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		<title>UFO Craze of 1947 Inspires Mockumentary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;The Top Secret UFO Project,&#8221; R. J. Thomas&#8217; mock-documentary [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 10, 2006 </p>
<p> 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 &#8220;The Top Secret UFO Project,&#8221; R. J. Thomas&#8217; mock-documentary about a UFO incident in Colorado in the summer of 1956.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Arnold sighting is often credited as the catalyst for UFO interest that lasts to this day,&#8221; Mr. Thomas said.  &#8220;Arnold said the objects flew like a saucer you skip across the water, and the term &#8216;flying saucer&#8217; was born.  In the weeks that followed, there were literally thousands of reported spaceship sightings.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Based on Thomas&#8217; 2004 novella of the same name, &#8220;The Top Secret UFO Project&#8221; 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. </p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Billed as &#8220;the movie the government does not want you to see,&#8221; &#8220;The Top Secret UFO Project&#8221; is a parody of the cheesy UFO documentaries of the 70&#8242;s like &#8220;Overlords of the UFO&#8221; and TV programs such as &#8220;In Search Of.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>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&#8217;s UFO story, and to discover the truth behind what really happened that mysterious summer in Colorado.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>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&#8217;d seen the saucers on three different occasions, and in 1952 Arnold published a book about his sightings called, &#8220;The Coming of the Saucers.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>&#8220;Many people try to say that Arnold&#8217;s 1947 sightings were really meteor-fireball fragments or disc-shaped experimental military planes,&#8221; Mr. Thomas said.  &#8220;But some believe those explanations were just examples of the way the government covers up UFO sightings.  My film does its&#8217; best to spoof the government&#8217;s ways of covering such things up.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Top Secret UFO Project&#8221; is available on DVD at BooksAndSuchMart.com.</p>
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		<title>UFO TECHNOLOGY FROM ROSWELL 1947</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 02:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>One Phillip Corso claimed he reversed engineered the technology from the ufo crash in roswell. The US Government says no. Who do you believe?<br />
<strong>Video Rating: 4 / 5</strong></p>
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		<title>MSF REACTS TO CSICOP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(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 &#8220;clumsy counterfeits,&#8221; and cited a letter from the National Archives [MJ12DOC6.UFO] which raised [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(MSF) is valiantly battling back against charges that the Majestic-12<br />
documents, released by the team in April, are fraudulent. The charges were<br />
raised in a press release issued by CSICOP on August 20th [MJ12.SR], in<br />
which arch-skeptic Phil Klass called the documents &#8220;clumsy counterfeits,&#8221;<br />
and cited a letter from the National Archives [MJ12DOC6.UFO] which raised<br />
doubts about the authenticity of a key piece of corroborative evidence,<br />
the so-called Cutler-to-Twining memo of July 14, 1954 [MJ12DOC3.UFO].</p>
<p>In an attempt to provide the opportunity for MSF to answer the objec-<br />
tions raised in the press release, ParaNet has talked with all three mem-<br />
bers of the MSF team: William L. Moore of Burbank, CA, UFO investigator<br />
and co-author of &#8220;The Philadelphia Experiment&#8221; and &#8220;The <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> Incident&#8221;<br />
(the latter detailing a UFO crash in <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span> which stands to be confirmed if<br />
the MJ-12 documents are real); Jaime Shandera of North Hollywood, CA, an<br />
independent television producer who had little to do with UFOs until team-<br />
ing up with Moore in 1981; and Stanton T. Friedman of New Brunswick, Cana-<br />
da, a nuclear physicist and UFO lecturer.<br />
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<br />
n fact none of the members seemed to acknowledge that any damage was done whatsoever.<br />
Below are some of the objections raised by Klass, and selected ans-<br />
wers given by the team members.</p>
<p>o Item: Robert Cutler was in Europe at the time the Cutler-to-Twining Memo<br />
was allegedly written.</p>
<p>Friedman: &#8220;That&#8217;s a stupid argument. The memo wasn&#8217;t signed by<br />
Cutler. [But] he gave his people instructions to keep the ball<br />
rolling while he was gone.<br />
&#8220;We have two other memos from Cutler to Twining, which we&#8217;ve<br />
gotten at the Library of Congress, one is signed and the other<br />
isn&#8217;t. The one that&#8217;s not signed has an `/s/&#8217; indicating where the<br />
original was signed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moore: &#8220;The absence of a signature on the document is consistent<br />
with the fact that Cutler was overseas when it was written. If the<br />
document had been signed, then we would have reason to worry.</p>
<p>o Item: The lack of the characteristic &#8220;Eagle&#8221; watermark found on all of<br />
Cutler&#8217;s memoranda stationery.</p>
<p>Friedman: &#8220;But how many? They didn&#8217;t have at the Eisenhower Library<br />
OR the National Archives, these two Cutler memoranda that we found<br />
at the Library of Congress! Absence of evidence is not evidence for<br />
absence.&#8221;</p>
<p>o Item: The lack of a Top-Secret registration number on the document.</p>
<p>Friedman: &#8220;Neither of the other documents we got from the Library of<br />
Congress had registration numbers, either.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moore: &#8220;NONE of the Top-Secret Cutler memoranda we have seen have<br />
registration numbers.&#8221;</p>
<p>o Item: The presence of typewriter key impressions through the back of the<br />
document indicates it was typed as an original, not as a carbon.</p>
<p>Moore: &#8220;This just shows that [Klass] has not done a shred of<br />
original research. He couldn&#8217;t have looked at the original. If he<br />
had, he would have seen that the paper is definitely old, and the<br />
ink on the paper is blue.</p>
<p>Friedman: &#8220;I have trouble with that. The ink is blue. Who uses blue<br />
typewriter ribbons?&#8221;</p>
<p>o Item: The use of the security classification &#8220;Top Secret &#8211; Restricted,&#8221;<br />
which did not come into use by the NSC until at least a decade later.</p>
<p>Friedman: &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s what these guys are saying, but I don&#8217;t even<br />
