Encounters: The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed!/Encounters - The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed (1995).iso/misc3/misc016.txt

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    The following is posted for your information.  It is interesting
    to note that Oechsler wrote it on April 13, 1994 and seems to
    have had difficulty in getting it posted.   Could it be that
    Oechsler is:

            a) modem illiterate

               b) running out of Net friends

               c) pissing too many people off, or

               d) all three of the above?

    My reason for 'helping Oechsler out'?   He needs help in drawing
    the Carp Crap Case to a swift and conclusive close.

    Many of us who have followed his meteoric plummett from
    self-styled 'wunderkindt' Investigative/Analyst these past few
    years reading his ridiculous reports in UFO magazines, watching
    and listening to his absurdly inept piecing together of 'facts'
    on tv, video and radio, want Oechsler's patent nonsense to stop.

    This man with his money making scheme is a menace to ufology.

    He has caused many genuine investigators with common sense to
    pour a staggering number of hours and dollars into a case that
    was totally ridiculous from its very beginnings in 1989.

     Oechsler has consistantly expanded his 'facts' with each
    recounting of the Carp Case.   He's embelished 'reports',
    enlarged numbers, exagerated peoples titles.

    'Facts' pour out of his mouth, flow from his fingers non-stop,
    giving the listener, viewer or reader no pause for reflection.

    He hides the truth behind an ability to articulate almost as
    quickly as he can think.

    He lists his 'credentials' wherever and whenever he can, in an
    attempt to impress people with his background, his expertise and
    his contacts.   "My Phd.'s bigger than yours,  my thousands of
    hours in NASA, radio, and ufology are more beneficial than yours,
    my contacts are more solid than yours!"

    On the one hand he touts Carp as the biggest most amazing ufo
    incident ever, complete with 'authenticated' video footage,
    a 'Canadian Government Official' for a 'witness', polygraph
    'tests', a string of ever growing Lab 'reports' that 'prove' trace
    elements are present in 'hundreds' of samples, and in the next
    breath he's telling us that perhaps it's a hoax!!!!

    "But here, tell you what, you send me a bunch-o-bux and I'll send
    you all the information I've got and you can decide for
    yourself."

     An extensive report on the investigation of the Carp Caper will
     be published shortly -  the real facts are convoluted and involve
     several different hoaxes.  Consequently, it's taking longer than
     anticipated to get it _all_ down on paper.

     Oechsler is apparently becoming a little anxious, feeling the
     need to finally start to come to his own defence on the Nets by
     issuing the following 'Rebuttal' to an over-anxious young
     Montrealer's premature posting.

     Gentle reader, I present 'Oechsler's Traveling Medicine  Show'....


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                        BoB Oechsler
                    Investigations Analyst

        136 Oakwood Road                    Ph: (410)-798-1503
        Edgewater MD 21037                    Fax [phone]





                    CARP SURVIVES DEBUNKING ATTEMPT

BoB Oechsler

RE:     CARP:  FINAL WORD
    O4 APR/AVR 94
    Leblanc: O.C.I.P.E..


Background:

        In order to qualify my response to the rather authoritative
commentary published recently by Benjamin Leblanc (Co-director of
O.C.I.P.E. near Montreal), it will be necessary to provide some
insight into my philosophy on analysis and reporting of UFO case
investigations.   First let me establish some basis for authority
regarding my qualifications in submitting this report, I have no idea
what Mr. Leblanc's qualifications may be as he failed to report any
such information in his submittal - CARP: FINAL WORD.

        My active involvement in the research and investigation into
the UFO phenomenon dates back fourteen years, five years in which I
served as the host of what became a nationwide radio broadcast called:
UFOs Today.   Anyone who spends 250 hours a year chatting over the
telephone with UFO specialists and witnesses is bound to get an
incredible education.  Add to that another 1,000 hours a year looking
at UFO photos and videos in the company of Ph.D. level technologists
and you've got a good basis for fundamental analysis training.   When
you couple those credits with several weeks a year of field
investigations, diplomatic and intelligence agency contacts, former
NASA engineering credentials, and acclaim as a robotic innovator, you
have BoB Oechsler, Investigations Analyst.   Biographical Information
sheet available via fax

        With regard to the CARP / Guardian Case Investigation, I
have a particular level of expertise that warrants elucidation under
these specific circumstances.   My involvement commenced with the
receipt of a video tape of a landed craft and some crude, but
elaborate, manufactured documents detailing what is on the video and
expressing ideological concerns arising out of the history of alien
events reported locally over two decades.   The package arrived
postmarked from Ottawa with no return address and only the designation
Guardian on the videotape accompanied by a fingerprint.  I researched
the history of previous claims by the same source which detailed
events in the West Carleton township area just 30 miles west of
Ottawa, Ontario.   The town of Carp is located several miles to the
north of the area where the landing reportedly occurred on August 18,
1991.

