Info-ParaNet Newsletters, Number 74 Saturday, November 4th 1989 Today's Topics: Re: Literate Ufologists Re: Miami Meeting Re: New Member Re: New Member The Story... Whole Life Expo Re: Info-Paranet Newsletter Re: Info-Paranet Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paranet!Clark.Matthews Subject: Re: Literate Ufologists Date: 2 Nov 89 00:09:00 GMT > air-you-dite. > Better airyoudite than airheaded, as my sainted granny used to say. I'd say we're well ahead of the pack that way! > Seriously, if syntactical sin is the worst criticism > leveled at ParaNet, we're OK, mate. > True again. Would that it were the only sin some members have been guilty of. See my private email to you re: this crypticism. Best, Clark -- Clark Matthews - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Clark.Matthews@paranet.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paranet!f37.n114.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Jim.Speiser Subject: Re: Miami Meeting Date: 2 Nov 89 06:57:00 GMT Rod: Very good report, but I have a small quibble. >Pulsar. Pulsars are >known to change colors emitting a red/green/blue light at >different times. >Some of these Pulsars can appear very close in the fall >night sky. Most I think you'd better look up the definition for "Pulsar." Besides being a rather pricey make of watch, a pulsar is a rapidly pulsating RADIO source, detectable only by RADIOtelescopes. They are stars of a sort, but rapidly spinning ones, and I believe they only exist at the outer fringes of the detectable universe. None, to my knowledge, are visible to the naked eye. The stars in the sky that seem to twinkle and change color rapidly are called "stars that seem to twinkle and change color rapidly." Jim -- Jim Speiser - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Jim.Speiser@f37.n114.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paranet!f207.n914.z8.FIDONET.ORG!Rick.Moen Subject: Re: New Member Date: 30 Oct 89 18:27:14 GMT >>Thanks for the warm welcome, Jim. I just now resurrected >>the board from >>the earthquake damage, configured and tested the ParaNet > > Oh, that's RIGHT....say, did any of your local psychics predict this > earthquake with any accuracy? We have whole gaggles of psychics out in these parts who predict earthquakes each and every year -- and so do I! You know what? Each and every one of us has had a 100% success rate. Whoopie, I'm psychic! Watch for our annual year-end report on psychics' track records to see if any of them actually lucked out this year. I don't have details yet. > And how damaged were you? The primary FATs on both hard drives were plowed through like so much prarie dirt. Amazingly, I was able to recover or reconstruct 100% of the board's contents. Thanks for asking. Yrs., Rick M., sysop The Skeptic's Board P.S.: Our ParaNet designation is delightful. I obviously have a kindred warped soul somewhere at ParaNet Alpha. -- Rick Moen - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Rick.Moen@f207.n914.z8.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paranet!f207.n914.z8.FIDONET.ORG!Rick.Moen Subject: Re: New Member Date: 30 Oct 89 18:34:01 GMT > Hello, Rick. Just a note to say hi and, just because you're a > skeptic, welcome and fire away. Sounds like you didn't fare > especially well in the earthquake. I hope that you're able to recover > rapidly, and that the damage wasn't too severe or upsetting. > > Again, welcome. > > Best, > Clark Thank you very much, Clark. I'm delighted to be here, and hope my callers discover these conferences, too. I'm stretched pretty thin, alas. I actually came through the late unpleasantness almost untouched, as did about 2,990,000 of the three million Bay Area residents, contrary to the apocalyptic impressions one would get from the gentlemen of the press. Thanks for your concern. Yrs., Rick Moen Sysop, The Skeptic's Board -- Rick Moen - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Rick.Moen@f207.n914.z8.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paranet!f1.n304.z1.FIDONET.ORG!T.s..Bennett Subject: The Story... Date: 3 Nov 89 04:14:00 GMT The "Story" Fourth Installment I have a $50,000 bounty waiting for the first person to bring me an alien anus, or any other part proven to be from an alien body. $250,000 for an alien head. The award for a whole alien body, dead or alive will be $1,000,000 It's time to turn this thing around. Let's stop being wimps and react like pioneer Americans would have to a threat from a strange culture. If you live in the country, purposely take the most secluded road to your home. If the possibility presents itself to run an alien down with your car, DO IT, before they can affect the ignition of your engine, and you become their victim. Do unto them BEFORE they can do unto you. Take the initiative. If these apparently living things come from other dimensions, outer space, or both, or if they are the results of our own government's gene spliced biological entity research to develop pilots that "appear to come from outer space" to "fly" our advanced newly developed flying machines at Dreamland and Area 51, we will know very quickly as soon as those body parts start coming into our laboratories for testing. It's time to get off our duffs, and start actively LOOKING for these elusive amoral little jerks with big eyes. BTW, I'll give $100,000 for ONE ALIEN EYE. This is an effort to remind the American people of values that used to exist when this country was young. Pioneer men were tough and pioneer women were strong. They didn't take the media's word for ANYTHING, there wasn't much of the disinforming type media available. If a stranger came to town and spread a bunch of lies and admitted that he had misled one of our neighbors, we used to "tar and feather" him and run him out of town. Now what do we do? We let the guy get up and make speeches and get money for it! My how we have changed. If the pioneers were put upon by a strange phenomenon (one they didn't understand), they banded together and fought against the enemy. Look what we did to the Indians! If my theory is correct, offers of money will give people the gumption to take the initiative, so be it. I fully expect to be able to take some kids to the ZOO to see varied examples of the different types of aliens, with signs over their cages explaining where in the Universe they came from. Dont delay, and when you have a sample, contact my company, Planet Com, Box 33, Mountain Center, CA 92361 -- T.s. Bennett - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: T.s..Bennett@f1.n304.