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Hi mirageman. In reply to your last question.
originally posted by: mirageman
a reply to: Defragmentor
You queried if there’s method in the madness. During the Joiner interview (13-Jan-2011), Penniston comes to a moment of ‘total recall’:
And then comes the book "Encounter in Rendlesham Forest" published Mar 2015. Some four years later.
So it looks Cabansag went forward but only a bit further forward as Chandler was now the relay. Still leaving only Burroughs and Penniston.
Four years on and it's more like a moment of "Scrotal Recall"? Penniston talking bollocks again (Sorry I just couldn't help that joke no matter how bad taste it is).
Maybe he's now compromising with Burroughs? Cabansag isn't quite up at the front with both of them but neither is he back at the jeep. Cabansag of course does not remember being a radio relay at all. So what is the truth?
However he could also be purposely relegating Cabansag's role so it becomes his word against Burroughs as the magic happened in the forest. Whereas leave Cabansag in the story and it's a 2:1 majority against him
Thinking aloud here: what if everything (or much of what) you thought you knew to be true, wasn’t true? You might swear blind that your version of events is true. You may become antagonistic about it when challenged to the contrary.
Believe me. I have a completely contradictory memory to one of my best friends of an event that happened at the end of the last century. We laugh about it now because it was not traumatic. But we still can't agree, at all, as to what happened. So yes memory can be a tricky thing.
If something more sinister is behind some of the 'memories' of events, attributing for some of the conflicting testimony, then perhaps witnesses are more innocent than we might believe.
There seems to be an underlying layer of the case. Were some of the witnesses messed around with chemical or even technological methods to scramble their memories? Does this explain why things are so divergent? Surely you agree that Penniston's account is by far the most problematic one?
The mind can be altered and false memories implanted via remote means as well as chemically induced/hypnotically induced and imo was probably used during and after the events.
originally posted by: mirageman
a reply to: AdamE
Everyone's time is limited. I'm assuming you've read these pages? So...............hidden amongst these links.
What is the answer to my question?
originally posted by: mirageman
So what is the truth?
... Surely you agree that Penniston's account is by far the most problematic one?
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
This is why the witness statements closest to the event get the highest weight, and in the RFI case it's quite obvious how accuracy has degraded over time since we have different versions of events told by the same people at different points in time. None of the students in the research claimed OSI was messing with their memories, but they just didn't believe their memories could be that wrong.
i remember reading somewhere that multiple still and film cameras recorded the event(s). has anyone ever seen or heard of any footage or photos that may have been leaked?
"ADRIAN BUSTINZA - The guys used to have pretty good confidence in me out there, and, I don’t know.
One of the guys told me that he had taken a picture. They confiscated the cameras from some of the personnel there and the film. I can’t remember if it’s Burroughs or the other guy they said, “I switched the film, I got to get my film out of the camera.”
LARRY FAWCETT - That’s what I heard. Larry had told me he thought you did it.
ADRIAN BUSTINZA - No, I was on duty that night, and I didn’t have my camera with me. I wish I could
have done something like that."
"I had my notebook and my camera while I was out there because cameras were carried because of terrorism to take pictures of base encroachments. ...
Interview 2002
Monroe Nevels confirmed the Lights in these photographs as what he witnessed on those nights 27/28 December 1980
I don't think I'll be picking up that book when (if) it drops.
Jim Penniston and I are currently completing a series of books together on the results of the study