From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:49:10 -0400
Archived: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:18:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Ray Stanford's Open Letter To Tony Bragalia


>From: Ray Stanford <opus22.nul>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
>Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:23:36 -0500
>Subject: Ray Stanford's Open Letter To Tony Bragalia

>Anthony Bragalia,

>I demand that you and/or Rich Reynolds remove my copyrighted
>(1976) illustration of beings beside the Socorro object,
>illicitly lifted from my Socorro book, page 21, _immediately_.

>Below is the current link to that illicit usage of my
>intellectual property:

>www.ufocon.blogspot.com

Ray Stanford did the best work on this case back when it was
happening. His boots on the ground, tape and other measuring
equipment, the live witnesses to interview. He wrote it all in a
book which is there for all to read.

Anthony Bragalia comes along with an unsupportable story backed
up by that the pretty lame bunch of so-called 'media people' on
Rich Renold's RRR Group website. We all know how expert the
media can be re the UFO phenomenon; pronouncement rather than
investigation in the majority of the cases.

Reynolds came up with more lame explanations himself on this
List a few years back including everything for an non-existant,
wayward, Lunar Module to a automobile sized hot air balloon
capable of lifting its own weight, two small people, the burner
apparatus, fuel and a space to contain the two 'pilots'.

When that didn't pan out there was the 500 foot teather leading
up to a huge balloon with the 'capsule on the bottom end.

This is a pure case of attacking the witness rather than
addressing the evidence. And from what I've read an attempt to
introduce a bunch of squirrel tracks across the moose trail in
order to try and divert attention from the real evidence.

What a waste of time this whole exercise is. No proof of the
existance of Bragalia's so-called hoaxters who seem to be shy
for some reason and recently a piece of cardboard tubing found
at the site that was discarded as important but over 45 years
later is claimed to be a whiz-bang.

You see with Bragalia's type of 'work' there is no need to prove
anything he says, it is sufficient to just try and cast some
doubt with veiled and unsupportable claims; and he can keep
doing this until the cows come home because he doesn't have to
prove anything. He wasn't there, didn't do the work, and frankly
he doesn't have the chops for the job to begin with.

It is unfortunate that we have to go through these exercises
every few years with the easily impressed who sit in a
comfortable chair in front of a screen and wait for the phone to
ring.


Don Ledger



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