By Dr. Michael D. Swords, 26 April 2012
(The Big Study)
Quote from the article:
“In part two of this legendary saga, I'm going to try
to sketch out how CUFOS and I got involved with the case. That involvement
ultimately led to the publication of our findings in the article in the International
UFO Reporter above. Those findings encompassed only a small, albeit vital,
portion of the case, as other investigators allegedly were getting the mass of
the on-the-ground fieldwork data. As said in part one, it turns out that those ‘other’
researchers were either NOT getting the fieldwork data or that data was never
utilized and promulgated to the rest of us. We didn't know that at the time, of
course.
CUFOS got word of this explosion of UFOs over Western Michigan at about the same time that everyone
else did, but CUFOS was by that time in its history no longer an organization
which did onsite fieldwork except in very special circumstances. Still, CUFOS
Director, Mark Rodeghier, decided that this one sounded like we should at least
we should dip our toe in the water. He knew that I was not a field researcher,
but that I had a friend, an old NICAP member, who used to do that. So that's
who he called. My friend began looking into this.
It was instantly obvious that a chaotic circus had
immediately commenced. Witnesses, other than the Graves
family, were being assaulted in paparazzi fashion and being turned off
everywhere. The 911 operator told my friend that he knew of a few witnesses who
had seen quite a bit, but who had told him that under no circumstances was he
to let out their names. One guy was an ex-USAF colonel who lived south along
the coast and who would have been a superior addition to the story. But no way.
The NOAA station manager had told everyone flat that
there would be no interviewing any station personnel especially the night
operator who took the 911 call. They wanted none of the grief. My friend made
contact not only with them [briefly] but went on to talk with NOAA HQ in Washington DC
http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/04/holland-mi-radar-visual-ufo-case-part.html
I also reported about this article on 28 April 2012.
I also reported about this article on 28 April 2012.
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