SUBJECT: A NEST OF INFO ON GULFBREEZE UFOs FILE: UFO1615 PART 1 From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) Subject: Gulfbreeze files - Introduction Message-ID: <1991Nov16.193450.10590@bilver.uucp> Date: 16 Nov 91 19:34:50 GMT Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL ======================================================================== ** Gulfbreeze Introduction ** ======================================================================== The following articles are part of a series on the Gulfbreeze UFO's . I know of no other case in UFOlogy that has been debated/contested as much as this one has. Much of the debate centers around "Mr Ed", Ed Walters and the swirls of controversy over his photos. There have been cries of "HOAX!" ever since this case made the headlines a few years ago, and this was only exacerbated even further when Ed wrote his book. Much of the debate centers over the infamous "road shot" that appears in this book and the tug of war between the various UFO groups still continues to this day. To date, there has not been any established or absolute conclusive PROOF as to the hoax claims, though there has been quite a few theories advanced. What makes Ed's claims the more difficult to accept by many is that he has been the ONLY one who has photographed the UFO(s) in great detail, where others have only managed to get "red blobs" in their pics. Having followed this for a few years now..it is still NO closer to being resolved. I think I could safely say that the ParaNet UFO organization and CUFOS have rated Ed Walters as probable hoax. MUFON on the other hand, has stood behind the Walters case all the way. Here's a partial list of characters so you will understand who the principles are: Ed Walters - The _center_ of the controversy.He took the photos and wrote the book, "The Gulf Breeze Sightings". Bob Oechsler - Investigator/reporter. Donald Ware - Florida state MUFON director. Investigator. Carol and Rex Salisberry - (former) State Section Directors for Pensacola MUFON. Investigators. Dr. Bruce Maccabee - Optical physicist for the US Navy and MUFON State Director for Maryland. Principle photo analyst for MUFON. Duane Cook - Editor of the Gulf Breeze Sentinel. Willy Smith - Claims that Ed made the models and hoaxed the photos. Got nailed in a "sting" by Antonio Huneeus and Manuel Fernandez and was later dis-credited. - Others mentioned in articles on the BBS side - John Hicks - Currently is the FIDO_UFO moderator and owner of a camera business. Knows his optics pretty well and has done some investigation in his own right in the Gulfbreeze area. Jim Speiser - The guy I like to refer as the "curmudgeon of ParaNet" :-) He's asked the hard questions and brought up several inconsistencies of the whole affair on ParaNet. In this case, he is very much a skeptic. Unfortunately, this case has also caused much division in UFOlogy with the extremes of positions. It's quite probable that there has been some dis-information involved as well. There seems to be two issues here...one regarding sightings and photos by Ed Walters and the other involving witnessed sightings _without_ Ed Walters. In the latter case, there has been quite a lot of those. These sightings are *still* going on today. Some have speculated that the recent skyquakes in the Gulfbreeze/Tampa area may be associated with UFO's. Who knows...if you're ever down in the panhandle of Florida and have some time to spend..you just might be able to witness this phenomenon for yourself. Bring a good camera or vidcam and do NOT trust the autofocus, but learn to do it manually and you'll get good pictures. Since there are quite a lot of these files, I would suggest that you save them when they hit your system as I don't plan on re-posting them again. This is a one time shot. There's going to be about 38 files altogether totalling around 290K. Don -- -* Don Allen *- InterNet: dona@bilver.UUCP // Amiga..for the best of us. USnail: 1818G Landing Dr, Sanford Fl 32771 \X/ Why use anything else? :-) UUCP: ..uunet!tarpit!bilver!dona - Why did the JUSTICE DEPT steal PROMIS? /\/\ What is research but a blind date with knowledge. William Henry /\/\ Xref: hplabs alt.alien.visitors:3030 alt.conspiracy:5640 sci.skeptic:12337 Path: hplabs!hplabs!hp-cv!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!tarpit!bilver!dona From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy,sci.skeptic Subject: Gulfbreeze files - Introduction Message-ID: <1991Nov16.193450.10590@bilver.uucp> Date: 16 Nov 91 19:34:50 GMT Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL Lines: 91 ======================================================================== ** Gulfbreeze Introduction ** ======================================================================== The following articles are part of a series on the Gulfbreeze UFO's . I know of no other case in UFOlogy that has been debated/contested as much as this one has. Much of the debate centers around "Mr Ed", Ed Walters and the swirls of controversy over his photos. There have been cries of "HOAX!" ever since this case made the headlines a few years ago, and this was only exacerbated even further when Ed wrote his book. Much of the debate centers over the infamous "road shot" that appears in this book and the tug of war between the various UFO groups still continues to this day. To date, there has not been any established or absolute conclusive PROOF as to the hoax claims, though there has been quite a few theories advanced. What makes Ed's claims the more difficult to accept by many is that he has been the ONLY one who has photographed the UFO(s) in great detail, where others have only managed to get "red blobs" in their pics. Having followed this for a few years now..it is still NO closer to being resolved. I think I could safely say that the ParaNet UFO organization and CUFOS have rated Ed Walters as probable hoax. MUFON on the other hand, has stood behind the Walters case all the way. Here's a partial list of characters so you will understand who the principles are: Ed Walters - The _center_ of the controversy.He took the photos and wrote the book, "The Gulf Breeze Sightings". Bob Oechsler - Investigator/reporter. Donald Ware - Florida state MUFON director. Investigator. Carol and Rex Salisberry - (former) State Section Directors for Pensacola MUFON. Investigators. Dr. Bruce Maccabee - Optical physicist for the US Navy and MUFON State Director for Maryland. Principle photo analyst for MUFON. Duane Cook - Editor of the Gulf Breeze Sentinel. Willy Smith - Claims that Ed made the models and hoaxed the photos. Got nailed in a "sting" by Antonio Huneeus and Manuel Fernandez and was later dis-credited. - Others mentioned in articles on the BBS side - John Hicks - Currently is the FIDO_UFO moderator and owner of a camera business. Knows his optics pretty well and has done some investigation in his own right in the Gulfbreeze area. Jim Speiser - The guy I like to refer as the "curmudgeon of ParaNet" :-) He's asked the hard questions and brought up several inconsistencies of the whole affair on ParaNet. In this case, he is very much a skeptic. Unfortunately, this case has also caused much division in UFOlogy with the extremes of positions. It's quite probable that there has been some dis-information involved as well. There seems to be two issues here...one regarding sightings and photos by Ed Walters and the other involving witnessed sightings _without_ Ed Walters. In the latter case, there has been quite a lot of those. These sightings are *still* going on today. Some have speculated that the recent skyquakes in the Gulfbreeze/Tampa area may be associated with UFO's. Who knows...if you're ever down in the panhandle of Florida and have some time to spend..you just might be able to witness this phenomenon for yourself. Bring a good camera or vidcam and do NOT trust the autofocus, but learn to do it manually and you'll get good pictures. Since there are quite a lot of these files, I would suggest that you save them when they hit your system as I don't plan on re-posting them again. This is a one time shot. There's going to be about 38 files altogether totalling around 290K. Don -- -* Don Allen *- InterNet: dona@bilver.UUCP // Amiga..for the best of us. 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