xouper
23rd September 2003, 04:38 AM
From another thread (http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27469):
The Bad Astronomer: One of these days I'll write up the Photon Belt goofiness. Ironically, one of the supporting sites (http://www.salemctr.com/photon.html) for it links to a debunking (http://www.salemctr.com/photon/center5d.html) that is pretty good.Clare Williams's is one of the better rebuttals that I've found over the past three years, but the original seems to have gone missing from the net. Have you contacted Clare Williams for more information or updates?
If you haven't already seen Bob Laidlaw's commentary and followup to Williams's article:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/8148/pleiades.html
Does anyone know where I can get a reprint of Williams's article in "UFORIC Communique"? I can't seem to find any information about that periodical on the net.
I would also be interested if any of our Australian "correspondents" can obtain a copy of the original 1981 article from that Australian UFO periodical. I haven't had much luck tracking it down, but then I haven't called long distance to Australia either. The Nexus reprint seems to still be available, but I haven't yet ordered a copy.
Not long after the Nexus reprint came out in 1991, several New Age authors published books containing channeled material about the Photon Belt. For example, Sheldon Nidle's book, You Are Becoming a Galactic Human, (out of print already, but I have a copy), in which he claims to be channelling some beings from the Pleiades, devotes the first several chapters to the Photon Belt. He continues to publish channeled updates from the "Galactic Federation" on his website (http://www.paoweb.com/), but similar to other wackos whose predictions have come and gone, Nidle has excuses why the Photon Belt hasn't arrived as he predicted in his book.
I have been unable to locate any channeled information about the Photon Belt that was published prior the Nexus reprint (other than mention of the original 1981 article that started it all). I find it comical that several New Age authors have published serious channeled works about a phenomenon that looks to have started out as a hoax.
The Bad Astronomer: One of these days I'll write up the Photon Belt goofiness. Ironically, one of the supporting sites (http://www.salemctr.com/photon.html) for it links to a debunking (http://www.salemctr.com/photon/center5d.html) that is pretty good.Clare Williams's is one of the better rebuttals that I've found over the past three years, but the original seems to have gone missing from the net. Have you contacted Clare Williams for more information or updates?
If you haven't already seen Bob Laidlaw's commentary and followup to Williams's article:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/8148/pleiades.html
Does anyone know where I can get a reprint of Williams's article in "UFORIC Communique"? I can't seem to find any information about that periodical on the net.
I would also be interested if any of our Australian "correspondents" can obtain a copy of the original 1981 article from that Australian UFO periodical. I haven't had much luck tracking it down, but then I haven't called long distance to Australia either. The Nexus reprint seems to still be available, but I haven't yet ordered a copy.
Not long after the Nexus reprint came out in 1991, several New Age authors published books containing channeled material about the Photon Belt. For example, Sheldon Nidle's book, You Are Becoming a Galactic Human, (out of print already, but I have a copy), in which he claims to be channelling some beings from the Pleiades, devotes the first several chapters to the Photon Belt. He continues to publish channeled updates from the "Galactic Federation" on his website (http://www.paoweb.com/), but similar to other wackos whose predictions have come and gone, Nidle has excuses why the Photon Belt hasn't arrived as he predicted in his book.
I have been unable to locate any channeled information about the Photon Belt that was published prior the Nexus reprint (other than mention of the original 1981 article that started it all). I find it comical that several New Age authors have published serious channeled works about a phenomenon that looks to have started out as a hoax.