...If only I had paid more attention to the doubts that had nagged at me back then.
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Reporter John Jeffay obviously made the decision to ignore the specifics and complexities I discussed in the radio interview which sparked the writing of this piece, and which he mined for selective information, this with no interest in actually speaking with me. Then again, why would he have bothered? It was only a 'UFO story' and the Mirror is not known for its high journalistic standards. In publishing his well-off-the-mark and highly generalized version of things he insulted both me and Larry. In my case by putting words in my mouth that made it appear that I had "..sparked a war of words after revealing he now believes that former US airman Larry Warren's account of the incident near RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, in 1980, was "not true."

The story of course hurt Larry more for obvious reasons. Small consolation, but in the interests of accuracy I stated that I am convinced that parts of Larry's account are not accurate or faithful to the truth. And the Mirror being the Mirror, you should also know that no journalist or reporter by the name of John Jeffay is employed by the Mirror. There is little question that this story was brought to the attention of the Mirror's editors by someone outside the newspaper's staff. I can make an educated guess as to who it may have been, but cannot say for sure.

[Warren] loaned me copies of some of his assorted military paperwork, all of which he told me he had made copies of during his out-processing from the Air Force ... A thought that never occurred to me at the time - or in fact at any time since then, until earlier this year when I finally bothered to actually read some of the findings that had been posted online. Call me naïve, but I just don't think that way. The paperwork he loaned me was almost entirely Xerox copies, but there were a few originals, which were returned to him several years later. If he (or anyone else) had altered any part of any of them it would amount to a betrayal of the highest order, certainly for me as his co-writer, but more importantly, to any reader who had ever served or was currently serving in the military, American or otherwise. Such an offense is simply not forgivable. I'm sorrier than I can say that I now know this to be the case regarding at least several of these documents, but before damning Larry with such an awful accusation, there is one other alternate theory you need to consider, and consider seriously. ...

Yes, I again ignored your most recent Skype request. The reason, I still didn't want to talk to you. The reason I don't want to talk to you, because you lied to me, to my face in Glasgow, and in FB messages beforehand. You may consider them minor lies, but they were major to me, in fact they were life-changing. Early in June, and for a number of reasons having to do with you, I began thinking more and more about the future of our friendship and professional relationship, both of which are in real trouble as far as I'm concerned. As such, we need to get a few things understood between us. ... As the 'X-Files' poster says, I want to believe, and as your coauthor, co-speaker and limited business partner, I wanted to believe that you were 100% honest with me in matters relating to us. Increasingly these past few months I have been struggling to resolve, if resolution were even possible, my growing number of differences with you, but it's almost like you have gone out of your way to make this all as difficult as possible for me, if not impossible.

Our friendship was built on decades of working together through thick and thin, during which time I thought we more than earned each other's respect. But as far as I'm concerned your respect for me went out the window this summer, a most troubling part being that you don't even seem to realize it. I am really worried about you. You will always have my respect for the courage, commitment, and single-minded dedication you've shown in bringing the RFI to public attention. And while I love you my friend, I do not even like the person at least part of you seems to have become, that being the part who lies to his friends, fakes things, threatens violence and extreme violence, and blames others for events and circumstances they brought on themselves or were otherwise you responsible for. {Note: The final part of the last sentence was meant to have read, "...and blames others for events and circumstances that you brought on yourself or were otherwise responsible for." My tiredness was showing here.}

As you know, I took your threatening, ultra-paranoid ultimatum of July 14 as seriously as a heart attack. Yes, I know that you wish you had never sent it, but you did and it still has me fuming. If I'd have sent it to you, I think you'd feel the way I do, "to be honest it aintv very good mate ! im not happy nor is my family with youre folks tell john mooore to piss offDONT EVEN CONTACT ME AGAIN..........................................PETER I MEAN IT PISS OFF !ATRE YOU RVEN ALIVE ?pete ......you let me die.................for yer own ends.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,who knows what that was ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but pete the only contact you n me will have is with lawyers..........dont send me shit and stop showim MY shit ! we are OVER

After all I've done for you and all we have been through together, that you would go off on me like this, that you would dare accuse me of such things still amazes me. I never did anything to deserve this kind of treatment from you and I'm certainly not going to put myself in the position where you can ever pull anything like that on me again. The level your normally violent temper has risen to, your often completely irrational paranoia toward me and others, these things never really made sense to me except as an indication of some deeper problems. Whatever their causes may be, I am tired of dealing with them and do not want to have to ever again.

The thing that seems to have set you off on your July 14 rant was imagining, and I stress the word "imagining" here, that John and I were somehow out to get you or to fuck you over in the making of the documentary he had intended to produce, for what purpose or what aim I have no idea. ... You and your paranoia were responsible for torpedoing this great project and not John or me. All I can add is that it's a damn shame.

In past when I've asked what you thought my 'agenda' was, you've always gone quiet. You said in a July message that I never really 'got you,' and I guess that's proved to be something of an understatement. I did 'get' some of you, but looking back I don't seem to have been nearly as good an investigator as I thought I was a quarter century ago. But I have always had 'an agenda.' Corny as it may sound, it has always been to follow the evidence wherever it leads you, then to tell the truth about it as best I'm able. This even when evidence takes you to places you would rather not go. It's the reason I choose to correct my errors in public, be they mistakes I discovered after the fact or ones brought to my attention by others. Maybe most important, there has never been a clause excluding truths that might prove embarrassing to me, or for that matter, to you, and that's what this has all come down to.

2017 August 19 at 20:41 Tyumen time, over the city at an altitude of about 200 meters 2 km from us from a flash of light a bright fireball appeared. The UFO was approaching us from the southwest, it was possible to see that behind the glow of the bright white plasma is hidden an object of dark color absorbing light that does not reflect the bright plasma on its surface.

At first, it was like a disc-shaped cap hanging over a plasma ball. Then the plasma enveloped the whole object, became brighter and in a short time faded away, there were only plasma gusts at the bottom of the object, as from the nozzle of rocket engines. While small plasma streams seemed to rotate, stabilizing the object in the air according to all the laws of gravity and aerodynamics, an oval small silhouette in an upright position began to appear. When the UFO was almost above us, the plasma streams dried up and the object materialized, began to increase in size. Increasingly, the UFO acquired the shape of a large sphere or oval, three times more than it was 10 seconds ago.