        Since beginning the Guardian video analyses process in
February of 1992, I have visited the Ottawa area conducting field
investigations and research on at least nine occasions.  I have
invested almost three months time on location and thousands of dollars
in expenses which include costly electron scanning microscope and
x-ray analyses of contamination and control field samples collected at
the landing site.

        Over the course of my two years of investigation into the
mysterious Guardian Case, I have consulted on no less than three major
network television broadcasts on the case in question and have
included in my investigation three top Canadian Government Agencies,
RCMP Federal Investigations Unit included.  My investigation has
involved more Ph.D.. level scientists in varied disciplines that any
other case in civilian history to my knowledge.  While I feel
confident in certain findings and assessments derived from these
efforts, it would be premature and inappropriate for me to offer a
_Final_ conclusion.   I cannot even eliminate with 100% certainty that
the whole thing was an elaborate fabrication, although I believe it
would be an extremely remote possibility.


RCMP GRC - INVESTIGATION REPORT:   (Commentary)

        The investigation conducted by the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police (RCMP), Federal Investigations Unit was the basis of the
report recently filed by Mr. Leblanc of O.C.I.P.E (Organizations de
Compilation et d'information sur les Phenonomenes Etranges).  Since the
Guardian investigation is a significantly compelling one, I'll confine this
rebuttal to the issues raised in Mr. Leblanc's report with specific
attention to the RCMP investigation cited.  Readers can write to the
referenced address for more detailed information on my investigation
regarding the Guardian Case.


        Although I was intimately involved in the RCMP Investigation
following a complaint  filed by a resident concerned about     the low
level helicopter flights in the area and perplexed about the reports
of a UFO landing nearby, the RCMP refused my written request for a
copy of their final report citing internal regulations.  Therefore
in spite of Mr. Leblanc's arrogant perplexity at my failure to publish
the RCMP report, this was the first time I've actually seen it.
Nonetheless, I was familiar with much of the contents and am aware of
the identities of most of those interviewed along with their comments.
Consequently, I am fully prepared to respond to the arguments raised.

        The primary issues raised in the RCMP Investigation centered
on the reports of potentially illegal helicopter air traffic
operations in West Carleton township.  As a result of my investigation
on the same issue with the Department of National Defence (DND), the
RCMP contacted me regarding my investigation into the videotape of a
reported landing of an unusual aircraft on private property.  That's
how the UFO issue got pulled into the investigation.

        When I was contacted by RCMP Constable Dennis De Haitre, he
was interested in what information I might have to help in his
investigation.  I agreed to participate on an information exchange
basis which was honored in principle.  Cst. De Haitre made it clear to
me that his investigation was on thin ice due to adverse public
relations concerns regarding the investigation of a reported UFO
incident.  I indicated to him that my investigation was initiated with
the conviction that the event most probably was some sort of military
operation.  There appeared to be enough evidence in the video to
detect military pyrotechnic flare residue at the landing site.  The
laboratory results proved negative on required detectable elements and
most likely eliminated military involvement.  Thus began the scramble
at RCMP HQ to come up with a viable explanation for the craft in the
Guardian video, namely a helicopter.  It seemed to be the optimum
solution for them since there were so many reports of helicopters in
the area, yet the DND report concluded the object in the video and the
helicopters unidentified.

        When it became evident to Cst. De Haitre and his superiors
that I was prepared to put my technical experts with impeccable
credentials up against his experts for a meeting at RCMP HQ, they
declined my invitation and terminated the case investigation.  Cst. De
Haitre scheduled one final meeting with me at RCMP HQ in Ottawa to
return some investigation exhibits which were loaned to him for his
investigation.  During that meeting I was permitted to review a letter
in the file from an individual at another Canadian Government Agency.
The letter detailed the author's expertise and indicated that based on
several points (which will be addressed in this report) he concluded
that the object in the Guardian video was a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter.


