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Filers Files #37 - 2004, Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Director MUFON Eastern
Vice President of Skywatch International
September 1, 2004, Webmaster: Chuck Warren
Flying Triangle Evidence
The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video
evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space as
reported each week. These Files make the assumption that extraterrestrial
intelligent life exists and my hypothesis that UFOs are flying in our
skies. Flying Triangle Evidence, Saturn's - Unidentified Lights, Mars -
Welcome Sign on Burn's Crater, Life Came From Space, New York - Four
Objects Fly in a Circle, Pennsylvania - UFO Effects TV, South Carolina -
Teardrop and Hovering Triangle, Ohio - VHS Video of UFO,Michigan - Flying
Triangle, Wisconsin - Seven White Saucers, Indiana - Teardrop, Illinois -
Flying Triangles, Nevada - Half Moon UFOs, New Mexico - Metallic Orange
Lights, California - Erratic Flying Objects, Washington - Flying Triangle,
Canada - Discs, Mexico - Six spheres, England - Oval UFO, Philippines - Red
UFOs, and Google Turns Author Over To Critic - Chilling Effect.
Flying Triangle Evidence
The Space Shuttle is no longer flying due to the apparent complexity of the
craft and errors in management that have lead to the crash of two shuttles.
Conversely, we have received over one hundred UFO reports each week for the
last ten years, and can conclude that a very sophisticated and reliable
technology is flying in our skies and in space. Many scientists claim UFOs
do not exist, yet they have never examined the data, examined the radar
tapes, nor even talked to the eye witnesses. Some of the greatest and most
intelligent people on Earth have been eye witnesses to UFO technology that
is far beyond anything known to exist in our technology. A new exciting
world is available to those who will examine this evidence. Common among
hundreds of reports are Flying Triangles that hover or fly at extremely low
altitude at 100 to 200 feet above highways and buildings. These craft
operate well below the minimum flight rules for the safe operation of
aircraft and are often reported by police for over twenty years. They also
create a road safety hazard. They are described as having rounded wingtips
with bright intense lights on each corner, usually with a large red light
in the center. They make little or no sounds. They hover and then depart at
high speeds. Today, in a terrorist environment these craft could also
present a terrorist threat and should be reported to Homeland Security and
NORAD.
Saturn - Cassini Satellite Sees Lights
R. David Anderson writes, I have been comparing Saturn Cassini Images #
00007211 and Cassini Image # 00007442 that JPL received on July 22, 2004.
This bright object has moved thousands of miles in a short time. There are
many other interesting images sent back to JPL from Cassini near Saturn.
You can change the image number(s) yourself.. in order to see other images
of this object above and near Saturn.
"Of course NASA will come up with another explanation for these pictures
like dust specks, cosmic rays, flaw in optics, and the like. They may have
a more difficult time explaining this one because the object will be in one
frame and then not even be in the next frame, and moves radically in the
next frame all the way to the bottom". A large fast moving lighted object
in space would appear to have its own propulsion system. See the following
web site for numerous JPL images showing movement.
http://www.thecomingoftan.com/illuminated~object/illuminated~object.html
Two More Planets Found
US astronomers say they have found two more Neptune-sized planets orbiting
stars beyond our Solar System. Dr Geoff Marcy, of the University of
California states, "I expect we'll find dozens of planets between 10 and 20
Earth masses in the next few years and we are poised to find true
Earth-sized worlds!" This is a breakthrough in finding smaller planets in
the search for life in space. The new planets are only 15 times more
massive than the Earth down from Jupiter-class, that are 318 times more
massive than the Earth. One of the new planets is in the first four-planet
system ever discovered. Well over a hundred planets have now been located
outside the solar system and there may be hundreds of Earth's just waiting
to be found relatively close to us.
Life Came From Space
Astrobiologists are examining what could be evidence of extraterrestrial
microfossils inside a meteorite that fell to France 140 years ago. The
Orgueil meteorite, a type of space rock known as a carbonaceous chondrite,
has long sparked questions about potential traces of life from space. NASA
astrobiologist Richard Hoover shared his research team's preliminary
findings that samples showed what appeared to be fossilized traces of
cyanobacteria within the soft rock. Biologists have come to believe that
life might have gotten its start in Earth's oceans in the form of
cyanobacteria - but to find such traces in a rock that apparently
spent millions of years in space rather than in water came as a surprise.
