Hi GideonHM,
I appreciate your clear thinking and common sense, as well as your passionate rejection of the farce that is conducted by certain parties here. Do
know however that while the intention of the provocateurs here has nothing to do with finding the truth, they are unintentionally quite useful in
stimulating others to find it.
One of the reasons I play over here is that I keep finding (through the info on my stats page) that there's regular, daily traffic coming to my site
from the links I've posted here. That means that people want to find out the truth for themselves and are looking into the info I post and that which
is linked from my site. I guess an added bonus is that certain apoplectic parties here have even started to promote my DVDs for me...something that I
myself haven't done.
We can note that while this thread started off with some rather cynical commentaries about the ray gun, and assumptions that it was some easily
fabricated hoax, I doubt that anyone here, pro or con, suspected that there was as much interesting and supportive information from the original
investigation into the matter, as turns out to be the case. No matter which way one comes down on the issue, they will have to think about the how and
why behind any hoax on Meier's part, as you point out.
The original claim, in 2001, by CFI-West (now also IIG) was that Meier's UFO photos and films were an "easily duplicated hoax". Case investigator,
Vaughn Rees, agreed to duplicate one photo and one film. When he failed to do so, by March 2004, the claim instead was that CFI-West/IIG had
duplicated the "effect", which is all that can be said today...except that Rees was fired and now CFI-West/IIG says that "only the hoaxer can say
that something's a hoax" and other silliness.
It's safe to say that no one here (or anywhere else that I know of) can and will actually reproduce Meier's evidence. Let me clarify that a bit.
None of the alleged duplicators of Meier's photos did anything more than duplicate an "effect", i.e. a so-called UFO photo. They didn't, can't
and couldn't actually duplicate the reality simply because they're small models close to the camera and Meier's were large objects (primarily) some
distance from it. The investigation revealed that and no amount of tap dancing by the skeptics can change it.
(And I already pointed out that an Academy Award-winning special effects company recently confirmed that models weren't used by Meier...unlike by the
"effect duplicators".)
Let's remember that CFI-West/IIG has no trouble denouncing frauds (and some of them certainly are/were) and, since Randi and others are magicians,
they have certainly explained how some "hoaxes" were perpetrated in the past. And really, demands from a magician to produce metal samples or
anything else? After CFI-West/IIG failed to meet the challenge they accepted, Randi retracted his claim that the Meier case was a hoax, and claimed he
never even said that. So much for his/their credibility.
And, of course, since I posted the link to the sounds it's been quiet on that front, no pun intended, while the little gremlins try to figure out how
to attack their credibility, or simply continue to ignore the elephant in the room.
It doesn't matter. This is now my platform to use, continue to use, actually, to provide information on where to check out the Meier case to people
who happen to travel through here. Judging by the actual correspondence on the matter that I regularly receive, there are very large numbers of people
who are now doing their homework on this truly amazing case, so I guess I have to thank ATS, and their controversy perpetuating minions, for -
unwittingly - playing their part in generating the interest.
So here's some more food for thought:
www.theyfly.com...
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Cheers!