I wish to once again thank Thomas Malloy for alerting me through the vortex list of the fact that an extensive interview was recently assembled on a fascinating individual, a UFOlogist named Bob Dean. The interview was conducted and produced by an organization called Project Camelot. The curious can download various video formats of the Dean interview at:
http://www.projectcamelot.net/bob_dean.html My only real complaint concerning the quality of this low-budget production was the fact that I occasionally wished the interviewer would have been a little less intrusive in her questioning of Mr. Dean. I found her interviewing skills distracting as she attempted to steer Mr. Dean to answer certain questions and issues that she personally felt were more important than what Mr. Dean was in the process of discussing. These kinds of interviewing "derailments" annoyed me to no end, and to put it mildly annoyed a hell of a lot of "reviewers", particularly a few who posted totally unwarranted and absolutely scurrilous diatribes about the interviewer's interviewing skills out on the google videos web site. But that's really a very minor criticism, IMO. Despite these impediments Mr. Dean was still able to get the bulk of what he really wanted to say, said. So... What does Mr. Dean have to say about all those mysterious UFOs and the "pilots" who pilot such craft? Far more than I can possibly say in this short little post. There's no way I could possibly give the subject any real justice. I'll only mention the fact that Mr. Dean is well known within most UFO corners and communities. What makes Dean perhaps a bit more interesting than the garden variety kind is the fact that when he was in the service he had a pretty high secret clearance rating. At one point he was stationed in an exclusive enclave of NATO headquarters. It was during this time that Dean claimed to have read an interesting internal report on the UFO phenomenon, an "Assessment of the Situation." It changed his view of the world, the universe. It changed him. I can see why some strict fundamentalists, those who interpret their holy book in strict literal terms, would find what Mr. Dean has had to say on the UFO subject disturbing. As for me, while I truly found this interview fascinating, even informative at times, I did not really uncover anything that I had not essentially heard elsewhere in bits and pieces, here and there in prior UFO literature. Perhaps I've been desensitized. I do have a confession to make: What I personally find ironic, even revelatory, is the fact that I have found the religious fundamentalist perspective on the UFO phenomenon to be far more bizarre in its personal "Assessment of the Situation" as compared to what Bob Dean has had to say. Go figure. As for what I personally believe may be going on, in the skies, high above us... I dunno. I really don't. I have my suspicions and speculations, but hey don't we all have our "opinions". All I know is that it does not serve me very well to think of myself as nothing more than a "drumbstick", as allegedly the view that certain religious fundamentalist have of themselves, or to be more precise, how they perceive that aliens perceive them as. PS: I was astonished to discover that Bob Dean, the "Bob Dean" UFOlogist version, is NOT listed out in Wikipedia. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dean "Bob Dean (1930 – 2007) was a kicker and two way lineman with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League." Is this yet another example of the never ending conspiracy program to "suppress the truth", to keep the public clueless of the UFO phenomenon??? Is this yet more examples of informational deflection and disinformation? Yeah... right. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
