TRUTH, JUSTICE and a UFO COVERUP
Restore JOHN FORD!
It's the right thing to do, it's the
right time to do it!
JOHN
FORD was the
President of the "Long Island UFO Network."
On November 24th 1992, an alleged "ALIEN
MOTHERSHIP" was shot out of the sky, and crashed
in "SouthHaven Park on East Long Island."
John Ford's Organization was informed of this
occurrence, and conducted an intense investigation of the alleged UFO incident.
John Ford then presented what he thought was substantial evidence of the
crash, to the American Public. Mr Ford's investigation
must have gotten someone very nervous, because suddenly, John Ford had
then become a serious threat, to the "Coverup" Forces who have worked vigorously
to hide UFO evidence from the Public, for almost 50 years!
NOW, JOHN FORD HAS BEEN JAILED,
and languishes
in an institution for the criminally
insane!
He has been ludicrously charged
with plotting to murder certain Politicians on East Long Island. The Authorities
claim to have "Hard" evidence against Him, but I believe that the UFO
coverup Forces have almost unlimited resources
to "Create any hard evidence they choose."
When you think about it, you do to!
I ALSO BELIEVE, that JOHN FORD is
being used as an "EXAMPLE" AND "WARNING," to all UFO RESEARCHERS, who come
too close to exposing the UFO COVERUP! This may not be as far fetched as
it sounds!
John Ford may be a COURAGEOUS
FIGHTER, who has gone to JAIL
for *YOUR*
RIGHT as a CITIZEN
and TAXPAYER
to know the TRUTH about UFOs!!
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The following people were, at one time, on record
as references for good character . . . where they stand now, and
for what reasons, is anyone's speculation!
Elaine Douglass E-Mail: elaine26@juno.com
(Washington D.C.)
Steve Iavarone (Vice president-Long Island
UFO Network , New York)
Kelly Freeman (Florida)
Tony West (New York)
Joe Zuppardo (New York)
Don Jernigan (President-PIC-Phenomenon Investigation
Committee, Ohio)
Jim Donohoe (Editor-Equinoxe UFO Newsletter,
Ohio)
Richard Jones (New York)
READ THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT BY SOMEONE WHO KNEW HIM!!!
THE ORDEAL OF JOHN FORD by
Elaine Douglass
The arrest June 12th of Long
Island New York UFO activist John Ford is deeply troubling. Founder in
the mid-80s of the Long Island UFO Network (LIUFON),
Ford became known for his relentless investigations of UFO events, and
for his startling allegations that Alien Craft had come down on Long Island
three times in recent years, and had been retrieved by federal
and local authorities.
The Suffolk County Long Island
Police Department is one of the agencies John accused. John said, the police
helped recover a fiery object. Witnesses told
John that it came down in Long Island's Southhaven
Park in 1992. John made this claim at public
meetings up and down Long Island, and he held a demonstration at Police
Headquaters.
About a year ago scary things
started happening to John Ford. he repeatedly phoned friends and said someone
was harassing him and maybe, he thought, trying to kill him. Was there
a campaign to destabilize John Ford? If so, it reached its climax June
12th when John was arrested in a sting operation
and a "wired"
paid informant. Police charged John with conspiracy
to murder and possession of Radium without a license. Suffolk DA James
Catterson told news reporters John Ford planned to murder an individual
by the name of John Powell, head of the Suffolk County Republican Party,
by putting radioactive Radium in his toothpaste. An improbable charge,
to put it mildly. Nonetheless, the DA seemed unable to restrain himself
in the media following John's arrest.
He sponsored two press conferences,
compared John to the unibomber,
and made additional charges against John for which no indictments were
subsequently returned. Amid a flood of sensational news, John's bail was
set at half a million dollars.
Naturally, he hasn't been able to raise it. In the meantime, the UFO community,
unused to investigators being arrested and charged with crimes, has met
this unsettling drama with a stunned silence. Nor has John, on advice of
his attorney, issued any statement in his own defense other than his plea
of not guilty.
Not mentioned in the newspapers was John's claim of harassment, of himself
and others in LIUFON:
auto accidents (too many), vandalism of cars, and a physical attack on
LIUFON member Joe
Mazzuchelli, who was arrested with John June 12th. Mazzuchelli says last
winter
Such are the allegations in
this case. What is the truth? is UFO investigator John Ford a potential
murderer? Or is John the victim of
a political arrest?
Was he set up
by people local to the Island or higher--
people who got a little tired of John Ford's
incessant allegations? What were John's allegations? As anyone familiar
with John knows, they were radical. For example, John believed that in
1989 Americans forced down an alien craft over Moriches
Bay Long Island. He believed that in 1992
an alien craft crashed in Southhaven Park
on the Island. And he considered the possibility
that in 1995 another mysterious object came to earth in the Pine
Barrens area of the Island and that "diversionary
fires" were set to distract public attention.
John claimed the technology used to down the alien craft in 1989 came from
Brookhaven National Laboratory on
the Island. Based on his sightings investigations, John concluded UFOs
were making regular flights over populated Hudson
Valley and Long
Island, much to the consternation of the coverup,
which decided to do something about it.
John further believed the Long
Island Police, Fire, Parks and other local agencies were commandered by
the federals to assist in these emergency operations and then, naturally,
gagged. John claimed he had "sources" in the Police and Fire Departments
who privately told him information on which he built his cases. and there
were non-confidential witnesses, members of the public, who told John,
for example, about a fireball
coming to earth in Southhaven Park,
about Fire truck and Police cars that night, and that the Park was closed
afterward. Yet the Fire and Police departments denied it and the Park director
said the Park was never closed. The details of John's cases are too numerous
to cover here, but one treatment of the Moriches
Bay case can be found in Len
Stringfield's Status Report VI.
