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UFO Craze of 1947 Inspires Mockumentary

Tags: 1947, Craze, Inspires, Mockumentary
Posted in UFOs on August 5th, 2011 by RoswellUFOs.com

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 10, 2006

On June 24, 1947, a private pilot from Boise named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine bright objects flying erratically at tremendous speeds near Mt. Rainier in Washington state. This sighting kicked off a nationwide UFO craze parodied heavily in “The Top Secret UFO Project,” R. J. Thomas’ mock-documentary about a UFO incident in Colorado in the summer of 1956.

“The Arnold sighting is often credited as the catalyst for UFO interest that lasts to this day,” Mr. Thomas said. “Arnold said the objects flew like a saucer you skip across the water, and the term ‘flying saucer’ was born. In the weeks that followed, there were literally thousands of reported spaceship sightings.”

Based on Thomas’ 2004 novella of the same name, “The Top Secret UFO Project” chronicles the UFO-related events experienced by Jasper, a tiny Colorado hamlet. According to the film, the town dealt with one unusual event after another in the summer of 1956. After a farmer saw a mysterious oval-shaped object fly over his house, scientists rushed into Jasper to investigate, reporters rushed in looking for stories, and government officials rush in to keep it a secret from the world.

Billed as “the movie the government does not want you to see,” “The Top Secret UFO Project” is a parody of the cheesy UFO documentaries of the 70′s like “Overlords of the UFO” and TV programs such as “In Search Of.”

Mr. Thomas plays a documentary filmmaker who, in 2003, discovered (by accident) some top secret government films pertaining to the Jasper Incident of 1956. This inspired him to make a documentary about Jasper’s UFO story, and to discover the truth behind what really happened that mysterious summer in Colorado.

Kenneth Arnold, who died in 1984, went to his grave believing his sightings were authentic. In 1950, he sat down with legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow and told him that he’d seen the saucers on three different occasions, and in 1952 Arnold published a book about his sightings called, “The Coming of the Saucers.”

“Many people try to say that Arnold’s 1947 sightings were really meteor-fireball fragments or disc-shaped experimental military planes,” Mr. Thomas said. “But some believe those explanations were just examples of the way the government covers up UFO sightings. My film does its’ best to spoof the government’s ways of covering such things up.”

“The Top Secret UFO Project” is available on DVD at BooksAndSuchMart.com.

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UFO TECHNOLOGY FROM ROSWELL 1947

Tags: 1947, from, Roswell, Technology
Posted in UFOs on May 13th, 2011 by RoswellUFOs.com

One Phillip Corso claimed he reversed engineered the technology from the ufo crash in roswell. The US Government says no. Who do you believe?
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MSF REACTS TO CSICOP

Tags: 1947, Roswell
Posted in Uncategorized on January 13th, 2008 by RoswellUFOs.com

(MSF) is valiantly battling back against charges that the Majestic-12
documents, released by the team in April, are fraudulent. The charges were
raised in a press release issued by CSICOP on August 20th [MJ12.SR], in
which arch-skeptic Phil Klass called the documents “clumsy counterfeits,”
and cited a letter from the National Archives [MJ12DOC6.UFO] which raised
doubts about the authenticity of a key piece of corroborative evidence,
the so-called Cutler-to-Twining memo of July 14, 1954 [MJ12DOC3.UFO].

In an attempt to provide the opportunity for MSF to answer the objec-
tions raised in the press release, ParaNet has talked with all three mem-
bers of the MSF team: William L. Moore of Burbank, CA, UFO investigator
and co-author of “The Philadelphia Experiment” and “The Roswell Incident”
(the latter detailing a UFO crash in 1947 which stands to be confirmed if
the MJ-12 documents are real); Jaime Shandera of North Hollywood, CA, an
independent television producer who had little to do with UFOs until team-
ing up with Moore in 1981; and Stanton T. Friedman of New Brunswick, Cana-
da, a nuclear physicist and UFO lecturer.
All three members of the team agreed that nothing brought out by Klass in the release conclusively showed Majestic-12 to be a hoax; i
n fact none of the members seemed to acknowledge that any damage was done whatsoever.
Below are some of the objections raised by Klass, and selected ans-
wers given by the team members.

o Item: Robert Cutler was in Europe at the time the Cutler-to-Twining Memo
was allegedly written.

