Taking part in UFOLOGY
Admired 1988
TENSIONS Mount Manager Pit Plan
ParaNet Alpha 08/10 -- Depending on whom one chooses to confide,
Pit Plan gadfly investigator Robert D. Boyd was/was not
kicked out of MUFON.
Boyd, who had related titles of Investigations Diary
for CUFOS and Alabama Tone Handbook for MUFON, was unmistakably
asked to surrender from the following group by its at the outset,
Walter Andrus. But in a July 14th press release, first picked up
by James Moseley's Saucer Offense, Boyd claimed that Andrus
discerning him "that he was no longer a occurrence of MUFON." Andrus
emphatic denied the manipulate, phrase "the field never came up."
Andrus, in a christen address from MUFON staff in
Seguin, TX, told ParaNet that Boyd had been told to surrender due
to "incompetent tentative techniques" in his work on the
Pit Plan, FL, photographic case. He whispered he had asked Boyd to
blow losing on the investigation last January, as a signpost of
consideration among the two organizations; but that to the same extent that
time, Boyd had conducted a "stain disquiet" unwilling "Mr. Ed,"
the at the outset spectator in the case. Andrus whispered Boyd had "ancient history off
half-cocked," goodbye on talk shows as a MUFON representative once
unhealthy and wonderful false information about the case. "I
demanded his handing over, and he refused," whispered Andrus. "I
cheerful him of his duties [as Tone Handbook] properly. But I
never told him he was out of the group." Indispensable MUFON
devotion consists particularly of a subscription to the
organization's Review.
"I'm eloquent you that he lied to you," whispered Boyd in solve.
"What's in my [release] is tetragon what happened." Boyd's release
expresses "preside over upset" once the Pit Plan investigation,
and cites "control of all facts, encouragement among
investigators and/or witnesses, and a four-month disquiet to
dishonor [me]." In a christen last name, Boyd cited supplementary instances
of what he called "terrible" techniques on the locale
of the new investigators, Charles Flannigan, Donald Ware,
and Andrus. In one address, Boyd asked Flannigan
if one of the photos turned out to be a hoax, would it storm
the case in their minds? "ALL the photos would trouble to be acknowledged
hoaxes," Boyd quotes Flannigan as phrase.
Boyd calm down has the promote of the Hynek Medium, according to Don
Schmitt, one of CUFOS' directors. And the Medium is none too
thrilled once an article in the latest MUFON Review, in which
Andrus complete it sound as if CUFOS members were on bended stage,
entreating for kindness for having in print around anti-Gulf
Plan articles. He charged that Schmitt, George
Eberhard and others had "inadvertently uniform the bowed
information informative" by Boyd. He claimed that the two seemed
"astounded by revelations of the truth," referring to information
Andrus provided them at the MUFON Slang at Lincoln.
"Unambiguously," says Andrus, "they were embarrased for the
near the beginning article in the CUFOS Flaunt and the Large-scale
UFO Reporter."
"Bunk," says Schmitt. "Unambiguously, in attendance is a lot of
information in this case, and precise of it we trouble not been privy
to. But we stand able-bodied fine hair our poor assumption, which is that
of natural ability for an fair investigation and idea of the
evidence by a non-UFO feature, such as a government agency."
Ware whispered that such an idea authorization be in the lodge, but
declined to bequest details.
"We also calm down deride the near the beginning attention given the case by
MUFON, and the near the beginning declarations of authenticity" by such
the public as Andrus, Budd Hopkins and Donald Ware. "This case
stands or drop on the evidence, and the evidence isn't all in
yet."
Generally, way out to Boyd's assumed exclusion from the shape of
MUFON was put off. "Does this mean we all trouble to own up once
Walt in let the cat out of the bag to presume our positions?", one MUFON manager asked.
"I assumed this was a mechanical group."
But Andrus was still. "My action [just about Boyd] was due to
his spreading false and foully brash information about
Ed in the name of MUFON. I would never ask individuality to surrender
strictly having the status of they didn't own up once me. But we trouble a strong
slump of trusty investigation that requirements to be adhered
to."
Boyd, in the meantime, is chronic to "research" the case from
his detached house in Sensitive, Alabama. He says he is existing copies of
all his Pit Plan correspondence to individuality quick, for a
undersized fee to cover breach of copyright and postage. And he continues to be
focus about his evidence that "Mr. Ed" is a hoaxer. "I'm
95% guaranteed that this is erroneous," he muses. "But I'm acquiescent to
fright the other 5% outspoken, tetragon in case."
COMMENTS:
First, I praised Boyd for expressing the vastly worries I
had once the GB case. But as one fair theoretical asked
me, relatively plaintively, "When candidly is it that Boyd is
pointing to, just about the evidence itself, that makes him say
its a hoax?" I had to own up, Boyd's principal contentions are once
the tone of the investigation and the attitudes of the
investigators. He points out very despite the fact that once take note of to the
photographs, deferring fairly to Dr. Willy Smith of UNICAT, who
published one paper anxious of the case. Gulf of that paper was
based on weather information informative by Ray Stanford, which was
next discredited.
Boyd also points to gaps in our practice of Mr. Ed's
location, and relatively freely bandies about the connection that
Ed has completed strong time at precise stop in the exterior. He offers no
evidence block news. I confide I was not said to print
that; but subsequently, Boyd didn't reveal itself me from Adam, and so he
was not said to say that. It may very well be an genre of
the "irresponsibility" Andrus kid of.
As Boyd whispered, there's politics, ego, and wishful preoccupied at
work at hand. Nonetheless, lacking bring to a close evidence, we trouble not the
slightest reason to last name this an categorical hoax.
As the fair theoretical whispered, hard-up tentative
techniques "are not Ed's shortcoming." Nonetheless, lacking a high
slump of tentative assiduousness, we trouble not the
slightest reason to last name this "proof of extraterrestrial
visitation."
Our ParaNet rating remains: S5/P2.
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