As you know, I'm highly skeptical of AB's claims, particularly so after his most recent post which is completely inconsistent with the earlier
ones.
However, if he is genuine and he thinks he is right, he may very well have tried to contact mainstream media and been rebuffed and is therefore
posting on conspiracy-related forums as a last resort.
I say this as someone who was a newspaper journalist for many years (before I got a proper job

)
News outlets are magnets for loonys - if I had a pound for every time I was approached by someone who said they had conclusive proof of an alien
visitation (which turned out to be a photograph of ET taken off a television screen with the corner of the TV screen clearly in shot) than I'd
certainly have
enough to buy a nice carriage clock.
Good journalists are all skeptics beacuse you cannot do your job properly unless you instinctively question whatever anyone is telling you all the
time. Most credible media outlets wouldn't run with a story like this without pretty compelling proof and one or two respected boffins to go on the
record.
However, I have a feeling that this flap might just have got big enough to cover, even if it is from a wacky 'look at what those conspiracy theorists
are gassing about now' angle.
[Edited on 27-5-2004 by harrisjohns]