From: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de (Ulrich Gall)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: *SUMMARY: Please help me! _What_ was that? PLEASE READ!
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 14:53:11 GMT
Distribution: world               
Organization: private UUCP site, Kiel, Germany

   


Dear a.a.v readers,




first of all, I would like to apologize to everyone who read my original
posting about the Russian UFO.

THE WHOLE STORY IS A LIE. I have never been in Russia in all my life.
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I posted this to find out how people react and whether people would believe
a story like this. I DID NOT DO THIS TO MAKE FUN OF ANYONE. I do believe
that it is very well possible that we have had contact with aliens.

I realize that many of you are not really impressed to say the least.

My main concern is that, after now reading that it was all fake, all those
people who offered to help me won't believe the next guy who posts a story
which is true. So please, KEEP ON BELIEVING THOSE PEOPLE SERIOUSLY POSTING
TO THIS GROUP.

I was very impressed by the help so many people offered, and I really felt
bad about them offering their help to someone who lied to them. I thank
all of you who did answer to my posting.

I got a total of 5 replies, the two follow-ups and a phone call from a guy
from Germany.

Here is what they told me:
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1) One guy guessed it was a Russian classified vertical takeoff aircraft.

2) Two of them wanted to know more about the "sample", where it was now etc.

> ... you might describe these more fully.  What do they weigh?  What
> size?  What shape?  Greyish, as in dark or light grey?  Dull or
> bright?  Weathered, machined?

[I was actually describing a chunk of Silicon I took from an aluminum plant.
It is really strange stuff - very hard, but still metal-like. I was going to
give some more hints after reading some of the followups (like "it's got a
resistance of 500 Ohms from one end to the other"), but I didn't want to lie
to you any further.

3) One concern also mentiuoned was about preserving what I found. This is of
course very important, and I would recommend everyone hiding A PART of
something alien they found right away and not even tell anyone about it until
the time has come.

4) Two people mentioned that in Russia, UFOlogy has been taken much more
seriously than in the West.

5) One advice I got that makes sense was TO TAKE SOME SOIL OF AN ENCOUNTER
SIGHT to check for radiation and bacteria.

6) A Special thanks to Garrett for this offer (A follow-up, I hope you don't mind
me reposting your adress.):

> Send a sample of that rock to me, and we will to some FTICR/MS, Xray
> fluoresence and other tests on it and see what it is made of:
>
>      		Dr. Garrett Van Cleef
>      		Laser Spectroscopy Facility
>      		Department of Chemistry
>      		Box 234
>      		The Ohio State University
>                 Columbus, OH 43210

7) The guy who called me recommended a german book about all this and gave
me the adress of a german UFO organization. A special thanks to you.

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Generally, I was surprised that everyone believed me. Please keep this up! I
am confident that anyone who experinced something like this can post and
people will help him.


Of course, almost everyone wanted more info. For your amusement, here is what
I was planning on telling them:
                              ____   ____   ____
The clouds looked like this:-(____)-(____)-(____)-. The sound was 1-2Hz.
Of course this was supposed to match the "Pulser" aircraft mentioned in the
FAQ.
The sample was Silicon (see above).
The picture disappeared when I had them developed (MIBs?)
I picked Russia because it makes it harder to check if it really happened.

Again, sorry about all of this,
       hoping that some of what I found was interesting for you,

                Ulrich



Ulrich B. Gall, Seebrooksberg 2, W-2300 Klausdorf, Germany
Tel.: +49-431-790292, EMail: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de