INTERNET OFFERS OPPORTUNITY TO BLOW LID OFF "COSMIC WATERGATE"

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From:skindrud@rosebud.berkeley.edu
Title:INTERNET OFFERS OPPORTUNITY TO BLOW LID OFF "COSMIC WATERGATE"
Source:Canada NewsWire
Date:Feburary 27, 1996


"Some people would rather think they're crazy than believe they've seen a

flying saucer," says nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, a noted UFO

researcher and frequent speaker at campuses across North America and

Europe. But now Friedman, with the help of the Internet, is out to change

that through a new on-line sightings report form. "I'm not looking for

run-of-the-mill lights in

the sky cases," says Friedman. "We've got a zillion of those and who cares.

I'm looking for multiple witness, radar visual cases - which almost always

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involve the military or commercial airlines. I'm looking for physical trace

cases, strange markings after the saucer leaves. I'm especially searching for

anyone connected with saucer crashes or military cover-ups." Friedman says,

"What's missing on the UFO scene is an active effort on the part of the

responsible media to blow the lid off the Cosmic Watergate." He hopes visitors

to the World Wide Web site, "Stan Friedman's UFO Page"

(http://medianet.nbnet.nb.ca/ ufo/ ) he produces in collaboration with Unity

Publishing will provide the kind of detailed, verifiable information to fuel

serious investigation. "I'm hoping to encourage people to come out with their

better cases," he says. "In turn that will encourage others to come forward

with their better cases." Friedman will screen the sightings and contact

some of

the people with the most interesting encounters. Unity will provide a monthly

on-line report. In addition the site is linked to MUFON, the Mutual UFO

Network, which maintains a catalog of UFO sightings. "All information

will be kept strictly confidential and no one's name will be used without

their

permission," says Unity Publishing president Deborah Prosser, who adds, "We

hope to dispel the myth that UFO sightings are all unreliable and

easily discredited. We are excited about the possibilities the Internet

can provide with this means of reporting." Friedman, the original

investigator of the Roswell, New Mexico crashed saucer incident, is the

author of scores of

papers on UFO phenomena and the co-author of Crash at Corona. He has been a

guest on hundreds of radio and television programs including Larry

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King, Unsolved Mysteries, Sally Jesse Raphael, Night Line, Shirley, and

Canada

AM. The Web page is his second venture with Unity Publishing, which also

produced his CD-ROM UFOs: The Real Story. The CD includes eyewitness

videos, rare photos, previously classified documents and an interactive

interview with

Friedman. Its aim is to present the evidence for existence of

extraterrestrial spacecraft, the viability of interstellar travel and the

involvement of government in UFO cover-ups. Based in New Brunswick, Canada,

Unity is the successful multimedia developer of such programs as Ask

About Endangered Species, Ask About Dinosaurs and Ask About Forestry.

Friedman says his Web page is, "an opportunity for people who have

interesting cases both to protect their identities and have their stories

investigated. It also offers an emotional outlet. I often get people

saying, 'I've never told anyone this

before'." This reluctance to expose their belief in alien life forms,

says Friedman, is despite the fact that a majority of people believe such life

either exists or is likely to exist. "You know," he says, "I took part in a

debate at Oxford University last October. The question we were debating was,

'This house believes that intelligent alien life has visited Planet Earth.'

And, you know what percentage voted agreement? 60 per cent!" So what is

all this

about a "Cosmic Watergate?" Why would authorities want to hide proof of

UFOs? Friedman says there are five main reasons:"They want to know how

they work -they have good weapons potential. They're worried about what would happen if

someone else figures out how they work first. There could be all kinds

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For further information: Mike Stapenhurst, (506) 450-9864