know that that&#8217;s true. `Restricted&#8217; can mean `nobody else sees.&#8217;<br />
Also, in that same year of &#8217;54, the Atomic Energy Act brought in the<br />
use of `Secret-Restricted Data&#8217; when you&#8217;re dealing with anything<br />
nuclear&#8230;and Twining obviously thought there was a nuclear<br />
connection with UFOs because in a <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span> memo he said all the data<br />
should go to the AEC and the Nuclear Energy Propulsion Applications<br />
Project.&#8221;</p>
<p>o Item: The Sept. 24, <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span> letter from Pres. Truman to Secy. Forrestal is<br />
not consistent in format with other Truman letters to Cabinet members.</p>
<p>Moore: &#8220;Nonsense. We have a letter from a Congressional historian<br />
that says that the form and style ARE consistent.&#8221;</p>
<p>o Item: The Truman letter was created by &#8220;superimposing a spurious message<br />
on a photocopy of an authentic Truman letter.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shandera: &#8220;The 35mm film we have of the [Truman] document is very<br />
clear, its a very good photo. If anything like that had been done,<br />
it would easily show up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moore: &#8220;He&#8217;s dreaming. The evidence is just the opposite. If you<br />
look at the document on the film, there are some areas where a<br />
different color ink was probably used, probably red, which contrast<br />
highly with the rest of the document. If this were a [composite<br />
photocopy], there wouldn&#8217;t be this much contrast.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the CSICOP press release, and previously in other media, Klass<br />
has said that he has invited Moore and his associates to &#8220;join in his own<br />
efforts&#8221; to get to the bottom of the MJ-12 scenario. Moore claims that<br />
Klass &#8220;has never extended such an invitation to any one of us.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moore says that more information on MJ-12 will be released &#8220;toward<br />
the end of September,&#8221; including a point-by-point response to the<br />
objections raised by Klass in the release. As usual, ParaNet will be the<br />
first computer-based media in the world to carry the story as it unfolds.</p>
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		<title>APfl 06/20 1301 UFO Investigations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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) &#8212; 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 [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Date:  20-Jun-87 20:31 MST<br />
From:  Executive News Svc. [76374,303]<br />
Subj:  APfl 06/20 1301  UFO Investigations</p>
<p>By BILL KACZOR Associated Press Writer<br />
FORT  WALTON BEACH,  Fla.   (AP)  &#8212; A  retired  Air  Force pilot  says  he<br />
suspects,  contrary  to  official  denials,   an  unknown  federal  agency  is<br />
investigating  reports  of   unidentified  flying  objects  and   other  close<br />
encounters with extraterrestrial beings.<br />
Donald M.  Ware, Florida  state director of the Mutual UFO  Network Inc., a<br />
private &#8220;ufology&#8221; organization, says he doesn&#8217;t  have any direct knowledge but<br />
nearly a  lifetime of  study leads him  to believe  probes are  secretly being<br />
conducted by some national intelligence agency.<br />
&#8220;That idea doesn&#8217;t bother me.  I don&#8217;t mind being an unequal partner,&#8221; Ware<br />
said in a recent interview.  &#8220;I support the policy of secrecy.&#8221;<br />
He  said   secrecy  would   be  necessary   because,  official   statements<br />
notwithstanding, he is convinced the subject involves national security in the<br />
form of advanced alien technology.<br />
Ware said he intends to take that message to the Annual MUFON UFO Symposium<br />
June 26-28 at American University in <span class="genmed"><u>Washington</u></span>,  D.C., where he is to be part<br />
of a panel discussion on UFOs and the <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span>.<br />
His  position is  unlikely to  be shared  by many  UFO investigators,  Ware<br />
admitted.  A common complaint of ufologists is the <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span>&#8216;s professed lack<br />
of interest and its failure to cooperate with private UFO studies.<br />
&#8220;I&#8217;m so bold as to suggest there  is a possibility of cooperation with some<br />
unknown <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> agency if  we show a little more tolerance  of their policy<br />
of secrecy,&#8221; Ware said.<br />
&#8220;As long as we  publicly take such an antagonistic attitude,  as long as we<br />
place the <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span>  in an adversarial relationship,&#8221; Ware said,  &#8220;we are not<br />
going to get much cooperation from them whoever they are.&#8221;<br />
The  <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span>  closed its  Project Blue  Book investigation  of more  than<br />
12,000 UFOs in 1969 after a panel  of scientists found no evidence of visitors<br />
from outer  space.  Most sightings  were found to  be such things  as planets,<br />
stars, meteors, weather  balloons, satellites, false radar  echoes, marsh gas,<br />
clouds, aircraft or optical illusions, but a few have remained unexplained.<br />
The official word ever since has been that the <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> has nothing to do<br />
with UFO  investigations and  whatever they might  be they  pose no  threat to<br />
national security.<br />
Ware, 51, joined the service in 1957.  He said he was uninvolved in the Air<br />
Force&#8217;s UFO activities during his 26-year  military career as a teacher, staff<br />
scientist and fighter pilot, including two combat tours in Vietnam.<br />
&#8220;That&#8217;s one reason I can speak so freely,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;I have no information<br />
from the <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span>.&#8221;<br />
His interest  began as a  teen-ager in 1952  when he saw  star-like objects<br />
streaking through the sky while walking near his home in the nation&#8217;s capital.<br />
Similar sightings, including  radar returns, had been reported  a week earlier<br />
and Ware said they remain unexplained.<br />
He began reading everything about UFOs he could get his hands on, including<br />
books  in the  library  at  Duke University  where  he  received a  mechanical<br />
engineering degree.  He later earned a  master&#8217;s degree in nuclear engineering<br />
from the <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> Institute of Technology.<br />
Ware kept up  his interest in UFOs,  building up a personal  library on the<br />
subject and questioning other pilots.<br />
&#8220;I had  no qualms  about saying, `Anybody  seen a UFO?&#8217;  &#8221; Ware  said.  The<br />
answer, he said, usually was &#8220;yes.&#8221;<br />
However, until March  of 1970, military personnel were ordered  not to talk<br />
