From: A. J. Gevaerd - Revista UFO <gevaerd@ufo.com.br>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:03:50 -0300
Fwd Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:44:59 -0500
Subject: Re: An Open Letter To Linda Moulton Howe - Gevaerd


 >From: Linda Moulton Howe <earthfiles@earthfiles.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:58:59 -0500
 >Subject: Re: An Open Letter To Linda Moulton Howe

 >>From: A. J. Gevaerd - Revista UFO <gevaerd@ufo.com.br>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>,
 >>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:59:23 -0300
 >>Subject: An Open Letter To Linda Moulton Howe


 >Dear Mr. Gevaerd:

 >I don't know what fuels your negative campaign, but it is not
 >from objective research of the Corghinho phenomena, physical
 >evidence and eyewitnesses.

 >As far as I know, I am the first person on February 9, 2003, to
 >have collected several scorched and control samples from both
 >the bed and ceiling of the Urandir Oliveira bedroom for American
 >lab analysis. I also sampled other physical evidence where other
 >farmers have watched mysterious lights interact with the land. I
 >will be reporting analytical results when they are available.

 >Also, among several firsthand eyewitness interviews I recorded
 >about Corghinho phenomena, I discussed with Jose Carols De
 >Souza, a lawyer and Attorney General of the State of Rio de
 >Janeiro, about the night of January 4 to 5, 2003, when he and
 >his wife encountered a glowing gold and red craft he estimates
 >was at least 18 meters in diameter on the hill above Urandir
 >Oliveira's farm.

 >Sincerely,

 >Linda Moulton Howe


Linda,

I still definitely refuse to believe that you could be so
gullible to fall for such a scam. I do not understand how could
your skills get so decreased. And I am searching other
explanations.

You ask me what fuels my negative campaign? Well, looks like
you've lost a great chance to see by yourself what I could have
shown you here in Campo Grande! Now, it is me who asks you what
is actually preventing you from looking at both sides of this
question? Why you so strongly deny checking out evidence for
yourself? You must admit that you are conducting an
irresponsible investigation that only takes one side into
consideration.

Perhaps, among other things, this is what fuels me.

For me, who read your books and always observed your career with
admiration, it is much more than odd that you would take
someone's word so easily when _all_ Brazilian UFO researchers
have been ignored. How is it possible that you don't see what so
many other people see?

You speak of physical evidences of objects interacting with the
land in Corguinho (it is not Corghinho). Do you mean those small
circular stones that can be found just about everywhere in my
State, and of which Urandir sold thousands to people all over
Brazil for about US$50? Or do you mean the Navy flare used by
him to fake a ridiculous UFO crash in 2001? Or do you mean the
intensive use of 3-buck laser pointers, helium advertising
balloons and strong automobile beams of light to make people
idiots on his farm, believing that they are seeing ships from
other planets? Or could you possibly mean the phosphorous
liquids, powders and pastes that Urandir uses to fake strange
green colors in the dark, that he says are people's auras?

I guess you didn't know any of these things. Did you, at least,
know that he was magician? Well, I can also tell you (and show
you very impressive documentation about) many other interesting
stories about intraterrestrials in Urandir's farm, but they are
not from any 8th dimension celestial city, as he tells his
followers. They are very human, just his employees fooling
people for their money.

You speak about samples. Perhaps you could check out some
samples that we have of the "akashical register plates" that
thousand of fanatics and naive people are after, believing that
Urandir got them from ETs to give as gifts to his selected ones
(who pay). At last, you should know something about the many
other ways to cheat people with fairy tales that he uses, just
like the story you now support. What about the cure for cancer
and AIDS? Or the promise of eternal life or resuscitation? Ah,
and there is the profitable foreseeing of deaths to fool the
deceaseds families. Oh, yes, Linda, it is all for sale at a
reasonable price.

I am sorry however that I cannot buy a ticket for you to come
down to Brazil and check it all by yourself. You should have
done that the first time, when you had a chance. All it would
take was a phone call. Now that you didn't, and you insist on
supporting the bogus, I will definitely show the facts I have
and let people decide. I have my team working day and night to
have lots of stuff in English.

I really held you in high esteem. I am sorry that I cannot
simply sit still and do nothing. As a journalist myself,
as an editor of the only Brazilian UFO magazine for 20 years,
and as someone entirely devoted to serious and responsible UFO
research, I will do what I have to.

Sincerely,

A. J. Gevaerd