Retired from the U.S. Navy as a Crypto-Linguist with over 30 years experience in Foreign Language and Linguistics, including the collection, transcription, analysis and reporting of voice communications. R Scott Nelson is a two time graduate of the U.S. Navy Cryptologic Voice Transcription School (Russian and Spanish) and has logged thousands of hours of voice transcription in his target languages as well as in Persian. He is currently teaching Russian, Spanish, Persian, Philosophy and Comparative Religions at Wentworth College in Missouri.
Mr. Nelson has verified that these creatures use language by the human definition of it. The months of hard work that Mr. Nelson has put into the study of the Berry/Morehead tapes is finally coming to fruition. The analysis is finished, although he is still working on parts of the final write-up such as frequency count tables, morpheme lists, etc.
Mr. Nelson believes that the study of these tapes will never, and should never, end. With the recognition and acceptance that these creatures do indeed speak and understand a complex language, a greater effort will be made to collect voice recordings and our analysis of the language will improve. As Mr. Nelson mentions, “now that we have a precedent and techniques established for this study, this process will certainly become easier.”