Any scientist's first thought would be that the biological structures were
the result of earthly contamination, but Hoover said the structures'
composition argues strongly against that. "The organic matter contains
isotopes that absolutely could not be from terrestrial contamination," he
said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961
Mars - Welcome Sign on Burns's Crater
The Mars Rover moved up to Burn's Crater and found a Martian Welcome Sign.
Can anyone read Martian? It is my opinion these are not natural erosion
marks. On the top right of the crater there appears to be TPYIX IIV
East Coast - High Altitude Anomaly
MUFON's Kim Shaffer reports, "At 8:35 PM, a strange high altitude anomaly
was seen over most of the Rast coast on August 31, 2004, including by
persons in Tennessee. Preliminarily, reports have been received by Peter
Davenport and myself from most Eastern states.
The anomaly was spotted by this witness at about the same time which
indicates that it was at an extreme altitude and probably in space. Most
descriptions of the object were generally the same, a white concentric body
with four wing like structures and a flashing strobe white light affixed to
the end. MUFON Tennessee analysis indicates this was a classified military
cargo using the last Atlas 2 rocket ever to fly successfully delivering a
U.S. reconnaissance satellite into space and ending a chapter in rocket
history. The flight also marked the last time a rocket would liftoff from
pad 36A at Cape Canaveral. However, a rocket with a strobe light and a
launch over the US seems questionable?
Thanks to Kim Shaffer MUFON TN Director http://www.mufontennessee.org/
New York - Four Objects Fly in a Circle
STATEN ISLAND - The witness was traveling south on Hylan Boulevard on
August 24, 2004, at 10 PM, when he sited four white objects which took on
an appearance of the light of advertising lights on this hazy evening. They
were traveling southeast about 40 mph and were playing a game like ring
around the rosA=A9. They would come together in the center, touch, and then
go back out again. They continued to travel separately, in a circle and
then come together and touch, and then go back out. They did this ten or
twelve times. He states, "I followed them for as long as I could, about a
mile or so until the end of the road where it is pretty deserted. The
lights continued until I lost sight of them. I got the impression a couple
other cars were also watching what I saw.
Pennsylvania - UFO Effects TV
POTTSTOWN -- It was about 2:30 AM, on August 10, 2004, and the non cable TV
channels kept getting very fuzzy. The witness noticed a strange flying
object with different colors. He states, "When I ran to my window, I saw
three yellow lights in a row with the middle one a little bit lower than
the other two." The object was making the TV go haywire with loud static,
and a humming noise. The object was going straight up, not on a slant like
airplanes. I called all the airports in my area and there were no airplanes
flying at that time. When the UFO was over my house my TV's went crazy then
as soon as it was gone they came back to normal operation.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.hbccufo.com
South Carolina - Teardrop and Hovering Triangle
GREENVILLE - At 11:15 PM, the witness was heading east on I-185 on August
23, 2004, when he saw four white lights, about 1.5 the brightness of Venus
in a line that was a distance of about 1.5 the diameter of a full moon. A
fifth light was in back of the four lights. About half way between the
single light, and the middle of the four lights there was one red light
slightly brighter than the white ones. He exited onto I-85 south and turned
around and went back to try and find a place where he could stop his car.
The object was moving very slowly south parallel to I-85 about 65 degrees
up. From this angle there were two white lights, the same distance apart as
the farthest of the line of four and there was a red light, about 1/4 the
diameter of the moon above the middle of the white lights. I watched it for
about a minute and looked back and it was gone. It is possible that it flew
into a cloud. He turned around again but it had disappeared.
www.hbccufo.com
TEGA CAY -- It was 5:45 PM, on August 23, 2004, when I noticed what looked
to be a black teardrop shaped object flying low over the tree line. It was
a was cloudy afternoon and the object was moving sideways in a straight and
unaltered path. It had no wings, no lights, and was not shaped as such. At
first, he thought it was a large balloon, that was not very large. It was
not moving with the slight breeze, because it was moving so straight. It
seemed to move quickly, but not nearly as fast as an airplane, such as a
bush plane. I am not sure what it was, since I am not experienced in this
type of situation. but it was quite unusual. Thanks to Peter Davenport
Director www.hbccufo.com
Ohio - VHS Video of UFO
FOSTORIA - - A low flying UFO was captured on video about 300 yards from
the camera by George Ritter near his home. George Ritter can reproduce his
video in his backyard laboratory on a regular basis. I encourage
universities to examine this fantastic technology. Researchers are flying
in from Sweden and Germany, but few in the US seem interested. I drove to
Ohio and visited with George and watched him video tape. We did not see the
craft, but high speed UFOs were on the video. There were also comparatively
slow moving insects and birds. Low level UFO located behind farm on August
27, 2004.
