Re: UFO crackpot book cracks

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 18:34:36 MST


At 11:46 AM 2/2/02 -0500, Mike wrote:

>Or he was fabricating an excuse why he slept overnight in the woods (or
>spent it stoning out) when he was supposed to be on duty.

Sorry, this speculation has zero correlation with the reported incidents
over two days, allegedly with radar contact, photographs, a Lt Col leading
the investigation team on the second night and allegedly seeing beams of
light blasted downward from a UFO, blah blah. James Easton and others have
now picked the entire story apart, and it seems to be a congeries of
confusion, misinterpretation of local light sources, group hysteria, maybe
some genuine oddity (an early model Stealth aircraft? were they trialling
such things in 1980? In Britain?), and lots of subsequent abduction
bullshit, hypnosis conflation, the delicious lure of TV and conference
appearances...

Damien Broderick



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