SUBJECT: JUST SAY "I DON'T KNOW" FILE: UFO3279
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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 �
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�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. �
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�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. �
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�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?" �
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�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? �
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�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? �
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�Someone once claimed that just saying "I don't know," when �
�we most assuredly do not, "know", is the beginning of �
�wisdom. �
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