about UFOs, Ware said.<br />
&#8220;I think that in  the late &#8217;40s and early &#8217;50s  the U.S.  <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> really<br />
wanted the public to  tell them what they saw and  that those people primarily<br />
responsible for  investigating UFOs were not  listed in the phone  book,&#8221; Ware<br />
said.  &#8220;The U.S.  Air  Force was chosen as Uncle Sam&#8217;s  public relations agent<br />
because they were listed in the phone book.&#8221;<br />
No one thing has convinced him  of <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> involvement, Ware said.  &#8220;Two<br />
years of  study after I  saw the UFOs  in 1952  convinced me that  somebody is<br />
watching us,&#8221; he said.   &#8220;Ten more years of study caused  me to think somebody<br />
in our <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> has known that as a fact at least since <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span>.&#8221;<br />
Ware said his  goals in becoming state director of  MUFON, an international<br />
scientific  organization based  in Seguin,  Texas, were  to improve  relations<br />
between &#8220;ufologists&#8221; and the <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> and to  learn all he could about alien<br />
technology from abductees and other witnesses of close encounters.<br />
Ware said he  hasn&#8217;t seen any more  UFOs since 1952 and  doesn&#8217;t expect to.<br />
&#8220;I haven&#8217;t  been selected,&#8221; he  said.  He still scans  the skies, but  not for<br />
UFOs.   When he&#8217;s  not investigating  UFO reports  or giving  talks about  the<br />
subject to civic groups, he is bird watching.   He is treasurer of and runs an<br />
annual bird count for the Choctawhatchee  Audubon Society and does surveys for<br />
the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas project.<br />
Ware said his  two avocations are unrelated.  &#8220;Lots of  people have accused<br />
me of  getting a lot of  satisfaction from identifying feathered  objects,&#8221; he<br />
said, grinning.  &#8220;No, I&#8217;m just a nature boy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Copyright 1987 by the Associated Press.  All rights reserved.</p>
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		<title>Info about Hanger 18</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: this file is a thread from the Fido computer network UFO Echo, early 1989, about Hanger 18 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. It has long been rumored that a UFO was stored there at some time. This file consists of messages, edited for relevance, that say that the UFO is no longer there, [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Summary: this file is a thread from the Fido computer network UFO<br />
Echo, early 1989, about Hanger 18 at Wright Patterson <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> Base.<br />
It has long been rumored that a UFO was stored there at some time.<br />
This file consists of messages, edited for relevance, that say that<br />
the UFO is no longer there, if it ever was.<br />
There is also a description of another wreck that was brought in<br />
to the Great Lakes Naval Base. Also, another one collected by the<br />
Army and stored temporarily in a firehouse.<br />
File length just over four typed pages.<br />
An additional source for this subject is &#8220;The <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> Incident&#8221;<br />
by Bill Moore and Charles Berlitz.<br />
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From:    John Frey  To:      Steven Northover   15-Jan-89<br />
I know that Aquarius exists. A close relative of mine was<br />
stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base when they brought in under VERY<br />
HEAVY security a crashed UFO that was supposedly shot down by a<br />
aircraft carrier back in the early &#8217;50s.<br />
Also I have another relative that worked at Wright Patterson who<br />
said &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen some strange business that I can&#8217;t talk about&#8221;, when<br />
I asked about the rumors the UFO&#8217;s stored there.<br />
* Origin: Astral Board  (1:129/39.0)  1(412)8246566<br />
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From:    John Frey To:Kevin Colquitt  29-Jan-89<br />
My aunt used to work at Wright-Pat. but they live far away in<br />
Indiana now so I don&#8217;t get to talk to her as much as I would like.<br />
Anyway she heard many stories about strange experiments being carried<br />
out by scientists there.<br />
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From: John Frey To: Joe Holland  22-Jan-89<br />
Well,I don&#8217;t know any major details about it other than what I<br />
told except that it was structually damaged badly and they picked up<br />
alot of wreckage. I don&#8217;t know why they shot it or if there were any<br />
bodies but I do know that my relative was asigned to moving some of<br />
the material into a building late at night under TIGHT security. They<br />
made him go through a metal detector before he left.<br />
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From: Dick Copits   To: John Frey  20-Jan-89<br />
I lived in Dayton and worked at Wright-Pat in fairborn for years<br />
and although there were lots of rumors about UFO&#8217;s, no one ever saw<br />
anything dealing with them. I have been in EVERY building and hangar<br />
on that base, and believe me, there ain&#8217;t no such animal. You now<br />
have an authoratative source that says &#8211; wherever they is, they<br />
ain&#8217;t at Wright-Pat.!!!<br />
* Origin: (c)1988 Rogers &amp; Blake (508)373-2204 (1:324/120)<br />
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From: John Frey  To:Dick Copits  23-Jan-89<br />
Hangar 18 exists! Notice I did not say there was a UFO in it. It<br />
would be stupid to keep it in the same place long.<br />
A UFO that crashed in PA was taken by a lot of people from the<br />
Army back in the 50&#8242;s. It was in the newspaper and a local reporter<br />
researched it and found that it was taken by a Cleveland, OH group.<br />
The TV reporter was unable to find any members of the group (since it<br />
broke up in the late &#8217;50s) but did find a eyewitness of the recovery<br />
operation that was a volunteer fireman. All the wreckage was hauled<br />
from the crash site to the firehouse and later moved out with the<br />
army. The reporter is very credible and so is the eyewitness.<br />
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From Joe Holland to Dick Copits 1/25/89<br />
On what date did you first get into Hanger 18? Recently, or some<br />
long time ago? Here below, for comparison, are three messages sent in<br />
to Paranet Alpha AZ last April. After posting these, George Ray never<br />
came on again with the follow up he was expecting to get.<br />
Also, I have documentation that Senator Goldwater was denied<br />
access to Hanger 18. (This item is corrected further on in this<br />
file). And you got in easily, with no instructions  about secrecy?<br />