Friedman: “That’s a stupid argument. The memo wasn’t signed by
Cutler. [But] he gave his people instructions to keep the ball
rolling while he was gone.
“We have two other memos from Cutler to Twining, which we’ve
gotten at the Library of Congress, one is signed and the other
isn’t. The one that’s not signed has an `/s/’ indicating where the
original was signed.”

Moore: “The absence of a signature on the document is consistent
with the fact that Cutler was overseas when it was written. If the
document had been signed, then we would have reason to worry.

o Item: The lack of the characteristic “Eagle” watermark found on all of
Cutler’s memoranda stationery.

Friedman: “But how many? They didn’t have at the Eisenhower Library
OR the National Archives, these two Cutler memoranda that we found
at the Library of Congress! Absence of evidence is not evidence for
absence.”

o Item: The lack of a Top-Secret registration number on the document.

Friedman: “Neither of the other documents we got from the Library of
Congress had registration numbers, either.”

Moore: “NONE of the Top-Secret Cutler memoranda we have seen have
registration numbers.”

o Item: The presence of typewriter key impressions through the back of the
document indicates it was typed as an original, not as a carbon.

Moore: “This just shows that [Klass] has not done a shred of
original research. He couldn’t have looked at the original. If he
had, he would have seen that the paper is definitely old, and the
ink on the paper is blue.

Friedman: “I have trouble with that. The ink is blue. Who uses blue
typewriter ribbons?”

o Item: The use of the security classification “Top Secret – Restricted,”
which did not come into use by the NSC until at least a decade later.

Friedman: “Well, that’s what these guys are saying, but I don’t even
know that that’s true. `Restricted’ can mean `nobody else sees.’
Also, in that same year of ’54, the Atomic Energy Act brought in the
use of `Secret-Restricted Data’ when you’re dealing with anything
nuclear…and Twining obviously thought there was a nuclear
connection with UFOs because in a 1947 memo he said all the data
should go to the AEC and the Nuclear Energy Propulsion Applications
Project.”

o Item: The Sept. 24, 1947 letter from Pres. Truman to Secy. Forrestal is
not consistent in format with other Truman letters to Cabinet members.

Moore: “Nonsense. We have a letter from a Congressional historian
that says that the form and style ARE consistent.”

o Item: The Truman letter was created by “superimposing a spurious message
on a photocopy of an authentic Truman letter.”

Shandera: “The 35mm film we have of the [Truman] document is very
clear, its a very good photo. If anything like that had been done,
it would easily show up.”

Moore: “He’s dreaming. The evidence is just the opposite. If you
look at the document on the film, there are some areas where a
different color ink was probably used, probably red, which contrast
highly with the rest of the document. If this were a [composite
photocopy], there wouldn’t be this much contrast.”

In the CSICOP press release, and previously in other media, Klass
has said that he has invited Moore and his associates to “join in his own
efforts” to get to the bottom of the MJ-12 scenario. Moore claims that
Klass “has never extended such an invitation to any one of us.”

Moore says that more information on MJ-12 will be released “toward
the end of September,” including a point-by-point response to the
objections raised by Klass in the release. As usual, ParaNet will be the
first computer-based media in the world to carry the story as it unfolds.

