CARP, VERO O FALSO?
Il lettore Giuseppe ci scrive stupito del fatto che il celebre video di Carp sia un falso, e chiede maggiori lumi.La replica di Alfredo Lissoni
Premesso che la nostra era la recensione ad una news (e dunque, se l'estensore del pezzo vuole replicare di persona, può farlo liberamente), è indubbio che il caso Guardian sia un falso clamoroso. L'affermazione è peraltro facilmente verificabile. Per sapere cosa ne pensino i colleghi stranieri del caso Guardian, stranamente considerato autentico solo in Italia, è sufficiente farsi un giro nei siti delle principali associazioni ufologiche straniere.
Tanto vale cominciare subito dal MUFON
http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/ufo/to-be-merged/carp.mufon
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/mufonontario/archive/carp.html
la cui sezione Mufon Ontario aveva incaricato Bob Oechsler delle indagini e che infine ha dichiarato pubblicamente che il caso è un falso (e se lo dice chi il caso l'ha seuito da vicino, c'è da credervi):
Last but not least thanks to all those individuals around the planet whose encouragement and snippets of information added much to a very difficult and long task, especially MUFON Headquarters in Seguin, Texas, (thanks Dennis Stacy) and Vicky Cooper Ecker & shiney new husband Don Ecker of UFO MAGAZINE and UFOs Tonite for not being afraid of the truth (che hanno pubblicato l'articolo di smentrita, con l'indagine CUFORN; N.d.A.).
We consider this case closed and will now turn our attention to the completion of 'Carp: The Official MUFON Ontario Report'.
We will keep you up-to-date on the inevitable attempts by Oechsler and that strange group of people in Carleton County to discredit us and will endevour to block all attempts by Oechsler to 'come-back'.
Si può poi cliccare sul report
"Originally published in The MUFON Ontario Newsletter Volume 1.4 - September 1994 The Carp Case - The MUFON Ontario Version by Tom Theofanous & Errol Bruce-Knapp The Carp Review"
in
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1997/jun/m05-010.shtmle http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1997/jun/m05-011.shtml
Dopo la cantonata terrificante, Oechsler aveva annunziato il suo ritiro dal Mufon, per non coinvolgere l'organizzazione (che giustamente si è affrettata a prenderne le distanze, specie dopo che il video era comparso in programmi ad enorme diffusione come "Unsolved Mysteries" e "UFO the best evidence even
Caught on video", quest'ultimo distribuito in tutti i Pesi di lingua inglese, dall'America all'Australia):
http://www.ufo.net/ufodocs/text.documents/o/oechsler-calls-it-quitsle dimissioni dal MUFON
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AndyPage/carp.htmIlluminante poi il pezzo di David Bloomberg:
Close Encounters of the FOX Kind A REALLity Check Extra
by David Bloomberg
The FOX network broadcast UFO Encounters on February 22. This has to be one of the worst UFO shows I've ever seen, and that is saying something, folks. Three "cases" were featured on the show.
One, the Carp (Canada) case was determined by UFO believers to be a hoax several years ago (heck, it was the subject I discussed at REALL's very first meeting!). The "investigator" of this case, Bob Oeschler, had been on Sightings and Unsolved Mysteries_ to talk about this case, and he seems to have left a few details out of his version this time. As a very brief overview, this case involves an unknown person (calling himself "Guardian") who sent out videos of a claimed UFO night landing to several investigators; he also sent bad photos and supposed Canadian government documents alleging a conspiracy. What was said in earlier stories about the supposed Canadian government documents was that they were almost certainly fakes, and he wondered why somebody would send them with such a great video. In this show, however, he makes no mention of the likely fraudulent nature of the documents, and the story just mentioned "Canadian government documents" which were sent along with the video. In other words, far from using that information to cast doubt on the case, they use it to support the case!
The other cases featured were a supposed UFO base in Puerto Rico and a UFO crash in Long Island. The Long Island case had been declared a hoax, again, a while back by notables in the UFO camp and even by UFO cheerleader extraordinaire Bill Knell (see Volume 1, No. 3 for article on Knell) in a press release of his. I don't know much about the Puerto Rico case, but I get the impression, from various discussions with people in the UFO area, that it has mostly the same standing as the other two.
Below are some quotes taken from prominent people in UFOlogy. These were in their "reviews" of the show and were in messages written on one of several UFO-related discussion areas on the computer networks: Don Ecker, Director of Research ,_UFO Magazine_:
"Unfortunately for the viewing public, one of the poorest UFO cases in recent years was presented as fact: the Guardian case, or as it was known 4 years ago-the Carp case."
"_UFO Magazine received this case in January of 1990, and we almost immediately determined it to be a hoax. This was stated on ParaNet at that time." Michael Corbin, ParaNet:
"[This show] featured three of the biggest hoax cases to come along since Gulf Breeze. . . .
"Don Ecker received the CARP material several years ago, uploaded it to ParaNet, and quickly determined that it was as smelly as a dead carp with no truth to it. . . .
"All in all, it was a very big waste of airwaves." Chris Rutkowski, Swamp Gas Journal:
"I was one of the recipients of the original Guardian "crash documents" back in the late 1980's, and immediately recognized it as a silly fabrication. Since then, I received more "official" documents from "The White Brotherhood" and the Guardian, which claim that an "Inner Circle" of military/government officials know "the truth" about alien contact and crashes in the West Carleton region.
"The reality is that Clive Nadin, an Ottawa researcher, went to the alleged site of the crash, interviewed many witnesses and surveyed the area. There was *absolutely no evidence* [author's emphasis] of any crash or close encounters."
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http://www.reall.org/newsletter/v02/n03/)Per chi vuole poi seguire i litigi ed i vari botta e risposta, imperdibile Saucer Smear (e non solo):
http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v42/ss950705.htm http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v44/ss970110.htm http://www.ntskeptics.org/1995/1995august/august1995.htm .