Thanks to George Ritter
Michigan - Flying Triangle
ANN ARBOR --On Thursday, August 19, 2004 at around 10 PM, the observer was
driving home on the M-14 Expressway when he noticed a large bright object
just over the trees up ahead. As he got closer, he saw three large circles
with a flashing orange circle in the middle of a triangular pattern. He
states, "I was the only car on the westbound side of the expressway so I
slowed way down to around 15 mph to observe an object flying at 200 feet in
altitude and just past the Gotfredson exit about fifty yards off the
expressway. As I got closer and was more directly under it, I noticed that
the intense lights were attached to the structure of a triangular shaped
object that was slightly darker than the night sky. It probably wasn't more
than 30 feet deep. The lights did not throw any reflection up to the
structure and had no reflective properties at all. Even the ground below
was not lit up by any light. With as bright as these lights were and how
close it was to the ground, I couldn't understand why nothing was lit up?
This flying triangle was large about the size of a 747 or so. The ends of
the triangle were blunted, they were not sharp. The object made no noise as
it hovered over crop fields and woods. The craft was staying stock-still. I
watched the object for two more minutes and it never moved. The only motion
was the orange light blinking in the middle of the three other lights.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.UFOCenter.com
Wisconsin - Seven White Saucers in Formation
OSHKOSH - The observer reports he actually viewed a live news broadcast on
the local NBC news affiliate, WTMJ4 here in Milwaukee on August 20, 2004 of
a breaking story of an accident on I41 at the 4:30 report outside of
Oshkosh and they had live footage from a helicopter. The clock was 4:58
then turned 4:59 PM. "I was watching the footage and noticed seven
silver/white on the top and dark on the bottom, saucer shaped objects fly
in a 'V' formation across the bottom of the screen. I have Tevo so I
pressed record, because what I saw shocked me. My husband and I later
viewed the recording and were totally amazed and a little freaked out.
These objects were absolutely NOT birds or anything else like that. At one
point it almost looks as if one of them got too close to another and sort
of "bounces" off of the other, and at times you can see the formation
"adjusting". You can plainly see that they are in between the helicopter
and traffic that was backed up from the accident on the ground. You can
also tell that they are traveling over at least 75 mph, because they are
going faster than the traffic on the highway below. I'm totally amazed and
confused, and think you will be too.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness, and she sounded sober-minded to
us. We have requested still images from the tape. PD))
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.hbccufo.com
Indiana - Teardrop
NEW HAVEN - The witness spotted what I thought at first was an aircraft with
its landing lights on approaching from the northeast on August 24, 2004.
It was going really fast and when he glanced up as it passed behind him, he
drove up a short distance and turned east when he saw the craft again. It was
going away from me flying in a straight line and that's when I saw what lead
me to believe it was UFO. It had two sets of what looked like three windows on
the back with a flashing red light located where a plane's tailfin would be
located. I lost it below the horizon after it got past the treeline. I
realized that this object did not make a sound. My friend convinced me to report
this sighting.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.hbccufo.com
Illinois - Flying Triangles
LAKE IN THE HILLS - A network Computer Engineer for twenty years and his
chemist wife witnessed a triangular shaped object moving across the sky on
August 20, 2004, from 10:25 to 10:27 PM. At first glance it looked like
three lights heading south. Then the flying triangle flew right over their
heads at a low altitude and its length was longer than three large
commercial aircraft. The witness looked at the flying triangle (this
object) through Tasco mini binoculars. The object had three lights with one
located on each corner. The object tilted toward the west and then leveled
off. The witness grew up in Elk Grove Village with a commercial flight path
over the top of my parents' home since I was two years old. The witness
states, "This was something that I have never seen before and my wife
agrees that this was the strangest object we have ever seen. "The object
only stayed in sight for three minutes and completely vanished right in
front of us in the partly cloudy sky."