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Paranet messages:<br />
Msg: #7816  01-APR-88  From: George Ray  To: Jim Delton<br />
Jim why dont you go to Wright-Pat. AFB in ILL. (see later<br />
correction) and see if you can get inside of the large black hanger<br />
at the back of the base, after you  have seen the inside of it then<br />
come tell me the A.F. doesn&#8217;t believe in UFOs.<br />
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Msg: #7837  01-APR-88  From: George Ray  To: Nick Ianuzzi<br />
The entire time that I was in the <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> (over 12 years) I<br />
only  knew one person who had actually been inside that structure.<br />
That was because he worked there. It seems that the <span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> did<br />
not like the job that the Security Police (AF COPS) were doing so the<br />
control of this hanger and surrounding buildings was placed into the<br />
hands of the N.S.A. and the Federal Police Agency (supposedly a<br />
branch of the  U.S. Marshall&#8217;s Office, Under the Dept. of Justice).<br />
Anyway prior to the security exchange this person had to do an<br />
inventory. He said that the items that were in those buildings<br />
could not be beleived. He told me some of what he had seen but the<br />
time I just blew it off. This was almost ten years ago, I will try<br />
to get hold of him this weekend to see if he will restate for me<br />
just what he saw and I will give you a full report when I get it<br />
onto a disk and upload it. Hopefully that should be done by Wed at<br />
the outside.<br />
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Msg: #7839  01-APR-88 From: George Ray  To: Jim Delton<br />
Jim, I left an earlier message in regards to this. But I can tell<br />
you  this while stationed at an Alert Site in Alaska, we scrambled<br />
more than once on objects that were not aircraft, the pilots would<br />
not tell us what they saw, yet after every time this happened all<br />
aircrews involved were immediately rotated back to the home station.<br />
Even when they would wind up back out there with us they would not<br />
tell us what they had seen. I know that this happened four times<br />
while I was stationed there and I could not tell you how many times<br />
total that it has happened. I just have to accept that they saw<br />
something that was not of standard aircraft design and until they are<br />
allowed to come forward with  eye-witness reports, it will continue<br />
to be a rumor generating mill.<br />
(End Paranet messages of April 1, 1988. Fido thread resumes here)<br />
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From:    Dick Copits  To:      Joe Holland  30-Jan-89<br />
Joe &#8211; First, and I think symptomatic of the messages &#8211; Wright<br />
Patterson AFB is NOT in Ill!!! It&#8217;s in Fairborne Ohio, a short<br />
distance from Dayton. It&#8217;s also the home of the <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> Logistics<br />
Center, a SAC re<span class="genmed"><u>fuel</u></span>ing wing and the home of the analysis section for<br />
spacecraft observation photos.<br />
Hangar 18 is very visible from Harshman road, generally has (and<br />
always had) the doors open so that you can see in it with a good pair<br />
of binoculars, and is painted (at least since 1946) grey! When you go<br />
to the <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> Museum, look past the xb-70 and there it is. No<br />
guards, No searchlights, No barbed wire, and in fact if you come in<br />
from the third street gate you can almost drive right up to it. Joe -<br />
this is a MYSTIQUE that has been propagated by people such as your<br />
friend who maybe even visited WP (even though it&#8217;s never been in<br />
Ill&#8230;).<br />
In fact, take a weekend and fly into Dayton and drive over there<br />
and see for yourself. It&#8217;s an open base, and unless you screw around<br />
the SAC planes you can pretty much move around and take pictures at<br />
will. How long ago am I talking about? Last year. When was I there?<br />
During the 60-70 era. My brother is still working there, has for the<br />
last 29 years, and knows everyone who is anyone on the base. Believe<br />
me, there&#8217;s no UFO there, no parts there, and nothing else. Comments?<br />
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From:  Dick Copits  To: Joe Holland   30-Jan-89<br />
Joe &#8211; why do you think those messages have the dates they do?<br />
April 1 !!!<br />
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From Joe Holland to Dick Copits 2/3/89<br />
Now, if we can take this apart somewhat, maybe we can study the<br />
anatomy of a myth, or else find out why this information is<br />
contradictory. Well, OK, I am accepting your description that hanger<br />
18 is  accessible.<br />
&gt;How long ago am I talking about? Last year. When was I there?<br />
During  the 60-70 era. My brother is still working there, has for the<br />
last 29  years&lt;<br />
The remaining question then would be the dates. Its a long time,<br />
42 years, back to <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span> when the UFO crashed in New Mexico. There<br />
might also be a question about which building it is.<br />
The Goldwater letter, which I will post separately, is dated<br />
1979, and refers to an earlier time. Someone should find out from<br />
him, how much earlier. But what I missed before is that the letter<br />
does not say hanger 18, but rather &#8220;a facility at Wright Patterson&#8221;.<br />
This letter appears on page 41 of the Nov 88 issue of UFO Universe.<br />
But an introduction on page 3 has already assumed that this is<br />
Hanger 18. Also in this introduction, Senator Goldwater is quoted in<br />
another quotation, but this again does not say Hanger 18, but &#8220;in the<br />
building where the information is stored&#8221;.  Note the word is not &#8220;the<br />
UFO&#8221; but &#8220;the information&#8221;. The magazine appears not to have strictly<br />
conformed in the text, to the evidence that it presented.<br />
The April 1 letter from George Ray refers to a time &#8220;almost ten<br />
years&#8221; earlier. This is in conflict with what I assume you said in<br />
your message, quoted above, about 29 years. Since you are on the<br />
scene, I give my credence to you. George Ray was quoting second<br />
hand, and might have never been to Wright-Patterson, or so it might<br />
seem from having gotten the location wrong.<br />
I noticed the April 1st date, and regarded it with suspicion,<br />
when I first re-ran the message into Paranet last year. But I missed<br />
the wrong location of Wright-Patterson, so I&#8217;m glad I  chose to<br />
repeat all three messages this time, instead of just one.<br />
*Source: Third World, Chatsworth CA 1(818)7009591<br />
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From Joe Holland to All  2/3/89<br />
Here is one of the letters from Senator Barry Goldwater about<br />
Wright-Patterson:<br />
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United States Senate<br />
