"Hi, Ben. I am a
third year university student and at the moment a group of us are working on a
magazine publication. I was doing some research and came across your website HPANWO,
and am very interested to learn more. I want to understand what you do and why
you do it. I think you would make a very interesting subject for an article in
the magazine."
As you know, I'm very wary of talking to the media,
for example see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/bbc-conspiracy-road-trip-ufos.html.
However a university magazine is not a problem. So we made arrangements and I
met them today. We were in a busy cafe in a shopping centre, but there was
nowhere else we could really go. It was a bit noisy, but we managed to have a
good conversation. There were three of them, two women and one man, all fairly
young. They were polite and friendly and stressed that they weren't there to
argue, just to gather my own statements. The man recorded our conversation and
took some photographs of the scene. I gave them copies of my first and third books,
Evan's Land and Roswell Rising, see: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html.
(The new edition of my second novel Rockall
is available free online: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/rockall-chapter-1.html.)
They focused on what they saw as my support for Donald Trump in the recent 
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I'll be interested to see the angle that these students take in publishing their article too Ben.
Are you one of a group of individuals that were interviewed do you know? What was their motivation? Was this part of their coursework or just a magazine article? I am quite surprised that you didn't have more questions before allowing this interview.
I admire your openness and candour in being prepared to give an interview to strangers; you are prepared to balance the 'risk' of this being a potential 'hit piece' against the hope that this article will help to open the eyes of the sleeping.
I truly hope that these fresh-faced students are allowed to make an honest assessment, and to publish an unbiased article, free from the editorial slants that prevail in every other magazine or newspaper that Joe Public is encouraged to buy. Let's wait and see.
Yours, hopefully
Yes, Neil. Hopefully indeed. We shall see, but from what I've seen in the past, publications like these tend to be reasonably factual. And if the worst comes to the worst and it's a hit-piece, it has a small circulation. I don't know if they interviewed anybody else too. Maybe I should have asked.
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