Philip Klass, 85, Dies; Aviation Journalist, UFO Debunker

August 16, 2005 D. H. McKee

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Mr. Klass wrote about extraterrestrial issues in his own Skeptics UFO Newsletter and appeared on talk shows and lectured widely. His investigative findings were routinely criticized by people and organizations who took seriously UFOs and alien abductions.
He once told an interviewer: “I’ve found that roughly 97, 98 percent of the people who report seeing UFOs are fundamentally intelligent, honest people who have seen something — usually at night, in darkness — that is unfamiliar, that they cannot explain.”
He said the sightings were often of objects such as reentering satellites, meteor fireballs and hot-air balloons.
His books included “UFO Abductions: a Dangerous Game” (1988) and “The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup” (1997). In the first, he promised $10,000 to any victim whose abduction by aliens could be confirmed by the FBI. No one ever collected.
Philip Klass, 85, Dies; Aviation Journalist, UFO Debunker

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