A recent national advertising campaign from cigarette giant R.J. Reynolds dealing with UFOs has left a bad taste in some researchers' mouths.
Peter Gersten, the so-called "UFO lawyer" of Phoenix, told the members of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) Monday that he found it likely that Reynolds' two-page newspaper advertisement is not only "defamatory, but also actionable."
The ad for the Winston cigarette brand displays a classic flying saucer and the caption, "If aliens are smart enough to travel through space, why do they keep abducting the dumbest people on Earth?"
Gersten, the director of CAUS, said he is drafting a letter of protest to Reynolds, and urged others to defend those claiming to have been abducted by aliens from the perceived attack.
"In light of the recent lawsuit filed by CAUS, which is based on the reported experiences and eyewitness statements of abductees ... the advertisement and its implications require a swift and serious response," he said.
the state of Arizona and the federal government for failing to protect uphold their Constitutional duty to protect citizens from foreign attack -- even when those attacks originate in the place UFOs come from.
He said he will demand that Reynolds withdraw the ads and apologize, adding that he views the ad not as a setback to the UFO cause but as "an opportunity for all abductees to come out of the cosmic closet and share their experiences while proving, once and for all, that they are intelligent, articulate, credible people."
Meanwhile, several prominent guests of the 36th
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