SUBJECT: NOTED EXPERT FINDS ACCOUNT CONVINCING FILE: UFO2698
The following was taken from a newspaper from Springfield, Missouri,
dated Sunday, December 9th, 1990. The name of the newspaper I think,
is the NEWS-LEADER and article is in the section called Ozarks Accent.
NOTED EXPERT FINDS ACCOUNT CONVINCING
BY: Mike O'Brien
What sets Gerald Anderson appart from the thousands of other
American's, including scores of Ozarkers, who say they've seen UFO's or
even insist they've been kidnapped by creatures from outer space?
Why are Gerald Anderson's childhood recollections stirring
international interest among UFO researchers whose reputations have
been built on healthy skepticism and willingness to debunk hoaxes?
Because of little things he has to say and how he says them. Stanton
Friedman, a nuclear physicist who has lectured on more than 600 college
campuses about UFOs, decribes Anderson as "a really significant,
potentially the most important" witness to what both men believe was
the aftermath of one of two space craft crashes in New Mexico in mid-
summer 1947. Friedman is co-authoring a book based upon several years
of painstaking investigation into the haunting mystery. He was
startled, upoln meeting Anderson for the first time only a few months
ago, to hear the Springfieldian echo details of the yet to be published
research.
"There's no way he could know some of these things unless he had been
there at the time," Friedman believes. Example: only days before first
talking with Anderson, Friedman coaxed a heretofore reluctant New
Mexico mortician into recounting a run-in he'd had in 1947 with an
especially unpleasant red-headed captain who was heading up a team
recovering bodies from a hush-hush aircraft crash. Anderson, too,
spoke of a red-headed captain with a mean disposition. Friedman says
the descriptions of the ornery officer provided by the two match
precisely, although Anderson and the mortican never have met.
In sketches of the desert crash scene drawn by Anderson in Springfield
following a hypnosis, a lonely windmill appears in the distance. When
Friedman later arranged for Anderson to return to New Mexico to
pinpoint the long-ago crash site, no such windmill could be see on the
horizon-- until, almost by accident, the windmill wa spotted behind
tress that had grown up during the 43 years since Anderson was last
there. "I got shivers over that one," says John Carpenter, who has
extensively debriefed Anderson over the past 4 months and went along on
Anderson's return trip to New Mexico in October. Capenter holds degrees
in psychology and psychiatric social work from DePauw and Washington
universities and trained in clinical hypnosis at the Menninger
Institute. He's in his 12th year of work at a psychiatric hospital
facility in Springfield.
"When Gerald tells his story, it's not just a story -- it's his life
he's telling you, intermixed with his feelings and his beliefs and all
that is Gerald," Carpenter says.
"When someone is spinning a hoax or tale, they only give you enought to
reaise your curiosity. Not Gerald. He gives you everything, in
detail, much more than you ask him for. He'd be setting himself up to
be found out if it wasn't true. He's so confident, he goes so much
further than a hoaxer would ever dare."
Carpenter puts great stock in Anderson's recountings under hypnosis.
"It's what he didn't say that was significant." Caprenter says,
explaining that despite clever prodding, Anderson never commited a
hoaxer's mistake of "recalling" something that shouldn't be a part of
his own memory. "And when he's under hypnosis, all the bigger, adult
words drop out when he describes events from his childhood," Carpenter
found. "He relates what he was in child-like terms."
Carpenter also detected "genuine amazement" when Anderson heard what
had been dredged from his subconscious memory under hynosis. "The look
on his face was priceless when he realized he'd produced details he'd
forgotten on a conscious level so long ago."
Most subtle but perhaps most telling, in Carpenter's view, was
Anderson's reaction to being accepted as a viable witness to an
extrordinary encounter with a spacecraft and creatures from beyond
Earth. "He was so grateful at being taken seriously. You could see the
relief and release after all those years, and the great hope that other
people would take him seriously too, once and for all."
Ironically, Friedman points to Gallup Poll results indicating that 60
percent of Americans who have college degrees say they believe UFOs are
real. With such a receptive constituency, why would government
officials persist in what Friedman calls the "Cosmic Watergate" -- the
coverup and denial of the New Mexico crashes? Perhaps, some speculate,
because it would be too embarrassing now to admit that some supposedly
made-in-USA technologies actually were plagiarized from confiscated
spacecraft.
Friedman emphasizes that he's not as interested in uncovering past
misdeeds as he is in encouraging future progress. "I believe we should
have an 'Earthling" orientation rather than nationalistic orientation.
The easiest way to demonstrate the wisdome of this is to prove that
lifeforms from other planets are coming here. If we can do that, then
everyone will be forced to look at our world differently, as a part of
a galactic neighborhood."
Ozarkers wishing to learn more about UFO research may attend meetings
of the local chapter fo the national Mutual UFO Network. The next
MUFON gather is scheduled for 7pm Tuesday, Jan 29, in the private
meeting room at Mr. Gatti's Pizza, 1508 E. Battlefield Rd.
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