Commitee on Commerce, Science,<br />
and Transportation<br />
<span class="genmed"><u>Washington</u></span> DC  20510</p>
<p>April 11, 1979</p>
<p>Mr. Lee M Graham<br />
526 West Maple<br />
Monrovia, California  91016</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Graham:</p>
<p>It is true I was denied access to a faclity at<br />
Wright-Patterson.  Because I never got in, I can&#8217;t<br />
tell you what was inside.  We both know about the<br />
rumors.</p>
<p>Apart from that, let me make my position clear: I<br />
do not beleive that we are the only planet, and of<br />
some two billion that exist, that has life on it. I<br />
have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have<br />
intelligent friends who have, so I can sort of argue<br />
either way.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
(Signature)<br />
Barry Goldwater.<br />
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Source: UFO Universe (magazine) Nov 88 page 41<br />
See also page 3.<br />
351 W. 54th ST. NY, NY  10012.<br />
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From Joe Holland to Dick Copits   2/3/89<br />
Wright Patterson is plainly marked on my AAA Road Atlas as on<br />
the  east side of Dayton, Ohio. Everything should be so easy to<br />
check! I  had meant to look it up, but it never occured to me someone<br />
would  miss on a thing like that.  Well, I&#8217;m the one who goes around<br />
reminding people that things may be easier to check than you think,<br />
and trying to get people to do it.<br />
If that story is true about the crashed disk, then the disk went<br />
somewhere. Why they would move it a long distance would be a<br />
question, although there could be a number of reasons.  If the<br />
expertise for rebuilding craft existed back then at Wright-Patterson,<br />
as it does now, then that&#8217;s a possible answer. Also, you say they<br />
look at the space photos there.<br />
However, it would have soon become evident, from your<br />
description, that Wright-Patterson was not a highest security area,<br />
so it would have been reasonable to move it.<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
File prepared by Joe Holland, 2/23/89.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a Leave is not a Leave: Col. Blanchard and the Roswell Timeline by Kevin D. Randle (IUR, International UFO Reporter, July/August 1994, Volume 19, Number 4. Copyright 1994 by the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, 2457 West Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60659, published bimonthly with a subscription rate of $25/yr.) In the [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When a Leave is not a Leave: Col. Blanchard and the <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> Timeline<br />
by Kevin D. Randle</p>
<p>(IUR, International UFO Reporter, July/August 1994, Volume 19, Number 4.<br />
Copyright 1994 by the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, 2457 West<br />
Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60659, published bimonthly with a<br />
subscription rate of $25/yr.)</p>
<p>In the complex story that comprises the <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> incident, side<br />
issues sometimes attain a momentary importance. For example, Gerald<br />
Anderson, who claimed to have seen a crashed saucer on the Plains of San<br />
Agustin in early July <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span>, submitted a phone bill which purported to<br />
document the length of a conversation with me. The length of the call in<br />
and of itself was trivial. It became significant only when it became<br />
apparent that the bill had been doctored. Without that bill and<br />
Anderson&#8217;s subsequent admission that he had tampered with it, we might<br />
still be debating the validity of his story. It revealed something<br />
critical to our understanding of Anderson&#8217; s testimony and its place in<br />
the larger scheme of things. A discussion of the matter appears in IUR,<br />
July/August 1992.</p>
<p>A new question, seemingly trivial but in fact important,<br />
concerns the time Col. William Blanchard, commanding officer of the<br />
509th Bomb Group, went on leave in July <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span>. In his recent monograph<br />
<span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> in Perspective (published by the Fund for UFO Research, Box 277,<br />
Mount Rainier, Maryland 20712), Karl T. Pflock suggests that Blanchard<br />
began his leave on July 9, <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span>, instead of July 8, as Donald R. Schmitt<br />
and I have insisted. Pflock writes, &#8220;According to the 509th&#8217;s<br />
headquarters morning report and a tiny Associated Press story in the<br />
July 10 Albuquerque Journal, the ninth (not the eighth) was the day he<br />
began &#8216;a three week leave in Santa Fe and Colorado.&#8217; . . . [H]e was on<br />
his way north on a long planned vacation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pflock continues:</p>
<p>Taken together, these admittedly fragmentary and in some part<br />
questionable bits of testimony and documentation point to a delay<br />
before the 509th was instructed to treat the Brazel discovery as a<br />
sensitive matter. They also suggest Blanchard may have personally<br />
conveyed this guidance to those in the field, perhaps as he was on<br />
his way north on a long-planned vacation &#8211; although some have<br />
contended he headed somewhere else entirely.</p>
<p>It appears that Pflock has misunderstood the significance of<br />
Blanchard&#8217;s leave and the timing of the events. In fact, when examined<br />
carefully, it becomes clear that the timing actually reinforces the<br />
theory that the 509th was involved in the situation before rancher Mac<br />
Brazel arrived in <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> with the box of debris on July 6.</p>
<p>The first part of Pflock&#8217;s analysis can be resolved without<br />
debate, varied interpretation of eyewitness testimony, or rancor. We can<br />
review the situation and draw a valid conclusion about it based on all<br />
the documentation currently available.</p>
<p>First, we have the testimony of Lt. Col. Joseph Briley.<br />
(According to the unit history, Briley became the Operations Officer in<br />
the middle of July. Prior to that he had been a squadron commander.)<br />
Briley asserts Blanchard had gone to the crash site. Available<br />
information indicates that this visit was made on July 8 and that<br />
Blanchard&#8217;s leave began on July 8. The leave was actually a cover for<br />
Blanchard&#8217;s activities revolving around the crash.</p>
<p>But Pflock attempts to refute this idea, drawing on Robert<br />
Shirkey&#8217;s testimony:</p>
<p>It is entirely possible, even likely, Blanchard went to the debris<br />
field to survey the situation personally. However, reliable<br />
testimony suggests he did not do so on the afternoon of July 8.<br />
First, according to Robert Shirkey, about mid-afternoon that day<br />
