In one of its emails to me a couple of weeks ago, the museum referred to "respect for our Native America partners and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act".
I think this is the most brilliant part of the scam, I don't have any evidence that anyone had prior knowledge of the status of the Mummy, but it is exceedingly convenient that the body in question is "protected".
I hope that any information that was previously collected is made available, but I don't think that it will satisfy the believers even if it is.
Some may say that the release of said information will put the matter to bed, but unfortunately I suspect that anything short of "we had an ET but we gave it back" will be interpreted as "conspiracy"/disinformation.
If I worked for the park service (whom I understand hold the desired information) I would have a hard time justifying to my superiours that settling an argument between ufologist factions is a worthy enough cause to go against "policy".
I think the onus is on the slide peddlers rather than anyone else, they should offer to pay any fees or costs incurred in the search for further information, as they are the ones that claim the slides show something unusual, and they should also bare the yoke of responsibility when it comes to any offence caused to the ancestors of the boy in question.
They would need the backing of US based anthropologists, and as they could not "source" any in the first instance (bewitness event) I am not confident they will be able to now, especially given that their only "evidence" is two slides........................
Bear in mind that any anthropologist would have to go on record as saying that the slides warrant further investigation, and that this negates or outweighs the need to show respect to the ancestors of the child in question, who's feelings are pretty obvious given that the mummy in question was reinterred at their request. round and round we go, catch 22 or however you want to put it.
Don't follow the mummy or the dummy, trace the money...
The public gets what the public wants...... and in this case they obviously wanted to be ripped off, allegedly over two million of them payed to stream the event, which I find more worrying than any extraterrestrial attack/visitation/contact.
One final thought is that if all the information is released and it is clearly demonstrated that the slides do indeed depict a human mummy, then that still does not shed any light on whether the slide peddlers knew this all along, in fact it may get them off the hook entirely, because they could then pretend that they showed due diligence initially and they could not access enough information (because of sensitivities) to make the correct interpretation......
If anyone wants a new rabbit hole to go down (I am on break) then they will find that a google search for B. Ray Smithsonian comes up with a
Lunar Geologist name B. Ray Hawk, aka as
B Ray to his friends:
http://www.spudislunarresources.com/Bibliography/p/7.pdf
there is also a video short from W.
B. Ray High school TX about UFO's:
B Ray is also short for Blue Ray
DISCS!
My point is there are endless possibilities or leads to follow, I don't think this is an accident, rather the result of a careful and premeditated mind management campaign, the war was lost long ago, and now the victors are counting their millions.
Make no mistake it comes at a price, and part of that price is that the same old attitude towards those interested in UFO's will be perpetuated, which in my personal experience is wrong, I have spoken with many rational, reasonable and intelligent people regarding these matters.