From: Bob Shell <bob@bobshell.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:22:42 +0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:46:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Santilli Knew 'Tent Footage' Was a Fraud?


>Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 03:47:32 -0800
>From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@jps.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Santilli Knew 'Tent Footage' Was a Fraud?

>Dear Bob and James:
>Now that you mention it, I've crossed New Mexico on a number of
>routes, and I have _never_ seen a barn there. I'm sure there are
>some barns, but they would stick out like a sore thumb; most
>especially in the virtually deserted nearly Mars like high
>desert between Corona and Roswell, NM.

>If Santilli really believed in his own films, he would have them
>independently authenticated by whatever means necessary to
>convince himself and the world at large.

>Compelling evidence of alien activities may well exist
>somewhere, but I'm not going to waste any more time on the likes
>of Santilli.


I was being polite when I said barns were rare.  I've never seen
one in New Mexico either.  A few small sheds used for storage
and such, but never a real barn.


>PS: By coincidence, the two times I stopped in Roswell were both
>Sunday evenings .. separated by an interval of almost exactly
>twenty years! Each time I asked where I could get a beer, and
>some kid working at a burger joint looked as puzzled as if I had
>asked for directions to the Eiffel Tower.

They don't sell beer in burger joints here in Virginia, either.
You gotta go to a bar.

Bob