Out here in California, I find that people are generally open to anomalous experiences, or even admitting to them. That’s only in my experience though, since I find that if I bring up the subject, it’s already opened up the good possibility that I won’t degrade anyone’s personal experinece. Fundamentalist skeptics like it when he subject is brought up, since it gives them a chance to “save” the wayward souls. Most people fall between the two extremes of course.

I’ll hold you to that beer promise.

Miles Lewis from elfis.com also asked about youtube-ing the video. I suppose I’ll have to ask permission from Moore and MUFON, although we have to remember the maxim: “To seek permission is to seek refusal.” There may be a way around it, and I may have more problems with MUFON than with Bill.

Given the nature of your clandestine procurement of the infamous Moore film, will you be able to a> put it online or b> put an MP3 of his speech online ? (Barring, of course, technical issues.) I’d like to see / hear this historical moment and I’m sure many, many others would too.

No need to be envious, although you would have had great opportunities for networking.

Apparently, the video of Moore’s talk is a continuous tight shot on him, without any panning for audience reactions. I don’t know if the microphone picked up anything besides his audio.

Re: The X-Conference. I may be invited to speak there. If so, I’ll be seeing you in D.C.

The Bill Moore ‘89 MUFON speech. Sweet Jesus ! Keep us updated on that gem, please !

X-Conference III sounds interesting, hopefully Steve can pull it off. I always had fun down there in DC.

Greg, you might be right, but my personal experience is people don’t so much “couldn’t care less” as find the whole ‘paranormal’ field unnerving on two fronts.

On the one hand, they’re egos’re terrified of showing even slight interest in case they suddenly find they’ve been opening up to someone with the witchfinder-general style aggression and intolerance of the true hardcore skeptopath.

On the other hand, they’re also terrified of having their sense of reality overly-challenged by opening up to someone with the witchfinder-general style aggression and intolerance of the true hardcore believer.

I must generally give off a peculiar air of tolerance to both believers and non-believers, because it’s amazing what members of both groups’ve spontaneously let me in on before I’ve even actually gotten round to giving my own particular angle of being a long time experiencer of the exceedingly strange without feeling the need to either believe or disbelieve, these days.