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Post by swamprat on May 14, 2019 20:19:07 GMT
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Post by drwu on May 14, 2019 20:45:54 GMT
Sorry to hear that.....even though I have disagreed with many of his comments over the years, he was an ardent researcher who championed ufo research.
I was lucky enough to have met him once in Grand Rapids Michigan at a ufo conference.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 21:07:34 GMT
Sad news, made it to 84, did what he liked.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 14, 2019 22:14:32 GMT
Sad news, made it to 84, did what he liked. Sad news. May he rest in peace. Crystal |
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Post by nyx on May 15, 2019 2:28:57 GMT
I am sad to hear this.
I always enjoyed listening to him on TV.
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Post by HAL on May 15, 2019 20:54:07 GMT
Another one gone. But we all get old.
I never liked Stan's style, but he certainly was part of the science/ufo scene.
Who will take his place ?
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Post by nyx on May 15, 2019 22:20:41 GMT
Interesting is from what I read, Stanton never saw a UFO, or an alien, or anything unusual.
But he claimed that after years of document studies, he honestly felt that the evidence was overwhelming that we are not alone.
Supposedly Stan said “ I have never seen Tokyo, but I know it exists.”
I guess it’s like you believe in God or not type of “thing”.
People who have read my posts over the years know I am the number one cheerleader for trying to tell people UFOs are real.
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Post by purr on May 17, 2019 23:04:32 GMT
I loved his writings, it was so encouraging to know a rocket scientist believed in alien flying saucers.
purr
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Post by nyx on May 20, 2019 2:31:40 GMT
Sadly, I think some internet articles are discrediting Stanton in the fact he never saw an alien or a UFO in his life time.
Then there is me when my mom and I saw a UFO when I was in the 4th grade, and things only got weirder as I got older.
No proof, but I think certain people are born to be sensitive to UFOs.
Just my opinion but Stanton was not born with this predisposition.
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Post by swamprat on May 20, 2019 16:44:49 GMT
DeVoid
Runnin’ down a dream
Posted on May 20, 2019 by Billy Cox
Not long after Challenger blew apart in 1986, my editors on the Space Coast were looking for ways to move the story forward. Among the ideas being tossed around was taking a look at futuristic means of propulsion. After the whole planet saw what solid rocket fuel could do to a space shuttle 90 seconds into flight, the evidence of obsolescence was stark. I drew the assignment.
Somewhere between ion engines and anti-matter, one source – I forget who – suggested contacting a nuclear physicist I’d never heard of, Stan Friedman. Friedman, he said, had worked on nuclear-powered rocket engines and would definitely have some notions about how to build a more efficient spacecraft. Looking back, I suspect the guy knew the encounter would take me down a road I hadn’t bargained for.
Our first chat started conventionally enough. Friedman said experimental nuclear engines were proven safe and reliable for flight design, time and time again in the lab, but that politics, not science, kept them from going operational. And, with Chernobyl belching radiation across half of Europe, it didn’t look like that option was likely to be resurrected anytime soon. “You know what you really oughtta be looking at?” he said, or words to that effect. “You oughtta be looking into UFO technology.”
Whoa whoa wait. Wait a minute. An actual real-life scientist. Encouraging me to ask questions about UFOs. The world tilted. I never knew there was such a creature. Seven years earlier, a month or two after the partial meltdown of Three Mile Island’s nuclear core, I had joined his club without even knowing it. I’d seen a UFO myself during a midnight stroll along Cocoa Beach, not far from the gantries and beacons of Kennedy Space Center twinkling to the north. Seven years later, that rendezvous was still stuck in my head, undimmed by the passage of time. Now suddenly here was this guy saying wake up.
I didn’t pursue Friedman’s lead for the article. I wasn’t ready for that conversation with my editors, nor with most of my newsroom peers. Nor with myself, for that matter. In the aftermath of the sighting, my behavior was deviant and shameful. I remember meandering to the “New Age” and “Occult” sections of bookstores, trying to look casual, glancing over my shoulder, right, left, right again, making sure the coast was clear of familiar faces, as if entering the porn section at the neighborhood video store. Mustn’t leave the wrong impression. I’m not really like this…
Nevertheless, I kept up with this Friedman fella, who insisted I call him Stan. The more I learned about him – which was a lot harder to do in the pre-digital age – the more his stature grew. The guy was a pioneer who first appeared on the national grid in 1968 when he presented a written report on UFOs to Congress. And fortunately, he wasn’t shy about tooting his own horn. Whenever a snail-mail package bearing a return address from New Brunswick, Canada, plopped onto my newsroom desk, I dropped everything to tear it open. His dispatches were brimming with essays, transcripts, audiocassettes of his lectures, FOIAs, challenges to pedigreed colleagues – an utter heretic in the church of mainstream science. UFOs, he declared, were powered by extraterrestrials.
Stan and I stayed in touch for 30 years, but I only met him a couple of times in person, and I can’t assemble an obit any better than some of his longtime associates like Kevin Randle, Chris Rutkowski, and Grant Cameron (and thanks, Grant, for attaching Stan’s sly interview with Robert Sarbacher, I lost my copy years ago). Roswell, MJ-12, the National Archives, Marjorie Fish, the famous feuds with Phil Klass and Bob Lazar – that stuff can and probably will fill a definitive bio someday. My own takeaways were more generic. Pay attention. Do your own homework. Question science by fiat. Never fear being outnumbered.
