From: donn@sempco.UUCP (Don Nellesen)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: * Flying Disc tales decline(StL Too)
Message-ID: <donn.18ct@sempco.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 93 01:32:57 GMT
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        A few months back I looked through the Saint Louis County Library
old news paper archives on micro fiche. I found the same article,
published on the same day with the following changes:

 In Paragraph 4 "Police believed the prankster hurled it over a sign board
 and watched it land at Harston's feet.  It was turned over to officials at
 Barksdale army air field." does not exist in the St louis Post-Dispatch.

 Paragraphs 6 & 7 do not exist in the Post-Dispatch article.

 The cycle of events #s 6-8 do not exist in the Post article.

        The article continues to say that " four of the wind sounding
devices were released dailey by every Army weather station in the nation.
The incident indicated the possibility that other (mystery disks) have
been weather ballons reflecting the sun at high altitudes as they were
carried along by the wind." It also continues with statements of
"hundreds" of others released by government weather forecasters in
addition to the ones sent up by the Army, ranging in size from 18" to
five'.

        Then they go on about psychological explanations for people to
believe that what they were seeing was not really what they saw do to
overactive imaginations since the first atomic bomb was exploded. They
even came up wiyh a name for the mental disorder "Pathological
Receptiveness".

        The point in all of this can be found in the first paragraph of
the article "THE ARMY AND NAVY BEGAN A CONCENTRATED CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE
RUMORS." And then they tell us what we really saw or thought we saw.

        I found no less than fifteen articles relating to "mystery disks"
from June 25, to July 9, 1947 in the Saint Louis Post and St. Louis Star.
After that nothing. Many articles were about local doctors, officials,
pilots, and residents. Others were about mass sightings and even one about
a pilot that "downed one", and a few days later said it was a hoax cooked up
while drinking with his buddies.

        No where did I find the article which stirred-up this need to
print a retraction of a reported "crashed disk". The article of the crash
must appear in somebodies home town paper, after all I'll be willing to
bet that this article (weather ballon) made it in your home town. Check it
out yourself, take time out and verify what you here or see and you just
may learn how deep the disinformation well is.

        If you find THE article released by Lt. Warren Haught, I would be
very much interested in reading it, and please cite your sources.

        To the flamers I suggest you research before you cast stones.

        ****DON****

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