Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:25:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Saturday: National Flying Saucer Day

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Ted White wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
>
>> On this Saturday, in 1947 an object supposedly fell from the sky over
>> Roswell, New Mexico. I'm not worried about the truth of the Roswell
>> Incident, but it's clearly part of the mythology of fandom.
>
> Actually, it has no part of the mythology of fandom -- unless your idea of
> fandom is celebrating alien abductions and anal probes.  In actual fact,
> fandom has done its best to distance itself from the UFO Believers, and has
> done so for over 50 years.

At the very first Disclave we got a breathless letter (most letters are,
come to think of it) from somebody who misinterpreted the "DISC" part of
our name to warn us that the flying saucers were controlled by the
"ULTIMATE SEEKERS BRO-HOOD" (in caps) and we ought to shun their wiles.
AFAIK we did.

-- Dick Eney

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