From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:00:54 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:42:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Hall


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >>>Subject: Another Approach

 >>If someone wants to endow a "UFO Investigation Fund" at a high
 >>enough level so that 20K or more level of investigation could be
 >>supported each year by the interest on the endowment plus an
 >>initial shot of, say, $100 K to assemble a van plus shipable
 >>instrument package (and perhaps to train nvestigators) then we
 >>might be able to convert UFO investigation into a real science!.
 >>The experience of NIDS with their instrumented farm would
 >>probably be valuable to study (what can happen at the site of
 >>repeated anomalous events/sightings).

 >>Incidently, [incidentally] you mention Laurence R. It is well
 >>known that he has an interest in the subject. Perhaps if a
 >>number of scientists approached him directly with a specific
 >>plan he would be willing to support this, especially if some
 >>others with philanthropist tendencies were also willing to
 >>contribute.

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
 >1972.

 >Good luck,

 >Bob Young

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere"

 > -- Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November 1972.

Bob,

I suppose that saying it twice is supposed to make it true.
Howsomever, I was involved in the hiring of Stuart Nixon as a
NICAP editorial assistant, which I now acknowledge was one of my
most mistaken judgments.

In the first place, his quoted statement is pseudoscientific BS
("statistically speaking?"), but more importantly he
persistently and aggravatingly ignored his instructions from
Donald Keyhoe (Director) and Richard Hall (Assistant Director)
as to what his work assignment was, wasted lots of time and
money on things that he was not assigned to do, and then
participated in destroying the very effective network that we
had set up.

There is a lot more I could say (maybe in my - very unlikely -
  memoirs), but that might give aid and comfort to the
"Government conspiracy" theorists, so I will not say more for
now. He may simply have been pigheaded and stubborn, but his
subsequently revealed connections with Jack Acuff and other CIA
persons, partisans, apologists raises very significant questions
about the entire issue of 'disinformation'.

  - Dick