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APfl 06/20 1301 UFO Investigations

Tags: 1947, Air Force, Washington
Posted in UFO Report on January 13th, 2008 by RoswellUFOs.com

Date: 20-Jun-87 20:31 MST
From: Executive News Svc. [76374,303]
Subj: APfl 06/20 1301 UFO Investigations

By BILL KACZOR Associated Press Writer
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A retired Air Force pilot says he
suspects, contrary to official denials, an unknown federal agency is
investigating reports of unidentified flying objects and other close
encounters with extraterrestrial beings.
Donald M. Ware, Florida state director of the Mutual UFO Network Inc., a
private “ufology” organization, says he doesn’t have any direct knowledge but
nearly a lifetime of study leads him to believe probes are secretly being
conducted by some national intelligence agency.
“That idea doesn’t bother me. I don’t mind being an unequal partner,” Ware
said in a recent interview. “I support the policy of secrecy.”
He said secrecy would be necessary because, official statements
notwithstanding, he is convinced the subject involves national security in the
form of advanced alien technology.
Ware said he intends to take that message to the Annual MUFON UFO Symposium
June 26-28 at American University in Washington, D.C., where he is to be part
of a panel discussion on UFOs and the government.
His position is unlikely to be shared by many UFO investigators, Ware
admitted. A common complaint of ufologists is the government‘s professed lack
of interest and its failure to cooperate with private UFO studies.
“I’m so bold as to suggest there is a possibility of cooperation with some
unknown government agency if we show a little more tolerance of their policy
of secrecy,” Ware said.
“As long as we publicly take such an antagonistic attitude, as long as we
place the government in an adversarial relationship,” Ware said, “we are not
going to get much cooperation from them whoever they are.”
The Air Force closed its Project Blue Book investigation of more than
12,000 UFOs in 1969 after a panel of scientists found no evidence of visitors
from outer space. Most sightings were found to be such things as planets,
stars, meteors, weather balloons, satellites, false radar echoes, marsh gas,
clouds, aircraft or optical illusions, but a few have remained unexplained.
The official word ever since has been that the government has nothing to do
with UFO investigations and whatever they might be they pose no threat to
national security.
Ware, 51, joined the service in 1957. He said he was uninvolved in the Air
Force’s UFO activities during his 26-year military career as a teacher, staff
scientist and fighter pilot, including two combat tours in Vietnam.
“That’s one reason I can speak so freely,” he said. “I have no information
from the Air Force.”
His interest began as a teen-ager in 1952 when he saw star-like objects
streaking through the sky while walking near his home in the nation’s capital.
Similar sightings, including radar returns, had been reported a week earlier
and Ware said they remain unexplained.
He began reading everything about UFOs he could get his hands on, including
books in the library at Duke University where he received a mechanical
engineering degree. He later earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering
from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Ware kept up his interest in UFOs, building up a personal library on the
subject and questioning other pilots.
“I had no qualms about saying, `Anybody seen a UFO?’ ” Ware said. The
answer, he said, usually was “yes.”
However, until March of 1970, military personnel were ordered not to talk
about UFOs, Ware said.
“I think that in the late ’40s and early ’50s the U.S. government really
wanted the public to tell them what they saw and that those people primarily
responsible for investigating UFOs were not listed in the phone book,” Ware
said. “The U.S. Air Force was chosen as Uncle Sam’s public relations agent
because they were listed in the phone book.”
No one thing has convinced him of government involvement, Ware said. “Two
years of study after I saw the UFOs in 1952 convinced me that somebody is
watching us,” he said. “Ten more years of study caused me to think somebody
in our government has known that as a fact at least since 1947.”
Ware said his goals in becoming state director of MUFON, an international
scientific organization based in Seguin, Texas, were to improve relations
between “ufologists” and the government and to learn all he could about alien
technology from abductees and other witnesses of close encounters.
Ware said he hasn’t seen any more UFOs since 1952 and doesn’t expect to.
“I haven’t been selected,” he said. He still scans the skies, but not for
UFOs. When he’s not investigating UFO reports or giving talks about the
subject to civic groups, he is bird watching. He is treasurer of and runs an
annual bird count for the Choctawhatchee Audubon Society and does surveys for
the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas project.
Ware said his two avocations are unrelated. “Lots of people have accused
me of getting a lot of satisfaction from identifying feathered objects,” he
said, grinning. “No, I’m just a nature boy.”

Copyright 1987 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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