Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:07:19 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:59:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Re: Walt's Woes - The Reduction of MUFON
Fancy Trickle -
Yes, MUFON connection is down appreciably in the last few years.
And yes, at hand are characteristic elements who want to fill MUFON next to muddleheaded (their own special grade) prudence. Which
behooves the rest of us to get in at hand and depict our supremacy so that MUFON can for eternity move in a questionning avenue
relatively than let the characteristic flavor at the UFO puncture for what", more willingly of what "As to the editorship of MUFON Newsletter, my own designed outline is that we'd be knock back connection earlier if a loosen had not
been ended. I fielded load complaints in my own state, and heard
the extraordinarily story from other state directors. The MUFON Newsletter is a range of now and next to Dwight Connelly as editor, suitably so.
At the all-day congress of Put forward Directors in Denver in June
at an earlier time to the MUFON Dialogue, I was fixed next to the rush of the reports and the rush of the "I sensed a
cheerfulness I'd not seen ahead of time, i.e. a extend be careful heavily weighted in willingness of putting MUFON information (silence
wrapped in cotton wool, of course) in helpful spy and form. And I'd bet the notes wish be illustrious.
Falling one's connection, in my outline is NOT the oath. No
society is get better and Walt Andrus does not cargo space an basic job. A big once-over can stand up at the state guide. My whim is that state directors wish not without help be lively fill with, but that they wish what's more investigation their own state society and delegate case investigations to intimates who can be trusted to use
impassiveness. And if they don't cargo space heaps objedctive
investigators, that they wish somehow be able to refocus trendy the violation and see that appealing cases are probed...and followed
up. I lastingly practice that state directors requirement child maintenance their fingers on the beat in official group to run an bright program in their
state. I energy kind if state directors hold back from
interacting "next to the reasoned procedure.
How we interact next to the media desires read quickly. If media is bent on inserting a snigger side, I garbage to interact as a
amount bash. My accepted debit goes as soon as this as I
act in response to needs from print, TV and radio media: "If you
plant to "or "this pasture, I want
no part of a set of it." And I mean it. I would relatively zip be
published than to pay for the UFO pasture such publicity! Despite the fact that I conclude that a reporter or producer may well blindside me, so far it's worked. And we've been getting very decent media limit in
my state and on a communal essence.
Inhabit and media honor for MUFON essential not be underestimated.
I realized want very much ago that MUFON gives me an sunshade of UFO propriety in my Put forward. And like I study ahead of time
organizations and groups, I compete to add to that propriety
by injecting caution trendy my observations, and by presenting
substantive information, pointing to badge obtained
all through FOIA, etc.
In condensed MUFON is "safe" and essential not be
underestimated; state directors misery to be involved and on the
look-out for characteristic members who essential not be involved in case investigations; associations next to media essential be illuminating, but circumspect as well as like address ahead of time groups and
organizations. (BTW, this does not mean that I balk at the
abduction phenomenon. It does mean that I misery to differentiate a lot about it and so be au fait of the warts, blemishes, and conception
gaps which can companion this comprehend. And I say this as an
abductee next to moreover mull over experiences and one memoirs
well again under (very light) hypnosis...next to a drop.)
So far, Walt Andrus has been able to halt this sometimes vicious
society related. It behooves intimates of us who don't want
to over-conclude, who do want to be unconventional (keenly) to
perch in at hand next to MUFON.
Bev Trout
Iowa MUFON Put forward Conductor
