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   SUBJECT: VATICAN STORY DEBUNKED                              FILE: UFO1179   
      
      
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   MEMBER DEBUNKS VATICAN STORY   
      
         ParaNet  Alpha  12/05  --  Contrary to a published story, there is no   
   evidence  that the Vatican has any plans to send missionaries into space to   
   convert extraterrestrials to Catholicism, says a respected UFO researcher.   
      
         The  story, which originally appeared in the London _Evening News_ in   
   July,  claimed  that  a Fr. Pierre Thorel of the Vatican University had set    
   up  a program to train missionaries to preach the Gospel to any aliens that   
   may  be  encountered in space ventures. The story was later sent to the UFO   
   Newsclipping Service by British Ufologist Timothy Good.   
      
         But  John  Andrews, Vice President of Testors Corporation and a Para-   
   Net  member  in San Diego, says the story is bogus. "I contacted the editor    
   of  a regional Catholic Magazine," says Andrews, "who contacted the Cathol-   
   ic Media Office in New York."   
      
         "They  had  heard  of  the  story.  Apparently there is no Fr. Pierre   
   Thorel,  there  is no new Chair at the Alfonsian Academy in Rome, and there    
   is no effort to develop 'missionaries in space.'"   
      
         Andrews,  a  pro-UFO  researcher  whose  stated goal is to market the   
   first  authorized  plastic model of a genuine flying saucer, says the story   
   had  him  fooled  as much as anyone. "I, too, was taken in...but only for a   
   little while.   
      
         "It proves the reason to verify whatever we hear."   
      
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