Congressional, White House, UFO-related Constituent Correspondence, 1998

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visited our planet for thousands of
years".
None of these men claim to ha\·e
seen UFOs in space. By now it should
be obvious to open-minded im·estiga­
tors that no other aHronaut claims to
ha\·e seen any either. Suggestions that
they have rt>ally done so are either
misconceptions. mi; repn•s1•ntalions. or
frauds on the part of L: FO writers.
Yt>t another cast: in poi!lt has just
bt>en given, and it deals with the John
Young quotation. Young, in Seattle in
1973, said that the chances were good
that there were intelligent civilizations
on other planets (AP, Nov. 27, 1973).
The newsman started the article with
the lead, "John Young says that the
odds are that unidentiiied Flying
Objects do exi$t'', even though none
of Young's quoted words indicated
that at all. Beforr. you could say
"UFO tlap·•. th~ l.iFO writers had a
new authority:
John Young says, " Odds are UFOs
exist".
It seems clear that astronauts as a
class or the population do not possess
any special knowledge about CFO:;
which they may have gained from
their own experiences. They are about
as well informed (or more truthfully.
as badly misinformed) as the anirage
citizen. To quote them as above with
the sugiiestion that they are special
authoritit>s on UFOs is a misleading
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