The thing about John was he
wouldn't shut up. He went all over Long Island talking about a coverup
of UFO events in which local authorities were deeply implicated. John founded
LIUFON about
1985. From then on, he maintained a hot line. He investigated sightings
and abductions. He held public meetings. He talked to the press. He sponsored
conferences. He held demonstrations, he published a newsletter, he leafletted.
John was tireless. I know John Ford, and he is the most determined UFO
investigator I ever met. He also has flaws, plenty of them. He is stubborn,
for example. Yet John Ford's friends all attest he lived a moral life and
never, as far as anyone can remember, threatened another person with bodily
harm. According to John's attorney, John Rouse
of Central Islip, "You
can't believe how many people have called me to say they can't envision
John ford killing anyone, or even conceiving the intention." Murder
wasn't in John's character, people say, and breaking the law wasn't John's
style. John Ford was a law and order advocate who spent most of his career
as a court officer
in the Suffolk County Court System.
John was litigious, not violent. If John Ford had a gripe against you,
he'd sue you in a minute. Nor is John stupid. Even the Suffolk DA called
John a "Mastermind." If John was going to kill someone, would he use radium?
It hardly kills people fast. Readers will recall the famous radium dial
painters of the 1920s who licked radium paint brushes for . Yet the DA
would have us believe that John's "murder
weapon" was radium.
Toothpaste goes fast in a household of 4 people, like that of alleged murder
target John Powell. Was Ford going to break
in and put radium in Powell's toothpaste every week for 40 years until
Powell got cancer? And would an individual
who thought people were watching him leave illegal radium in the back of
a pickup truck in front of his house? I repeat,
John knew the law. The charges against John
strain credibility, but that didn't seem to embarrass the DA. As I mentioned,
Catterson was
so eager to incriminate
John, that he made several serious charges
at his press conferences for which no indictments were returned. "This,"
says attorney John Rouse, "is called poisoning the jury pool."
Catterson's overstep raises
questions: Did the DA believe he had more
evidence against John than he ended up with? How good is the remaining
evidence? Is it possible that the DA never thought he had evidence to convict
John of anything, and that instead the purpose of the arrest is simply
to ruin John Ford's reputation and wipe him out financially with legal
bills? The purported case against John rests
on the taped conversation made in John's house the night of his arrest.
According to Police, the wired informant engaged in conversation with John
and Joe Mazzuchelli about doing away with Powell and another politician
via the raduim in the toothpaste route. After this the Police, who were
waiting outside,
burst in and arrested John and Joe.
The tape has now been released
on discovery. "It's unintelligible, says Preston
Nichols, John's friend in LIUFON.
"All I can clearly hear on that tape, " Nichols
says, "is the informant talking and John laughing like whatever they're
talking about is a big joke." Attorney John
Rouse doesn't disagree. He's waiting for an "enhanced" version of the tape
to see if the conversation becomes clearer. Rouse warns, however, that
John's situation is serious. If a jury believes the DA's charges, John
Ford could get 25-75 years at an upstate NY prison.
As for the radium, it was allegedly
found outside in
John's truck. outside is where the Police
were, waitin
g and listening to the informant talking with John and Joe.
Could the Police have planted the radium?
And finally, unless John was to be encouraged
and entrapped,
why use an informant at all? If the Police believed John was plotting a
murder, why not bug his house for a couple of weeks and get the whole scoop?
The answer might be that the purpose of the
informant was to lead the conversation in an incriminating direction.
I have in my files a letter
from the Suffolk County Police Department, dated April 1993. I wrote to
them, at John's request, complaining about police violations of LIUFON
members' civil rights. They had been leafletting near Southhaven Park and
going house to house looking for witnesses--constitutionally protected
activity. The Police stopped them and ordered them out of the area. This
was the kind of thing that John did, and this was the kind of response
he got from the Suffolk Police, as far back as 1993. There is plenty of
reason to think that the Suffolk Police were "out
to get " John Ford. And no member of the UFO
community can be confident they understand the arrest of John Ford if their
only source of information is the sensational media reports orchestrated
by the Suffolk DA.
My support for John Ford, and
the support of the other members of the [ now disbanded ] Defense
Committee, is based on our conviction that
John did not, would not, and could not conspire
to murder anyone. On this point our support
is COMPLETE AND TOTAL.
As for John's allegations, I speak only for myself and not for other members
of the Defense Committee. I always found John's allegations hard to believe
but perfectly possible. Taken as a whole, what John Ford's claims suggest
is a low intensity military conflict between the United
States and the Aliens. Is that possible? Yes
it is. Just because John's allegations "fit" doesn't make them true. But
the fact is, John had evidence.
John claimed on Long Island. Even if he was wrong on 2 of them, if he was
right on only one, John had a tiger by the
tail. If so, it's no surprise somebody would
try to destroy John Ford.
And theres that curious coincidence
about Moriches Bay,
which more than a few persons have pointed out. Moriches
Bay is where John said the United States brought down an Alien craft in
1989, and Moriches Bay is where TWA flight 800 mysteriously crashed in
August. The cause of that crash, readers are aware, has so far eluded federal
investigators, and in particular investigators are unable to explain the
reports of more than 20 persons who say they saw an unaccountable light
streaking toward flight 800 before it went down.
John Ford is the first
UFO investigator to be seriously persecuted by the authorities.
Shall we sit idly by while our colleaque's life is destroyed?
If John Ford is silenced, WHO
IS NEXT?
RESTORE JOHN FORD!
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