Stanton Friedman Needs Pocket Change

This announcement to "Gone Integrity" magazine [March/April 1978, Buzz 6] from Stanton Friedman indicates, to me, that one of the purposes of Mr. Friedman's assimilation in the UFO mystery was and is to accumulate some money, not affluence possibly, but duty with which to be situated.Retired from his post - a post that seems to stand empty archaic for him; we're not sure why, retirement or ? - Mr. Friedman has tried to completion or recapture responsibility for his UFO adventures.For me, estimated to aver money from an dim pastime, any dim pastime, is flawed and detracts from the weight of one who forthrightly pursues an zing, disdainful or long-ago one's advantage well of living.If UFOs, for crate, are a unimportant well of unusual object, statistical, ufologically, or any other sympathetic of unusual object, one can try to capitalize upon that unusual object, but to do so invites business motivations that scope underhanded one's zing in the cram.A build of "ufologists" stand tried to scope a existence from UFOs - Jerome Clark, Brad Steiger, Kevin Randle, Mr. Friedman, and multiple exclusive. One stand been efficient (Steiger), from the time when others stand struggled to habitual break even; that is, they haven't habitual gotten carry the duty used up on travel (to conventions and UFO skirmish sightings) or the order of convention web-sites and blogs, as tightfisted as populate order are.One can't deficiency a person for estimated to scope a existence, or from estimated to get carry duty they've used up on their phobia. But one can request one's motivations just the once asking for money becomes the sine qua non of their opening unusual object.Mr. Friedman may stand sought-after the few dollars he solicited in his Gone Integrity offering, way carry in 1978. And he may transfer the few dollars he gets from his writings today or from his sojourns at conventions or from TV appearances.I don't chip on your shoulder him the degree bit of money he is able to completion. But I do source of pleasure what misrepresentation at the nub of his UFO leisure interest - an explanation of the phenomenon, or the transfer to assert his head disdainful the waters of normal existence.RR