Phoenix New Times expose of Dilettoso, Barwood
From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 17:38:11 -0800
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This is a very lengthy article on the Pheonix lights, the Feb. 1998
UFO Conference in Laughlin, Nevada; photo analyst Jim Dilettoso and
former Phoenix councilwoman Emma Barwood.
Via: RFMmars <RFMmars@aol.com>
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http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1998/current/feature1-1.html
Phoenix New Times, March 5-11, 1998
THE HACK AND THE QUACK
The "Phoenix Lights" made Francis Emma Barwood the darling of the
global space alien lobby. And it's transformed computer geek Jim
Dilettoso into a star in the UFO firmament.
By Tony Ortega
Jim Dilettoso is playing a duet on a piano with a man who has a cross
made of his own crusty, drying blood on his forehead.
On Dilettoso's own head is a mass of curly grayish hair. His mane dips
and sways with the fluid rhythm he lays down, and his swaying locks,
combined with his wire-rim glasses and the handsome seriousness of his
face, evoke the eccentric genius and renowned UFO researcher he's
rumored to be.
Plucking out a tentative melody on the higher keys, a moon-faced
Giorgio Bongiovanni beams as he tries to keep up. With his tangled
brown locks, Bongiovanni might be taken for a Deadhead if it weren't
for the blackish dried blood decorating his forehead. Ridges of the
finger-smoothed ocher make a crude cross a few inches wide; around the
cross, a field of fresher, redder blood is smeared.
Bongiovanni's blood sources are hidden beneath fingerless gloves.
Eight years ago, Bongiovanni claims, the Virgin Mary visited him,
delivered a message about Jesus consorting with space aliens, and,
after Bongiovanni offered to help carry Christ's message, the Virgin
zapped his palms with lasers that came out of her eyes. He's been
carrying his stigmata ever since, rubbing the blood coming from his
palms, feet and other sites onto his forehead to maintain his cross.
The duet draws a swarm of photographers who block the view of the
other 500 people sitting at tables in the ballroom of the Gold River
Casino in Laughlin, Nevada.
Continued at:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1998/current/feature1-2.html
[I have saved a copy in case this one goes away. --GC]
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