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(2936)  Fri 7 Aug 92 12:33p
By: David R. Stepien
To: All
Re: Re: The Nature Of Reality
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From: cc203@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Stepien)
Date: 6 Aug 92 19:20:42 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Message-ID: <1992Aug6.192042.2994@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors


I have been reading alt.alien.visitors for about two weeks now,
and had been considering composing a posting when I came across
the article on THE NATURE OF REALITY, and found a lot of the
words had been taken right out of my mouth.  For the past year I
have been delving deeply into this subject.  From the research I
have done, I would highly recommend the following materials to
anyone who is truly trying to understand it:

Books:

1. Matrix II - see article 7932 for info
2. The Gulf Breeze Sightings - Ed Walters
3. UFO's - Above Top Secret - Timothy Goode
4. A Strange Harvest - Linda Moulton Howe (cattle mutilations,
   Gov't coverup)
5. Flying Saucers are Real - Maj Donald Keyhoe (Keyhoe resigned
   from Project Bluebook disgusted by what he saw to be an
   obvious coverup)

Videos:

1. Crop Circle Communique - Linda Moulton Howe Productions
   Great aerial footage, compendium of threories, analysis, etc

2. A Strange Harvest - Linda Moulton Howe Productions
   1983 documentary on cattle mutilations

3. Sightings - UFO's - originally broadcast on Fox Network
   Well done overview of entire subject - Includes interviews
   with Robert Lazar and George Knapp, an investigative reporter
   from Las Vegas.

One thing I can say is that after studying these materials,
attending UFO group meetings, and listening in person to abductee
accounts, I find it impossible to dismiss the phenomenon.  What
makes this such a difficult area to clarify, however, is that the
core truth is obscured from two sides.  On one hand we have the
Government/Air Force, who by concealing their own information and
concocting lie after lie to feed to the public, have done an
amazing job of deluding vast numbers of us into the comfortable
conception that all UFO witnesses and contactees are lunatics.
On the other side, the people who are trying to "cash in" on the
phenomenon by building bogus ET cults and disseminating phoney
stories and hoaxes, are no less guilty.  When researching UFO's,
one must always confront the question of "where does the truth
stop and the slop begin?", because there's plenty of slop out
there.

The book Matrix II is a good example of this.  Matrix II is a
treasure trove of information, including newspaper clippings,
historical reviews of the Roswell crash, Interviews, etc.  Yet
there is also what seems to be a good dose of nonsense thrown in
- claims of huge underground tunnel networks under the U.S.
populated by some subterranean intelligent species, claims that
Bush and Gorbachev are robots, etc.  Thus, even within a single
book, one has to ask, where do you draw the line?

All one has to do is read through alt.alien.visitors to find the
same thing going on.  One has to wade through all the stories of
astral traveling with R2D2, personal attacks, and recipes for
cooking greys to find the few really useful pieces of
information. This forum has a great potential for sharing
knowledge and coming to some kind of consensus on what is really
going on, if people would only start treating it a little more
seriously.

So, for some serious discussion:

1. CATTLE MUTILATIONS

One thing I haven't seen discussed here recently is cattle
mutilations.  A lot of the skeptics in this newsgroup constantly
say there is no hard evidence, and in my view this is some of the
hardest.  It has been established that surgery is performed on
these animals with a precision laser type intrument.  Their
rectums and sexual organs are usually removed, along with
tounges, eyes, etc.  The animals are found dead in a field with
absolutely no tracks surrounding the bodies.  There have been
cases where the animal was seen alive only a few hours earlier.
There have been eyewitness sightings of both unexplained lights
and craft in the sky during nights preceeding the discoveries of
the bodies, along with similar daylight sightings of saucer craft
in the area.  Two ranchers who staked out a feedlot where a rash of
mutilations was occuring reported seeing two greys "float"
into the feedlot in the middle of the night, at which point they
left to get the local sherrif.  When they returned the greys were
gone, along with one of the cows.  An abductee recalled under
regression said that she had witnessed a calf being raised into a
ship via a beam.  The number of mutilation cases is now in the
thousands, and they have been reported all over the world
(someone in here asked why this in only occurring in the U.S. -
it's not!).   Over and over it is the same story.  Of course
there have been debunkers who point the finger at predators or
cults, but these theories can not possibly explain the HARD
EVIDENCE.  Media coverage of mutilations peaked in the early
eighties, but is now nearly non-existent, even though it is
continuing to happen.

