From: Jack Hudson <true.x-file.news@n2news.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 17:25:47 -0700
Fwd Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 06:52:29 -0400
Subject: Barnes Answers Corbin's Charges With Challenge


"If The Truth Is Out There...We'll Find It!"

For Immediate Release from True.X-File.News

On June 7, 1998 True.X-File.News found a message from Michael
Corbin, President of ParaNet Information Services charging
True.X-File.News and Marshall Barnes, an investigator we had
written a story about concerning his investigation into the
nature of an article written by Dr. Jacques F. Vallee entitled
Anatomy Of A Hoax, with making "radical claims", "outrageous
allegations", "without sufficient information", and nearly came
close to libeling investigator Barnes by calling him a "rank
amateur sleuth with an axe to grind". In reality it is Corbin
who made the wild allegations without sufficient evidence
because he had been supplied with our story which contained
information that Barnes had painstakingly assembled into an
electronic package with links to evidence that proved that the
Anatomy article was a fraud due to the false testimony of its
one and only witness, Edward Dudgeon, upon whose testimony the
article's main thesis is based. This evidence was compelling
enough so that when Jeff Rense of Sighting On The Radio saw it,
he placed the entire article as a rebuttal to the portion of the
Vallee article that he had previously featured at his web site
at http://www.sightings.com/ufo/philahoax.htm Also, someone has
since sent a html sensitive copy of this web page to the UFO
Updates mailing list so that members can click on the extensive
evidence that Barnes supplied and see for themselves that Mr.
Dudgeon's testimony was fraudulent, simultaneously showing Mr.
Corbin's accusations and insults to be completely baseless and
without merit.

During Mr. Corbin's diatribe against us and Mr. Barnes, he
insinuated that he would "investigate him further to determine
where he is coming from". In a reply to his message I intimated
that Mr. Barnes would probably come "looking for him". I was not
wrong. Choosing our service as the delivery medium for his
response, I now present Mr. Barnes' official statement and reply
to the baseless accusations of Michael Corbin:
------------------------------------------------------- To Mr.
Michael Corbin:

For the past four years I have taken upon myself and with the
urging of others wanting to know the truth, an investigation of
the so-called Philadelphia Experiment. Seeing the vast wasteland
of rumor, tall tales, half-baked research and utter garbage from
all parties involved up until the time of 1994, I felt that the
only way to conduct a true investigation was to start where the
Experiment would have started, as an idea of military
significance to a nation at war. If the evidence that the US
Navy would not attempt such a project or could not attempt such
a project existed, it would prove that the event probably was a
hoax. However, if there existed evidence that the military was
indeed interested in such capability, that said capability was
based in sound science, and that said capability was
technologically possible at that time, it would go a long way
toward establishing a plausible basis for the event to have
actually taken place in some form. The only capability that I
was interest in, pertaining to s id Experiment, was optical
invisibility, because that is what has been vehemently denied by
the US Navy and Office of Naval Research. The issue of radar
invisibility has not been denied as having been possible at the
time by a number of people including Jacques Vallee and a Public
Affairs officer from ONR officially assigned to deal with
inquiries that I had made there. I have determined through my
investigation that the issue of radar invisibility as a possible
explanation for the events described is part of the Official
cover story that when pressed, those engaged in the cover-up
have consistantly fallen back to.

Once that I had determined that there was extensive evidence in
support of the idea that there was indeed a military motivation,
a scientific basis and a technological capability to pursue a
project that would make a ship invisible to sight, I turned my
full attention to the article by Jacques F. Vallee that has been
known as Anatomy Of A Hoax. I found the article to be a pale and
pathetic attempt at propaganda which employs tactics of charater
assassination, has lapses in logic, errors in fact, and that a
senior high school class in political science at any decent prep
school could deconstruct into the obvious morass of
contradictions that it is upon proper analysis. Example: Vallee
says that all the other witness' have been proven to be
"fraudulent", taking an extensive portion of the article to try
to prove that Carl Allen was not a reliable witness. Yet, he
does absolutely no such thing to establish that Edward Dudgeon
is a reliable witness. If he had, he would have determined that
Dudgeon in fact was n t, unless of course, Vallee was in on it
with Dudgeon. That Vallee leads the reader to believe that he
has determined that Dudgeon is a reliable witness, lends
credibility to suspect Vallee's motives. That Dudgeon says that
he partied with the crew of the Eldridge in 1944 in the Pacific
and that none of them said anything about the Experiment, is
another obvious misrepresentation because of the fact that if
the Experiment had taken place in August, that would have been a
skeleton crew and not the official commissioned crew used and so
they would have had nothing to say at parties in the Pacific
about it anyway. However, that is what anaylsis of some of the
article shows when the article is taken at face value.

When the statements are investigated they reveal themselves to
be "fraudulent", using Vallee's own criteria for the use of the
word, because the Eldridge didn't go out on shakedown until
September of 1943 not the first week of July of 1943 the way
Dudgeon claims and the official US Navy records show that the
Eldridge crew wasn't even in the Pacific in 1944 so Dudgeon
couldn't have partied with them then the way that he claimed.
That's just part of the myriad of inaccuracies and
misrepresentations that appear in what has been lauded by some
as the "best research on the subject" and the story of "what
really happened in Philadelphia".

