From: Franklin Fields <fields.nul>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:07:32 -0500 (EST)
Archived: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:50:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Discreditation Of Ufology


>From: Joe McGonagle <joe.mcgonagle.nul>
>To: post.nul
>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:13:12 +0000
>Subject: Discreditation Of Ufology [was: Committee For Skeptical Inquiry]

>>From: Franklin Fields <fields.nul>
>>To: post.nul
>>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:28:04 -0500 (EST)
>>Subject: Re: Committee For Skeptical Inquiry

><snip>

>>It is neither foolish or pathologically paranoid to believe
>>debunkers are working within the UFO subject area. It may border
>>on pathological naivete to dismiss the possibility.

>I would venture that most accusers of 'Disinformation programmes'
>etc. are actually pointing their fingers in the wrong direction.

>People like Corso and organisations like the Disclosure Project
>and the Exopolitics movement have done or are doing far more
>damage to ufology than any sceptic group. Individuals and
>organisations who support these are usually the first in the
>queue to make accusations of official interference.

>If I were working for MI5/MI6/DIA/CIA/FBI or any other alphabetti
>spaghetti group in order to undermine serious acceptance of
>ufology, I know who I would be supporting. I would also support
>publications like 'Nexus', 'The Weekly World News', and 'The Sun'
>all of which serve to cast ufology as a domain for cranks only.

>Many on this List have given support to one or another of these
>groups, individuals, or publications in some form. Ufology gets
>exactly what it deserves when it tolerates such entities.


I could not agree more Joe. Again, I said it would be naive to
dismiss the possibility of disinformation. I am not limiting it
to skeptics. I pointed out that the CIA and others have used
disinformation extensively in the past.

It was stated by Jerome Clark that it is "well documented in
credible historical literature and all linked to immediate Cold
War concerns. It also has nothing to do with the professional
debunking movement, which is mentioned nowhere in that
literature." I agree with most of Jerome's point. Except that it
is prudent to consider its linkage to ufology. Also, it is safe
to say that disinformation methodologies have improved with time.

Let us assume that UFOs are intelligently controlled and some
humans know of this fact. Again, just assume it to be true for
the purposes of this point. Now if they were in fact real, their
existence would be a secret and a much more important secret then
the Cold War.

Given that hypothetical set of facts is would be almost a
certainty that disinformation would be used to keep the secret.

Now, if one considers the ETH an even remote possibility or that
UFOs are secret government craft, then examining the use of
disinformation is reasonable.


Frank



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