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To: John Hauser who wrote (88392)	1/10/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: John Hauser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Holy Spaceship batman (READ THIS) - CUCKOO CUCKOO CUCKOO Saturday's top stories USWeb founder quits over UFO-tech link ideas Compiled by CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 1:23 PM ET Jan 9, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO -- Joe Firmage resigned yesterday from the firm he founded so he could promote his belief that many of today's high-tech advancements, including semiconductors, fiber optics and lasers, came from aliens. Firmage is the 28-year-old founder of USWeb (USWB), a high-profile Internet consulting firm that merged recently with the Net marketing firm CKS to form a 1,950-person public company worth $2.1 billion. Clients of Santa Clara-based USWeb/CKS include Apple Computer (AAPL), Levi Strauss and Harley-Davidson (HDI). In November, shortly before the merger, Firmage was pressured to step down as chief executive officer of USWeb and take the lesser title of chief strategist because of his campaign to prove the existence of UFOs. He contends that many high-tech advancements can be traced to a purported alien spaceship crash in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. Firmage has published his ideas on the subject -- he calls it "the most important news event in 2,000 years" -- in a manifesto that runs to 600 pages. It's available on the Web. Yesterday, Firmage said he resigned as chief strategist because he believed that continuing publicity would damage the company's reputation. Robert Shaw, CEO of USWeb/CKS, said, ''Given the market exposure associated with his outside interests, Joe suggested that we would all be better served if he didn't have an official role with the company." (San Francisco Chronicle)