Concerning _Skeptic's corner._, RON TAYLOR said to TROY H. CHEEK in UFO:
   >> expect.  If had something like that, and you wanted to verify that I 
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   >> it, you'd have come to me.
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 RT> Thats where you and I are very different.  IF I had an encounter like
 RT> some of the folks describe and if afterwards I noted a lump in my body,
 RT> I'd be knocking down the doors of every lab in town trying to find out
 RT> what it is.
First you'll have to get the lump removed.  When searching for a hospital and 
surgeon, read everything you sign VERY carefully.  In some cases, before 
surgery you'll be required to sign a release form stating that you understand 
that anything removed from your body during surgery becomes the property of 
the surgeon.  I know this because a) I've seen some of the forms used at the 
hospital I work for, b) my then-girlfriend's doctor said that he was breaking 
the law by giving her the gallstones she'd just had removed, and c) a young 
man once showed up at the hospital demanding the foot that had been amputated 
the prior week so he could give it a proper burial.
Once you have the lump, where are you going to get it tested?  I don't know 
of any labs that work for free, and time under an electron microscope does 
not come cheaply.  Yada yada yada.  :-)
 RT> "...to each and every skeptic who questions them?".   Certainly not, but
 RT> if someone did question it, he'd have an opportunity to help me explain
 RT> it.  Somebody somewhere would have the answer and I'd find it.
Unfortunately, I've not seen any of the questioners offer to help out.  
Nobody seems to want to donate lab time, money, research materials, etc.  
They either want undeniable proof hand-delivered to them or they want to 
write you off as a flake.
   >> RT> circulated by ANY means that a UFO had landed, there would be
   >> multitud RT> of people flocking to the site.
 RT> 
 THC>> But would any of these people be the so-called "skeptics" who'd been
 THC>> clamoring that we show them proof?
 RT> 
 RT> Sure.  Skeptics, believers, and those that had never considered the
 RT> question.  There would probably be equal numbers of all of them. I know
 RT> that I'd certainly be there .
Well, then you and I are in agreement there.
 RT> I don't know anything about "angel hair".... that would seem to be a
 RT> good place to start for someone looking for physical evidence of ET.
 RT> Again, it is truly a convenience for the believers that it completely
 RT> disappears very shortly after being found... nothing to test.
A convenience if they're lying, but a big inconvenience if they're telling 
the truth.  If a sample could be collected and gotten to a lab which was 
already prepared and waiting to study it, then observing the disappearance in 
and of itself under controlled conditions would be a major milestone.
 RT> Not discounting your experience as ordinary spiders at work, but I have
 RT> no problem believing it was... been there many times.
For all I know, it was ordinary spiders at work.  Like I said originally, at 
the time I had heard nothing about angel hair and did not link it at all with 
the UFO I'd been following through the area.  If I had, I might have tried 
collecting a sample.
 RT> From what I've read and heard about Roswell, one man announced that
 RT> they'd recovered a flying saucer.  Albeit in an official capacity, there
 RT> is no reason to disbelieve that he was also swept up in the flying
I've read and heard a lot about Roswell, too.  What I gathered was that he 
made the announcement under the orders of his immediate superior.  I've read 
conflicting reports about his later military career.  Some say the 
announcement was pretty much the end of his career.  Others say he had a long 
and fruitful career full of promotions and recommendations after the 
cident.
 RT> If nothing else, Roswell proves that officials should always keep their
 RT> mouths shut until they know what they are talking about. The Roswell
 RT> incident, IF NOT TRULY AN ALIEN ENCOUNTER, shows how one piece of
 RT> uninformed publicity can take fifty years to live down.
Agreed.
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