Interview with Kal Korff. (author of 'The Roswell UFO Crash: What They
 Don't Want You to Know')(Interview)
 07/97
 Skeptical Inquirer
  SI: You've just written a book that puts the final nail in the UFO aspect
of the Roswell coffin. How do you feel about that?
  KK: As a UFO researcher, I am sad that the verdict came out as it did,
because, if nothing else, the book is an indictment against the truly sorry
state that the UFO field is in. Unfortunately, ufology's blind acceptance of
the Roswell case has now come back to haunt it, and I hope this book sends a
very loud message to all concerned parties, like my previous one did. If the
UFO field doesn't stop this sad game of uncritical acceptance of cases like
Roswell, then the field is doomed to be a bastard science at best, and
deservedly so.
  On the other hand I am also glad that the truth has now been found and that
we can move forward to investigating other cases.
  SI: What do you think your pro-UFO peers will think of your book?
  KK: I don't really care. The facts speak for themselves, however painful
they are this time around. But I "psychically" predict that I will be put on
ufology's persona non grata list because of what I've done. I hope this
doesn't happen, of course, but I cannot and will not compromise my quest for
the UFO "truth" (whatever it eventually turns out to be) for the sake of
stupid politics.
  I suspect, for example, that my relationship with Stanton Friedman will
suffer, as well as with others. But that's their problem, not mine. It is
their fault that their faulty research has come back to haunt them. Now they
have to deal with it. I'm just the messenger. When I study a UFO case, I am
after the truth, whatever that truth might be, and I am not predisposed
toward any point of view. Unfortunately, Roswell is not the Holy Grail the
UFO promoters make it out to be.
  SI: You've written two books now that have a decidedly skeptical bent, yet
you claim to be "pro-UFO." Isn't this a contradiction?
  KK: (Surprised) Not at all! I fully support decent, legitimate, scientific
research into the UFO subject. While I believe that all UFO cases must be
analyzed and considered on their own individual merits, I am for
investigating the topic objectively and scientifically. I guess you could say
that's a "pro-UFO" position, but I wouldn't necessarily call it that. 
nstead,
 I think, if anything, it's a scientific position and the right one to have.
  SI: Do you think there's any scientifically credible hard evidence for the
existence of UFOs or aliens 'visiting Earth today?
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