Paranormal Time 8/7/08)

It's never, never, never as straightforward as it seems in the UFO world!

Bear with me, this is complicated. My fellow message board geeks with the help of a journalist and historian have uncovered a complicated circle of disputed claims regarding Dr. Edgar Mitchell's recent testimony in the news.

HERE WE GO.............

Dr. Mitchell has claimed an unnamed Admiral at the Pentagon told him personally that the UFO special access projects were real and that he was denied access to them. However, Herald Tribune writer Billy Cox was able to locate and contact this admiral and the admiral told Cox that:

"What is true is that I met with them. What is not true is that I was denied access to this material, because I didn’t pursue it. I may have left it open with them, but it was not especially compelling, not compelling enough to waste my staff’s time to go looking for it.”

So, while the admiral says an initial meeting did take place he claims he never followed up with Mitchell about being denied access to anything. Meanwhile, in the same Billy Cox article, Mitchell now says that a 'secondary trust worthy source' was actually the one who relayed to him the information about the Admiral being denied access to these projects.

Right there we have an inconsistency with Mitchell's statements. First he said the admiral told him directly. Than he says he found out about the admiral being denied access indirectly via a second party. To further complicate matters, Dr. Steven Greer was involved in these meetings. Steven Greer is not credible at all. If Greer was Mitchell's secondary trusted source, things are not looking good, but this remains to be documented.

At the least, Mitchell has been misleading in changing his story on whether the Admiral told him directly or told another source directly.

For the record, extremely credible UFO/Cold War historian Richard Dolan (who has written the most credible compressive book on the UFO topic) vouches for Mitchell's claims via his own anonymous source who says that indeed the admiral is lying about not being denied access to the UFO special access projects. Dolan went on to say that his source reveals that the admiral wasn't even contacted by normal military personal in this matter, but rather he was contacted by Lawyers who worked for private contractors. Strange strange strange????

So either the Admiral is lying or Mitchell is lying. Mitchell has no incentive to lie, but he has been caught in being inconsistent and was involved with someone who has a very sketchy track record - Dr. Steven Greer. The Admiral on the other hand has every reason to lie, but is he?

To be continued........... here are links to the various things I have cited. I doubt the media will do much follow up on this stuff:

Herald Tribune Article (slow server) - http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=BLOG32
Richard Dolan's claims - www.presidentialufo.com/richard_dolan.htm