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(folder 45)" of the Gerald R. Ford Congressional Papers at the
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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1967: Unidentified Flying Objects, July - - November (folder
B79-45)
Gerald R. Ford Congressional Papers
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
(Zamaites, Harold)
July 14, 1967
Mr. Harold Zamaites
219 Cutler, S.W.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49507
Dear Mr. Zamaites:
Mrs. Westfield of my Grand Rapids office told me of your desire
to receive a copy of Project Blue Book prepared by the United
States Air Force. I am pleased to enclose the latest edition
the Air Force has given us.
Because of your interest in unidentified flying objects, I
thought you would also be interested in the enclosed booklet
prepared by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library
of Congress entitled, "Facts About Unidentified Flying Objects."
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
As you are already aware, I had called for an investigation of
this matter in the Spring of 1966. Enclosed are some of my news
releases in this regard which I thought might also be of interest
to you. Also enclosed are copies of two news articles discussing
the current investigation being conducted at the University of
Colorado.
If I can ever be of further service to you, Mr. Zamaites, please
do not hesitate to let me know.
Warmest personal regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Enc.
7/12/67
Mr. Harold Zamaites
219 Cutler S.W.
G.R., Mich. 49507
Would like alco py of
U.S.AirForce BLUE BOOK on UFO's
Thank you.
ew
GERALD R. FORD
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
FIFTH DISTRICT, MICHIGAN
WASHINGTON, D.C., ADDRESS:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Congress of the United States
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ADDRESS:
425 CHERRY STREET SE.
GRAND RAPIDS 2, MICHIGAN
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
(Nieiki
(Nickless, Roy M.)
July 6, 1967
Mr. Roy M. Nickless
2719 Madison, S.E.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49507
Dear Mr. Nickless:
Mrs. Westfield of my Grand Rapids office told me of your desire
to receive a copy of Project Blue Book prepared by the United
States Air Force.
T am pleased to enclose the latest edition the Air Force has given
us. There is no charge for this publication. Because of your
interest in unidentified flying objects, I thought you would also
be interested in the enclosed booklet prepared by the Legislative
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
Reference Service of the Library of Congress entitled "Facts About
Unidentified Flying Objects."
Thank you, Mr. Nickless, for your kind personal comments, and I
trust that I may continue to merit your confidence. If I can ever
be of further service to you, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Warmest personal regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Enc.
7/3/67
Mr. Roy M. Nickless
2719 Madison S.E.
G.R., Mich. 49507
Wonders if Mr. F. can obtain a copy of
BLUE BOOK ON U F O's (printed by govt. )
Has tried to obtain locally, but unable.
(I forgot to cover with him if there might
be a cost involved).
Says Mr. F. is doing very good work and we
need more like him in Wash.
ew
GERALD R. FORD, JR.
FIFTH DISTRICT, MICHIGAN
MEMBER OF COMMITTEE ON
APPROPRIATIONS
Congress of the United States
house of Representatives
Mashington, D. C.
LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
(Kloac, William)
July 27, 1967
Mr. William Kloae
1140 Edna, S.E.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49507
Dear Mr. Kloac:
Hrs. Westfield of my Grand Rapids Office has told me of your
interest in unidentified flying objects.
As you are already aware, 1 had called for an investigation of
this matter in the Spring of 1966. Enclosed are some of my news
releases in this regard which I thought might be of interest to
you. Also enclosed are copies of two news articles discussing
the current investigation being conducted at the University of
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
Colorado.
I have further pursued this subject for you by contacting the Air
Force and the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of
Congress. Their contributions have also been enclosed.
It is my pleasure to have been able to be of service to you, Mr.
Kloac; and if I can ever be of further assistance to you, please
do not hesitate to let ne know.
Warmest personal regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Enc.
7/25/67
William Kloac
1140 Edna S.E.
G.R., Mich. 49507
Would appreciate any info you can send
him on
UFO's (Project Blue Book??)
Thank you.
ew
GERALD R. FORD
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
FIFTH DISTRICT, MICHIGAN
WASHINGTON, D.C., ADDRESS:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Congress of the United States
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ADDRESS:
425 CHERRY STREET SE.
GRAND RAPIDS 2, MICHIGAN
house of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
Moore, John R.)
August 15, 1967
Mr. John R. Moore
3019 MacArthur Road
Muskegon, Michigan 49442
Dear Mr. Moore:
Thank you for your recent letter concerning your interest in
unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
As you may be aware, I have repeatedly recommended that thorough
investigative action be taken and the public be informed concern-
ing this matter. I had called for an investigation of this matter
in the Spring of 1966. Enclosed are some of the news releases
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
which I issued at that time which I thought might be of interest
to you.
We trust that the current investigation being conducted at the
University of Colorado under the chairmanship of Dr. Edward U.
Condon will provide the public with all the facts we need about
UFOs. I am looking forward, with all other interested citizens,
to seeing the results of this important investigation. Enclosed
are two news articles concerning this current study.
