IMPORTANT: Phone Call from Bill Deagle

[Bill Ryan]

Originally Posted by BPhill

Call me ignorant but I think it's all a bunch of baloney. This is the same guy who was ranting on about (cough cough) Planet X? Spare me.....

Bill and Kerry? Why did you guys make this look like some kind of a showdown?
I'm sorry to say but that's uncalled for.

The wording used on the update conveyed a sense of confrontation between Deagle and Wilcock to me.

Hi, Folks:

Our apologies if it did come over in some way (to some) like a 'showdown' - that was definitely not our intention.

We were really scrambling yesterday when we posted this. Kerry was woken up by Bill Deagle's phone call sometime round about 5.15 am (here in Australia) and she called me in my room soon after, shaken.

I jumped out of bed and ran to her room, several hundred yards away. We called Dr Bill, and captured the live conversation. Immediately afterwards we called a bunch of other people for comments and reactions and managed to speak to Michael St.Clair, Rebecca and David.

We recorded the last two and had to edit, export, compress, upload, write updates on the site - and (mea culpa) messed up the links in the process because I never had time to double-check by testing the pages themselves.

All this time we had not had anything to eat and were hyped up on several strong cups of coffee each. On top of this, we had our major NEXUS presentation - the entire reason we were here at all! - later that same afternoon, just a few hours away, and we were replanning that in the light of the morning's events. (It was a great success, btw.)

None of this is by way of flimsy excuse... just to share with you what it's like for us on the road when this kind of thing happens. My favorite feedback e-mail ever is still the one from the person who confessed that he had wondered for a while whether we were really working for the government... but then decided that we definitely could not be because we were so disorganized.

More seriously: Bill Deagle phoned Kerry again a short while ago. I was not there when he called. He wanted to thank us. He is a sweet man: values-driven, deeply caring, emotional, vulnerable, brave, intense, brilliant, imperfect - as are we all.

Meeting him last week at his home helped us both realize who he really is - relaxing with his family, seeing him relating beautifully and sensitively with his Downs Syndrome daughter, kicking his shoes off, joking about his weight (he's put on a few pounds), making us welcome after a long journey.

To AVERAGE JOE:

Originally Posted by Average Joe

Deagle is a fraud. I am sure of it.

If he told me it was raining.

And I was stood outside getting wet.

I would not believe him.

No, not a fraud. I was privileged to listen in on a 45 minute Skype conversation between Henry Deacon and Bill Deagle last year. They exchanged rapid-fire notes on black project codenames, clearance levels, project locations. I didn't understand much of it as so much of what they talked about was unknown to me.

Deagle is as real as the rain in your hair when it's wet outslde. But you might not believe that either.

Very best to all, Bill