A SERIES OF EXTRACTS FROM THE LATEST EDITION OF ALIEN WORLDS MAGAZINE ISSUE 3
3.The Rich Reynolds interview; Rich just talking...................
AW: You were talking a few moments ago about Stan Friedman, and in terms of the way you paid tribute to the guy, I have no disagreements. But, somewhat belatedly recently, Loren Coleman gave a reboot to a previous blog posting of yours which went the rounds again and caused a stir. I refer to it as the "Kill them all" piece (in which Rich postulated that UFOlogy wouldn't move on until all the older researchers and observers had died. Although he never said it, there was a sense within the article of him urging them to get on with it - Ed). Stan would be a perfect candidate for that category. He is one of the old guard. He's been there since the year dot and really, surely, its people like him that you just want to sweep away in order to usher in a new way of thinking and a fresh approach.
RR: Stanton Friedman is like Moses, telling the story until we've had enough of it. But he's a venerable kind of guy and he's up there in years, in fact not much older than me, but I would hate to see anything happen to him. He is the ballast in the UFO ship. I think he's wrong about the MJ12 documents and a couple of other things, but he musters enough evidence to keep things alive and you can't discount him totally. So I'd hate to see him disappear from the scene, but he is going to at some point which may end up being helpful. There was a debate on a forum recently about the cult of personality in UFOlogy and who could take up the mantle of the movement. You've had this problem too. When you start dealing with people other than Stanton Friedman, like Richard Hall or Jerry Clark or Rudiak or a number of other people, they can be so belligerent to outside views that differ from theirs, and I think it's time to clear that slate.
You have this gorgeous young woman, Brittany Babakioff, who maybe represents a new generation. I have this thing, which I know you hate, that the messengers are so homely that when we see them on the air that we tend to discount the message. She's so gorgeous that we would tend to discount the message from her. I'd say, "Oh my God, here's a babe who has something to say" but you're so taken aback by her beauty, her attractiveness that you discount what she's saying. You can't go either way. You can't have people too ugly or too beautiful.
AW: Rich, it might be too late in life to try to get you to do this but; you need to focus on the words!
RR: I know but I just get so distracted. Somebody recently said that the message has to have the right messenger. As a psychologist I think there is some validity to that. The problem is we don't have anybody who stands apart from the UFO crowd; there are just a lot of people within the UFO community who feed off from each other. But from the public standpoint, who is the spokesman for UFOlogy? It used to be Donald Keyhoe who I actually adored, he had personality quirks or whatever but I loved the guy and he was the face of the UFO message. Goofy as he looked, he made the point for us.
AW: A lot of people would say that Stan is that face in the United States.
RR: When you see Stan Friedman, you know he is going to talk about UFOs, and you expect that. But there is a lack of dynamism about Stan and there's some mystical element there that he just doesn't have. But I can't name anybody else who does what he does. I don't know who's going to come forward to make the case in the public eye. Who could do this that would be reasonable and sensible and have the austerity and charisma to get the message across?
AW: Why do we need a figurehead?
RR: You think UFOs on their own are valid enough to represent the issue? You don't think we need a messenger?
AW: Well I wonder if we need a messenger or whether we need a number of competent people that can talk in an articulate manner about the subject.
RR: You know as well as I do that when you get those people together in a room then it can become a cacophony of nonsense. Everybody would be trying to get attention. In the UFO community, that is what everybody does. Everybody wants to be recognised among their peers and they don't care about the public. The biggest self promoter is Paul Kimball, who I actually like very much. But he's a self promoter and wants to be recognised. He's so diverse and has so many things going on, and he doesn't concentrate just on UFOs necessarily, but he wants to be recognised. Everybody wants to have somebody hang their hat in their doorway so they can be seen as worthwhile, and they don't give a dam about the public.
RAY'S POINT, ORE. - JUST AS STRANGE METAL BOXES STARTED APPEARING AND THEN DISAPPEARING AFTER UFO SIGHTINGS TWO WEEKS AGO, NOW A NEW WATERBORNE LIFE FORM HAS APPEARED.