Because of your interest I am also inclosing a booklet prepared by
the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress entitled,
"Facts About Unidentified Flying Objects" and the latest copy we have
of Project Blue Book explaining the work on UFOs by the Air Force.
Thank you again, Mr. Moore, for your letter, and if I can ever be
of further service to you please do not hesitate to let me know.
Kindest regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Enc.
Sohn R. more
B019 mad arthur Rd.
Maskeyon, mich 19442
the Foxorable Gerald Ford
House Representative
Inashington, De
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Sincerely Yours,
John Brown
LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
(Treadway, Lee W.)
September 26, 1967
Mr. Lee W. Treadway
143 East Walnut Street
Stockton, California 95204
Dear Mr. Treadway:
Thank you very much for your note of September 21 concerning
information on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
As you may be aware, I have repeatedly recommended that thorough
investigative action be taken and the public be informed concern-
ing this matter. I had called for an investigation of this matter
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I IBRARY
in the Spring of 1966. Enclosed are some of the news releases
which I issued at that time.
Because of your interest 1 an also enclosing a booklet prepared by
the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress entitled,
Facts About Unidentified Flying Objects" and the latest copy we have
of Project Blue Book explaining the work on UFOs by the Air Force.
Kindest regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Encl.
borather
143 East Walnut Street
Stockton, California 95204
September 21, 1967
The Honorable Gerald Ford
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Would you be kind enough to forward the latest news releases
on unidentified flying objects to the above address.
Very truly yours,
See W Treasway
Lee W. Treadway
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LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
(Wood, Dorothy)
September 26, 1967
Ms. Dorothy Wood
1922 Rutledge Way
Stockton, California 95207
Dear Ms. Wood:
Thank you very much for your note of September 21 concerning
information on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
As you may be aware, I have repeatedly recommended that thorough
investigative action be taken and the public be informed concern-
ing this matter. 1 had called for an investigation of this matter
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
in the Spring of 1966. Enclosed are some of the news releases
which I issued at that time.
Because of your interest I am also enclosing a booklet prepared by
the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress entitled,
"Facts About Unidentified Flying Objects" and the latest copy we have
of Project Blue Book explaining the work on UFOs by the Air Force.
Kindest regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Encl.
Sept. 21, 1967
Please send me latest news release on UFO's.
Thank you,
Dorothy Wood
1922 Rutledge Way
Stockton, Calif. 95207
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PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
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LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
(Madancy, Ronald)
August 15, 1967
Mr. Ronald Madancy
197 Whittier Avenue
Providence, Rhode Island 02909
Dear Mr. Madancy:
Thank you for your letter of August 10 concerning your interest in
unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
As you may be aware, I have repeatedly recommended that thorough
investigative action be taken and the public be informed concern-
ing this matter. I had called for an investigation of this matter
in the Spring of 1966. Enclosed are some of the news releases
which I issued at that time which I thought might be of interest
to you.
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I IBRARY
We trust that the current investigation being conducted at the
University of Colorado under the chairmanship of Dr. Edward U.
Condon will provide the public with all the facts we need about
UFOs. I am looking forward, with all other interested citizens,
to seeing the results of this important investigation. Enclosed
are two news articles concerning this current study.
Because of your interest I am also enclosing a booklet prepared by
the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress entitled,
"Facts About Unidentified Flying Objects" and the latest copy we have
of Project Blue Book explaining the work on UFOs by the Air Force.
Thank you again, Mr. Madancy, for your letter, and if I can ever be
of further service to you please do not hesitate to let me know.
Kindest regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Enc.
August 10, 1967
Dear Mr. Ford,
I would like to ask a few questions about Unidentified Flying Objects.
Why is the Air Force secret on U.F.O.'s. The Air Force is not telling
all they know. I do not think that is fair at all. I would like to
request congress to look into this matter as soon as possible. The
American people should be more informed of this serious matter in
the near future.
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
I am a member of the Saucer News located in Fort Lee, N.J. As you
know, much research is being done by respectable organizations such as
ours. I am very interested in this subject. What possible steps would
I have to take in order to accomplish my interest and to do better
research for the United States of America.
A field of deeper work would be preferred by me, if possible.
The reason for this letter is that many U.F.O.'s are sighted day and
night all over the world. Many reports and photographs have been taken and
yet there is SO much covering up going on. People have seen theses
spacecrafts for many years, even before Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947.
The C.I.A. is one for covering up these U.F.O.'s. I believe, Mr. Ford,
that these flying saucers are intelligently controlled by a far
superior race and they have been observing us for a long period of time.
These saucers are interplanetary and the Holy Bible calls attention
to U.F.O's.
Waiting to hear from you soon.
Very truly yours,
Ronald Ronald Madancy madancy
197 Whittier Ave.
Providence, R.I. 02909
RM/dr
LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
(McKay, Joseph Mrs.)
