REASON 2. TESTIMONY.
The following is from two sources, the MUFON UFO JOURNAL of March 1988 &

THE GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS by Ed & Frances Walters.

The date in question is December 2, 1987. Here's the set up: Ed and Frances are in bed sleeping, it is 3:00 AM. Ed hears a humming sound and assumes it is the pool pump. Then he hears a baby crying, this incongruity brings him to full awareness. He hears a conversation in Spanish about babies, bananas & leather skin. Ed decides to invesigate. He slips out of bed grabs his pistol and camera and begins looking for the UFO and the aliens. They (in the Journal it is only Ed, in the book it is both of them) begin to look through the house.

The FIRST inconsistency occurs only in the book:

P54. [This is regarding Ed's nightly ritual of checking the house.] "After checking all the door locks and leaving the FRONT PORCH LIGHT ON,  I went to bed."

P57. [Ed & Frances are out of bed and heading toward the front of the house.] "Moving along the floor on our knees, we crawled to the FRONT DOOR in the dark - I had no intention of turning on the lights." [He then peaks through the leaded glass in the door; nothing looks out of place.] "I eased the door open and crouched ON THE PORCH, looking at the sky. It was black."

First Ed says that he turns the front porch light on. Then in terror, as he and Frances are crawling around in a dark house, he makes his way to the front porch, eases himself out the door and CROUCHES IN THE LIGHT! Crouches so the aliens don't see him? You'd have to be blind NOT to see him! Ed has apparent ly forgotten what he said previously about the porchlight being left on.

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It is still December 2, 1987 but it is now 3:30 AM. Ed and Francis have returned to bed. The dog barks.

#2  MUFON JOURNAL:

"Ed CAREFULLY CRAWLED out of bed so as NOT TO DISTURB his wife (king size bed), thinking the object had returned.

 

GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS: 

ED:  "As I THREW the covers off and JUMPED out of bed, Frances whispered, "Oh, no, please, not again."

 

This one is obvious, MUFON says he carefully crawled so as to not disturb his wife,(the assumption is that she is sleeping). Ed says he threw the covers off and jumped out of bed. Frances is already awake.

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#3. MUFON JOURNAL:

"He slid across the carpeted floor on his back, thinking that `they' can hear him."

 

GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS:

ED "This time I WANTED THEM TO HEAR ME, so I grabbed the pistol and said aloud, `If they're back, this time I'll use this thing.'" 

 

In MUFON he quietly slides across the carpet because he doesn't want "them" to hear him. Yet, in GBS he WANTS them to hear him and speaks aloud.

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#4   MUFON JOURNAL: "He CRAWLED over to the double French doors leading to the screened porch and pulled a waffle type blind up." [He then sees the alien gets hit with the blue beam etc.]  And at 3:35: "Ed ran back into the house and retrieved his camera and ran outside again." [There is no mention of the pistol.] 

GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS: 

ED: "The pistol in one hand, the camera in the other, I WALKED over to the French doors that lead from the master bedroom out to a screened-in porch overlooking the pool."

In MUFON he CRAWLS over to the doors and later gets his camera and takes a picture. In GBS he WALKS with pistol and camera in hand.

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Upon seeing the creature outside their bedroom window...

#5  MUFON JOURNAL:
"He made a loud scream, falling, half-way back across their master bedroom, WAKING HIS WIFE ABRUPTLY."

GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS: 

FRANCES: "I  hadn't even gotten to sleep again, when Crystal barked."

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 At this point the alien is running for the school field with Ed in hot pursuit.

#6   MUFON JOURNAL:

"...he was hit with a blue beam. His leg was suddenly "nailed" to the wooden deck from knee down to his bare foot...He found himself lying on the deck with the screen door frame behind him, trying to get sufficient leverage to pull the stuck bare foot out of the blue beam without getting his other foot into the beam...Finally, pulling hard and steady on the screen door frame, his foot came out and the beam vanished."

GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS:

ED "The blue beam angled down from the sky. My right leg, from the knee down, was hit...`Shit!', I screamed. Frances ran onto the porch to help me, and I yelled at her to get back...Frances held me from behind..."

FRANCES :  "Ed ordered me away again. I ignored him. Instead I grabbed him under his arms, braced myself as well as I could, and pulled with all my strength. He didn't budge."

[The inconsistencies here aren't as blatant. But the MUFON journal doesn't mention Frances or any help she might have given Ed.]

COMMENTARY: Who do we believe here? MUFON, a team of "professional" investi- gators or Ed and Frances Walters? One could argue that Ed wanted to keep Frances out of it originally when speaking with the MUFON people, or one could argue that in the beginning it was Ed's game and Frances didn't want to go along with it. In the next part, OBSERVATION, I hope to show that Frances did participate in Ed's games and finally relented to play along as the game progres- gressed.

I doin't think that Ed's embellishments are MINOR differences. Ed can't seem to remember if he walked to the door or ran. Did he WANT them to hear him or not? He turned the prochlight on and then racked with fear went outside and crouched on the lightred porch? GIVE ME A BREAK, we are not talking about minor differences, we are talking major screw ups. ED IS A STORYTELLER!

BTW

So, you think the team of MUFON investigators didn't know what they were talkoing about in the Journals? Stick to the book?