2. ABDUCTEE REGRESSION ACCOUNTS

   The following "explanations" have been  proposed:

a. Somehow, the hypnotist is planting the abduction memories.

   Response - Having seen videos of several actual sessions,
   and read transcripts of several more, I find it impossible
   to believe that this is the entire basis of the phenomenon.
   The detail that comes out of these people in response to a
   simple question, such as "what did they do to you", is
   incredible, consistent from case to case, and certainly
   beyond the imagination of many of them.  They are not being
   fed this detail in any way whatsoever - common sense says
   it must be coming from elsewhere.  I do however believe that
   an unprofessional hypnotists can plant or corrupt memories,
   and that this may be occurring, in a MINORITY of the cases.

b. People are having mass hallucinations base on the movies
   "Close Encounters", "ET", etc.

   Come on!  This is clearly a case of art imitating life, not
   vice versa.  A great point someone made earlier is why don't
   people mass hallucinate "Alien" type creatures.  Why not
   Freddy Krueger, or Superman for that matter?

3. CROP CIRCLES

Cerologists, as they call themselves, are now fairly certain that
they can distinguish "authentic" circles from hoaxes, of which
there are plenty (Doug and Dave's are the most famous). The main
feature is that the stalks of the crop are bent as if they were
heated, and there is no cell damage!  Circles have been found in
"unbendable" plants.  These plants would snap like celery if a
human tried to bend them, but they were found bent at perfect 90
degree angles, again with no damage.  Many of the formations have
been found to contain within their designs precise mathematical
ratios that correspond to the diatonic scale, and also contain
proofs of various mathematical theorems (see cover story of Feb
issue of Science News).  Soil samples from circles contain trace
radioactive isotopes not naturally found there.  Again, lights
and craft are commonly seen in the vicinity prior to circle
discoveries.

What do the skeptics say - "Oh it's weather, or it's people with
boards and strings."  Give me a break.

4. SIGHTINGS

There have been so many sightings it would be impossible to
catalog them.  Many are by pilots, even astronomers.  I highly
recommend reading the book on the sightings at Gulf Breeze.

FINALLY.....A WORD FROM THE "SANE"....

So lets just close our eyes and try and think up an explanation
for these things.  Gee, what could it be?  It can't be the
obvious thing - ALIEN VISTORS - because we all KNOW that this
just can't be.  Our government tells us so, and most of us have
personally never seen one, and nothing can possibly exist that we
haven't personally seen.  It must be that all these thousands of
abductees, scientists, pilots and witnesses are crazy gullible
boobs.  Yeah, that's it!  Thank God there's people like us, who
know the absolute truth about everything, to set them straight.

AND A WORD FROM THE REALLY SANE....

So lets just close our eyes and try and think up an explanation
for these things.  Gee, what could it be?  It must be the obvious
thing - ALIEN VISTORS - and they must be here to save the planet
and the lady I met at the Psychic fair can talk to them and she
says I am one of the ones who is going to get a spot on the ships
when the world blows up in 1998, so I better send a bunch of
money to this guy in France so he can build a building shaped
like the craft that came and talked to him and now I understand
that the Miller beer commercial is really an attempt by our
Government to introduce us to them...

AND A WORD FROM ME....

So lets just close our eyes and try and think up an explanation
for these things.  Gee, what could it be?  It must be the obvious
thing - ALIEN VISTORS - period.

_________________________________________________________________
David Stepien
Email : stepiend@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com
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