tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post2694640607194382046..comments2024-03-19T11:13:40.642-07:00Comments on A Different Perspective: Lydia Sleppy: 1973 InterviewKRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-19072215837353349122008-05-11T13:22:00.000-07:002008-05-11T13:22:00.000-07:00First let me note that dustpan is a typo I made an...First let me note that dustpan is a typo I made and it should have been dishpan, which is, a circular shape.<BR/><BR/>Second, let me note that some of the witnesses who described the shape have been discredited. Frank Kaufmann, again, comes to mind and that takes out the delta-wing shape with the bat-like structure on the rear.<BR/><BR/>Third, some of these people only had a moment to look at the shape and these discrepancies could be the result of perspective. In Levelland, for example, the object was described as egg shaped, round and torpedo like. But if you have a cylinder seen from the end, it looks round, from an angle it might look egg shaped, and from the perpendicular, it would be a cylinder. So, perspective might play a role here.<BR/><BR/>So, from a vantage point of our 20/20 hindsight, we see that the descriptions aren't all over the board...KRandlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-18397919868662137862008-05-10T21:28:00.000-07:002008-05-10T21:28:00.000-07:00Hmm...'Battered Dustpan'. Interesting shape. I t...Hmm...'Battered Dustpan'. Interesting shape. I think it's also fascinating that there are so many supposed eye witness testimony of just what type of craft it was...disk, egg, delta wing, now 'Battered Dustpan'.Doc Conjurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08569054730270980353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-44582937280552906472008-05-08T09:50:00.000-07:002008-05-08T09:50:00.000-07:00Another indication of embellishment is that KR & D...Another indication of embellishment is that KR & Don Schmitt say the interrupt came from the FBI in Dallas. Why Dallas? Because there was a real FBI teletype from Dallas that same day, and the idea has got into Lydia's head (who planted it?) that her supposed interrupt must have originated there too. Strange there is no mention of the alleged interrupt in the FBI weekly summary from the Dallas office (see GAO report). Recall all those teletypes Frank Joyce collected? Any hint of an FBI interrupt in these? None at all. People were perfectly free to type whatever they wanted.cdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01005702597775594084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-67649654293194920742008-05-08T05:25:00.000-07:002008-05-08T05:25:00.000-07:00Essentially, we have nothing more than a (possible...Essentially, we have nothing more than a (possible) rare mention of the Roswell crash between the events of '47 and the hoopla of the 1980's. Anything beyond that is fanciful and specious.Cullan Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16465098080944236025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-2854133409610901582008-05-02T15:04:00.000-07:002008-05-02T15:04:00.000-07:00Kevin:You wonder what I have to say. I have mentio...Kevin:<BR/>You wonder what I have to say. I have mentioned this Lydia Sleppy story several times (and yes I do have the Friedman-Slate article). Certainly it predates the Marcel story by a few years, but it is a good example of how a story improves with the telling. The original story, in SAGA magazine, relates it, presumably, as it was first told to Stan. Notice that there is no mention of the FBI. So no reason whatever to suppose the FBI had anything to do with the interrupt. Yet look at the story as it appears in books & papers in later years. All sorts of 'improvements' pop up, things like 'national security' FBI involvement, threats made to Sleppy and so on. These were never in the 1974 article, (which may itself be an 'improvement' on a tale she first told years earlier). <BR/>In your own two Roswell books "UFO Crash at Roswell" and "The Truth..." you put out the tale that the FBI interrupted Lydia's message. Friedman & Moore repeat this fiction. <BR/>Who is responsible for originating the 'FBI connection'? If it was Sleppy, what does it say about the rest of her story? Thank goodness that, in this case at least, Korff has given the lie to it. As I said, it is a good example of how such narratives improve with time. As for me, I would say that the person who really interrupted her was McBoyle, which is why he refused to talk about the incident again. Also, there is nothing to show the interrupt came from any "official" is there? Yet that is what Stan assumes and writes.<BR/><BR/>In view of the above, do you still think it makes the tale "more credible"?cdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01005702597775594084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-75762969313530004612008-05-02T09:27:00.000-07:002008-05-02T09:27:00.000-07:00First off, I apologize if you have already covered...First off, I apologize if you have already covered this point in previous postings, as I don't have time to search right now, but would really appreciate if you could elaborate on it, in some way.<BR/><BR/>In the late Karl Pflock's book on the subject, he stated on page 175, <BR/><BR/>"In his book, <B>The Roswell UFO Crash</B>, author Kal Korff reported that he, too, had learned that a machine of the type KOAT probably had in its office required the operator to switch manually from one mode [send or recieve] to the other. In other words, itr would have been impossible for an incoming message to interrupt Sleppy's transmission without her taking action to permit it...Korff also looked into FBI communications security monitoring in New Mexico in 1947. According to him, his inquiries to FBI headquarters and the bureau's Dallas, Texas, field office revealed the agency had no 'wire' in place at the time the alleged events occurred and they were in no position to monitor any news tranmissions!Bob Kofordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739226809252915992noreply@blogger.com