The Helix has twisted the facts about my posts on the BAUT forum, pun intended, but given that he lauds the BAUT forum buffoons, that is to be expected. One may read my "UFO and Nukes" thread from the beginning and judge for him or herself the nature of the exchange between myself and that crowd.
From the get-go, without examining my posted material, I was judged to be unworthy and unqualified to ask my many ex-military sources questions about their classified UFO-related experiences. (Of course, none of the other persons posting on the thread ever asked for contact information for those sources, so that they might question them on their own.)
Instead, the chief inquisitor, Jay Utah, proceeded to ask me what added up some 50 pages of questions, printed out, in rapid fire succession, and then whined when I couldn't properly address that volume of charges and accusations in what he considered to be a timely fashion. I was traveling on the lecture circuit at the time and had limited time to joust with him and the others.
And, as I noted in my first post, I was going to answer my critics with excerpts from my book, which more than adequately addressed their questions, rather than inventing the wheel, so to speak, each time I was asked a question. At this, the moderators, egged on by Jay, accused me of spamming my book. For Pete's sake, the thought that any of those close-minded, self-appointed UFO experts would ever buy my book is ludicrous on its face. But that was the rationale--spamming--used to ban me from posting there on an ongoing basis.
As for threatening to sue "those who disagreed with" me well, that's another twisted distortion by the Helix, although he probably believes what he writes. Actually, when Tim Printy ("Astrophotographer") began casting aspersions at my sources, in particular Dr. Bob Jacobs, who was involved in the Big Sur UFO Case (see my Articles page at ufohastings.com) I simply mentioned that Jacobs and I were gathering material for a possible legal action against those persons who publicly defamed Jacobs and another officer, Dr. Florenze Mansmann. That process continues at the present time.
I also mentioned in my posts that among those who have attempted to debunk the Big Sur case--the documented shoot down of a dummy nuclear warhead by a UFO, according to two former USAF officers directly involved in the incident--is the editor of CSICOP/CSI's publication, Skeptical Inquirer, Kendrick Frazier. Frazier, whom the magazine's masthead lists as a "Science Writer" by profession, never told his readers or the outside world that he was also employed as a PR Specialist for Sandia National Laboratories, a U.S. government nuclear weapons lab, during the 20-plus year period that he was debunking UFOs and the idea of an official cover-up of UFOs. He never even mentioned his employment at Sandia in his own, self-published online bio. Hmmmm...
More recently, Frazier duped a gullible reporter for the Albuquerque Journal by misstating the facts about the Big Sur case. My expose on that little slight-of-hand is also at my website, titled, "Reporter Duped by UFO Debunkers."
Tim Printy, one of the BAUT posters, swallowed the debunking of the Big Sur case by CSICOP/CSI hook, line and sinker, and then proceeded to defame Jacobs and Mansmann in the thread I started, hence my forthright notice to him about the potential consequences of such questionable and potentionally actionable behavior. I stand by my statements to him in that regard.
Now, Helix won't benefit from any of this, given his mind is made up about my published material on UFOs, and his obvious acceptance of the utterings of the armchair experts at BAUT, but I do encourage the readers of this thread to review the posts at BAUT. It will be good for a laugh or two, if nothing else. Those guys are so certain that they are capable judges of the UFO phenomenon, even though they have never investigated it, and even though many of them have refused to read my lengthy, detailed responses to their questions and criticisms.
So, babble on, Helix. I won't waste my time or cyberbreath responding. Bend over, CSI just loves people like you...
--Robert Hastings
