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From: Gildas Bourdais <GBourdais@aol.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:57:35 EST Fwd Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 06:37:48 -0500 Subject: Re: FOX Hoax Special - Reaction >Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:59:22 -0500 >From: James Easton <pulsar@compuserve.com> >Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: FOX Hoax Special - Reaction >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net> >Regarding the FOX 'Hoax Special' program... <snip> >Still many more questions than answers. Thank you for your interesting analysis, and your very appropriate conclusion, it seems to me. Just a few more thoughts: I find very improbable that Ray Santilli, a small music producer, would have launched in such a risky and costly operation of producing a highly complex hoax by himself. Just think of the risk of a member of the production team leaking any part of the story, even inadvertantly, any time in the future. For instance when talking to a friend, who would repeat it, etc. Santilli would soon have several dozens of TV networks suing him and would end up in jail for swindling. On the other hand the mere fact that he put the film on the market means that he was very sure of not being prosecuted. However, many parts of his story, such as the camaraman's story, are not credible. Just to mention the claim of having kept highly secret reels and developped them himself. The story is preposrerous, and therefore Santilli did not get the film the way he says. So what happened ?? I am surprised that the very possible hypothesis of a "secret services" operation has been paid so little attention, apparently (or am I wrong here ?). And yet, there are many precedents. If we go back in time, we know that, for instance, AFOSI issued doctored documents and informations to ufological circles, some of them through William Moore, who confessed it. So, why not a film ? What would be the purpose of such an operation ? Perhaps two purposes. The first one would be to jam inquiries on Roswell getting too close to the truth. Please note the worldwide release of the film coincided with the GAO report which, as a consequence, drew little attention in the press. In France, the autopsy footage was a disaster, not only for Roswell but for ufology itself, from which we are slowly recovering. The second purpose, on the other hand, might be to accustom the general public to the idea of the alien presence on Earth, and to the future revelation of secret operations, which require obviously a long preparation (That's my optimistic touch). All this does not necessarily mean that the film is authentic. Il may just be close to the truth, but with some deliberate inaccuracies, just like, perhaps in other operations such as the MJ-12 documents, etc. I would be interested to read convincing arguments against this hypothesis. When the film was shown in France, on the TF1 network, I was invited for my book on Roswell, and at the end of the show I asked this question to Bob Kiviat, who was there : "What about the "secret services" hypothesis ?" He did not reply, and I did not insist. But he would have been well advised to think about it because his recent show does not seem to be the end of the story. Incidentally, I may have some information to release soon on the "KGB secrets" TV production. Russian ufologist Boris Shurinov, to whom I sent the video, has already presented a rather devastating analysis of it at a recent conference in Italy (Cagliari, in Sardinia, 12 december 1998). He is to send me soon a summary of it (he was completing his inquiry) with his authorization to circulate it. Just to give an example, he claims that the uniforms of the soldiers are not correct : they wear an officer's belt! Again, we will have to wonder about who made that video. Gildas Bourdais
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