Originally posted by Crakeur
John, if Malin were to state that he has reviewed the photos again and he has looked at the overal picture, the crappy broken ufo's, the toy ray gun comparison to the, um, toy ray gun, the garbage can lid etc, and he now believes this to be a hoax, would you still believe this story?
I believe that Malins 'flip-flop' on the Billy Meiers photos was similar to Carl Sagan's flip-flop on his 'bases of the back side of the moon' in the 60'.
Carl Sagan, in the 1960's proposed that if aliens were visiting earth that they would probably use the back side of the moon for bases. Sagan was very well educated and very well spoken and the government could not have this kind of speculation going around particularly in the early 60's when the giant cover-up was being put into place.
I speculate that the government went to Sagan and said something to the effect, "Look, we'll tell you what's going on but in return we need your help on influencing the public." And I think Carl went for the deal. He was immensly popular, he was Johnny Carsons' guest many times, and influenced the public on flying sauers, aliens and outer space in the manner that the government wanted. In other words, sure there were aliens but they were way 'out there', there certainly weren't any around our solar system.
Michael Malin was one of the early proponents and supporters of Billy Meiers. He was well spoken and very knowledgeable. In my opinion the govrnment went to Malin and said something like, look, "We need someone to handle the Mars photography. If you can possibly see your way clear to quit fiddling around with the Meiers photos we could use your help." And the deal was done.
Michael is certainly not going to admit to a flip-flop on the Meiers photos and to expect him to come clean on exactly what happend is not going to happen.
Getting Malins 'current' take on take on the Billy Meiers photos would be an excercise in futility.
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[edit on 5-18-2007 by Springer]



