From: Jim Mortellaro <Jsmortell@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 19:03:12 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 20:37:15 -0500
Subject: Re:  WingMakers Update - HOAX -11.29.98


> From: Ignatius Graffeo <Ufoseek@aol.com>
>Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 11:32:17 EST
>To: Updates@globalserve.net,
>Subject: WingMakers Update - HOAX -11.29.98

>She sure is a pretty site, though!  I like the first two musical
>selections: "Warm Presence" and "WingMakers"   -ufoseek

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>http://www.wingmakers.com

>WingMakers Update - HOAX -11.29.98

>(ewolfe@involved.com):

>A few minutes ago, it finally occured to me to check Usenet for
>any mention of wingmakers or Mark Hempel, the site owner.

>I found a lot more than I expected.

>In one post to an artist's group, he says the site took him
>three years to create, he made everything on it that you see,
>and that it is an idea for a movie or tv series. He calls it an
>IMAF. Immersive Multimedia Art Forms.

>He posted that to alt.art.video on the 24th of this month. On
>the 20th of this month, he sent a message to several other
>groups, (spammed them really,) saying that he had just found a
>website that spoke of an alien race called Wingmakers and asked
>if anyone else had ever heard of them. He went on to claim that
>there was a lot of info on the site, including music, but he
>couldn't get the music to work for him.

>If nothing else, that alone proves his dishonesty. He owns the
>site, and acts as though he stumbled across it. Anyway, thought
>I'd let you know what I found out. The guy did a brilliant job,
>but it disappoints me that people will go to such lengths to
>fool other people.

>When some truth of some matter finally does come along, we'll
>all be too skeptical to even believe it after having been fooled
>so many times before.

>______________________________________________

>From: "Mark Hempel" <mhempel@southbaygroup.com>
>Subject: Wingmakers web site
>Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:30:10 -0600

>Hi.

>Thanks for your interest in the wingmakers web site. If you're
>listed on this email, you've either been contacted by me to help

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Dear List, Sirs, Madams and any other entities which may be
tuning in..............

If it were possible for truth to jump out of a page and smack
you right in the face (even without a stainless steel face mask)
it would be your words...


>When some truth of some matter finally does come along, we'll
>all be too skeptical to even believe it after having been fooled
>so many times before.


If I were a skeptical, litigious, conspiracy-minded old fool, I
would call this the mother of all conspiracies, outdistancing
the Kennedy assassination, UFOs, God, the Universe and
_literally_everything_!

It would be a masterpiece of planning, of cunning and analysis
with which to use as a weapon against not merely UFO's, but all
truth.

Jeese, garshdarn good thing I aint no guldarned
conspiracy-minded maroon, aint _that_ the truth!

Dr. Gesundt wrote this for Jim Mortellaro