he was with Blanchard in the <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> AAF [Army <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span>]<br />
operations building, where the colonel personally was overseeing<br />
the dispatch of the B-29 which took Jesse Marcel and some of the<br />
debris to Fort Worth. Second, Walter Haut vividly recalls<br />
Blanchard['s] colorfully complaining to him that same afternoon<br />
about not being able to place outside telephone calls because the<br />
base switchboard was tied up with inquiries about the flying<br />
saucer.</p>
<p>While this is interesting, it is not especially significant.<br />
According to other testimony, the debris put on the aircraft arrived in<br />
Fort Worth, Texas, about 4 p.m. local time, or 3 p.m. <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> time.<br />
Newspaper articles and testimony from J. Bond Johnson suggest the debris<br />
was in Eighth <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> Commander Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey&#8217;s office about<br />
that time. It means, simply, that Blanchard was on the base at <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span><br />
until the flight&#8217;s departure, about 1:30 p.m. <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> time, and then<br />
left on his leave. There is nothing contradictory about this, and it<br />
allows for both points to be correct.</p>
<p>Second, as Pflock suggests, the morning reports show that<br />
Blanchard was present for duty on July 8 but had signed out on leave<br />
before the morning report was created on July 9. These documents are<br />
available from the Army in St. Louis, and I recovered a complete set of<br />
the headquarters morning reports (which were indirectly supplied to<br />
Pflock) from June 1 to July 31, <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span>, through the Freedom of Information<br />
Act.</p>
<p>This, too, does not contradict the proposition that Blanchard<br />
went on leave on July 8. If Blanchard signed out on leave in the<br />
afternoon of July 8, then the morning report would show him present on<br />
the eighth and gone on the ninth &#8211; which is exactly what it does show.</p>
<p>The newspaper article Pflock quotes is interesting but probably<br />
irrelevant. It is, after all, a newspaper article, and it shows, again,<br />
that Blanchard was gone on the ninth. It does not tell us when he signed<br />
out from the base.</p>
<p>The critical piece of evidence is Special Order Number 9, issued<br />
by Headquarters, 509th Bomb Group, and dated July 8, <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span>. It says,<br />
&#8220;Pursuant to the authority contained in Hqs. 8th <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> TWX number A1<br />
1593 6 July <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span>, the undersigned hereby assumes control of the <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span><br />
Army Air Field, <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> New Mexico. Effective this date.&#8221; It was signed<br />
by Payne Jennings, Lt. Col. A.C. (Air Corps), commanding.</p>
<p>Here is the definitive proof. Jennings assumed command on the<br />
eighth. Therefore Blanchard went on leave on the eighth. If Blanchard<br />
went on leave on the ninth, as Pflock would have us believe, then the<br />
special order would reflect that. Eighth <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> would not want to<br />
create a situation whereby two commanders were on station at the same<br />
time.</p>
<p>OTHER EVIDENCE</p>
<p>Some other points must be considered. What the Special Order<br />
does is show military interest in the case days before July 8. It shows<br />
that Blanchard&#8217;s leave was not long planned because the TWX was sent on<br />
July 6, a Sunday. Had it been a long-planned leave, the TWX would have<br />
been sent earlier. If it was a long-planned leave, there was no reason<br />
to wait until Sunday, July 6, before sending the TWX. That date becomes<br />
important when it is placed in the context of all the activities of that<br />
critical weekend.</p>
<p>In fact. we can see that the military were interested in the<br />
case before Mac Brazel&#8217;s arrival. If his arrival had been the reason for<br />
that interest, nothing official would have happened on July 6. Brazel<br />
arrived with debris that was interesting, but if we follow the<br />
conventional wisdom, that is all it was, until Jesse Marcel and the<br />
counter-intelligence agent returned late on July 7. If the headquarters<br />
had waited for their return and for the cursory examination of the<br />
debris on the morning of July 8, then the documentation would have been<br />
dated no earlier than that day. The TWX demonstrates the military were<br />
interested prior to July 8.</p>
<p>The TWX and the Special Order resulted from rumors circulating<br />
in <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span>. Military officials, in both <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> and Fort Worth, probably<br />
in consultation with <span class="genmed"><u>Washington</u></span>, decided that Blanchard had better<br />
monitor the activities. Their problem was, after the story began to<br />
leak, the news media would have noticed Blanchard&#8217;s absence. Without<br />
Brazel&#8217;s arrival and the rumors spreading through <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span>, there would<br />
have been no reason to cover Blanchard&#8217;s absence or to grant him a<br />
leave.</p>
<p>This leads to another point, one not lost on the military<br />
planners. If the story was so important, if it involved a real flying<br />
saucer, would Blanchard leave the base? Surely the commanding officer of<br />
the 509th would not want to be off the base and out of town when the<br />
biggest event of the twentieth century took place, unless his leave<br />
itself was part of the cover-up.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if it was nothing more than a weather<br />
balloon, as the military claimed publicly, then the absence of the<br />
commander wouldn&#8217;t matter. Blanchard wouldn&#8217;t be expected to cancel his<br />
leave over something so trivial as a crashed weather balloon.</p>
<p>So the TWX on July 6 becomes as important as the Special Order<br />
because it demonstrates what was happening inside the military. They<br />
were responding to the events of the day before. They were preparing for<br />
what was coming. The TWX on July 6 suggests that the military already<br />
knew about the crash on the sixth, and they knew because of what had<br />
been found on the impact site by military officers on July 5.</p>
<p>Let us examine one more aspect of the case. By July 8, when the<br />
press got interested in the <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> case, the key players had been<br />
removed. Mac Brazel was in military custody, held in the guest house at<br />
the base, according to Maj. Edwin Easley, the 509th Provost Marshal.<br />
