ParaNet BBS/2020

ParaNet BBS/2020

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(6212)  Tue 23 Jun 92  6:01p
By: Jon Roland
To: All
Re: Ufos And The Secret Govt (was Announcement...)
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From: jdr@starflight.Corp.Sun.COM (Jon Roland)
Date: 22 Jun 92 03:15:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors

This is a partial summary of the meeting of 06/20/92 at the Berkeley
Conference Center in Berkeley, California, sponsored by the 2020 Group.
There were perhaps 100 attendees.

The first part of the meeting, from about 10:00 AM to about 1:30 PM,
was a summary of the UFO subject, including much of the reported
material on things like Roswell, alien abductions, etc. Reasonably well
done.

Most of the new material consisted of audiotapes of interviews with
witnesses who were not identified but who sounded convincing, about the
involvement of relatives in government coverup of its relationship and
activities involving UFOs and aliens. The first was with the alleged
"husband of the daughter-in-law of a recently deceased high NASA
official", both of whom were not identified.

There was a reference to the son of Gen. Nathan Twining perhaps
offering testimony in the future to the effect that his father was on
the scene at Roswell and had a direct telepathic contact with one of
the injured aliens.

The most riveting testimony was provided by a young lady named Wendy
(last name withheld), who reported that she had had repeated visits
from aliens in her home, and that after she attempted to report this
incident to government authorities, she was harassed, kidnapped,
intimidated, and drugged by what appeared to be US government military
types.

On the skeptical side one would have to point out that identities were
withheld, so that we have only verbal testimony of anonymous persons
(except for Wendy, who was physically present). No physical evidence.

One factor that I noted was that the staging of the entire event was
suspiciously like a religious revival meeting. Very polished, carefully
planned, on schedule, with fairly high production values. On the other
hand, if it were primarily a money-making scheme, then the price of
admission ($25 in advance, $35 at the door) plus revenue on books,
pamphlets, etc., were hardly enough to do much more than cover costs,
which speaks to the credibility of the sponsors. Could this be a way to
hook followers for future fleecing? Any such effort should be
approached with some skepticism, although nothing in the messages
offered were particularly extreme or on the fringe as UFO gatherings
go, unless you would consider all suggestions of government collusion
with aliens for no good purpose to be such.

The basic message, that there may be a sinister conspiracy of an
international elite against the bulk of humanity, somehow involving
aliens, and that we (the non-elite) need to "take back our world" sound
disturbingly like the exhortations of revolutionaries who want to use
popular discontent to seize power (and then perhaps abuse it
themselves).

Of course, they may also be right, and entirely well-intentioned. What
speaks well of them is the way they encouraged members of the audience
to act indepenently of them to uncover the truth and take back control
of the reins of power. A common ploy of revolutionaries, but also what
one would expect of sincere reformers.

Interesting, but like so much else in this field, disturbingly elusive
and insubstantial.

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jdr@starflight.corp.sun.com, starflt@uunet.uu.net
Jon Roland
Starflight Corporation, 1755 E Bayshore Rd #9A,
Redwood City, CA 94063-4142, 415/361-8141

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