        The specifics cited from the Guardian video suggesting a
helicopter include a presumed relationship between the rapidly
strobing blue light on top of the craft which reflects off a curved
surface and the masthead light which is a white light shinning  "up"
through the control rods at the rotor assembly on a helicopter.  This
is a ludicrous assumption that is easily refuted as the premise for
the explanation of the object depicted in the video.  The first
problem with the hypothesis exists in the RCMP concession that the
rotor assembly is operating at 360 to 400 RPM.  Any rotation of the
rotor assembly would visibly affect the pyrotechnics smoke which is
drifting toward the object at 7 to 11 knots, which incidentally
matches the meteorological report for the date and time period.  No
such effect is visible on the video tape.

        Another issue associated with the helicopter hypothesis and
the rotation of the rotor assembly involves the analysis of the audio
track from the Guardian videotape.  The RCMP investigation revealed
that a sound could be heard on the tape that is consistent with the
sound of rotating chopper blades.  I retained the services of an
acoustical physicist to conduct an audio analysis.  One of several
steps involved in the analysis required dubbing the audio track from
the Guardian videotape onto a digital audio tape recording (DAT).  The
sound attributed to the helicopter hypothesis was not on the DAT and
therefore it could only be attributed to video noise associated with
the bright burst of light coming from the blue strobe.  The video
noise need not be a product of the audio track in order to be audible.

    Frame by from analysis of the Guardian videotape refutes another
factor in the masthead light issue in the helicopter scenario.  In
order to account for the 7-8 Hz oscillation frequency of the flashing
"blue" (white shows up white on video, never blue) strobe light in the
video, RCMP analysts concluded that the rotor assembly would need to
operate at 360-400 RPM.  With the masthead light turned on, the
control rods might give the impression of a strobe effect.  There are
several problems inherent with this theory.  The masthead light would
have to be of tremendous luminosity in order to match the video image
and the control rods not matter how thick could not totally blank out
the scatter effect of the constantly burning light.  And there is
nothing to account for the reflection of the strobe on the lower
surface are of the craft.  RCMP declined a suggested demonstration
with a Sikorsky  S-76 helicopter.  The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
reviewed the Guardian video materials and could find no one who could
agree with the RCMP interpretation.


SUMMARY

        Clearly RCMP would have been better off concluding that the
object in the Guardian video was a model constructed for an AT&T
Corporation advertising campaign.  At least that hypothesis had some
eyebrow raising coincidences that proved difficult to accept.  Perhaps
they were on the right track in looking in the direction of Sikorsky.
After all, the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation was named as a U.S.
defense contractor researching electro-gravitics disc programs in the
1950's according to Wright-Patterson AFB Technical Library documents.
Maybe the object in the Guardian video was in a new kind of
helicopter, without the rotor and blade assembly.

        Perhaps a touch of professional protocol might be advisedly
exercised by Mr. Leblanc regarding his commentary following his
publishing of the RCMP report.  He evidently has not done enough
research on this case to offer academic conclusions.  He certainly did
not bother to contact me for comment upon receiving the RCMP report,
in fact he didn't bother to send me a copy of his submittal nor alert
me to its posting.  Every single assertion made by Leblanc is wrong.
Comments in the RCMP report that he attributes to me were actually
made by the Guardian suspect who has refused even simple methods of
proof that he is not Guardian.

        Is it possible that O.C.I.P.E. is really an organization
whose objectives are to debunk UFO cases?  Consider the following
factual scenario.  O.C.I.P.E. collaborated on an investigation
involving a report from Guardian regarding a 1989 event which he
called a UFO landing in the swamp.  The investigation correspondence
was published as a crash and probably a "hoax" in Leonard
Stringfield's July 1991 Status Report VI.  The problem with the
assessment is that their investigation located three independent
witnesses who triangulated a UFO sighting and other details that
matched precisely with the Guardian report.  To my knowledge they
didn't even bother to spend $12.00 Canadian to obtain dated before and
after aerial photos of the area available from Energy and Mines.  I
have great difficulty giving credence to any individual or organization
publishing articles with the title: FINAL WORD.

        The RCMP investigations report does have some merit in
retrospect.  They provided a resident with a video camera who recorded
a helicopter dive bombing the residence of one of the eye witnesses to
the UFO landing reported and videotaped by Guardian.  I personally
inspected the roof area where shingles were clearly blown off.  The
fact that the helicopter was attempting to intimidate the witnesses
was overshadowed by the fact that DND declined to confirm
identification to RCMP.  And the revelation by one resident that odd
grass formations, ten feet in diameter, have been observed for years
is an interesting oddity that seems common in areas of UFO activity.