Jesse Marcel, the only man mentioned by name in the press release, is no<br />
longer in <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> but on his way to Fort Worth, or already there and<br />
insulated by Gen. Ramey. And Col. Blanchard? He was on leave, heading to<br />
the north and into Colorado.</p>
<p>Even if we ignore the testimonies of Steve MacKenzie and Jim<br />
Ragsdale, who describe activities on the impact site during the recovery<br />
of the craft and bodies, we can still offer testimony to the 509th&#8217;s<br />
involvement prior to the July 8 press announcement. Leo Spear, a<br />
military policeman in <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> in July <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span>, reported hearing other MPs<br />
return to the barracks talking about the crashed flying saucer. Like the<br />
others who had not been used as guards, Spear thought they were making<br />
up the story. But Spear says that when he read about the saucer in the<br />
newspaper (July 8), a day or two after he had heard from his fellow MPs,<br />
he changed his mind.</p>
<p>In other words, he had heard about the crash from the guards<br />
prior to the press release. The release convinced him their stories were<br />
true. This corroborates the reports of those who claim military<br />
involvement on july 5 and supports the idea that the military were<br />
preparing for contingencies on July 6. It suggests they knew a great<br />
deal more much earlier than researchers have believed until recently.</p>
<p>SUPPORT FOR THE NEW TIMELINE</p>
<p>All of this refutes Pflock&#8217;s theories about Blanchard&#8217;s leave.<br />
Pflock appears to have drawn his conclusions without having reviewed all<br />
the relevant documents or testimonies. It is clear that the military<br />
were active in the <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> affair on July 5 and that they were planning<br />
for all contingencies on July 6 by, among other things, putting<br />
Blanchard on leave.</p>
<p>What we can do is restructure the timeline based on the<br />
testimony of the participants and underscore the validity of those<br />
changes with existing documentation. The old timeline suggested no<br />
military interest until Mac Brazel arrived. After all, how could the<br />
military begin a recovery before they knew a crash had occurred?</p>
<p>We now know they didn&#8217;t. They knew of the crash on July 5 and<br />
commenced recovery operations then. Blanchard&#8217;s leave is the key to<br />
understanding this. First we have to ask, why would anyone begin a leave<br />
on a Tuesday afternoon? Or, even if we accept Pflock&#8217;s analysis, why<br />
begin on a Wednesday?</p>
<p>Leaves normally start at the close of business on Friday<br />
afternoon, allowing two extra days because of the weekend. With<br />
Blanchard in a high-profile position, he might not have been able to do<br />
that, but surely he would have signed out on Monday morning, not Tuesday<br />
afternoon. The only exception would be an emergency leave, but that<br />
doesn&#8217;t seem to have been the case. Nothing in the documentation<br />
indicates that Blanchard was responding to a personal emergency such as<br />
a sick family member. Based on the fragmentary documentation he<br />
produces, Pflock concludes that the leave was routine.</p>
<p>The circumstances and the Special Order No. 9 refute that<br />
notion. They show the military were responding to a critical situation.<br />
Blanchard&#8217;s leave was neither routine nor emergency in the normal sense.<br />
Blanchard was being freed to respond to the situation as necessary<br />
without having to worry about awkward questions from reporters. To<br />
summarize: Blanchard began his leave on Tuesday, July 8. It was not long<br />
planned. It was a response to the events of July 5, when the military<br />
recovered a flying saucer just north of <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span>. The situation became<br />
critical when Brazel found the debris field and reported it, not only to<br />
the military officers at the <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> Army Air Field but also to the<br />
local sheriff and a reporter for a radio station.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Kevin D. Randle, an IUR contributing editor, is coauthor of The<br />
Truth About the UFO Crash at <span class="genmed"><u>Roswell</u></span> (1994).</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 12, 1947 TOP SECRET/MAJIC Executive Order Project: ESTABLISHMENT OF MAJESTIC AGENCY FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE (MAJIC) The purpose of this agency will be to coordinate all United States activities connected in any way with nonhuman alien intelligence, including the management of the MAJESTIC science group, military BLUE TEAM activities and FBI/CIA(G) surance activities designed to [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>July 12, <span class="genmed"><u>1947</u></span><br />
TOP SECRET/MAJIC<br />
Executive Order<br />
Project: ESTABLISHMENT OF MAJESTIC AGENCY FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE (MAJIC)</p>
<p>The purpose of this agency will be to coordinate all United<br />
States activities connected in any way with nonhuman alien<br />
intelligence, including the management of the MAJESTIC science<br />
group, military BLUE TEAM activities and FBI/CIA(G) surance<br />
activities designed to establish and maintain all c-related<br />
operations at the highest level of security obtainable. The<br />
TOP SECRET/MAJIC classification is now the highest level of<br />
classification.</p>
<p>MAJIC Initial Organizational Structure: MJ-1</p>
<p>MAJIC is a coordinating and management group, reflecting same<br />
centralization concept contained in recent<br />
legisla-establishing the Central Intelligence Agency.  MAJIC<br />
will be overseen by the Director of Central Intelligce, who<br />
will report on all MAJIC activities to the President as<br />
appropriate and advisable.</p>
<p>DCIA will receive the MAJIC Designation MJ-1. Admiral<br />
Hil-coetter is appointed MJ-1(1) by order of the President.<br />
Positions MJ-2-4 are MAJIC administrative positions. Should<br />
project SIGMA (referenced below) succeed, MJ-1 will institiue<br />
project PLATO, seeking to establish ongoing com-nications of a<br />
diplomatic or negotiational nature with the aliens. The first<br />
objective of this project will be to attempt to control alien<br />
incursions into US airspace and alien contact with US<br />
citizens.</p>
<p>MJ-2 Position</p>
<p>MJ-2 is the designation for director, MAJIC Operations. Mr.<br />
WiIfred Stone is appointed Director, MAJiC Operations, MJ-2,<br />
by order of the President. Further appointments within the<br />
Operational Group to follow. The primary responsibilities of<br />
the MJ-2 position will be two. The first will be<br />
administra-tive and collational, gathering and synthesizing<br />
all output from all other MAJIC positions and transmitting<br />
them in an orderly manner to MJ- 1. The second will be<br />
