Robert Sheaffer
My photo of a UFO made from a banana-split dish and modelling
clay (from UFO Sightings)
I have been interested in UFOs since I was a child in the 1960s. Reading
the widely-published misinformation of authors such as Donald E. Keyhoe
and Frank Edwards, I was persuaded that 'there must be something to it.'
Of course, UFOlogy in those days was much
less wild than it is today.
Even Keyhoe disbelieved most if not all claims of UFO "contact",
and the early "abduction" cases. As I noted
in
The UFO Verdict
(chapter 3),
the willingness to believe on the part of the UFO movement
has steadily grown with each passing year
Those words were written over 15 years ago,
and subsequent events have proved them to be absolutely true.
Since they were written, the credulity of the UFO Movement has
expanded to take in:
- The supposed "UFO Crash" at Roswell, New Mexico, now with
- a supposed "Alien Autopsy" film.
- A veritable Epidemic of supposed "UFO Abductions", including
- Supposed "UFO Abductions" that take place right in
your own bedroom, and "beam you up" right through the ceiling, just like in
Star Trek. No longer do you need to go out to deserted roads late at night to
run into aliens. Since Budd Hopkins' books were published in the early 1980s,
the aliens now come right into your bedroom to get you.
My photo of a UFO made from two aluminum plates
When I became older and a little wiser, I read other, more
skeptical, UFO authors such as Dr. Donald H. Menzel. I realized
that the UFO proponents were not .... cont. here: http://www.debunker.com/ufo.html
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