I was surprised not by how it ended last week (a fatal heart attack at 84), but where it ended, at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, on his way home from yet another lecture, in Ohio. I was under the impression Stan had hung it up and was off the road for good. But I guess he just couldn’t stay put, not with so many people out there who still hadn’t heard.
We had last talked in December, just as a rigorous and expanding debate on UFOs neither one of us could’ve imagined 30 years ago had begun to unfold. Stan was lamenting the fact that no one seemed to care anymore when people fake their college degrees. He thought folks who lied about their biographies had dubious character. But lately, on that score, he seemed outnumbered, again.
Anyhow, we’re all gathered around this little campfire today because somebody else brought us here. We still have no reliable maps to tell us where we are. But that’s what Stan set out to do, and he didn’t care that fellow scientists thought he was slumming. There was a trail of evidence they refused to explore. It led away from the glow of the familiar, dissolving into shadow, then total darkness. It promised nothing but a siren song, capable of dashing careers and reputations on the shoals of interpretation. Stan Friedman headed for the frontier and never came back. Today, the wilderness is flickering with torches and flashlights.
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15820/runnin-down-a-dream/
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Post by swamprat on Oct 13, 2019 15:18:38 GMT
Archivist delighted to comb through mountain of late UFO researcher's records
CBC News • Posted: Oct 13, 2019
Stanton Friedman, who died in May, donated vast collection of research to provincial archives
A photo included in Stanton Friedman's records appears to show multiple unexplained objects floating above cows in a field. The late UFO researcher and nuclear physicist donated his records to the provincial archives. (Vanessa Vander Valk/CBC)
In the months leading up to his death, nuclear physicist and ufologist Stanton Friedman started donating his vast collection of records to the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
And he had a lot of records.
Archivist Joanna Aiton-Kerr said they've received about 300 boxes so far — that's about 60 metres if you line them up single file, she said — and she expects several more cargo vans to come.
But the daunting task of archiving the records has been anything but a hardship for her team, she said. It's a treasure trove that reflects a brilliant, curious mind, a thorough researcher and a funny, kind-hearted individual.
"This has been a real education for me, and I don't know if I've ever enjoyed helping to process something more than this one," Aiton-Kerr told Shift New Brunswick.
Stanton Friedman, famed UFOlogist, died in May at the age of 84. (Submitted/Melissa Friedman)
A nuclear physicist by training, Friedman had devoted his life to researching and investigating UFOs since the late 1960s.
He was credited with bringing the 1947 Roswell Incident — the famous purported crash that gave rise to theories about UFOs and a U.S. military coverup — back into the mainstream conversation.
Friedman was many things, including an accomplished writer and lecturer, but what he wasn't "was much of a filer," he told Aiton-Kerr.
"I would say he was more of a stacker," she said. "He would stack records up. And so when we get each cargo van coming to the archives, we have a team of archivists and we just start going through it."
The team has thousands of documents to examine and organize — from subject files with titles like "Soviet Space" to piles of publications he's gathered over the decades.
"I would say that, by the end, we are probably going to have our hands on each piece of paper five or six times before we finally have it organized in a state where we can say, 'OK, it's done and researchers can come in and start taking a look,'" she said.
Kathleen Marden, a UFO researcher who co-wrote three books with Friedman, marvelled at his work ethic in an interview shortly after he died.
"He did his homework," Marden said.
"He went further than most researchers in that he did on-site investigations. He went to actual physical archives to do his research. He was an outstanding researcher, highly intelligent and had a great sense of humour."
Thousands of letters
Aiton-Kerr said that among the more fascinating aspects of the collection are the thousands of letters written to him from all over the world by people of all ages, many from non-believers sharing unexplained experiences.
"There's lots of letters that start, 'Oh, I'm a retired teacher, I'm a retired nurse and I have never believed in UFOs, but this is what I saw,'" she said.
"And people in the letters that they wrote to him, they're so affectionate. … In the community, he was regarded as such a warm, welcoming man."
One of thousands of letters in Stanton Friedman's collection. This one claims to include a 'fragment' from Roswell, New Mexico. (Vanessa Vander Valk/CBC)
And funny, too. Some letters include artifacts or drawings, and one had a papier-mâché mask of an alien head that also resembled Friedman. Aiton-Kerr said a colleague of hers asked him if the mask should go in the collection.
"He looked at it and shrugged and said, 'Well, I don't wear it often, you know'," she said. "That marvellous sense of humour coming through.
"I believe it's the only collection of its kind, certainly in New Brunswick, certainly in Canada, possibly even worldwide, to have such a mass of UFO research by such respected nuclear physicist."
She said they hope to be able to share it in the not-too-distant future.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/provincial-archives-stanton-friedman-records-1.5315664?fbclid=IwAR2pezO8AdMonbdO9LeEaSfL66Q4f0lKhqWDFQhCwRMOPr4zPcY86UIlLLg
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Post by flatearth on Oct 28, 2019 4:21:28 GMT
I hate to admit it but this is the first I heard about Freidman"s passing. That's what I get for being AWOL all this time. I admired him and appreciated all he did to promote awareness of the subject. As a nuclear physicist, he gave needed credibility to the field. I always hoped that he and people like him who devoted their lives to the mission of uncovering the truth would see disclosure before their final days. Sadly this wasn't to be. RIP Stanton Friedman. My hope is that you now have the knowledge you sought in life.
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