Ron,

You and I have two fairly separate interests. Yours is military phenomenology and mine is metaphysics. However, these interests appear to overlap and even conflict with regard to popular UFO sentiment. You see that sentiment as a nuisance and I see it as potentially significant.

You have been very dismissive of this sentiment, and your expertise and experience should provide you with a solid and perhaps unique basis for making that judgement. However, my attempts to solicit additional supporting information from you have been unsuccessful.

Our differences may be inconsequential to the normal business of the government, but there may have been or may be circumstances in which you will be called upon to render your opinions on a matter related to the UFO phenomenon. Strictly speaking, that would be none of my business. However, as you well know, I am often inclined toward the role of the concerned citizen.

As such I have provided you with some significant and novel insights into the UFO phenomenon. I am not aware that these insights have had any influence on your thinking on this topic. But neither have I been able to ascertain anything else that may have influenced your thinking. I can only conclude that it is expediency rather than experience that informs your statements. Or one might suppose that your experience has inclined you toward expediency rather than toward thoughtfulness.

That expedience rules is hardly surprising. Nonetheless, there are still the two of us and the Internet. Is there something in your employment contract or in your constitution that would prevent us from discussing this issue with some deliberation and candor and placing the results on the web? Would this compromise either your career or national security?

Dan

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rev. 6/3/98