I am listening to the William Cooper one now which Don put a lot of effort into making an important show.
I really don't agree with Don on most anything related to UFO's but he does an excellent job as a radio host/producer.
Reading Cooper's Wikipedia page, I note that his followers have obviously taken control of it, painting him as a reasonable man.
Lance
Usually each morning after I have my first cup I turn on my network and then check several sites I check daily. Of course this forum I usually check first. I noticed this note yesterday but couldn't respond at the time because I was tied up in several other things. UFOs, ah ha. Well, let us discuss UFOs for a moment. I found Lance's remark above .. hmm ... curious. Perhaps curious because I do not think Lance and other skeptics have ever given me my "do" on the UFO topic. Now, allow me to wax poetic for a bit.
Just what background do I hail from? Am I a "graphic artist" that suddenly "discovered" UFOs? Nope. Am I an "office manager" that was looking for something to help me escape from my "hum-drum" routine after work? Nope. Did I use to do a mediocre "political talk" show on radio, and gravitate to UFO's to spice up my show and ratings? Nope. So, what in hell did I do?
I was a cop and detective that was once tasked with an investigation on two agricultural crimes, ie ... two cattle mutilations. And even though at the time I had no idea that this crime "might" have a connection to the UFO subject, I knew it was damn strange and I was surprised at how my dept. acted about it. They wanted it closed, and closed quickly. Like I said ... weird. Okay, so a number of years later after I was wounded on duty and ended up retiring I had all this ... time on my hands ... and bought my first computer. Then I bought a modem. Then I discovered Compuserve. And in the middle of all this I then discovered the ISSUES forum on CIS. Things took off ... especially after I found some files on cattle mutes .. and the UFO subject.
When I first made a decision to jump into the (UFO) fray I made a promise to myself that I would treat this topic just like I treated any homicide or robbery or rape I ever investigated. Go with the facts and screw the BS. And, if any of you have ever followed anything I have done in either the pages of UFO Magazine (back when my wife and I published the mag. before it went to hell) or listened to any of my radio programs I have done for 20 years, or ever heard me give a lecture ... you will know that is true. For example, and this is directed to Lance and the other skeptics on this forum, look at my record and how many frauds I have deflated over the years. How about a short list? Guy Kirkwood, Bill Cooper, John Lear, Dan Crain, George Green, Steve Greer, Sean Morton ... to name a few. Yes all my skeptical friends ... I am open to the possibility that "some" UFOs cannot be easily explained, regardless of what the Air Force, NASA, Navy and CIA and FBI might say. As a matter of complete fact I have personally broken several cases that have never been explained to anyones satisfaction so those cases remain in my "
gray basket" but you can
never freaking ever point to anywhere where I have ever said
E freaking T, period. Just like when I was a cop, I always knew that if I ever had to testify in a court of law I could never swear to the fact that something was ET. How could I prove that? Well, I couldn't.
Lance Moody reminds me of Dr. Mike Shermer in
what he thinks he knows. One time I was downtown (in LA) on a Sunday morning on a FM radio show. Along with me were Dwight Schultz and Mike Shermer. We were debating the whole UFO thing and Shermer was shocked when I affirmed to him I thought the whole MJ-12 thing was bullshit. He was just freaken' convinced that since I was a "UFO guy" that I was on-board with MJ-12. I tried to explain to him that I was an investigator that stuck to the protocols of doing an investigation, in other words going where the evidence and facts led me. Unlike Shermer who I later
forced to admit that a case he was trying to "diss", in fact he never read anything on it, nor the book he was diss-ing. Skepticism by decree, not research. Of course the skeptics never will admit it when they are shown to be full of it. Much like that totally insane Kal Korff character. 15 years or so ago Korff was a "skeptical darling" cause he wrote a book on the Billy Meir case and then another ( and it was totally a cut and paste job ) on Roswell. But, when this minor moron went off the rails with the Art Bell fiasco and later with him being a "Colonel in the Israeli founded Special Secret Services, the fricken Skeptical community doesn't say squat about him. As a matter of fact that is the difference between "some" in the UFO community as opposed to the Skeptical community. "Some" of us will speak out about the UFO frauds, doesn't happen much with the Skeptics. Take Phil Klass's meltdown on my radio show on Jan. 21, 1995. After that happened I brought that up with people like Jim Oberg and Mike Shermer, not a peep out of either of them.
So my skeptical friends, just because I happen to be willing to keep an open mind on the possibility of ET life coming here to Planet Earth now, or in the past or future, do not for a second think that you will get a free pass if you attempt to steamroller me, you won't. And yes Ladies and Gentlemen I am a skeptic but the difference with the "mainstream" skeptics, I am a skeptic with an open mind where as most of the other skeptics have a closed and locked up one.
Decker
