James Carlson Gets it Wrong Again:
By Robert Hastings www.ufohastings.com © 1-6-11 |
Carlson's latest posted nonsense about me can be found here. It involves, among other things, his claim that I paid the prestigious Reuters news agency big bucks to publish a summary of, and link to, my article on UFO sightings during the October 23, 2010 missile communication disruption incident at F.E. Warren AFB. My exposé on that dramatic event may now be read at:
Carlson claims that Reuters supposed paid endorsement of my investigation lent it an aura of legitimacy that it did not deserve. However, once again, James Carlson has only succeeded in demonstrating his inability to accurately state facts, in any given case he attempts to discuss authoritatively.
In reality, I paid PRNewswire, a publicity-for-hire group, to post my press release on the incident at F.E. Warren whereupon Reuters, and many other news organizations, distributed it on its merits, even thoughas James correctly notedall of my sources were, and remain, anonymous. (Just as all of the Watergate investigation sources names were initially kept confidential, until unfolding events resulted in their identities being made known by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.)
The original PRNewswire press release is at:
The Reuters version is here.
I am perfectly aware that it would have been more credible to cite the F.E. Warren AFB sighting witnesses and my other sources by name, however, I didn't have the option to do so in this particular case. (Approximately 95% of my ex-military sources over the years were identified in my book UFOs and Nukes. Carlson just calls those guys liars or otherwise unreliable. In other words, heads he wins, tails I lose. In Carlsons eyes, none of my sources are reliable when they report their direct or indirect knowledge of UFO activity at USAF nuclear weapons sites.)
Unfortunately, regarding the October 23, 2010 incident at F.E. Warren, the two then-active duty missile maintenance technicians who spoke of UFO sightings on the day of the communications snafu were later discovered and punished. Someone, perhaps the Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), had been monitoring their emails to my go-between, an already-retired ICBM maintenance tech. Consequently, after the two technicians retired in June 2011, a flag was put in each of their DD214 folders, chastising them for releasing still-classified information about the incident. This official admonishment effectively bars them from possible employment with defense contractors, a development which troubles me greatly. Nothing like this has ever happened to any of my ex-military sources during my 39-year research career.
To those who say that I should be far more troubled about the techs' unauthorized disclosures, I will simply assert my belief that the American people deserve to know the facts about UFOs which the U.S. government withholds from us and the rest of the world--including information about ongoing UFO incursions at nuke sites--and, furthermore, any military or ex-military whistle-blower who reveals his or her knowledge of those facts is a true patriot.
Nevertheless, the information provided by the pairregarding the actual 26-hour duration of the comm disruption, the multiple, intermittent sightings of a huge, cigar-shaped UFO concurrent with it, and the subsequent warnings by the missile maintenance commander to his squadron to remain silent about the dramatic eventsare all reliable disclosures in my view and I am hoping that other, on-the-record sources will materialize in the future who can substantiate the techs assertions.
A fuller discussion of this topic, including other examples of James Carlsons unreliable and even bizarre behavior, may be found at:
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