I was asked to look into Tony Dodd as another branch of James's deceit and manipulations of the UFO community back in the 80's and 90's. Tony was a
respected former police officer and coordinator of Quest magazine. (formerly the Yorkshire UFO Society). From first hand accounts and correspondence
with persons of that time frame, Tony was well liked and an ardent pursuer of UFO stories and later in life was respected as much as the former police
officer that he had been.
No disrespect to Mr. Dobbs but I was told that he became a little quirky as quite a few of UFO investigators had become in those days and I think he
let the fame and request for appearance's go to his head a little. He was still basically an honest, straight forward man but he caved in to the
masses so as to please them more than to seem boring and uninformed. Stretched the truth? yes, he and many others did to stay in the limelight and to
sell books and run the circuit.
First hand accounts have him interacting with James in England about the Kalahari incident and I'm told James even stayed with Mr. Dobbs for a short
period of time. It was revealed that James abused his stay by taking some personal property that wasn't his to take. It seems James always had gadgets
that he couldn't have paid for because he didn't work. When he did work he was all thumbs and didn't last long at all. Scamming was easier and less
hard to perform to fund his life style.
Here is an article from 1989:
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1989 May 7th: Kalahari Desert, Botswana
One of the most famous cases (and probable hoaxes) occurred in 1990 with the claim that the South African Air Force had shot a 'flying saucer' out of
the sky. Tony Dodd, a former police officer and coordinator of Quest
(formerly the Yorkshire UFO Society), claims that in July 1990, he was contacted by Captain James Van Greunen, a special investigations intelligence
officer with the South African Air Force. According to Van Greunen,
a UFO and been shot down in the Kalahari desert by two Mirage fighters which were armed with an experimental laser cannon. He provided Dodd with a
small dossier of the case. The dossier gave a detailed account of the incident which claims that the UFO which was traveling at 6000 mph and was
tracked by NORAD's radar system.
He claims that a special team was sent to the crash site where they found a large silvery disc embedded in the ground. High radiation readings were
reported and the craft was carefully shipped back Valhalla, the air base.
It is then claimed that once the craft was inside a hanger a hatchway opened up and out stepped 2 creatures.
The aliens were taken to a medical unit where they were examined and described as being 4ft tall, with grey skin, no body hair, over-large heads and
huge slanting eyes (sound familiar!). The two creatures were than
allegedly sent to Wright Patterson.
For quite some time debate raged between UFOlogist, those thinking that this was just an wild hoax,
and those believing this to be an authentic case. Van Greunen met with Dodd in England but soon afterwards
the South African government ordered him home. He later fled South Africa and moved to Germany where he published his story. The documents that Van
Greunen supplied were examined closely and found to be fraudulent.
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By no means were all of the investigators influenced by fame and game. Some have passed on and some have moved into different areas of interest. They
are and were legit. Some just got caught up in the moment.
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Another snippet with some of the other players in this Hoax:
Botswana/South AFRICA UFO Crash!
This incident, alleged to have occurred on the 7th May, 1989. Revelations were made by a Dr Henry Azadehdel that he was in touch with South African
Intelligence officers who had revealed 'all' about the incident.
(The officer...James Van Greunen)
From a Tony Dobb and Henry Azadehdel seminar
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Why do I drudge up these known facts and old accounts?
Because I wanted to show that almost the whole community cashed in on a money cow. Even respected investigators got in on the act and people are still
buying their books and still believing their stories.
Some like I've stated are legit and there were others at Quest magazine at that time that worked with Mr. Dodd whom were honest then and still are
now.
James will never stop. it has been in his blood from early childhood. So here's to another lie soon to emerge from James's infantile imagination and
here's a link to his South Africa Intelligence Documents from 1989 with the SA logo.
flic.kr...
edit on 15-9-2011 by dcmb1409 because: (no reason given)