system: You are Jack Sargeant, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Ufo message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "A word from Stan".

They wrote:
> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 12:20:57 -0500
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Donaldson Predicts Contact
> >Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:08:41 -0800
> >From: Terry Blanton <commengr@bellsouth.net>
> >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> >Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Donaldson Predicts Contact
> >Ted Viens wrote:
> >> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 23:13:11 -0800
> >> From: Ted Viens <drtedv@freewwweb.com>
> >> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> >> Subject: Sam Donaldson on Nightline Predicts VLA Radio Astronomy
> >>          Detects Aliens in '98
> >> Its the damndest thing...  Here I am reading Nexxus and UFO
> >> UpDates stuff from their mail lists when my attention is dragged
> >> back to the wrap-up of the Nightline light entertainment show on
> >> New Years Predictions.  Sam Donaldson is making the closing
> >> remark when his words start to break into my awareness.  He is
> >> saying something to the effect that "it may be the damndest thing
> >> but I expect the big array in New Mexico will detect aliens this
> >> year and I don't mean from across the border but signals from
> >> outer space."
> ><snip>
> >Amazing, wasn't it?  I didn't see a single hint of the TIC
> >Syndrome (tongue-in-cheek) which normally accompanies statements
> >on the subject by news anchors.  And, although the VLA isn't
> >often used in the SETI program, there is always the chance of
> >serendipity, n'est-ce pas. <G>
> The Very Large Array (VLA) was designed as a radio telescope, and
> was not part of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
> (SETI) program. However, I believe that the VLA was sometimes
> used in conjuction with several other radio telescopes in the
> northern part of the western hemisphere to examine objects in the
> sky, and some of those other radio telescopes were also used by
> SETI.  As with most major telescopes, the demand for time exceeds
> the time available.  Since Donaldson is a New Mexico landowner,
> he is familiar with the VLA.  Why he would believe that the VLA
> is going to being the extensive search for ET, I'm not sure.
> But I would add that both ABC and CBS has done relatively good
> documentaries on sightings and the UFO controversy, so not all of
> their reports are "tongue-in-cheek".
> Steve

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assistant: Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 21:01:53 -0400
From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@brunnet.net>
To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Donaldson Predicts Contact
Let us not forget that the VLA is featured in the movie CONTACT.
Stan Friedman
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