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MUFON NEW YORK CITY NEWSLETTER
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JUST SAY "I DON'T KNOW"
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Author: Jack Greenfield

Though I have been mystified by the UFO phenomenon for 30
years, I'm at least bemused by the attitudes of many who
haunt its meeting places, special events, lecture halls,
magazines and...newsletters.

With the certitude and messianic fervor of the chosen, they
expound their cherished beliefs: "I know there's an
international conspiracy to keep us from the truth!" says
one. "The revelations being channelled from the Arcturians
are really illuminating!" gushes another. "We have star
children!" writes a lady who claims communion with
Venusians. "...A powerful force from outside mankind
is...driving us...into the abyss!" exclaims a European
ufologist who insists the "evidence" is mounting. At least
"3.7 million" men, women and children have been abducted by
UFOs, concludes a recent Roper Poll - according to some.
What? UFOs? Shucks, friend, they're just a lot of "ionized
air," states a plasma vortex theorist, as if summarizing a stranger-than-fiction phenomenon that's been making fools of
folks for over 45 years.

And, meanwhile, in the midst of all the self-indulgence and
egospeak, the ubiquitous Phil Klass, who apparently sees
himself as a minister to the misguided, and is seen by
others as the Prime Minister of Misinformation and
Misinterpretation, declaims, with equal acumen and
assurance, that UFOs are all a lot of beguiling baloney and
that the very idea our government is hiding information
about UFOs is...unpatriotic. Whatever happened to the UFO
mystery? Has it finally been solved by the disinformation
lobby and the same species of simpleton who, a few decades
ago, would have called it "marsh gas?"

Has it been levitated out of consensus reality by those who
channel 2,000-year-old entities, party with star people,
have transcendental visions and access to revealed truths?
Or has it become the tool and teething ring of "New Age"
messiahs and missionaries, cultists and confabulators,
hustlers and hoaxers in pursuit of emotional, psychological,
economic, and other misbegotten agendas?

There is, still, regardless of what anyone tells you, a UFO
mystery. Maybe they're extraterrestrial. Maybe not. There
is, still, an abduction mystery. Maybe the abductors are
engaging in what Flying Saucer Review calls a "broad plan of
generic tinkering." Maybe not. Maybe crop circles are the
work of fairies, or a sign of imminent earth changes, or
clever hoaxes, or unidentified natural phenomena, or a
combination thereof. And maybe not. Why must we have a
fixed and fatuous notions regarding such phenomena?

Someone once claimed that just saying "I don't know," when
we most assuredly do not, "know", is the beginning of
wisdom.

Kurt,
telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
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