“The UFO research and investigation business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps of corrupt ideology run free, agenda dictates, delusion is rampant and ignorance prevails. The infestation of wrongful motivation and the beggarly depths of belief reign supreme amidst a universal disregard for truth and factual actuality… where good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side...”

E-mail from Young to fellow Ufologists Sean Feeney and Paul Koch on December 26, 2001. [citation needed]

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