Jeff Peckman on Letterman

[Ally]

Thanks for the suggestion. I already have too many books that I have and I want to read. I have some visual problems that makes it difficult to read for long periods of time. I will file this away for a later date though.

 

[Gil Bavel]

We had Good on the show, and he was a pretty good guest, but in Vallee's book Revelations - Alien Contact and Human Deception, he makes the point that Good was most likely handed all sorts of disinfo from questionable sources. I have Good's book, and generally enjoy it, but the truth is that I place a great deal of weight on Vallee's thoughts and theories. That Ackroyd places great faith in Good is not very significant, he has already displayed questionably critical thinking skills in having worked with asshat David Sereda, one of the loonier wackjobs in the bin. If you want clear proof that something is genuinely going on, you're better off with Rich Dolan's UFOs and the National Security State, which is superior in every way to Good's book, IMO.

dB

Okay, I've just gone back and listened to the show with Timothy Good, where you guys call him the "most agreeable guest". Either your reading of Vallee's REVELATIONS-Alien-Contact-Human-Deception happened after you had Good on the show, or you failed to mention the disinformation problems you have with him altogether, which seems would be a glaring omission. Any problems you had with his critical thinking process should have been addressed there and then, if you were aware of them.

I don't think it's fair to connect Sereda and Good this way, simply guilt by association--not even that, but just because Dan Ackroyd puts faith in both Sereda and Good--but in his defense, on your show he called out Dan Burisch as "Dan Rubbish", and everyone had a good laugh. He also groaned hugely when you mentioned Project Serpo, and agreed that the whole thing was bunk; the writing style was that of an 11-year-old.

It seems to me that his thinking, at least on that show, and in the Book Above Top Secret, is skeptical, honest, and shows reportage of a most credible and up-front kind.

He readily debunked Billy Meier's photos and films, and revealed that due to his skeptical questioning, Meier had banned him from returning (e.g. the "raygun" that Billy had shot through a tree with, which Good could clearly tell was actually drilled--how does a one-armed farmer drill all the way through a tree, anyway?).

So it seems to me that despite accusations from Vallee, who everyone seems to think is the outstanding leader in the field, despite many years of virtual silence on the subject (except for his recent spate of radio interviews) largely, Timothy Good is as dependable a writer and reporter of the facts as we have available to us today.

His long and meritorious service as a UFO investigator, writer, and contributor to the field seems to me, at least, to be virtually unassailable.

Timothy Good calls it like he sees it, and, while I'm still reading his first book and it's my only exposure to him other than his TV and radio appearances, his thorough documentation, annotation and expansive use of endnotes calls to mind an academic and workmanlike attitude toward his research.

Anyone working in the UFO field is susceptible to hoaxers, disinfo agents, debunkers, and outright loons like Sereda, and if Good had been fed some bullshit, I'm sure he would remove it in further editions as his work sells quite well. Let's not forget that even Harvard Psychiatrist John Mack was attacked by CSICOP; his work infiltrated by a woman that claimed to be an abductee but was in fact in the employ of Phil Klass. When Mack's book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens came out in 1997, they immediately attacked him as being a fake, because they had been able to put one over on him.

John Mack simply explained that he had taken the people he screened to be part of his research at their word, and that it was they that had been to blame. He couldn't help it if somebody interested in discrediting him had lied to him to make him look foolish. But in subsequent editions of that book, the offending chapter was excised.

In the early stages when Sereda came on the scene, it wasn't immediately obvious that he was a ridiculous new-age yahoo. That didn't come until later, and now we all have a good laugh about him. But at the time, he stayed under the radar enough to get his name out and come across as just another UFO researcher. And attach his name to Ackroyd's (and others, in hopes of getting close enough for their fame and reputations to rub off on him).

For the time being, I'm happy to put Timothy Good on the top shelf, along with other first-rate UFO researchers/investigators such as Stanton T. Friedman, Marc Davenport, Kevin Randle, Karla Turner, Richard Hall, Antonio Huneeus, Leonard Stringfield, Frank Edwards, David Jacobs, Hynek, Keyhoe, and a few others.

While there are more disreputable authors and researchers in this field than not, Timothy Good is not among them, so far as I can tell. I'll have to agree with The Paracast that he's "#1 on our popularity list".

Until I discover something to the contrary, or at least see some kind of evidence that he's less than honest, Timothy Good will remain one of the more reliable authors in my mind, and one of the better citizens of the UFO community.

 

[digigeek]

I'm weird. He's a deluded, egotistical, dipshit on crack that was farted out of a heroine addict after 90 yrs of pcp. Or something like that.

His girlfriend's name is Crystal Frost. I wonder if it this bondage/porn star:

Crystal Frost