Yes, and it was found that he WAS wearing his glasses. I talked about this with Paul Kimball last night. He repeated the other part of the fundamentalist skeptic argument that the other witnesses (the islanders) were just going along with Gill because he supposedly knew better. I always found this insulting to their ability to tell stars and other astronomical phenomena from things that were not.

It will probably be this weekend before
I can call them, but I’ll ask. The most
unusual thing I can remember seeing was
watching a octopus crawling across the
bottom of the old submarine pen on the
Ocean side of the island.

Wow! You LIVED there? You’d know what I’d like to ask your brothers, I bet. Any strange lights at night? Anything in the air other than transport planes? Any strange, unexplained events, barely remembered? Etc.

Another good point! Not about the Mormons, though, since they apparently didn’t follow through…

Hadn’t thought of that, but it would fit with the other “woo-woo” stuff I’ve expounded (favorably) upon elsewhere on the site.

Good point about the hand-waving, and the “too bizarre to be believed” element makes sense too.

I agree with the CYA explanation, which sort of buttresses Nick’s theory in Bodysnatchers In The Desert, unless that’s another CYA.

That’s just what they WANT you to think!

Seriously, this is why I wrote that the theory had “more holes than a swiss cheese.” I just wanted to put the idea out there to see what people said. The readers are responding much as I thought they would.

That’s what reminded me of the Kwajalein facility.

When you start thinking about captured anti-grav tech, lots of things become fair game.