www.hbccufo.com
CHICAGO -- A mother and daughter telephoned NUFORC, to report that they had
witnessed a very peculiar event from their 22nd-floor apartment in downtown
Chicago on August 20, 2004. Both witnesses reported that they witnessed
one, or more, bright lights, that `looked like fireworks, but with no
tail,' moving toward their building. Suddenly, the lights reportedly
stopped, and turned into some type of unlighted ship, hovering motionless
in the night sky. The first ship appeared to `split' into two seemingly
similar-looking craft. Neither of the witnesses thought she had ever seen a
UFO before. NUFORC found these witnesses to be quite sincere.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.hbccufo.com
Illinois - Veteran Teacher Remembers UFO Visit
Len Wells, Courier and Press correspondent writes: Mount Erie native Norman
Massie dies at 91. He had taught school in Wayne County for 37 years and
once served as principal. While the folks in Southern Illinois will
remember Coach Massie for his many years in education, perhaps the world
will remember him for what he witnessed 81 years ago - when he was just 10
years old. It was a warm day in June 1923 when he saw what he was convinced
until his last days was a spaceship. In a 1998 interview with Norman, he
told me, "I opened the gate to let the horses into the pasture. I looked
back down the field and there was an object with lights all around it,"
Massie said. "I kept walking closer to the object until I got about 50 feet
away. I stood there and watched the five men who were on board."
I've heard Norman tell this story many times, and it was always the same -
never embellished from one time to the next. "The machine was metallic and
stood on three legs. The top was a dome with holes in it. The best way I
could describe the top was it looked like melted glass," Massie said. "I
got close enough that I could hear them talk. One guy sat in a chair and
the others called him the commander. Four others made trips back and forth
in the ship. I didn't know what was going on until the end. Then, one of
the crew members told the commander that the repairs had been made." Massie
said the whole experience lasted about five minutes. In a matter of
minutes, he said, it came to a hovering position; the tripod legs
telescoped up into the belly of the thing, went straight up about 200 feet
and whizzed off to the west like a bullet. Norman's mom and dad tried to
convince him that he really hadn't seen anything - that he had made the
whole thing up. Then, in 1990, he got up the nerve and told his son who
served as a colonel in the Air Force about the incident.
"He told me there was nothing wrong with me. He said the Air Force files
are full of pictures of UFOs. He accepted my story as the truth." Norman
Massie was never afraid that people might think he was a crazy old man for
what he had seen. "In my own mind and my own heart, it existed and I saw it
with my own two eyes." Norman is gone now. He leaves his wife, four
children, seven grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and a remarkable
story from his childhood. His story has traveled around the globe, and is
still shared by those who remain convinced we've received visitors from
other planets.
http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/news/article/0,1626,ECP_734_3128914,00.html
New Mexico - Metallic Orange Lights
SILVER CITY -- On August 21, 2004, two brothers witnessed two brilliant
orange metallic lights flying side-by-side over the Silver City Mountains
at 9 PM, for thirty minutes. We are at an altitude of 6,000 feet and the
lights were higher and just to the west of the mountains. Looking through
binoculars the lights were solid with no other lights in or around them.
The two lights behaved like the Phoenix lights, fading in and out for some
thirty minutes and appeared in three locations. The lights did not behave
like flares and there were also aircraft in the vicinity. Stars and a half
moon were also visible. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.hbccufo.com
AZTEC - Debra Mayeux/The Daily Times writes, As research continues into the
infamous, yet unproven Aztec UFO crash of 1948, a Canadian film company has
released the first full-length documentary about the event. The Aztec
Public Library, sponsor of the annual Aztec UFO Symposium, recently
received a copy and plans to premiere it at 7 p.m. Thursday at Aztec City
Hall. `This video elevates the story to a national level of discussion,'
said Leanne Hathcock, librarian and founder of the symposium. It was her
research, along with the help of North Carolina resident Scott Ramsey, that
led to a renaissance of interest in the purported crash in March 1948 in
Hart Canyon north of Aztec. Ramsey has completed countless hours of
research and successfully declassified material pertinent to the incident.
`We're working very hard in trying to identify two law enforcement officers
at the scene, and at the same time trying to be respectful to the
families,' Ramsey said. New Mexico and UFOs have become synonymous since
the surging popularity of the Roswell crash in July 1947, but Aztec is
coming into its own, according to Hathcock and Ramsey. `I think the
documentary puts Aztec in a positive light,' Ramsey said. The film begins
with a view of San Juan County's high desert landscape and film producer
Paul Kimball telling the story of Aztec.
