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- Distribution: Dr. Nick Begich, Whitley Strieber, Michael
Hesemann, John Carpenter, Joe Lewels, A.J. Gevaerd, Ron Russell, Graham
Birdsall, Santiago Yturria Garza, Dr. Michael Newton, Dr. Steven Greer,
Giorgio Bongiovanni, William Buhlman, Leonard Buchanan, James Gilliland,
Wendelle Stevens, George Knapp, Peter Davenport, Larry Warren, Constance
Clear, Dolores Cannon, Gildais Bourdais, Russel Callaghan, Daniel Sheehan,
Art Bell, Jeff Rense, UFOMind, Glenn Campbell, Stanton Freidman, Peter
Gersten
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- This is to inform you that I am appalled that the International
UFO Congress has invited Jonathan Reed to speak at the 9th Congress to
be held March 5 through March 11, 2000 at the River Palms Resort in Laughlin,
Nevada.
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- The following allegations from Mr. Reed during his December
9, 1999 interview on the Art Bell show have been investigated:
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- 1. Mr. Reed claims to have been admitted to graduate
school at UCLA after only spending two years at San Diego State University
where he obtained a Teaching Education Certificate for Secondary Education
with a GPA of 3.0. UCLA has no record of a Jonathan Reed obtaining his
Ph.D. at that institution.
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- 2. UMI maintains hard copy and microfilm copy of all
Ph.D. dissertations and does not have Jonathan Reed's alleged UCLA dissertation
on file.
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- 3. Reed claims to have worked during the summer of 1979
with Dr. Frank Oski at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Frank Oski did not
arrive at John's Hopkins until 1985.
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- 4. Reed claimed to be a member of the National Psychological
Association. There is no National Psychological Association.
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- 5. Reed claims to have worked at the Department of Psychology
at the University of Washington. Upon checking with the University of Washington
Medical Center, the Department of Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry,
it was confirmed that they have never had anyone named Jonathan Reed in
those departments.
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- 6. Reed claims that a Microbiologist by the name of Chacon
has analyzed samples of recovered biological material from the alien Reed
held in his freezer. Chacon claims to have received his Master's Degree
in Microbiology from the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. The Catholic
University of Puerto Rico does not offer Master's degrees in Microbiology.
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- Additionally, there is no evidence to support the claims
made by Jonathan Reed. Unless Mr. Reed can provide any reasonable corroborating
evidence to support his biography and that of his colleague Chacon, he
should be removed from your program. I would think that the UFO Congress
should hold high standards for their speakers and at a minimum require
the speaker's biography to be validated before issuing an invitation to
speak. Otherwise, your reputation will suffer, you do injustice to the
field of UFOlogy, and you insult the other speakers who have worked so
hard for their reputation.
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- Timothy A. Haley, Ph.D. TimHaley@aol.com
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