SUBJECT: B.LANGDON RESPONDS TO LEAR FILE: UFO1824 PART 1 Brad Langton's Response to the John Lear Document (Lear.Txt) Downloaded from ParaNet This hard copy is provided by: UFINET NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICE 770 GRANADA CTR., ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO, 88310 The text that follows represents my views on Lear.txt and are not necessarily those of Paranet or any of its other users or staff. Brad Langton / February 4th, 1988 Sec: B - UFOlogy 04-Feb-88 03:27 AM Subj: Contentions on EBEs (R) To: John Lear First of all, I want to thank you for taking the time to participate in the interview of 02/03/88. I do however, feel that its appropriate that I make a statement of my own regarding the issue at hand. During the interview, I tried to rem(ain) helpful to those users who have clamored for more information. I believe that I have met this responsibility. For myself, I'm afraid that I find a great deal of the material wanting in proof, or even reasonable expectations for such an advanced culture. (You) said that these are the facts, but without proving these facts in some objective, verifiable way, you must understand that your allegations are without substance. If you are sincere about establishing the validity of your claims, you're going to have to g(et some)credible witnesses, dates, times, records, physical evidence, and whatever (else by any) means possible to support what you are saying. I'm not saying that within the framework of your story, there are not elements of strangeness that have been reported in other media (during) the last 40 years. All I'm saying is that the statement without proof is doing more to harm credible UFO research than it is helping it. I hope this was not your intention, but lets look at this objectively, the story makes a lot of the material you read i(n the tabloids look reasonable by comparison. For example, Aliens) Align with US to Harvest Human Enzymes!" You've got to admit, that sounds pretty silly. My final point is one that regards my beliefs about intelligence in the universe and is no more valid than your contentions, but given a civilization "BILLIONS" of ye(ars old they hardly) need bodies let alone spaceships... the more primitive instincts would be barely a race memory. I can't buy the "backside of an evolutionary curve " theory either. I don't even know what that means! De-evolve? De-evolve to me is nonsense. Evolution is(a process that goes) in the direction of greatest survivability. We can argue that point until the end of time and never meet minds... its like philosophy, you either believe the contention or you don't. I'll grant you that the UFO issue has been around a long time and yes, the government DOES cover things up very well.. but judging from the initial impact this story had, gauged against more reasonable inspection after the initial shock wears off, users that were leaning in the direction of supporting more active efforts to learn (more about UFOs are skeptical) themselves. I'm afraid I can't swallow this story John, I've thought about it, I've talked about it, and I've read other peoples views on it, and it just is too fantastic to believe.... EVEN IF ITS TRUE! That last point is important, if you do have some (solid facts. This) is not the way to garner support. I respect your right to express your beliefs, but please respect our rights to have a high degree of proof before going off half-cocked in a blitz to stop the aliens!! Brad Langton Paranet Lambda ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************