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Peter Robbins Explains selective information, this with no interest in and sleazy suggestions regarding my character
actually speaking with me. Then again, why and honesty. If you haven’t listened to them you
His Take on Left at East would he have bothered? It was only a ‘UFO should. I’d intended to respond to all of them

story’ and the Mirror is not known for its high here but time has closed in on me have
Gate journalistic standards. In publishing his well- precluded that. I’ll be glad to do so in some
off-the-mark and highly generalized version of future radio interview though. It’s an
Continued from Page 13 things he insulted both me and Larry. In my case understatement to say that I did not know him
by putting words in my mouth that made it nearly as well as I thought I did. But it seems he
I did understand that all his cards were appear that I had “..sparked a war of words after did not know me as well as he thought he did
not on the table. If I accepted the offer, what revealing he now believes that former US either. I think he actually thought that, as his
exactly would I be agreeing to? After all, the airman Larry Warren's account of the incident stories began to unravel, I would stick with him
near RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, in 1980, was because I’d be too embarrassed not to, seeing
guy was talking about being a principal in his
"not true." my professional reputation go down with his
own book, and that could get touchy. And was
The story of course hurt Larry more for ship. He couldn’t have been more wrong:
an independent co-author with latitude what he
obvious reasons. Small consolation, but in the Excerpt from Larry's Odd Couple Video
really had in mind? What if the trail led
interests of accuracy I stated that I am Statement to me.
somewhere he didn't want it to go? What if I
convinced that parts of Larry’s account are not “You know you sent me those letters
found out he had been wrong about things, or
that he'd been lied to, or that he'd lied? The man accurate or faithful to the truth. And the Mirror back in October {actually back in October and
might even be some kind of Bentwaters being the Mirror, you should also know that no December} and I was waiting to get a letter
"wannabe" -- on base that night but not journalist or reporter by the name of John Jeffay through the mail box believe it or not.
is employed by the Mirror. There is little {reference to an innocent party that has nothing
involved, then telling the stories he'd heard as
question that this story was brought to the to do with the actual content of this
though they'd happened to him. Any of these
attention of the Mirror’s editors by someone communication. If Larry feels otherwise I invite
possibilities were valid, but I didn't think any of
outside the newspaper’s staff. I can make an him to add it to the public record} … So when
them were likely {emphasis mine}.
educated guess as to who it may have been, but you tell me 'mail' and you know I am not a
I asked the questions I had to and got
cannot say for sure. computer guy.
more encouraging answers than I'd expected.
What Larry proposed was simply that he tell his Larry Warren and I first met one-to-one So I am waiting for the postman to
own story, in his own terms. I would be free to as previously noted on July 3 1987, this at my come, they still have them in England and the
chronicle, support, or refute whatever I could apartment on West 46th St. in Manhattan. He post never came, but what you did so because
was living with his first wife in Connecticut at you had a little hissy fit because I didn’t respond
about the incidents and his part in them. Though
the time. Also as previously noted, he showed to you quick enough, ah life goes on, I have a
we should stay open to the other's suggestions,
up with an assortment of reading material for teenage son and you know they involve a lot of
each of us would have our own last word on
me at that visit. It included a small assortment of effort when they are at that age. I have a mother
anything we wanted to include. When the book
articles that had been published on the UFO in the hospital with dementia, we are always
sold, we would split whatever it made.
incident and his copy of Sky Crash by Suffolk hearing about your family and I love them too,
Larry's offer was worth considering, but there
was risk attached. Such a collaboration would paranormal researcher Brenda Butler, her friend I've got problems in my family like everyone's
be like starting a small business with a stranger; and colleague Dot Street, and Jenny Randles, got problems in their family, mother with
the best-known of the three and already a dementia which you are well aware of, this that
but that was the least of it.
prolific writer on the subject of the UFO and the other... I don’t make this a public thing,
For those of us who make it our business
phenomenon. you tend to do a lot of that. It's just not my style!
to look into such things, a storm of controversy
At the time, there had not been very But I'm kinda surprised you sent all this private
had already swirled around the Bentwaters
much published on the RFI, at least that I was correspondence but you sent them to everybody
incidents for several years. Having one of the
aware of. What my memory is a little hazy on is before I ever got them, it's almost a blackmail
witnesses, or alleged witnesses, as co-author
whether or not it was at that meeting or during kinda thing. We had that issue back in 88 over
was just asking for trouble. Larry couldn't have
agreed more. Such a book could take some time his next foray into New York City that he loaned the phone bill thing, but we won’t go into that
to complete, maybe even a year or two. Given me copies of some of his assorted military here. My mother sure would, if she had a
paperwork, all of which he told me he had made memory.”
the circumstances, could we both stick with it
copies of during his out-processing from the Air All that talk about letters but not a word
that long?
Force, but I am sure that he brought them on one in reference to the contents of either. Larry is a
Another sticking point: I didn't see
of those two initial visits. master of ‘look over here, not over there,’ and
myself well-suited to the job. Larry should have
A thought that never occurred to me at would be more than happy to keep you in the
been looking for a different sort of writer;
the time – or in fact at any time since then, until dark as to what those letters actually said, but
perhaps one who had actually written a book. If
earlier this year when I finally bothered to that is a concession he is no longer entitled to.
it had been me, I would have tried to enlist a
good investigative reporter. What he did not actually read some of the findings that had been Larry would have you believe that I “sent them
need was a coauthor who also had a UFO posted online. Call me naïve, but I just don’t to everybody before I ever got them,” This is
think that way. The paperwork he loaned me nonsense on two counts. When, after three
incident in his past. I just didn’t think the
was almost entirely Xerox copies, but there weeks of not hearing back from him after
"coincidence" would wash with a lot of people.
were a few originals, which were returned to sending him my letter of October 3rd, I wrote
But all these objections were subordinate to a
him several years later. If he (or anyone else) asking him what his thoughts were about what I
larger question: if I agreed, how far was I
had altered any part of any of them it would had said, he told me he never received it as he
willing to go for this story? If only a tenth of
amount to a betrayal of the highest order, goes on about above. I immediately responded
what he claimed were true...” (LAEG, pages
certainly for me as his co-writer, but more with an extremely easy to see screen grab of it
214-215)
If only I had paid more attention to the importantly, to any reader who had ever served as a screengrab attached to the brief Facebook
doubts that had nagged at me back then. or was currently serving in the military, message it was attached to. But as he refused to
American or otherwise. Such an offense is acknowledge this, I sent the letter on to two
Jumping to the present, some of you
simply not forgivable. I’m sorrier than I can say people who he is extremely close to, one at his
may have already read the article that appeared
that I now know this to be the case regarding at request as he would be visiting with that person
in the UK tabloid the Mirror, I believe on May
least several of these documents, but before over the coming weekend.
29th You can read it at
damning Larry with such an awful accusation,
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ufo-
there is one other alternate theory you need to (Continued on Page 17)
expert-accuses-co-author-10527844. Reporter
consider, and consider seriously. Last month
John Jeffay obviously made the decision to The Science of Magic (TSOM)
ignore the specifics and complexities I Larry was a guest on UK radio host Ben Emlyn- with Gwilda Wiyaka
discussed in the radio interview which sparked Jones' radio program, on May 29 if I’m correct. exclusively on
His remarks included an assortment of attacks
the writing of this piece, and which he mined for www.XZBN.net