It was a quiet evening north of the county seat, when an oil well fire
broke out on a mesa above Hart Canyon. The fire led people to something
much more interesting - a crashed UFO containing charred bodies, Kimball
tells in the story Ramsey continually attempts to verify. Snip
http://www.daily-times.com/artman/publish/article_13519.shtml
Nevada - UFOs Pass Jets
FALLON - The witness lives on the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation
about 4 miles north of the runway of the Naval Air Station Fallon. This is
where they do the Top Gun training made famous by the Tom Cruise movie of
the same name. We are 65 miles east of Reno. The witness was trying to get
pictures of jets flying east over his house when he saw two UFOs flying
west at 11:50 AM, on August 25, 2004.
The witness states, "I heard them and ran outside, but I just missed them
in the zoom lens, when I looked up directly overhead I saw two round
saucer-like objects that actually looked like the 'logo' from Japan
Airlines and I know this sounds crazy but it looked like a Star Trek
Klingon Vessel with a see through ring around it." There was actually a
white "glow" around them. One of them was doing loops around the other. I
called for my wife to come out and she saw them flying circles around each
other as they faded from view. I've seen standard military jets all my life
and these were not those!
Thanks to DK N.U.F.O.G.
http://users.oasisol.com/nufog/
California - Erratic Flying Objects
RIDGECREST -- At 9:05 PM, the observer saw a satellite moving in a
southeasterly direction on August 9, 2004. The object made a "S" turn and a
loop before disappearing into the horizon. The object was white in color,
flying extremely high and moving fast.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director
LOS ANGELES -- My wife and I were driving south on Highway 5 on August 9,
2004, at five minutes to midnight between Stockton and Bakersfield. At
23:55 pm, I noticed a white light that I assumed was an airplane climbing
at a steep 45 angle as during take off. The craft then changed direction
and dove toward the ground at a 45 degree angle, stopping five feet from
the ground and hovering. The craft was about 200 feet away from us across
the north bound lanes. The craft was shaped like a Stingray with three
white lights on the top. My wife first saw the maneuvers and the stingray
shape with three white lights. Two were at the outside flippers and one
light was at the nose in front. My wife heard a jet engine making
acceleration and deceleration noises, but I did not hear them. The craft
was the size of a normal passenger car. Other cars in the north bound lanes
got a better view.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.hbccufo.com
Washington - Flying Triangle
SOAP LAKE (SUN LAKES STATE PARK) Highly credible individuals reported: I
did not believe in UFO's until this event. The object was a large triangle.
We could not see the craft, only the lights. There was a bright white light
on each corner of the craft. It had to be one unit as the lights stayed in
the same formation as it moved from north and then south across the night
sky. I lost sight of it after about 5 minutes as it appeared to move into
space. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.hbccufo.com
Mexico - Six UFOs
TAPACHULA -- Six luminous spheres flew over the Mexicanos Pemex Petroleum
Storage Facilities on August 29, 2004. The Disaster Prevention Officer,
Juan Carlos ZuA=B1iga RodrA=ADguez said, "Six large spheres having the
shape of a circular plate, the size of a commercial airliner, performed
flight maneuvers over the distribution terminal at an altitude no greater
than 1000 meters flying at abnormal speeds and direction changes." A
variety of photographs were taken and showed at least six luminous spheres
flying over the area. This data was presented to researcher Jaime Maussan,
who immediately commenced verification of the images. He stated. "The tests
yielded positive results regarding a central object made of unidentified
material, and which appeared to be covered by some sort of radiation very
similar to that of the spheres." UFOs are frequently seen around the oil
facilities and points adjacent to the Izapa archaeological region, close to
where the "Tree of Life, Creation of the Universe" stele is located.
Thanks to Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology for the translation
(c) 2004
Canada - Disc
NIAGARA (ST CATHARINES) -- I want to report a UFO sighting in the Niagara
Falls region on Monday August 30, 2004, around 11PM, I was on the piers in
Port Dalhousie fishing when I noticed a white and purple rectangular shaped
craft over St. Catharines. I first noticed the UFO when it appeared to be
over Lake Street heading east at extremely fast speeds. It went from the
Lake street area to south of Port Weller in 4 to 5 seconds at a descending
angle stopping at maybe 800 to 1000 feet. It then performed unbelievable
movements up, down and right and left eventually descending south and
appeared to land in the region close to the Niagara Airport. Although,
there was an air show last weekend, this was nothing close.
