John Pinkney - UFOs, "Alien Honeycomb" & the Australian Lord "Flying Saucerer" - Some Timely Lessons from the Past? - Th...

"Show me the data!" might be the takeaway from veteran Australian researcher Bill Chalker's "cautionary tale" about making rash judgements without verified data to draw from. Chalker notes the application to the recent sensation about "meta materials," as well as "The Artifact" featured in Professor Diana Walsh Pasulka's new book American Cosmic. Bill's article is also an entertaining and informative piece about the late Australian journalist, fiction writer, and ufologist Pinkney, with a fascinating addition covering the outlandish claims made in 1971 by the English astrophysicist Dr. Fred Hoyle. Hoyle would be knighted the next year, Bill commenting that "Apparently his 1971 press conference didn't weigh against him with British government and royalty." In this case speculations wildly outstripping produced factual support did not have an enduring negative impact, but maybe that's politics. And what to make of the headline that says Extraterrestrials Steal 38,000 Liters of Water in Olavarria (1983)? Does the data in Fabio Zerpa and Candido Victor del Prados' article, no matter how interesting, justify the Argentine water rustling conclusion expressed in its title? (WM)

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