As I predicted, the BigFoot thing was a big hoax. Here's National Geographics take - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080818-bigfoot-dna.html
Why someone would take the time to fake this? Probably the same reason people audition for reality TV shows :)
Meanwhile, the only modern journalist who actually follows up on the fact that there are truck loads of evidence that UFO's are real continues to do his job, and do it very well. Billy Cox from the Herald Tribune actually followed up with the Air Force regarding their official comment on the FAA's very real radar reports of the recent Texas UFO. You know, the 1,000 foot craft seen by dozens of people which was captured on radar heading towards George Bush's ranch traveling between 1,000 MPH and then slowing to 50 MPH while being chased by half a dozen F16's, which the air force initially denied until they changed their story 2 weeks later. Oh yeah, that one :)
Amazing that a real journalist actually followed up on strong tangible UFO evidence. You'd think something like this would equal big ratings for any news agency yet no one follows up? If you have the time, please read Billy Cox's 2 editorials from his "De Void" blog below, you will not be disappointed the man is actually doing his job!
USAF still silent on Stephenville
By Billy Cox
Published: Friday, August 15, 2008 at 4:42 p.m.
It’s been five quiet and patient days now since De Void began pressing the U.S. Air Force for a response to MUFON’s report on the UFO tracked by FAA radar near Stephenville, Tex., on Jan. 8.
The unenviable man in the middle is Maj. Karl Lewis, the media chief for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Carswell Field. On Monday, Lewis said he hadn’t read the analysis, released in July, so he couldn’t address its conclusions.
De Void sent him the link at http://www.mufon.com/documents/MUFONStephenvilleRadarReport.pdf, and followed up with phone calls. Lewis, who’s already been burned once by getting caught outside the information loop, said Wednesday he was kicking it upstairs for comment. On Friday, the major said he was still “hammering away” for a response.
De Void doesn’t expect much; a simple “no comment” would suffice. Government bureaucracies are all pretty much alike, and the Air Force’s public position that it no longer collects UFO data is like the Drug Enforcement Administration’s robotic insistence that marijuana is a Schedule I drug on par with heroin and crank. Never let massive evidence to the contrary alter policy positions that might affect federal funding.
The downside of such calcified obstinacy is that it makes loyal employees charged with disseminating official nonsense to the real world look worthless.
When Lewis was initially queried in January about witnesses seeing the UFO being pursued by jet fighters, he said they probably mistook the planes for airliners because the USAF had nothing in the sky that night. Nearly two weeks later, Lewis had to reverse himself and said there were 10 F-16s in the vicinity.
Because the MSM never follows up on UFOs, the USAF paid no penalty for its initial obfuscation. But last month, MUFON used civilian radar records to profile an aircraft without a transponder making a beeline for restricted airspace over President Bush’s “Western White House” in Crawford. FAA data indicates jet inteceptors never responded.
Even though civilian agencies had no trouble complying with MUFON’s Freedom of Information Act requests, the military refused to release uncensored flight logs of its planes, and claimed it couldn’t find its own radar records from that night.
Memo to the brass: Do the right thing. Issue a “no comment” press release on Stephenville and quit hanging people like Karl Lewis out to dry.
For candor, try history
Hey kids: Once upon a time, back in the 1950s, the Air Force not only acknowledged the reality of UFOs, but also the fact that its top-shelf warplanes were ineffectual at containing insolent bogeys routinely violating restricted American air space without authorization.
These days, the USAF is forced to pretend it’s not happening and hope Americans won’t do anything drastic, like put pressure on their elected officials to squeeze the books. It’s a dysfunctional way of doing business, but the big bluff been working well enough for nearly 40 years.
While French, British and a number of other foreign governments continue to dribble out bits and pieces of what their respective defense networks have been monitoring Up There, you have to go back half a century to find any redeeming candor among the American military establishment re UFOs. If you’re unacquainted with the material, visit the library.
Go back to 1956 and “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,” by former USAF Capt. Edward Ruppelt. Ruppelt has his share of critics charging the late director of Project Blue Book with back-channel deceptions of his own. Whatever. Try to imagine a contemporary USAF official starting off a book today with an admission that a jet fighter attempted, unsuccessfully, to blow one of those infuriating UFOs out of the sky with cannon fire.
The event occurred in the summer of 1952, when two F-86 Sabrejets were scrambled in response to a bogey bearing down on a U.S. air base whose identity Ruppelt declines to name. The pilot who got a visual described it as shaped “like a doughnut without a hole.” He opened fire on the thing from about 1,000 yards, then watched it leave him behind on a lighting-quick climb.
Adding another layer of intrigue was how the unit group commander ordered the incident report destroyed. The only reason Ruppelt found out was that an extra copy had been smuggled out to Air Technical Intelligence Center in Dayton, Ohio, which was charged with trying to figure this stuff out.
And those were the good ol’ days.
It’s now Day 8 in De Void’s efforts to get a USAF reply to the FAA radar records that tracked a UFO closing to within 10 miles of the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Jan. 8. Not even Houdini could hold his breath that long.
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