I do understand museum curators not allowing anyone to touch or take samples of historic artifacts, but I'm sure
Ric or Pat made it very clear how significant our request was. When I talk to friends and family about our research,
No-one has ever thought of Tighar as having a bizarre theory. When they hear about all of the 1930's American
female artifacts we've collected from Niku, that's all it takes for them to be convinced that "Hey, there might be
something to this theory". It seems to me that there are only two believable theories left of the many, many that
have floated around over the years, being the crashed and sank, and Niku. And that Discovery Special went a long
way in convincing folks of its plausibility. Ric and Discovery did an excellent job, and I agree that more media would
certainly help our cause. Besides, the other investigators don't need to know about it (wink). Us Tighar's are a great
bunch of people, and its high time everyone knew it:)