diplomatic. MJ-2 will create an office (Designation: SIGMA)<br />
that will seek means of communicating with the aliens.</p>
<p>MJ-3 Position</p>
<p>The MJ-3 position is the Civilian Operations Coordinator<br />
re-sponsible for propaganda and maintenance of public<br />
igno-rance in the face of extensive and obvious alien<br />
activities, which include substantial and publicly visible<br />
flyovers of Un-identified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Identified<br />
Alien Craft (IACs). They also apparently include the abduction<br />
of civil-ians as well as military personnel for unknown<br />
reasons. The primary MJ-3 mission is to guard the fact that<br />
<span class="genmed"><u>government</u></span> cannot prevent these activities and does not know<br />
their pur-pose. MJ-3 will operate a program of denial and<br />
ridicule. The natural skepticism of journalists will be<br />
enlisted by total, ab-solute and blanket denial of any and all<br />
sightings, disappear-ances, observations of landed craft, etc.<br />
This program will be carried out no matter how obvious the<br />
truth of a given report. It is essential  that NO<br />
sighting no matter how obvious be explained as an &#8220;unknown.&#8221;<br />
Such explanation may lead to difficult questions and<br />
journalistic demands and will threaten this program.<br />
Further, MJ-3 will orchestrate the ridi-cule of civilians who<br />
come forward with witness accounts. If they are persistent,<br />
such civilians will be methodically dis-credited. Persons<br />
associated with scientific institutions and universities who<br />
are too interested in this subject will be warned away. Should<br />
they persist strong measures will be taken as appropriate. The<br />
atmosphere of denial and ridicule is intended to curtail<br />
public understanding, and frighten non-MAJIC-associated<br />
scientists into ignoring the whole area. MJ-3 will also be<br />
responsible for the infiltration of &#8221;flying saucer&#8221; study<br />
groups now springing up as a by-product of recent radio and<br />
newspaper attention. All cover operations will be coordinated<br />
by MJ-3.</p>
<p>MJ-4 Position</p>
<p>The MJ-4 Position is Coordinator of Military Activities. The<br />
Army <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> BLUE TEAM set up to retrieve alien objects and<br />
remains will advise MJ-4 of all its activities. All MAJIC-<br />
related military operations will be coordinated by this<br />
office, including those carried out after the impending<br />
transfer of BLUE TEAM to Air Materiel Command from its present<br />
S-2 Intelligence status. MJ-4 will manage Project REDLIGHT in<br />
cooperation with AFMC and AFOC with the mission of flying any<br />
intact alien craft that may be recovered. A civilian-based<br />
National Reconnaissance Organization will be established to<br />
provide site security for all activities relating to alien<br />
craft, their movements and attempts to fly them.</p>
<p>MJ-5 Position</p>
<p>The MJ-5 Position is Coordinator of Security. All incoming<br />
personnel must receive MAJIC clearance. This clearance can<br />
only be granted to persons able to pass the most stringent<br />
tests of background and loyalty. MAJIC clearance will be given<br />
only after stringent FBI clearance investigation. Should a<br />
situation develop where MAJIC clearance cannot be ex-tended to<br />
a given elected individual above the MJ-1 level, that<br />
individual will be isolated from all knowledge of MAJIC For<br />
the duration of his term of office. MAJIC clearance<br />
proce-dures apply to all persons exposed to any MAJIC<br />
informa-tion, no matter how trivial, and will be applied to<br />
elected as well as appointed officials.</p>
<p>MJ-6 Position</p>
<p>The MJ-6 position is an internal executive position. MJ-6 is<br />
responsible for all record-keeping and isolation of MAJIC-<br />
related files within the Library of Congress and related<br />
collection centers such as military document centers. This<br />
posi-tion will maintain not only a record-keeping division but<br />
also a research division that will be devoted to the discovery<br />
and classification of related isolates from other branches,<br />
such as FBI or <span class="genmed"><u>Air Force</u></span> documents that incidentally refer to<br />
MAJIC, MAJESTIC or related activities. It will coordinate all<br />
activities with MJ-9.</p>
<p>MJ-7 Position</p>
<p>J-7 is Coordinator of Allied Relations. MJ-7 will develop<br />
liaison with presently forming Allied alien activities<br />
organiza-tions. MJ-7(A) will provide civilian liaison to these<br />
organiza-tions, and MJ-7(B) will provide military liaison.</p>
<p>MJ-8 Position</p>
<p>J-8 is Coordinator of Soviet Bloc Relations. MJ-8 will<br />
at-tempt to create an atmosphere of complete and open sharing<br />
of information, in view of the apparently hostile nature of<br />
the alien incursion and the obvious need to cooperate at the<br />
highest levels in order to achieve a meaningful and effective<br />
human response to the possible arrival of massive alien force.</p>
<p>MJ-9 Position</p>
<p>J-9 is Project Historian. The historical mission is twofold.<br />
First, historians shall be enlisted to attempt to determine<br />
the extent of alien activity prior to the present time.<br />
Second. a MAJIC Historical Bureau shall receive<br />
lldocuments from all units and prepare and maintain a<br />
large-scale historical re-source for use in briefing and as a<br />
source of reference.</p>
<p>MJ-10 to MJ-12 Positions</p>
<p>These are scientific positions.</p>
<p>MJ-10 Position</p>
<p>J-10 is Coordinator for the Physical Sciences. Subgroups will<br />
include Astrophysics, Propulsion, Electromagnetics, Par-ticle<br />
and Atomic Physics and other areas to be added as<br />
as asneeded. The primary mission of the MJ-10 position is to<br />
collect data and provide meaningful answers regarding the<br />
science behind the amazing alien craft and their apparent<br />
mastery of such forces as gravity, and the nature,<br />
capabili-ties, and limitations of their weapons.</p>
<p>MJ-11 Position</p>
<p>J-11 is Coordinator for Biological and Behavioral Sciences.<br />
The mission of the MJ-11 position is to collect information as<br />
to the nature of alien biology, brain function and behavior.<br />
It is especially important it be determined if any viruses,<br />
bacte-ria, gases, chemicals or radioactive elements might be<br />
effec-tive as weapons.</p>
<p>MJ-12 Position</p>
<p>J-12 is overall Coordinator of Scientific Activities. Under<br />
J-12 will be two subsidiary positions, MJ-12(A) and MJ-12(B).<br />
J-12(A) will be coordinator of defense-related<br />
scien-tific activities, with priority on the development of<br />
weapons/strategies which will provide the US with an effective<br />
deterrent where none whatsoever now exists. MJ-12(B) will be<br />
coordinator of other scientific activities, with priority on<br />
the understanding of the physical nature of the aliens and<br />
their motives/objectives.</p>
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