THE "PENTHOUSE" ALIEN -- YESTERDAY'S NEWS.
WE HAD IT A YEAR AGO!"Penthouse's" blanket endorsement of questionable
photographic "evidence" which has been around for awhile,
strikes me as curious....by Glen Boyd
Ya know what? I am truly thrilled! For the first time, I can admit I bought the new issue of "Penthouse" for the pictures!!! Honest! Upon getting said "Penthouse" home, however, I wish it hadn't been shrink-wrapped....
The new issue of "Penthouse" has a banner headline promising "The Alien: World's First Authentic Photograph." Well, guess what, gang? We've had the exact same photos linked to "The Millennium Matters...," UFOrmation page for about a year now. You'll find the link to these same photos that appear in the current "Penthouse") by clicking on "Are these real pictures of the Greys?"
The link comes from V.J. Enterprises "UFOs in the 90s" webpage (also linked to UFOrmation), one of the best sites I have found on the world wide web for UFOs and originally profiled in my article for "UFO Magazine's" May/June issue, "Surfing for Saucers." Now here is where things get truly interesting... aside from the fact that these are undoubtedly one and the same set of photographs....
The original source (at least to my knowledge and definitely prior to the currently trumpeted "Penthouse" exclusive), the V.J. Enterprises homepage, cites their source for the photos as:
"...supplied to a Hong Kong magazine as an act of good faith." Further commentary offers the opinion that the photos are of "the same model used in the Showtime movie 'Roswell'."Meanwhile, Bob Guccione states the "Penthouse" source of these same "alien photographs" as the following (quoting directly):
"The picture belonged to the daughter of a German scientist who escaped to America at the onset of World War II. In this country, the scientist worked with Einstein and Oppenheimer, and was also involved in top secret government endeavors, including the infamous Philadelphia Experiment and the investigation of the crash of a mysterious spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico, in the late 1940s."While I personally welcome the serious and presumably objective look that Guccione's publications (notably "Omni") have given the UFO question in recent years, the discrepancies here regarding alleged photographic evidence trumpeted by "Penthouse" as new and exclusive, when in fact it has been available for some time (and questioned as "authentic..." as claimed by "Penthouse") should be cause for a flaming red flag.
Maybe Guccione has been had, I honestly don't know. But "Penthouse's" blanket endorsement of questionable photographic "evidence" which has been around for awhile, strikes me as curious. The claim of it being "new" being the most obvious; the discrepancy of sources, the most damning.
For the moment at least, I don't question Bob Guccione's sincerity. But, at best, this represents really sloppy investigation on the part of "Penthouse." At worst, it could represent out-and-out disinformation. Bob, ya should have known better.