Jazzmoose

Aviation journalist Philip Klass debunked tales of alien beings The Washington Post Special to For The Washington Post Philip J. Klass, 85, an aviation journalist who investigated UFO sightings and wrote books debunking reports of visits from outer space, died Aug. 9 at a nursing facility in Cocoa, Fla. He had cancer. Klass lived in Washington for more than 50 years before moving to Merritt Island, Fla., in 2003. He had retired as senior avionics editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology in 1986 but continued to contribute to the magazine for a number of years. He is credited with coining the term "avionics," a blending of aviation and electronics. His work, which included one of the first books about spy satellite technology, "Secret Sentries in Space" (1971), won him honors in the field of aeronautical journalism and engineering. He was more widely recognized as an authority on unidentified flying objects. He was reviled as a "disinformer" by believers in alien beings, particularly those who insisted they had been abducted for scientific testing.

It's all been confusing since the days of the British Invasion when Paul Revere and the Raiders came over...

Major telecom companies are proud of that inefficiency, buster! Welcome back!

I kind of liked Norm at times, though admittedly he wasn't that good. He always made me laugh at the "Worst Job" thing, though... Comparing Dennis Miller then with Dennis Miller now is unfair to Dennis Miller then. He had no idea he'd age into a bitter jackass, and shouldn't be blamed...

I'm not much on Nealon's "Update" work at all. I much prefer Miller. Or just about anyone other than the last one I saw; can't remember the name...Colin something? Totally blah...

When are we going to deal with America's dependence on foreign sources of hay? As long as Canada controls our fuel markets....

All o' you bastards: get off my lawn!

This kills me. I want to put my money into music, not something for watching action movies! Grrrrrrr....

This is great! This should be a double feature with The Meatrix...

I think Allen should be banned anyway for daring to attempt to rehijack the thread back to it's original topic. We don't need those kind of people around here.

Still waiting for Get Yo' Mail...

Unless of course it's Uncle Albert...

Screw this. I want a Harley. Damn; my midlife crisis is showing up three years early...

1000 years? Wow! Weizen, send me her number; I want to buy insurance from her NOW!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, ebay craziness has now been defined...

I'll say!

Paging Masterhit...

"What are you doin' back there, Wilbur? Wilbur? Wilbur-r-r-r-r-r-r!!!"

Hah! I know that one's a fake...we haven't received them in California yet!

Someone ask the horse if it was accidental...

I've never heard of the song myself, but the Elizabeth Vargas thing impresses the hell out of me!

I was disappointed to find that "The Hamlet" was not repeat NOT the literary source for the movie Babe.

Okay, that one could have been left off, admittedly. But hell, it's not as bad as the "obligatory shitty goofball song" Emerson, Lake and Palmer used to include on each album...

Yeah, I probably would as well. It's been a while, and what was good at a younger age is often better as a memory than brought back to life...