Thanks to Jim Hickman Executive Director Skywatch International Inc.
VANCOUVER ISLAND -- Phil George writes, "The photograph was taken a couple
of weeks ago in the Sooke area of Vancouver Island using my Nikon Coolpix
5700." I saw nothing in the sky when I took it, and saw it later when I
uploaded the photographs to my laptop. It is not in any other photographs.
My wife and kids did not see anything either. It was the middle of the day.
It is not a bird, even at this quality of image this camera can pick out a
seagull at 400 feet! I shot around 700 pictures no other photo displays
anything like this.
Thanks to Phil George
England - Oval UFO
MANCHESTER - The observer was sitting in the garden and heard a loud
airplane noise on August 7, 2004, at 3:30 PM, but was unable to see
anything at first, then he noticed a silver, oval shaped aircraft overhead.
The oval was going at quite a speed, realizing it couldn't possibly be an
aeroplane. The object carried on flying, then suddenly stopped, hovered
for a few seconds, then, darted very fast to the left and hovered for a
while. It then went right and went back to where it had started and then
just vanished. It was an extremely clear day with not a cloud in the sky,
so the whole incident was very clear to see.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.hbccufo.com
Philippines - Red UFOs
LAS PIA=91AS CITY - Two unusual reddish-metallic-glares were observed
flying east across partly cloudy skies. Another two, followed by three more
- appearing from above the western horizon. This unusual sighting could not
be mere airplanes, according to 11 year old Nica Canarias, since two of
those were seen heading close to the surface of the moon. Nica, the eldest
of the three Canarias' siblings who were among the early witnesses,
immediately commanded her younger brother, Bien Canarias to summon 9-year
old Adrian Israel, a close neighbor whom the kids knew well as a UFO
experiencer, whose father Antonio (Tony), incidentally had taken a video
footage of UFOs in Las PiA=B1as from an earlier encounter dating -
September 3, 2000. As the elder Jose was pointing to the object his father
Tony took his video camera and taped them. Tony was joined by other
neighbors who observed the objects moving erratically, jerking, floating
and jumping in different directions between 7:30 till 8:15 PM, Tony was
taking video footages of 5 UFOs as each passed by over the horizon at time
intervals of approximately 8 minutes per object, following one after the
other. This news is being featured over TV PATROL (August 30, 2004)
Thanks to Tony Israel, 4 Mabolo St., Pamplona, Las PiA=B1as City.
Google Turns Author Over To Critic - Chilling Effect
Author Robert Trundle writes, "Google declares how fair it is and how much
it eschews censorship. For example, an image of Robert Trundle's book UFOs:
Politics, God & Science is posted at Images. The Image site tells Robert
that if a copyright owner wants an image removed to follow the simple
instructions by sending a detailed letter. The letter is sent because it
seems unfair that the image refers to a website that ridicules his book and
other book images are not shown that refer to websites where it is not
ridiculed. Then, Google displays the other images of the book where it is
not ridiculed. And then it takes the images off except for the original
image and sends the author an email that states the original image cannot
be removed. This seems like a form of censorship so the author challenges
that claim. Bingo, not only does the original image alone remain but his
letter gets posted on the website with the alarmist headline Author Asks
Google To Remove Link to Critic -- Chilling Effects. Not only does the word
`Link' conflate the terms `image' and ` website' - misleading the reader to
suppose that the author is a mean spirited scoundrel who wants to suppress
his open-minded critics when in fact he was not requesting that his
critic's website be deleted but only the image when other images were
censored.
In addition, the website gives the false impression that the anonymity of
its victim is protected, on the outside chance there may be facts about
which it is unaware, by blocking out the author's name on the letter sent
to Google. But the author's name, of course, is exposed under the headline.
And in reply to the author's further complaint that Google's removal
instructions make no mention of turning the author's letter over to
Chilling Effects, Google replies how fair it is by asserting falsely that
it does refer to that website: Whoops, to a `third party.' The moral of the
story is that a UFO debunker who links a silliness of religious belief to a
belief in UFOs, in a UFO magazine no less, gets publicity while the author
unfairly gets censored in a major news media organization. Come to think of
it, this is really no news.
Thanks to Robert Trundle Ph.D.
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