Initial Impressions of Lear Video Tapes

                    Initial Impressions of Lear Video Tapes

                                   by

                               Brad Langton

                              Paranet Lambda

                               716-377-3985

   I must say at the beginning, that the amount of video material that

John has supplied is impressive. My only misgiving is that all but the

last segment are taken from televised documentaries. I was hopeful that

the video material would include footage alluded to in the documentaries

that was not shown on screen. In several cases, particularly within the

documentary "UFO's Are Real" (Brandon Chase), there were references to

military footage of UFO's taken by military personnel.

   One of the most compelling films dealt with the CNN series on "The

Bentwaters Incident." There seemed to be quite a bit of circumstantial

evidence surrounding the alleged incident. The viewer is told through

interviews and artist conceptions, the details of the Bentwaters

UFO encounter. Allegations were made regarding physical evidence left

at the scene, but little or none of this was demonstrated by photos

of the effects. There was no indication within the context of the

Bentwaters Incident that correlates with John Lear's hypothesis except

one account by an eyewitness that one of the lead officers met briefly

with the aliens. Some of the possible explanations to explain the

pulsing light as an artifact of a lighthouse several miles away seemed

weak at first glance, but when an audio tape of the mission was

synchronized with the lighthouse frequency, there was a match. The

point was made that the correlation between the lighthouse pulsing and the

UFO pulsing did not continue. Without more information regarding the

encounter such as more physical evidence, this particular encounter

can not be taken at face value except to say that there is a chance that

something did happen, and maybe it involved UFO's of extraterrestrial

origen. As with all of these documentaries, it is difficult to pass

a judgment due to the lack of first hand knowledge and the tendancy for

television to capitalize on the sensational over the mundane. Still, I

would be interested in learning more about the Bentwaters Incident

because despite the problems I have mentioned, there are aspects of

the story that would likely be detailed in military documents that are

not currently available and the fact that this was carried on the news

without a great deal of hype, does lend some credibility to the idea

that something did in fact occur that has not been fully revealed.

   The least compelling documentary was "A Strange Harvest" which did

an excellent job of showing mutilations but was somewhat biased towards

a presumed extraterrestrial connection. Interviewed doctors were asked

leading questions regarding such matters as the lack of blood in the

specimens such as (and I'm paraphrasing) "there's no way then, that

you can account for the total lack of blood in the cadavers..." to which

the doctors explained a possible explanation being that the blood had pooled

on the underside of the body after death. Ms. Howe did not seem to pick

up on this point. For myself, unless the mutilations were made sometime

after death, one would have expected some blood in evidence around the

carcass. Some aspects were mysterious in any event such as the lack of

any physical evidence of how the animal got there, or why there were

such specific and consistent mutilations around the world. I have no

answer for this. The failure of the carcass to attract predators is

outside my area of expertise as well and is somewhat unusual at first

glance, however, I'm not about to rule out other mitigating circumstances.

Clearly the mutilations follow a pattern world wide... there are some

very unusual characteristics regarding the wounds which appear to only

be possible with technology beyond our own, again, I have no way of

validating this. The mere fact that the pattern is world wide does suggest

something strange... but as to what it means... this remains highly

speculative based solely on this documentary.

   The next two features; an HBO special "UFO's: What's Going On" and

"UFO's: It Has Begun," both offer further random hints at a coverup of

the UFO issue. In both cases, no hard evidence seems apparent, although

there is a reference in one of the documentaries, perhaps the last one

or the next one, showing a hand written note from J. Edgar Hoover of

the FBI explaining to  the army that they must allow access to the salvaged

alien spacecraft. That is one I can't explain away.

   The final documentary that I really understood was "UFO's Are Real" by

Brandon Chase which offered the greatest amount of video footage,

photocopied FOIA documents on UFO's, and an impressive display of

physical evidence, particulary regarding UFO landing sight soil

characteristics that was really turning the tide... until...

...the Billy Maier material was celebrated as one of the most complete

and significant cases of UFO evidence to date. Inclusive in the Maier

data was the contention that the photographs had been authenticated by

photographic analysis techniques. That last entry threw my entire

growing optimism that someone had done some exhaustive research into

doubt once more... this in the light of our recent feelings about the

veracity of the Maier materials.

   Despite the Maier material, I feel that this particular video presented

the most compelling evidence not only that UFOs are real, but that they

are literally not of this world. If followup on the specifics dealt with

in "UFO's Are Real" corraborates the conclusions drawn in the film, I

would be willing to accept the majority of the evidence as proof of

extraterrestrial involvement in earthly affairs.

   The last two entries, "The Tacoma Incident" and "Japanese Moon Pictures"

do not offer me any ideas at all regarding the UFO issue. I may need to view

these last two segments while following along in John's enclosed

documentation to glean whatever meaning they may have.

   Having viewed the video once, and skimmed the substantial number of

documents, I'm still unclear as to how John's hypothesis was arrived at

unless its a reference on one document that I have yet to locate. One

point seems much clearer to me now than it was before, there is no doubt

that there is something strange about UFO's and that they do represent

something that  we do not understand and that there may in fact be some

sentient beings involved from some other world. The Laear materials are

a good introduction to the scope of the UFO issue and I highly

recommend that anyone who is interested in UFO's should review these

materials. I myself must do alot more reviewing before making any final

summations. The jury is still out on the hypothesis Lear has presented

but I think the circumstantial evidence for the reality of UFO's is

enough to secure a conviction in most courts.

   I will likely have more to say about this at a later time, particularly

in light of the recent Texarkana sightings.

-Brad Langton

 27-Feb-88