But I'm not here to give a full lecture on why Anatomy of a Hoax
is the biggest piece of garbage that has been pawned off as
legitimate research that I have ever seen or the results of my
investigation into the Philadelphia Experiment. Why Anatomy *is*
a Hoax that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that all it takes
to hoax people like yourself and even avowed skeptics is to bait
the hoax with the right worm and you all will swallow and hang
on for dear life. I'm writing you because you had the
unmitigated gall to call me a "rank amateur sleuth" after I
surpassed every level for evidence that Vallee had set-up to
sucker you, UFO Sweden, and others into believing his hoax. So
I'm going to show you just what kind of rank I have by settling
it this way once and for all:

1)You will get Jacques F. Vallee, Bernhard M. Haisch, Edward
Dudgeon, and William Moore along with myself on your radio show.

2)We will all be sworn under oath to testify to our involvement
in the matters pertaining to and of the Philadelphia Experiment
by duly appointed and authorized officers of the courts in the
states in which we are located at the time of said program.
These officers will supply their names and pertinent
identification as persons authorized and bestowed with the power
to swear witnesses under oath with the penalties for perjury
binding prior to the program, to insure that at the time of the
program, all those duly sworn in shall in fact be under oath
with the liabilities for the penalties for perjury in place.

3)The line of questioning shall pertain to our prospective
involvement in the matters pertaining to the Philadelphia
Experiment. Cross-examination limited to the established area of
testimony will be allowed by any other party against any other
party.  If any of us is found to perjure ourselves, that person
will be duly prosecuted under the criminal laws governing
perjury in the state where they were sworn in.

4)If any or all of the persons that I have stipulated, fail to
agree to this arrangement, I want a sworn affidavit from you
saying why they failed to comply with these conditions, or if
you failed to be able contact them.

5)In the case that any or all of these persons fail to comply
with these conditions, and upon receiving from you sworn and
separate affidavits for each person's failure to comply, I will
still appear on your program, under oath and testify to what I
know and have discovered with the addition of your being
supplied with a full and documented account, complete with 13
pages of accusations and supportive statements, 89 pages of
labled and numbered evidence color coded to match each set of
accusations, and 10 minutes of audio, constituting evidence
against Jacques Vallee, Edward Dudgeon, and Bernhard Haisch,
plus 27 pages of statements showing that Bernhard M. Haisch
acted in a manner not in keeping with the expected behavior of a
science journal editor as set forth by 23 of his peers from the
world of scientific journalism. Together this will constitute
direct evidence that the Anatomy of a Hoax article was a
deliberate, premeditated, disinformation work executed using the
foreknowledge of propaganda, disinfor ation and
counter-intelligence tactics by Jacques F. Vallee and how in
fact this work mislead and decieved people through its promotion
and dissemination on the World Wide Web and Internet with the
full support of Bernhard M. Haisch. It will also provide
complete, verifiable evidence that my testimony under oath is
truthful which you wil be able to confirm to your listening
audience.

If you no longer have a radio program, I suggest that you
attempt to make arragements for this to take place on the Jeff
Rense or Art Bell program. Let the record show that I don't care
whose show it is, but if it isn't yours, YOU STILL HAVE TO BE
THERE. And if it's not your show, YOU have to be sworn under
oath as well because I want to know exactly how, when, and under
what circumstances, and what was said between you and Jacques
Vallee when he gave you permission to distribute that garbage
across the internet.

Let it be known that if Jacques F. Vallee, Bernhard M. Haisch,
Edward Dudgeon and William Moore, voluntarily fail to comply
with these conditions, that they have failed to show themselves
to be innocent of the things for which I will accuse them and
will present evidence thereof, and that they have allowed those
accusations to stand since appearing on your program will cause
them no undue expense or hardship.

Let it also be known, Mr. Corbin, that if you fail to carry out
*this* investigation, you are guilty of obstructing an inquiry
into the truth of this matter for which you made
unsubstantiated, unwarranted, and erroneous accusations against
my character and methods, and that I am loathe to even consider
you as a man of honor, let alone an investigator anywhere near
deserving the reputation of someone who tries to find the Truth.
Any other unsubstantiated claims against my methods, intent, or
investigative abilities will be grounds for my accumalating
evidence for libel and slander actions against you or any other
legally allowed actions that I can take against you. And there
are plenty, and I will.

In conclusion, I better not EVER hear of you trash talking me
again after your pitiful display and being duped by Vallee, who
has proven himself to be his own Messenger Of Deception. As far
as I can see, you're just a hot bag of wind, Orsen Welles
look-alike poser,who makes the bogus claim of "Answering
Questions, questioning anwers!" which you sure didn't do in the
matter of Vallee's fraudulent article before you referred to it
as "good research" and subsequently attacked my character. And
just so this isn't an "unsubstantiated claim", readers can link
to this: http://www.xxedgexx.com/paranet where they can see you
and your proclamation for themselves!

You may respond to my challenge care of the True.X-File.News
news service. And I am expecting a prompt response of your
acceptence or denial of this challenge. If you accept, I'm
giving you 30 days to get back to me with the results of who you
could or could not get to appear on your program. At that point
a scheduling arrangement will be made.

Sincerely, and with All Due Intentions Enforce,

Special Civilian Investigator Marshall Barnes.
-------------------------------------------------------
This ends the official statement from Mr. Barnes. I feel that it
is now very clear who is truly *serious* about this matter. It
will now be up to Mr. Corbin to show if he can get these men to
comply or will be left with only questioning Mr. Barnes. Of
course, Corbin could always ignore this challenge, which will
speak volumes about the nature of *his* character and resolve in
getting to the bottom of this matter once and for all.

The ball's in your court now, Mr. Corbin. Actually, I do believe
that it has hit you full in the face. Need a hanky? ;-)


- Jack Husdon, publisher True.X-File.News


NEXT TIME: MORE INFORMATION ON THE INVESTIGATION AGAINST
BERNHARD M. HAISCH OF THE JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION.