for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:53:45 -0500 (EST)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:57:32 -0800
From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject: NICAP Website Announcement
Subject:  National Investigations Committee on Aerial
          Phenomena (NICAP)
    Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:25:21 -0600
    From: Francis Ridge 
Reply-To: Discussion about UFOs and research for PROJECT 1947

      To: PROJECT-1947@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Greetings List Members,
It is with great pleasure that I announce the official
authorization of the web site for the National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). We have been working
on the site change from InterLink:UFO to NICAP the
InterLink:UFO site for weeks. The authorization came today
from Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in
Chicago which holds the NICAP rights and records.
NICAP will not be another UFO organization, as before. The
one thing we don't need is another UFO group, per se. NICAP
will now be the web site, the international site for the
peer-reviewed Best Available Evidence.
The "Latest News" in the electronic version of the "UFO
Investigator", one for each month with archived copies for
newcomers, will replace the InterLink:UFO's Director's
Message. I will not be the Director of InterLink:UFO, the
head of "Fran Ridge's UFO web site", but the Web Site
Coordinator (webmaster) with a number of official NICAP
advisers providing the guidance and control over this NICAP
site.
The Home Page is now:
http://www.evansville.net/~slk/nicap.html
The imminent authorization was even withheld from our previous
webmaster, Clint Stone, awaiting approval from CUFOS. Clint will
be working on the "Who's Who In Ufology".
The "Latest News" is accessible from the Home Page but is also
listed here:
http://www.evansville.net/~slk/ufoi.htm
The web site will operate in the spirit and tradition of the
original NICAP and will be building the site under the structure
of the UFO Evidence (early history to 1964) and UFO Evidence II
(to-date).
I ask for your cooperation and your support.
Sincerely,
Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator
HERE IS THE NEW MISSION STATEMENT
.
NICAP's InterLink:UFO web site is designed to be a primary
internet UFO evidence depository for special evidence and
other important information regarding serious UFO research.
Besides a few primary directory sites to handle the main
routing/linking, as many reputable sites as possible are
utilized to control the storage and downloading bandwidth,
plus provide security for all the information provided.
Numerous UFO web sites exist on the web,  many which have
good data even among the bad. It is NICAP's consensus that,
by selecting the useable links, we will be gleaning something
of use, plus thereby encouraging everyone to work towards both
quantitative and qualitative entries.
                                    .
By filing the evidence into several directories (Case Book by
year, Case by Categories, etc.)  researchers can quickly locate
the topic of their choice. The evidence selected is not only
time-tested, but it is also qualitative date kept isolated
from the lights- in-the-sky" and other candidates for IFO's.
Rather than explain what NICAP's InterLink:UFO has to offer,
simply take a look.
                                    .
We are also working on a directory of UFO researchers or a
"Who's Who in UFOlogy". This will be a great task, with links
to images on hundreds of web sites.
                                    .
We need  your help! We urge you to USE the site, but really need
your cooperation to make it work. We need suggestions and links
you have found that we have missed. We need some of your server
storage space. Web pages don't take much space. We need images
stored, however, and this DOES take up space.
                               ***
            Email me at: slk@world.evansville.net
                        Francis L. Ridge
                        Site Coordinator
                              NICAP
                          InterLink:UFO
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