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paranet!f1.n304.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Joe.Holland Subject: Whole Life Expo Date: 3 Nov 89 04:54:00 GMT There will be another annual Whole Life Expo at the L.A. Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA, the weekend of Nov 17, 18, and 19, 1989. Featured will be over 100 speakers. Included are: Bill L. Moore (Mr. disinformation), 5:30 PM Saturday 11/18 "Exposing the UFO Coverup: a Progress Report". Bill Cooper 3 PM Sat."Government UFO Coverup" Tom Bearden 5:30 PM Sat. Brad and Sherry Steiger, 3 PM Sun. Dr. Raymond Moody, of Near Death Experiences, Friday 8 PM. Also: psychics Kevin Ryerson, Kenny Kingston, Uri Geller. Costs, one speaker plus three day pass to exhibits, $39 preregisterd, $66 at the door. Preregister by mail by Nov 3, by phone by Nov 7. Late registration might do for will call. 1(213)305 8887. P.O. Box 5249 Playa Del Rey, CA 90296 -- Joe Holland - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Joe.Holland@f1.n304.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: taos!uucp Subject: Re: Info-Paranet Newsletter Date: 2 Nov 89 20:32:25 GMT +In article <18336.2544EA00@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Don.Sudduth@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (Don Sudduth) writes: +>The Nation Bureau of Standards did an +>experiment on plasma produced by high stress on rock formations. When +>a rock was crushed or pulled apart by high pressures, it produced a +>significant plasma display. This result was postulated as a possible +>source of UFO sightings. The sighting of a police officer in northern +>Minnesota, whose car was thrown off the road by a bright light has been +>considered one of these plasma displays. (This area of MN has high +>geologic pressures.) +>-- +>Don Sudduth - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 +>UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name +>INTERNET: Don.Sudduth@paranet.FIDONET.ORG + +Hey, I am a geologist, and the above makes zero sense to me. Plasma? +What kind of plasma? High geologic pressures in MN? I don't think +you could find a more stable area of the continent. IMHO, the information +in this article, at least as it regards geophysics, should be entirely +disregarded. If Don could provide me with the source for this information, +I can likely tell you specifically why it's crackpot stuff. + +Robert White +rcw@scicom.alphacdc.com Don's recollection is essentially correct. I just watched again the NOVA production (the PBS popular science show ) called The Case for UFOs. Sorry, I don't have a date for it, but I'll guess 1987. You can get a copy of this at Blockbuster Video, I think, if you want to view it. During a middle segment of the show, it first introduced psychologist Michael Persinger's theory about how very strong EM fields might produce anomalous events/perceptions by creating plasma and by affecting the brain of percipients. (See Persinger's Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, Nelson-Hall, 1977, ISBN 0-88229-334-6.) While acknowledging that this theory is controversial, it did bring up the work of Brian Brady of the US Bureau of Mines in Denver, CO, as tentative support. Next, we watched a piece of rock being crushed in a press and heard Brady describe the RF fields detected during the failure of the rock. We were shown the process with the lights out and saw "sparks" fly around the rock during the failure. Brady said he believes these "sparks" are actually tiny balls of plasma. He then went on to say that during earthquakes, and possibly (I think) from the strain in the earth before earthquakes, that these plasma balls could form, and just possibly be the causative factor in some UFO events. Then the police officer Val Johnson case was introduced as a possible candidate for this kind of explanation. The Johnson police car sustained undeniable windshield and antenna damage during some sort of UFO event. I believe the car was shown. Robert, please give us a report if you look into this interesting aspect of UFOs. *********************************************************** >From: paranet!f207.n914.z8.FIDONET.ORG!Robert.Sheaffer Robert, why don't you help us out here and supply the answers to the following questions -- as far as you understand the answers, anyway? Thanks. +If the MJ-12 was a "cover" for Roswell, then both must be equally +bogus, it would seem. What is your reasoning here? + It has now been established that the alleged +Truman signature on the MJ-12 letter is simply a photocopy of a genuine +Truman signature from the Truman library, and pasted in. Who established this and when? And how did they do this? +Worse yet, it +seems that they typewriter used on these documents, allegedly from the +1950s, was not manufactured until after 1960. Who established this and when? How was this demonstrated? + w3 MJ-12 critics have +recently confronted Moore with these embarassing facts Who are these critics and when did they do this? +, and he is busily +concocting excuses as to why his critics - both UFO skeptics AND +believers Can you name the critics for us? Klass, you, Greenwood, Fawcett, Hastings(?), and who else? + - can't possibly be right. + The MJ-12 papers have now been dealt a mortal blow. They're the +walking wounded currently, but before long will roll over and die. The +really interesting question is WHO faked them, HOW, and WHY? It seems to me from reading Moore's own words in his Focus newsletter and elsewhere that he is definitely playing games -- playing games with and for the US intelligence establishment. I don't think we're going to get to the bottom of the MJ-12 affair anytime soon. However, I have faith that historians of the UFO will eventually sort it out in 20 to 30 years from now, just like many of the CIA operations from the 1950s and 1960s have been documented in the 1980s. The recent PBS documentary "Secret Intelligence" with Bill Plant(?) is an example of this. -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: taos!uucp Subject: Re: Info-Paranet Newsletter Date: 3 Nov 89 14:46:57 GMT Hi there I would like to know, if there is any magazines particularly for UFOs. If there is no such thing, how about starting one? Swamy SWAMY BALE, 819 W. 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