From: Brad Sparks <RB47x.nul>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:04:29 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:39:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & UFOs? - Sparks


>From: Amy Hebert <ahebert.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:37:42 -0600
>Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & UFOs?

>>From: Brad Sparks <RB47x.nul>
>>To: ufoupdates.nul
>>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:56:12 EST
>>Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & UFOs?

>>>From: Amy Hebert <ahebert.nul>
>>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>>>Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 04:41:06 -0600
>>>Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & UFOs?

>>>Brad, you said, "out of which maybe the one at Corona is clearly
>>>just the moon low on the horizon, and that's about it for the
>>>IFO's!" This caught my attention because the object I saw in
>>>1997, looked exactly like that - the moon low on the horizon.
>>>But it was not the moon and did not behave like it either (there
>>>were two other witnesses). Ya just never know what's what and
>>>what's not anymore.

>>I have little time now to respond to these kinds of posts, but
>>will quickly respond to this.

>>The Corona sighting was in exactly the same direction as the
>>moon, and low on the horizon. You are sidetracking my point.

>And you, mine.

This thread started with Nuclear - UFO connections and you have
sidetracked it onto your moon-like UFO sighting. My point
concerned how the agencies involved with the Holloman-Kirtland-
 Los Alamos bases had very percentages of Unknowns in their
worried discussions, with very few if any IFO's (I cited the
Corona moon as one of the few). You come back with some absurd
plea for nihilism. Now you try to nuance it with alleged
"critical thinking" as if I don't have any and you have to
rescue me from this terrible lack. When it is in fact my
critical thinking and analysis that realized the high percentage
of Unknowns in these documents in the first place, since the
documents or authors themselves seem to have no awareness of the
UFO vs. IFO statistical issue that we today in 2005 are so
concerned with.

>Brad, I know you are an intelligent man. An intelligent person
>never assumes he or she knows it all. If I am wasting your
>precious time, feel free to move on to the next discussion.
>Right now - hit the "delete" button!

I can't hit the "delete" button Amy because this Martian next to
me is holding my finger back preventing me from Deleting! How do
you know there isn't a Martian stopping me from hitting Delete?
You don't. If we took your extremist form of argument every
damned thing would be doubted to the point of absurdity without
having to have a shred of supporting evidence for the scenario
that is implied by the extreme doubt. Or else we are reduced to
incoherence in our understanding of history.

Just for your FYI, I have been in the forefront of critical
analytical thinking about government UFO documents and history
for 30+ years, since just such analysis enabled me to get the
CIA to fully declassify the Robertson Panel report (I would fill
in their deletions till they got to the point of deciding there
was no point in withholding any of it). By the way I didn't use
FOIA, I used MDR. I followed that up by analyzing 100,000's of
pages of government documents and numerous histories and
interviewed 100 CIA, AF, NSA and other intelligence officials to
critically assess the documents and to use the documents to
critically assess the interviewees.

If you bothered to read what I've written you would see I apply
critical analysis everywhere, but not a nihilism that leaves
behind a wake of incoherence. Read my RB-47 report, 31 pages, in
The UFO Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., which critically analyzes Phil
Klass' seemingly very convincing explanation of the case and not
just unravels his explanations like some kind of psychosocial
exercise in nitpicking but finds dramatic positive support for
the case from Klass' work, which he had not seen or expected.
Klass discovered that a ground radar site had been detected on
the RB-47's ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) detectors and he
thought that explained the unidentified radar signals. However I
discovered that the UFO radar signal and the Duncanville ADC
ground radar signal were _both_ detected at the same time in
different (correct) directions, thus actually proving
(calibrating) the accuracy of the equipment in real-time. Etc.
etc.

Again read my 1999 paper on Ruppelt's Coverups and you will see
I take apart the tissue of lies that Ruppelt spins in his
writings designed to cover up evidences of official coverup. If
you do, you will see plain evidence that the AF and CIA and
other agencies release info they don't really want to release
all the time, for the reasons I already gave (accidents occur
all the time, some officials don't understand or care about what
other officials want to keep secret, this happens within large
bureaucracies as well as between agencies).

Now I choose to hit Delete on the rest of your now well-refuted
message - and the Martian says OK to do so.