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SUBJECT: CREDIBILITY AND THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF FILE: UFO3235
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MUFONET COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
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ASTRONET BBS NETWORK - MUFONET BBS NETWORK
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[Note: The following article was provided by the Oklahoma
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MUFONEWS, the state supplement newsletter for the MUFON
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membership within Oklahoma. Jean Waller-Selfried, BS, State
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Director. Inquiries should be directed to Jean Waller-
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Selfried, Oklahoma State MUFON Director, 1916 Inglewood
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Drive, Norman, Oklahoma 73071. Subscription: $12 /Annually.
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Permission granted to cross-post to FIDO UFO only
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Oklahoma MUFONEWS - December 1992 Issue
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CREDIBILITY AND THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF
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by Michael S. Carter - Editor, OK MUFONews
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Remember the boy who cried wolf? He was the little shepherd
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boy who kept telling the townspeople that a wolf was nabbing
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his sheep from the meadow, when in reality there was no wolf
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at all. Finally when a real wolf did start to get at his
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flock, the people didn't believe him.
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This is a problem that faces everyone at someone or
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another, especially Ufologists, researchers and interested
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parties in the UFO phenomenon. Because we don't have a real
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live space ship or little green man caught in a net
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somewhere much of what is related in journals and
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newsletters or from word of mouth is mainly speculation. We
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must rely on the word of the person telling the story to
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tell the truth, make a decision about their believability
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and credibility as a witness, and if he has a good
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reputation and we are not going to make the effort to
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personally check out the facts, take his story at face value
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until we can prove otherwise. Alas sometimes a story that
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gets circulated has not been as well checked out for
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authenticity as it should.
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Such is the case with the cover story of the November issue
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of OK MUFONews. In that article taken directly from the
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KeelyNet BBS and entitled "Something Is Coming Our Way" John
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Ford of the Long Island UFO Network related a story that he
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said was substantiated by several sources of good
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credibility. The story was of an object in the vicinity of
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Jupiter that was heading toward Earth.
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According to John, the object had been detected by the
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government and was being kept secret. Allegedly it had made
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several course corrections along the way indicating that it
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might be intelligently controlled.
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Mr. Ford did say in the article however, that, "As yet no
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evidence exists to support it...".
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He also says, "In UFOlogy, you hear a lot of strange
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stories. Some you have to take at face value, while others
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are too far fetched to believe even in this strange study of
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unusual objects and humanoid beings. Some stories you mark
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off as holding merit, but lack supporting evidence to
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bolster their credibility until a later date when something
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might surface which could prove their validity. This is such
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a story".
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After the issue was published, we received several calls
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from people who were very interested in the article and
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wanted to know where they could obtain more information. It
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then occurred to me that I couldn't tell them. I completely
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and utterly had nowhere to tell them to go to verify the
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story. I hadn't checked it out.
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One reader called Linda Howe, who Mr. Ford said had related
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the story to him, to confirm the story and she told him that
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she was not very happy about the way she was represented in
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the article. She said that the story had been going around
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for a long time but she did not know whether it was true or
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not.
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I then tried to call Mr. Ford in Long Island but could not
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get his number. Another reader also tried but found him
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unreachable.
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As a better measure, I tried to download a file I found on
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Paranet about the Long Island UFO Network. Unfortunately I
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was not able to get the file to download. Thwarted again to
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find the source and confirm the article's authenticity.
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So until the story can be confirmed, please take it as an
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UNCONFIRMED piece of information. It may turn out to be a
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flight of fancy. At this time, Mr. Ford has not been
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contacted or had a chance to respond. If we can do so, he
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will be invited to send his sources of information so we can
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clear this matter up once and for all. We want to give every
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opportunity to clarify the story.
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In any case, please accept my deepest apologies for not
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following up and confirming the story BEFORE it was put in
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print for your consideration. Rest assured that we at
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Oklahoma MUFON have never, nor will we ever purposely
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publish information that we know to be false. That would
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only serve to trash our credibility and to thwart all of our
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attempts to get at the truth behind the UFO mystery. And
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after all isn't the discovery of the truth the whole point
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of spending hours and money out of our own pockets to search
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for an answer to a question that burns bright in all of our
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minds? Deliberately misleading the public would be like
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stealing our own sheep and crying "Wolf!" When the real
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truth does finally come out, no one will believe us.
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At this point, make no prejudgments about Mr. Ford since he
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has not been contacted to check out his sources. Also, this
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in no way reflects on the Long Island UFO Network. We do
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however appreciate the intelligence of our readership in not
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blindly accepting everything they see in print without
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substantial proof. Kudos to you!
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=END=
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