We fairly conclusively ruled out the U.K. GTI Publishing. Someone contacted them and ascertained that they had never heard of Hawkins.
We were briefly misled by the bibliographic records in various libraries that listed the publisher as GTI of New York. There is no GTI Publishing in New York. After it was given as a Minnesota company with an address, it was easier to track down. I don't believe we ever found a telephone listing for them in Minneapolis or St. Paul. But the address they gave is down in the dock/warehouse district. I believe it exists in one form or another, but I also believe it's not a legitimate publishing house.
Whoever Hawkins is, he's pretty good at creating a paper trail. I don't think this is a joke in the sense of doing it for a lark to yank our chains. An awful lot of effort has been expended to make this happen. I think this is a fairly professional effort at grifting. "Hawkins" rips off the NASAScam site, prints it, and then creates all this phony semblance of novelty and professionalism. And given that he's been connected to other dubious money-making schemes, I think this is just another of them.
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