the new Budd Hopkins UFO-abduction newsletter, dated Fall, 1989, was mailed to subscribers in early March,
1990.
As of this writing the second issue has yet to appear.
The newsletter, called "IF: The Bulletin of the Intruders
Foundation" is terribly dull reading, compared to Strieber's.
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If you're curious to know the true facts about the late
Canadian UFOlogist, Wilbert Smith, whose writings may have
inspired the MJ-12 papers counterfeiter, read the article by
British UFO-researcher Christopher D. Allan in Mar./April, 1990,
issue of "Orbiter," a bi-monthly newsletter.
It is published by
Jim Melesciuc, who departed MUFON after its leadership endorsed
the Gulf Breeze case.
His address: 43 Harrison St., Reading,
M~ii.
01667.
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