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Nina Garfinkel said:
Am posting a link to an article from yesterday's NY Times about the San Luis Valley. If you follow the link it also includes a 2 minute film. Amazing to find anything at all in the MSM about the subject. Thought Paracast readers might find of interest.

U.F.O.’s Welcome in Hooper, Colo. - NYTimes.com

This is my first forum post though I've been a listener now for a couple of years.
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Thanks for posting the article; it was well-written and adds to the culture of Americana. I was surprised that a certain member and regular co-host wasn't name-checked in the article. San Luis Valley and UFOs are the stomping ground of Chris O Brien and his current (inspired!) surveillance project deserved a mention.
 
I thought it was too bad Mr. O'Brien wasn't cited in the article either as well as his long-term surveillance experiment. However, he could always write a letter to the editor and see if they run it.
 
Kandinsky said:
Thanks for posting the article; it was well-written and adds to the culture of Americana. I was surprised that a certain member and regular co-host wasn't name-checked in the article. San Luis Valley and UFOs are the stomping ground of Chris O Brien and his current (inspired!) surveillance project deserved a mention.
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Ray Stanford sent me the article link. I've known Judy Messoline since the mid 90s when she was building the monolithic dome and metal platform. I was asked to pour in a customized adobe floor in the dome which is used as a gift shop. She read my first book and she told me this was what inspired her to build it in the first place. The failure of the Messoline's cattle operation also pushed her and her husband to create the tourist stop. The location is (IMO) the perfect location for a UFO watchtower.

Our base station location for the SLV Camera Project (where the sky cam, radar unit, EMF, magnetometer and gravitometer will be located) is three miles south by southeast from her location. Because of all the notoriety her operation has garnered over the years, many people have called in or stopped in to relate sighting reports and stories. I've begged her since she started to attempt to get an exact date, location and description of their claims, but she told me she can't be bothered--she's not interested. Evidently, I am "a bother" for continually pleading with her to log the data properly, for she stopped publicly citing my work (and The Mysterious Valley) as the inspiration for her operation years ago. She admits that she is in it for the money--I'm in it for the activity and the strong potential for gaining quality, scientific data. She sells all the predictable alien motif chatchkas and rents RV spaces to the true-believer crowd that stops in to ooggle in awe at the view of the Sangres and the Great Sand Dunes, for it's definitely a front row seat location. I just wish she took the subject more seriously and elected to be a part of a solution--rather than just a hawker of pop-culture little grey alien images and new agey folklore versions of tall tales, wishful thinking and weird reports...
 
Gene Steinberg said:
They might run it. But very few people read such letters.
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Au contraire, many folks read the letters. NYTimes fans pretty much give at least a cursory glance esp. w/respect to letters on topics they follow. My yoga teacher has written letters that have gotten published as have I. I would urge Mr. O'Brien to give it a shot. He has nothing to lose by trying.

PS Today's "Astronomy Picture of the Day," has a link to a NASA clip of a "cloud opera:" actual sound recorded emanating from Jupiter.
 
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