Brendon concludes, "When I do a people finder search on Jimenez, I find that he resided at the now defunct Wurtsmith AFB in northeast Michigan in the past. Of itself, that isn't incriminating, but I find the account of their search and imaging technology completely unsupportable, given the images provided. I expect that he acquired the unpublished military side scan images of a jet and a dislocated object and then constructed the story. He got a lot more attention from the hoax than he planned and has decided to go underground. I'll be very surprised if we ever hear from him or the Great Lakes Dive Company again. If I'm wrong, I'll eat my words, but Jimenez' story has too many problems that are apparent to those experienced with deep search technology."
I received the following answer to my email from Adam Jimenez October 7, 2006:
Thank you for the email. We have temporarily discontinued the website and message board due to security issues related to the project. Our email does work, and we are keeping in touch with a small group of people regarding the project.
Thanks again,
Adam Jimenez
Mr. Jimenez told me that their website was temporarily shut down due to threats they had received. I have knowledge of who made the threats, which really weren't threats at all. They were from a well known individual who was in the position to assist financially in the production of a documentary for the Discovery Channel. I personally believe Mr. Jimenez was embarrassed by the fact that he could not provide answers to questions posed by the caller! The only threat Mr. Jimenez perceived was the knowledge that if he honestly answered the questions his deliberate hoax would be exposed.
MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) did its own investigation into the Great Lakes Dive Company and discovered that Mr. Jimenez had provided a cell phone number to various film makers and researchers, but switched to a new cell phone number soon after the threats were made. When MUFON tried to trace either phone number through Intelius.com, both phone numbers proved to be untraceable.
I will admit I was hoping the story was true and tried to give Mr. Jimenez and the Great Lakes Dive Company every opportunity to prove their discovery. But if answers and indisputable proof are not forthcoming, then Mr. Jimenez has fabricated an elaborate hoax that injured UFO investigators, journalists, but more importantly the memory and families of the deceased pilot Felix Moncla and radar observer Robert Wilson.
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