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- Initial Impressions of Lear Video Tapes
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- by
- Brad Langton
- Paranet Lambda
- 716-377-3985
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- I must say at the beginning, that the amount of video material that
- John has supplied is impressive. My only misgiving is that all but the
- last segment are taken from televised documentaries. I was hopeful that
- the video material would include footage alluded to in the documentaries
- that was not shown on screen. In several cases, particularly within the
- documentary "UFO's Are Real" (Brandon Chase), there were references to
- military footage of UFO's taken by military personnel.
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- One of the most compelling films dealt with the CNN series on "The
- Bentwaters Incident." There seemed to be quite a bit of circumstantial
- evidence surrounding the alleged incident. The viewer is told through
- interviews and artist conceptions, the details of the Bentwaters
- UFO encounter. Allegations were made regarding physical evidence left
- at the scene, but little or none of this was demonstrated by photos
- of the effects. There was no indication within the context of the
- Bentwaters Incident that correlates with John Lear's hypothesis except
- one account by an eyewitness that one of the lead officers met briefly
- with the aliens. Some of the possible explanations to explain the
- pulsing light as an artifact of a lighthouse several miles away seemed
- weak at first glance, but when an audio tape of the mission was
- synchronized with the lighthouse frequency, there was a match. The
- point was made that the correlation between the lighthouse pulsing and the
- UFO pulsing did not continue. Without more information regarding the
- encounter such as more physical evidence, this particular encounter
- can not be taken at face value except to say that there is a chance that
- something did happen, and maybe it involved UFO's of extraterrestrial
- origen. As with all of these documentaries, it is difficult to pass
- a judgment due to the lack of first hand knowledge and the tendancy for
- television to capitalize on the sensational over the mundane. Still, I
- would be interested in learning more about the Bentwaters Incident
- because despite the problems I have mentioned, there are aspects of
- the story that would likely be detailed in military documents that are
- not currently available and the fact that this was carried on the news
- without a great deal of hype, does lend some credibility to the idea
- that something did in fact occur that has not been fully revealed.
-
- The least compelling documentary was "A Strange Harvest" which did
- an excellent job of showing mutilations but was somewhat biased towards
- a presumed extraterrestrial connection. Interviewed doctors were asked
- leading questions regarding such matters as the lack of blood in the
- specimens such as (and I'm paraphrasing) "there's no way then, that
- you can account for the total lack of blood in the cadavers..." to which
- the doctors explained a possible explanation being that the blood had pooled
- on the underside of the body after death. Ms. Howe did not seem to pick
- up on this point. For myself, unless the mutilations were made sometime
- after death, one would have expected some blood in evidence around the
- carcass. Some aspects were mysterious in any event such as the lack of
- any physical evidence of how the animal got there, or why there were
- such specific and consistent mutilations around the world. I have no
- answer for this. The failure of the carcass to attract predators is
- outside my area of expertise as well and is somewhat unusual at first
- glance, however, I'm not about to rule out other mitigating circumstances.
- Clearly the mutilations follow a pattern world wide... there are some
- very unusual characteristics regarding the wounds which appear to only
- be possible with technology beyond our own, again, I have no way of
- validating this. The mere fact that the pattern is world wide does suggest
- something strange... but as to what it means... this remains highly
- speculative based solely on this documentary.
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- The next two features; an HBO special "UFO's: What's Going On" and
- "UFO's: It Has Begun," both offer further random hints at a coverup of
- the UFO issue. In both cases, no hard evidence seems apparent, although
- there is a reference in one of the documentaries, perhaps the last one
- or the next one, showing a hand written note from J. Edgar Hoover of
- the FBI explaining to the army that they must allow access to the salvaged
- alien spacecraft. That is one I can't explain away.
-
- The final documentary that I really understood was "UFO's Are Real" by
- Brandon Chase which offered the greatest amount of video footage,
- photocopied FOIA documents on UFO's, and an impressive display of
- physical evidence, particulary regarding UFO landing sight soil
- characteristics that was really turning the tide... until...
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- ...the Billy Maier material was celebrated as one of the most complete
- and significant cases of UFO evidence to date. Inclusive in the Maier
- data was the contention that the photographs had been authenticated by
- photographic analysis techniques. That last entry threw my entire
- growing optimism that someone had done some exhaustive research into
- doubt once more... this in the light of our recent feelings about the
- veracity of the Maier materials.
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- Despite the Maier material, I feel that this particular video presented
- the most compelling evidence not only that UFOs are real, but that they
- are literally not of this world. If followup on the specifics dealt with
- in "UFO's Are Real" corraborates the conclusions drawn in the film, I
- would be willing to accept the majority of the evidence as proof of
- extraterrestrial involvement in earthly affairs.
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- The last two entries, "The Tacoma Incident" and "Japanese Moon Pictures"
- do not offer me any ideas at all regarding the UFO issue. I may need to view
- these last two segments while following along in John's enclosed
- documentation to glean whatever meaning they may have.
-
- Having viewed the video once, and skimmed the substantial number of
- documents, I'm still unclear as to how John's hypothesis was arrived at
- unless its a reference on one document that I have yet to locate. One
- point seems much clearer to me now than it was before, there is no doubt
- that there is something strange about UFO's and that they do represent
- something that we do not understand and that there may in fact be some
- sentient beings involved from some other world. The Laear materials are
- a good introduction to the scope of the UFO issue and I highly
- recommend that anyone who is interested in UFO's should review these
- materials. I myself must do alot more reviewing before making any final
- summations. The jury is still out on the hypothesis Lear has presented
- but I think the circumstantial evidence for the reality of UFO's is
- enough to secure a conviction in most courts.
-
- I will likely have more to say about this at a later time, particularly
- in light of the recent Texarkana sightings.
-
- -Brad Langton
- 27-Feb-88
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