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| Dr. Irena Scott |
This
week I spoke with Dr. Irena McCammon Scott who had published the book, UFO’s Today: 70 Years of Lies,
Misinformation and Government Coverup. I had hoped that we would be able to
talk about what was new in the book and when I asked, she pointed to a tale of
Cordell Hull who had talked about alien bodies stored under the Capitol
building in Washington, D.C. The problem is that the tale is not new and was
reported in the International UFO
Reporter in the winter 2001 – 2002 issue. There doesn’t seem to be much in
the way of corroboration for the story. You can listen to the interview here:
(And,
as always, you can find it on YouTube by searching A Different Perspective with
Kevin Randle. Just add Dr. Scott’s name.)
We
did speak at length about the Kenneth Arnold sighting, and I wanted to know
more about Maury Island where a damaged UFO had touched down, leaving some
debris behind. Although we talked about the story being a hoax, Dr. Scott fell
back on the position that it was a hoax, but there was a Men in Black component
in it. She didn’t know that one of the witnesses, Fred Crisman, had been in
contact with Ray Palmer, the science fiction editor year or two earlier and who
had leaped onto the flying saucer bandwagon the first chance he got. The Men in
Black were probably Crisman and his partner Harold Dahl, who seemed to be
leaking everything to the newspaper and frightening poor old Ken Arnold. Arnold
believed his hotel room had been bugged because of the articles in the
newspaper. I don’t think we ever got through that, but I gave it a try.
We
did speak briefly about the nonsensical story of Charles H. Forgus, the Texas
deputy sheriff who claimed to have seen the crash site and the bodies of the
alien creatures found near Roswell. I reported on this a while back and you can
read the story here:
Next
week’s guest: Jan Harzan
Topic:
MUFON and the Inner Circle
