THE PERPETUAL HOAX

 

An editorial comment about the Pepsi event and UFO’s in light of the recent contaminated Pepsi scare perpetrated by some sick people who find the need to create events in order to attract attention to their lonely lives, I say this is the major reason we have a hard time getting people to take us seriously.

Us being those who either have had an experience with "something" those who know someone who has experienced "something" or those who find the information relating to this subject too overwhelming and interesting to just pass it all of as one Big hoax on top of another.

As you all no doubt saw in recent days, one person reported finding a syringe in their can of Diet Pepsi. Whether this first event were true or not the news went around the country in a flash. Very soon another and another and more an more reports came flying across the country despite Pepsi’s insistence that the caning process and the cans themselves are "virtually impossible" to be tampered with.

They told us this repeatedly day after day yet the reports flooded in. I for one did not believe it from the point when reports started coming in from areas of the country separated by too great a distance to have contaminated cans pop up at the same time. Small odds of this happening, yet the reports came in. Cans from different bottlers with different shipping dates.

The whole event gives credence to those who say we are all telling lies, and I can’t say that I blame them. UFO sightings throughout history have seemed to be reported in waves, the Pepsi syndrome could be a good argument for these waves, but there is one important point I would like to make.

The point every half hour CNN broadcast this news heard by millions, day after day; local stations jumped on the story as locals made reports, kinda like the recent feeding frenzy of the coast of Australia. Story compounded story until people started getting arrested. All the results of "instant news".

Now consider the sighting events from the end of June to the middle of July, 1947. From recent information that I have been able to acquire from books, MUFONet and other sources: There were 853 reported sightings with 3283 witnesses, these reports came in from across the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Canada.

This all happened in a time when there was no CNN, no MUFONet, no vast satellite network, no TV’s in every home, no 1-800 hot lines (damn few phones for that matter), no "Unsolved Mysteries" or other programs used to "perpetuate the hoax" as Mr. Klass would say. No, all of these reports flourished mostly through the printed word and then, without threat of incarceration, suddenly died after the "Army and Navy began a concentrated campaign to stop the rumours." as quoted from July 9, 1947 St. Louis Post Dispatch and several big city news papers.

I don’t believe that most of the people who made reports knew much if anything about other reports made on the same day in many cases. Again I urge you to look at archived data from the era and see for yourself that these stories were there, they happened from the end of June to the not even the middle of July, then stopped. From that point on most any story on the subject were only attempts to tell the word that people who made reports of such things were to be pitied for the mental conditions of which they suffered. In other words shut-up or be made the fool. I ask, if you know something of great import and you die and keep the secret, who is the fool?