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This file is a 1999 set of email records from a federal records system, possibly released through FOIA. Most of the emails are broadcast messages from Joseph P. Firmage promoting his online book The Truth and the International Space Sciences Organization, which he founded to study propulsion, energy and consciousness. One message, from Ed Yardeni, concerns a World Economic Forum Y2K panel at Davos and notes that Firmage was originally on the panel. None of the emails describe a specific UFO sighting.
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RECORD TYPE: FEDERAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Joe Firmage ( Joe Firmage <jfirmage~n
CREATION DATE/TIME: 1B-SEP-199.9 02 :47: 12.00
SUBJECT: Summer 1999
TEXT:
Hello friend,
I finally found time to put together a few thoughts on recent events. It .is
hard to select which of the many interesting happenings of the summer of
1999 deserve most attention. Candidates include the always-remarkable
demonstrations of Earth's geologic and meteorologic power, the rather
humorous debate over the latest political pers'onality's intersection with
America's embarrassingly dishonest War on Drugs, the pain of
government-citizen conflict as displayed in disheartening detail in recent
revelations of the Waco confrontation, and thefirst-of-its-kind report
recently issued regarding unidentified aerial phenomena written by former
senior French military and aerospace officials.
But there are four other items deserving special attention: progress 'in the
effort to prepare for Y2K, the mountainous ecological crisis now coming
into
clearer focus, 'courageous acts of statesmanship in the Middle East, and
startling observations now surfacing in science.
An Early Bug in the. Beta Test of Ideotechnomics
"Virtually all of us who are close to this problem are confident that the
American economy is going to come through this just fine," Federal Reserve ",,'
Governor Edward Kelley said in an appearance on C-Span in recent days. This
was one of a string of increasingly upbeat comments by U.S. officials on
the
readiness of the domestic economy to absorb the Year 2000 date rollover
without a fundamental crisis.
I recall first seeing warnings of the Y2K issue in 1995, and like many,
disregarded its significance at the time. Feeling somewhat guilty as one of
the hundreds of thousands of people who wrote a few lines of "Y2K" code
(perfectly ironic as acronym for a bug of abbreviation) a decade ago, I
became a student of this subject.
During its earlier years more than now, the software industry has tended
not
to employ the kind of rigorous quality control methodologies demanded of,
basic modern infrastructure. Upon realizing the true extent of the
challenge
in 1997, and seeing a lack of appreciation of the depth of the challenge
among executives in Silicon Valley, I lent a hand to a few responsible
groups engaged in much-ne~ded ef'forts to communicate remediation and
preparedness strategies.
We have seen thinking among the community of experts shift ~rom profound
ignorance of the depth of the required remediation, towards well-founded
pessimism motivating action, now towards the tentative prediction that the
most expensive technological error in human historY has been caught just in
time. The global situation is not as clear, and it is hoped that a report Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 30 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.