        The Guardian videotaped UFO landing investigation has proven
to be a very complex endeavor.  Confirmation of the landing site with
gross physical effects and elemental deposit anomalies, multiple
independent eye witness accounts, and meteorological and topographical
consistencies all tend to support the analyses and authenticity of the
Guardian video.  Will we ever know for sure what landed in the fields
of West Carleton?  Perhaps the answer will never be proven to
everyone's satisfaction, but many will go away dazed by the testimony
of a Canadian Government Official who claims to have been taken aboard
a craft that night in August of 1991 at the site where Guardian filmed
his video.  The witness passed two lie detector tests administered by
a Canadian polygrapher trained by the U.S. military.  The story is one
of intrigue that involves telepathic dialogue with nonhuman entities
and extraordinary identification details of the entities depicted in
the Guardian video.

        Anyone wishing more detailed information on the Guardian
Investigation can write to me at the address below.  If you would like
a videotaped report of the summary of my findings including a complete
copy of the Guardian video, send a postal money order in U.S. funds in
the amount of $35 (Canadian Orders $40 CPMO) to BoB Oechsler at 136
Oakwood Road, Edgewater, Maryland 21037.  Examine the evidence, review
the findings and evaluate the analyses before drawing your own
conclusions;  that is, if one can be reached within our self imposed
limits of reality.

Cheers ... BoB Oechsler, Investigations Analyst


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                        BoB Oechsler
                    Investigations Analyst

        136 Oakwood Road                    Ph: (410)-798-1503
        Edgewater MD 21037                    Fax [phone]



                    Biographical Information


BOB Oechsler:        Pronounced x-ler

Former NASA Mission Specialist
      Goddard Space Flight Center
      Greenbelt, Maryland

Who's Who Listings
      Who's Who in the East
      Who's Who in Finance and Industry
      Who's Who in the World
      International Book of Honor

Author - The Chesapeake Connection

    Contributing Author:    The Gulf Breeze Sightings - Walters
                        Wm. Morrow, New York 1990

                        Alien Liaison - Good
                        Random Century Ltd., London 1991

                        The UFO Report 1992 - Edited: Good
                        Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1991

                        Alien Contact - Good
                        Wm. Morrow, New York 1993

                        Alien Update - Good
                        Arrow, Random House, London 1993



Lecturer:    The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
Speaker :    The United States Chamber of Commerce

International Television Exposure:

        NBC - Unsolved Mysteries (Regular Consultant)
        ABC - America's Best Kept Secrets
        ABC - News with Science Editor Jules Bergman
        CBS - UFOs: The Best Evidence
        Syndicated - Now It Can Be Told
        BBC - London
        NTV - Tokyo, Japan
        RAI - Rome, Italy
        META - Berlin, Germany

Technical Expertise:    Photo & Video Analysis
                    Invented process for converting night time
                    Polaroid images into almost daylight
                    conditions for easy analysis.

Professional Expertise:    Robotics Field Applications Technologies
                    Electro-gravitics Research
                    Radio & Television Broadcasting.


Primary Guidance within the U.S Intelligence Community:

    Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Science & Technology
    U.S. Naval Intelligence - Director, Naval Ops Air Warfare
    National Security Agency (NSA), Institute of Def. Analysis
    Executive Branch - Defense Science Board

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                        BoB Oechsler
                    Investigations Analyst

        136 Oakwood Road                    Ph: (410)-798-1503
        Edgewater MD 21037                    Fax [phone]


                    G U A R D I A N  C A S E

        The Guardian Case is simply one of the most important
investigations in UFO research.  My involvement in the investigation
began in February of 1992 with the receipt of a video tape and
documents sent by an anonymous individual using only the name
Guardian.  The video represents a remarkable improvement in the
quality of UFO photographed images.  It shows an unmistakable three
dimensional image of a structured craft with extraordinary luminosity
characteristics.  Further images on the video have proved to be the
first authentic images of alien beings associated with such events.


        The subsequent field investigation efforts yielded gross
physical effects at the landing site which was witnessed by several
credible individuals.  A Canadian Government official who resides in
the area of the landing was taken on-board the craft and claimed to
have interacted with the occupants, one of whom was a Chinese man in a
black business suit.  The witness testimony was subjected to polygraph
examination.  The results proved positive.

        This once case has undergone more diversified scientific
analysis than any other case in history.  This due largely to the
abundance of physical evidence found at the site.  The case has been
popularized with international publicity including segments on NBC's
"Unsolved Mysteries" and FOX's "Sightings".  We are currently in
production involving a documentary on the case to be broadcast during
ratings week in February 1994.

_____________________________________________________________________

[Also attached were two more pages of order forms for Oechsler's
 video, magazine and book sales division which I just couldn't
 justify keying. ]