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(13331) Wed 2 Dec 92  2:26a
By: Ed Stewart
To: All
Re: A Case Study 1 Of 13
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                        A Case Study in Discernment
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I have been interested in the UFO phenomenon for over four decades. All but
four months of it, as a reader of books, a dreamer of thoughts, a wonderer of
what-ifs, and a debater of hypotheses. One day I saw a message on a local BBS
about a trip being organized to the Pilot Peak area to search for a purported
"underground UFO base".

I wondered what-if and said why not? I met with the Sacramento UFO Group and
together with Steve Jones and three days later with John Pickens from Fresno,
I ventured to investigate. Steve Jones and John Pickens both have written trip
reports on our quests. I didn't. Their concerns were mine and their reports
related what probablly I would have said. We found nothing.

In September, Steve Jones, Mike Mace and myself met with Jack Mathias, the
spokesman and Richard Miller, a friend of the Phoenix Group, We met for four
hours at the "Ormsby" in Carson City, Nevada. We chatted, traded expectations,
and discussed our lack of findings over the K-2 Phoenix Report. We were aware
of the Paranet warning over the Phoenix Group and I was particularly concerned
over the question. Why Now? Why wait three years to release the reports? We
received two different answers. Jack Mathias said he had proded the group to
release the information and Richard Miller said he thought the Group was
concerned over some possible events that might be occurring "soon". He said
he thought it had something to do with a similar incident involving asteroid
1989FC. As an avid amateur astronomer since my early youth, my curiosity was
peaked. He would not elaborate and said he would need permission from the
Phoenix Group to release the information. If he received the Okay, he would
have Jack get us a copy of their findings. A couple of days later the
material was downloaded to me.

We read it, checked it out, sought assistance from various sources. Bottom
line, it was less verifiable than the original material. At the time, I felt
It would have been a dis-service to the UFO community to release it. I felt it
was that bad and I still do.

Since then, through the efforts of many on this echo including members of the
Sacramento UFO Group that physically visited the site, John Pickens report,
Joseph Harris work, and Michael Corbin's initial warning much doubt was placed
on the K-2 Report. When Don Kirschner's findings that the K-2 tape was bogus
became public, Paranet declared the report a hoax.

I decided to release this part of the investigation that deals with the
question why release the reports now? But instead of just releasing Phoenix
Project material on 1989FC whole with a warning message to take it with a
grain of salt, I have dissected and inserted editorial
comments along the way. Hopefuly people will see it for what it is and also
hopefully people will be able pick up a pointer here and there and use it in
their future research efforts.

I don't consider myself the author of the commentary. I have over sixty pages
of typewritten commentary on the original material from many, many sources
that have contributed. I thank the various members of the Sacramento UFO Group
that have contributed and e-mail correspondents on GENIE with special thanks
to Art Bozlee and the other Science Round Table sysops that contributed, many
of which were never aware of the original Phoenix Project material.

Ed Stewart




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