"Report of UFO Crash in '47 Called False by Science Panel"

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By Paul of www.ufocrashsite.com

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1987

Report of U.F.O. Crash in '47
Called False by Science Panel

   WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) --
Documents purported to be from the
Truman White House that say the Pen-
tagon recovered a crashed flying sau-
cer and the bodies of four alien crea-
tures in 1947 are "clumsy counter-
feits," according to a report by a group
of scientists.

   The report was released Monday by
the group, the Committee for the Scien-
tific Investigation of Claims of the
Paranormal. The report was prepared
by Phillip J Klass, the Washington edi-
tor of Aviation Week & Space Tech-
nology magazine and a leading de-
bunker of reports on unidentified flying
objects.

   The chairman of the committee,
Paul Kurtz, a University of Buffalo phi-
losophy professor, said the documents
represented "one of the most deliber-
ate acts of deception ever perpetrated
against the news media dn the pub-
lic."

   The documents which said Presi-
dent Truman created a secret unit
called Majestic 12, or MJ-12, to study
the saucer and its contents, were made
public in May by William L. Moore, a
researcher on U.F.O.'s.

       White House Report

   Mr. Moore told reporters then that
his research team had found a key
White House reprt in the National Ar-
chives dated July 14, 1954. It appeared
to have been prepared for the Air
Force by Robert Culter, a White House
aide, and mentioned a change in plans
for an MJ-12 briefing for President
Eisenhower.

   Mr. klass said his research showed
that the document was flase. He said
that Mr. Cutler was not in Washington
when the report was supposedly writ-
ten, having left for Europe 11 days
earlier.

According to a National Archives

memo released by Mr. Klass, the Ar-
chives is also suspicious because Mr.
Moore's does not bear the required top
secret registration number and is
marked "Top Secret Restricted Infor-
mation" -- a designation that was not
used until the Nixon Administration.

   Another document in which Truman
supposedly ordered Defense Secretary
James Forestal to create MJ-12, is
also a forgery, Mr. Klass said.

   The document did not follow the for-
amt Truman used in writing letters to
his Cabinet secretaties and was
created by superimposing a spurious
message on a photograph of an authen-
tic Truman letter, the editor concluded.


Sources --
---------- http://www.nsa.gov/ufo/ufo00007.pdf

UFO GROUP WANTS SECRET DOCUMENTS
    BY ROBERT SANGEORGE
  WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A GORUP OF UFO BUFFS WANTS THE SUPREME COURT
TO ORDER THE RELEASE OF MYSTERIOUS MATERIAL COLLECTED ABOUT PURPORTED
VOYAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE AND HELD BY THE SUPER-SECRET NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY.

  A NEW YORK CITY-BASED GROUP CALLED CITIZENS AGAINST UFO
(UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT) SECRECY WANTS THE JUSTICES TO ORDER THE
AGENCY TO RELEASE THE 135 DOCUMENTS UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
ACT

  THE CASE BEGAN IN LATE 1978 WHEN THE UFO GROUP FILED A FORMAL
REQUEST FOR 18 AGENCY DOCUMENTS UNDER THE INFORMATION LAW. THE
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY FLATLY REFUSED TO RELEASE THE INFORMATION,
CLAIMING IT IS EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER THE LAW.

  A FEW MONTHS LATER, THE GROUP EXPANDED ITS REQUEST TO INCLUDE "ALL
DOCUMENTS IN THE POSSESSION OR UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY RELATING TO OR PERTAINING TO UNIDENTIFIED FLYING
OBJECTS AND THE UFO PHENOMENA."

  IN A RESPONSE, THE AGENCY ADMITTED IT HAS 135 SUCH "UFO-RELATED"
DOCUMENTS, BUT AGAIN DECLINED TO RELEASE THEM, IT CLAIMED SUCH
DISCLOSURE WOULD REVEAL SOME OF ITS TOP SECRET ELECTRONIC MONITORING
AND INTERCEPTION TECHNIQUES.

  THE AGENCY IS A DEFENSE DEPARTMENT UNIT HEADQUARTERED AT FORT
MEADE, MD. ONE OF ITS MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES IS TO GATHER FOREIGN
INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION BY INTERCEPTING RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SENT TO
OR FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.

  THE AGENCY TOLD UFO BUFFS, "NSA MUST FOCUS ITS INTERCEPTION
ACTIVITIES ON THOSE PARTICULAR COMMUNICATIONS LINES, CHANNELS, LINKS
OR SYSTEMS WHICH YIELD THE HIGHEST PROPORTION OF USEFUL FOREIGN
INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION.

  "WHAT FORIEGN GOVERNMENTS DO NOT KNOW IS WHICH OF THE VAST NUMBER
OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS NSA ATTEMPTS TO INTERCEPT, WHICH ARE
INTERCEPTED, AND, OF THOSE THAT ARE INTERCEPTED, WHICH YIELD TO NSA
PROCESSING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES," NSA POLICY CHIEF EUGENE YEATES
SAID IN A LETTER TO THE UFO GROUP.

  "IT IS THE PROTECTION OF THIS CRITICAL INFORMATION THAT IS AT THE
HEART OF THE INSTANT CASE," HE ADDED.

  THAT REFUSAL PROMPTED THE ORGANIZATION TO FILE SUIT IN FEDERAL
DISTRICT COURT IN WASHINGTON.

  THE AGENCY, URGING THE COURT TO THROW OUT THE CASE, FILED ONE
PUBLIC AFFIDAVIT AND ONE CONFIDENTIAL AFFIDAVIT THAT WAS REVIEWED IN
PRIVATE BY JUDGE GERHARD GESELL.

  THE JUDGE DISMISSED THE CASE IN 1980, DECLARING, "RELEASE OF THIS
MATERIAL COULD SERIOUSLY JEOPARDIZE THE WORK OF THE AGENCY AND THE
SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES."

  THE UFO GROUP THEN TOOK THE DISPUTE TO THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, BUT THAT PANEL AFFIRMED GESELLS'S
DECISION.

  APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT, THE UFO BUGGS ARGUED, "THE
DISTRICT COURT ACCEPTED WITHOUT QUESTION THE NSA'S OVERBROAD CLAIM OF
EXEMPTION" FROM THE INFORMATION ACT.

  THEY WENT ON TO ARGUE THAT UFOS HAVE "BEEN OBSERVED FOR THE PAST
35 YEARS BY RELIABLE AND REPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS INCLUDING SCIENTISTS
AND MILITARY PERSONNEL."
UPI 02-15-02 07:38 PES


Sources --
---------- http://www.nsa.gov/ufo/ufo00007.pdf