Just as hanging clothes made soft, snapping sounds in the cool breeze that blows in off the Pacific Ocean here at Bray's Point on a foggy Feb. 19 afternoon, so too could one hear something like bird calls breaking the quiet on a still forest pool of water near this popular UFO sighting location. "We followed the sound until its frequencies started to pluck our nerves. We stopped and then looked down into this pond in there were these endless cries of something or someone inside our ears or minds. Each time we return to the pond, there's something down there that we just can't reach or understand. Its acoustics are out of this world - for sure," quipped local Bray's Point local Errol who said "I didn't want to mention this after those boxes, but there's been a ceaseless hum of something under that water for nearly a month now." In turn, Errol said the consensus is "don't disturb it. Leave it alone."WHAT'S WITH BRAY'S POINT AND STRANGE STUFF?Drumming his nails on the kitchen table that looks out at the mighty Pacific Ocean, Errol starts making a noise like pigeons' feet on his roof. He then explains "that's sort of how it sounds in the evenings when we approach the pond. It's not unlike when you hear those frogs during the early springtime. But, this is very different because all this strange stuff started happening after those UFO sightings two weeks ago."Errol was then reminded that "several types of strange metal boxes" have now been examined; with the "official" theory being they are simply pieces of docks that may have broken away last March when the earthquake in Japan."Meanwhile, Errol exclaims: "I've never seen a dock look like what we've had on our beaches."Later, he does concede that not all the "strange stuff" going on at Bray's Point has to do with UFOs."This is an ancient plot of land that the Native American tribes lived on back hundreds of years and even thousands of years," he adds; while admitting that even as a long-time UFO watcher he still feels creepy when outside at Bray's Point when the "night shadows play tricks with your mind."UFOS ALSO BELIEVED TO BE UNDERWATERA report from leading scientists about clues to how life evolved - "not on this planet but also possibly on alien worlds" - was recent reported on LiveScience.com, and also featured on news.yahoo.com, stating that experts are now looking below as well as into outer space for "these clues."While there are many bodies of water that hold these "clues to life evolving on Earth from alien worlds," researchers are now focused on underwater caves in the Bahamas, stated the LiveScience.com report.The report notes, for example, how "the caves in question are called "blue holes," so-named because from the air, their entrances appear circular in shape, with different shades of blue water in and around them. There are estimated to be more than 1,000 such caves in the Bahamas, the greatest concentration of blue holes in the world."It's really incredible to be swimming down a passage that no one has ever been in before, to experience that thrill of discovery," said researcher Tom Iliffe, a marine biologist at Texas A">MYSTERY OF UFO LIFE UNDER THE WATERLiveScience.com also reported how "Iliffe and his colleagues examined three inland blue holes in the Bahamas. They discovered that layers of bacteria exist in all three, but each of these water-filled sinkholes had significantly different microbes living in them from the others."We're finding new forms of life that are totally unknown elsewhere on Earth," Iliffe told OurAmazingPlanet in this LiveScience.com report that goes on to explain how "within each blue hole, the microbes the researchers found varied depending on the depth, owing to how the water in them was separated into distinct fresh- and saltwater layers as well as oxygen-poor or virtually completely oxygen-depleted layers. The blue holes also varied from each other due to differences such as food sources."We examined two caves on Abaco Island and one on Andros Island," Iliffe said. "One on Abaco, at a depth of about 100 feet (30 meters), had sheets of bacteria that were attached to the walls of the caves, almost one inch (2.5 centimeters) thick. Another cave on the same island had bacteria living within poisonous clouds of hydrogen sulfide at the boundary between fresh- and saltwater. These caves had different forms of bacteria, with the types and density changing as the light source from above grew dimmer and dimmer."In the cave on Andros, we expected to find something similar, but the hydrogen sulfide layer there contained different types of bacteria," Iliffe added. "It shows that the caves tend to have life forms that adapt to that particular habitat, and we found that some types of the bacteria could live in environments where no other forms of life could survive. This research shows how these bacteria have evolved over millions of years and have found a way to live under these extreme conditions." LIFE FORMS NOW FOUND UNDER THE EARTH"These bacterial forms of life may be similar to microbes that existed on early Earth and thus provide a glimpse of how life evolved on this planet," Iliffe explained in the LiveScience.com report. "These caves are natural laboratories where we can study life existing under conditions analogous to what was present many millions of years ago."Specifically, "these caves have no light and therefore no photosynthetic production of oxygen, which means the dissolved oxygen levels are either low or nonexistent, similar to the environments that probably existed on the early Earth," Iliffe said.In turn, ufologists state that such findings might also shed light on how life might have developed on distant planets and moons, and why there's "signs of life just about everywhere anybody wants to look - from Bray's Point to the Bahamas.
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