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34 K Korff on Rosewell & Bigfoot K Korff on Rosewell & Bigfoot 34 Interview with Kal Interview with Kal credible hard evidence for the existence of such proof in order for a "phenomenon" to exist. I believe that whatever each UFO report Korff - author of 'The UFOs or aliens 'visiting Earth today? ultimately turns out to be, we can only learn Korff - author of 'The Roswell UFO Crash: KK: Unfortunately as painful as this may sound from these answers. As long as we strive to be Roswell UFO Crash: scientific, objective, and apply these lessons, to the UFO community, the answer is no, and What They Don't Want here's why. the subject is worth studying and we are better What They Don't Want All UFO cases can be broken down into off for it. [] ou to Know' Y You to Know' four fundamental categories, the first of which is a sighting, when a person sees a UFO. UFO photos and films are also included in this The Skeptical Inquirer category since they, too, are supposed to depict The Skeptical Inquirer July-August 1997 what the witness or witnesses allegedly saw. July-August 1997 The second category includes the radar- visual cases, instances where a UFO is seen and SI: You've just written a book that puts the final tracked on radar. nail in the UFO aspect of the Roswell coffin. The third category covers the landing- How do you feel about that? trace cases, incidents where a UFO allegedly hovers above or near the ground or lands and KK: As a UFO researcher, I am sad that the produces some sort of physical evidence to verdict came out as it did, because, if nothing show that it has been there. Examples of such else, the book is an indictment against the truly physical evidence are landing-gear impressions, sorry state that the UFO field is in. radioactivity, so-called burnt rings, flattened Unfortunately, ufology's blind grass, and so on. acceptance of the Roswell case has now come The fourth and final category of UFO back to haunt it, and I hope this book sends a cases is the alien-being or abduction cases: very loud message to all concerned parties, like instances in which the actual alien pilots are my previous one did. If the UFO field doesn't supposedly seen in or about their craft, or have stop this sad game of uncritical acceptance of forcibly taken onboard their ship one or more cases like Roswell, then the field is doomed to human beings. Usually, these people claim they be a bastard science at best, and deservedly so. are subjected to some sort of physical On the other hand I am also glad that the examination or interrogation (sometimes with a truth has now been found and that we can move sexual component) and are then released. Spaceship...Aliens...Cover-up or forward to investigating other cases. Surely the existence of millions of Hoax? What Really Happened at reports worldwide proves something, doesn't it? Roswell? SI: What do you think your pro-UFO peers will Of course it does, but unlike a good deal of my think of your book? colleagues, I don't profess to have the answer as New witnesses! New evidence! A to what it might prove. The reason for my shocking conclusion! KK: I don't really care. The facts speak for cautious stand rests with the very nature of this themselves, however painful they are this time so-called evidence. To be blunt, most of it is Did an extraterrestrial spacecraft really around. But I "psychically" predict that I will be scientifically worthless. crash in the New Mexico desert in 1947? put on ufology's persona non grata list because Consider if you will the first category of Were alien bodies found...and, if so, was of what I've done. I hope this doesn't happen, of UFO data: sightings. In truth, a sighting is there a secret autopsy? Are the recent Art course, but I cannot and will not compromise nothing more than a story. You can't prove it Bell revelations true? my quest for the UFO "truth" (whatever it actually happened. Unless glaring evidence of a eventually turns out to be) for the sake of stupid hoax is detected, all you can do is accept the For fifty years the mysteries of Roswell politics. person's word that what he or she is telling you have tantalized the public. Now UFO and I suspect, for example, that my is the truth. After you've gotten this far and paranormal researcher Kal K. Korff reveals relationship with Stanton Friedman will suffer, made this leap of faith (not science), you have the real story. Through his exclusive access as well as with others. But that's their problem, another problem: How can you prove that the to military records, previously classified not mine. It is their fault that their faulty incident actually occurred precisely the way the material, and real eyewitnesses, he research has come back to haunt them. Now witness describes? Practically and scientifically explodes the lies and lays bare the truth. they have to deal with it. I'm just the messenger. speaking, you cannot. The result is a revelation powerful enough When I study a UFO case, I am after the truth, What about the second category of UFO to change public opinion forever! whatever that truth might be, and I am not reports: radar-visual cases? Once again we're predisposed toward any point of view. left with the same problem in that you cannot Find out about: Unfortunately, Roswell is not the Holy Grail the prove that the object in question is an - The actual objects found at the UFO promoters make it out to be. extraterrestrial spacecraft. It could be a secret crash site--including real-life photos; military vehicle for all we know. - New, disturbing information about SI: You've written two books now that have a The landing-trace or landing-track cases offer Roswell eyewitness Maj. Jesse Marcel; - The original "flying disc" decidedly skeptical bent, yet you claim to be theoretically the largest potential for scientific newspaper story, reprinted in its "pro-UFO." Isn't this a contradiction? pay dirt. But while there are more than 4,500 such reports on record, a truly unexplainable entirety...and who "killed" it; - The startling analysis of KK: (Surprised) Not at all! I fully support physical trace or irrefutably extraterrestrial "spacecraft" fragments sent anonymously decent, legitimate, scientific research into the artifact has yet to be uncovered, even in the to Art Bell; UFO subject. While I believe that all UFO cases Roswell case. - Aliens at Roswell: Were bodies must be analyzed and considered on their own The "creature" reports and abduction found? Did any survive? What experts now individual merits, I am for investigating the reports bring us full circle to the same say about the autopsy film; topic objectively and scientifically. I guess you fundamental problem once again: they are - The real Air Force cover-up...the could say that's a "pro-UFO" position, but I nothing more than stories, perhaps genuine, whole truth for the first time! wouldn't necessarily call it that. Instead, I think, perhaps not. www.kalkorff.com if anything, it's a scientific position and the right This is why I say that there is no hard www.kalkorff.com one to have. scientific evidence for UFOs' being extraterrestrial spacecraft. However, keep in www.amazon.com www.amazon.com SI: Do you think there's any scientifically mind that there doesn't necessarily have to be