September 20, 1967
Mrs. Joseph McKay
444 Bernell Avenue
Turlock, California 95380
Dear Mrs. McKay:
Thank you very much for your note of September 11 concerning
information on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
As you may be aware, I have repeatedly recommended that thorough
investigative action be taken and the public be informed concern-
ing this matter. I had called for an investigation of this matter
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
in the Spring of 1966, Enclosed are some of the news releases
which I issued at that time.
We trust that the current investigation being conducted at the
University of Colorado under the chairmanship of Dr. Edward U.
Condon will provide the public with all the facts we need about
UFOs. I am looking forward, with all other interested citizens,
to seeing the results of this important investigation. Enclosed
are two news articles concerning this current study.
Because of your interest I am also enclosing a booklet prepared by
the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress entitled,
"Facts About Unidentified Flying Objects" and the latest copy we have
of Project Blue Book explaining the work on UFOs by the Air Force.
Kindest regards.
Sincerely,
GerAld R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Encl.
444 Bernell are,
Turlock. Calif
Sept, 11, 1967
Congressman Gerald Ford
Washington P.C.
Dear Shard
Will you please send
me your latest U.T.O
news Bulletin, I
noved like to be placed
on your mailing list,
yours Truly
mrs.) Joseph McKay
444 Bernell are
Turlock, 95380 Calif
[Legisaltive]
"U.F.O."
(PRICE, Peter)
TO: U-Colo. contract
October 30,1967
Mr. Peter Price
2336 Eastern, S. E.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Dear Peter,
I am sorry that I didn't have a chance to visit with you when you were
in the office on October 11th. You indicated at that time that you
would like to have a copy of the full and complete text of the official
order issued by the Air Force in connection with the UFO investigation
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
being conducted by the University of Colorado.
We requested this information from the Secretary of the Air Force and
have been sent that which is enclosed. I hope this is what you wanted
to see. If it is not, please let me know and we will try to obtain
additional information.
Warmest personal regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:mr
Encl.
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(BROWN, Harold)
re: UofC investigation
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October 16, 1967
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Honorable Harold Brown
Secretary of the Air Force
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Secretary:
You know of my interest in the investigation presently being conducted
by the University of Colorado on unidentified floying objects.
I would very much appreciate having a copy of the full and complete
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
official order defining the responsibility of the University and the
scope of the investigation.
Your cooperation in supplying me with this information will be appre-
ciated.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:mr
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 20330
WASHINGTON OF DELINES
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OCT 27 1967
Dear Mr. Ford:
This is in response to your recent letter to the Secretary of
the Air Force concerning the investigation of unidentified flying
objects conducted by the University of Colorado.
We are attaching the documents you have requested. Your
interest in this matter is appreciated and we hope the information
fully satisfies your inquiry.
Sincerely,
menium S. Set
MERVIN G. GETTY, Cofonel, USAF
Deputy Chief, Plans Group
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I 1BRARY
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study of unidentified flying objects.
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Resolved, That the Committee on Science and Astro-
2 nautics, acting as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized
3 and directed to conduct a full and complete investigation and
4 study of unidentified flying objects.
5
For the purpose of carrying out this resolution the com-
6 mittee or subcommittee is authorized to sit and act during the
7 present Congress at such times and places within the United
8 States, including any Commonwealth or possession thereof,
9 whether the House is in session, has recessed, or has ad-
10 journed, to hold such hearings, and to require, by subpena or
11 otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses
12 and the production of such books, records, correspondence,
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1 memorandums, papers, and documents, as it deems necessary;
2 except that neither the committee nor any subcommittee
3 thereof may sit while the House is meeting unless special
4 leave to sit shall have been obtained from the House. Sub-
5 penas may be issued under the signature of the chairman of
6 the committee or any member of the committee designated by
7 him, and may be served by any person designated by such
8 chairman or member.
9
The committee shall report to the House as soon as
10 practicable during the present Congress the results of its
11 investigation and study, together with such recommendations
12 as it deems advisable. Any such report which is made when
13 the House is not in session shall be filed with the Clerk of
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Mr. Gerald Ford
Office of the Minority Leader
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear and respected sir :-
I am most appreciative of your excellent letter dated November the 10th, together
with the 1966 UFO data you so kindly sent. I have noticed that the truly great
evince this characteristic: kindness! How simple it would have been just to not
to have taken the time to reply! I consider you, Mr. Ford, one of the truly great
men living today.
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
Let us hope that the Colorado investigation shall produce results. I, personally,
have my doubts anything shall come of it, first, because it is Air Force sponsored
and second, the findings shall have to pass through the National Academy of Sciences
If you will read M.K. Jessups UFO books published in 1955 and 1956, you will read
my prediction that the Air Force will never admit to the reality of "flying saucers"
simply because such an august body will not admit to the reality of shall we say.
the supernatural! I believe the whole reason we have not had an answer to the UFO
problem, officially, is precisely because we refuse to admit to the reality of plain,
old-fashioned GHOSTS ( which, have been absolutely proven to exist ). Now imagine
the government addressing the public declaring the UFOs are "ghosts". It simply
would not do such a thing. Frankly, I do not expect an answer from the government
on this subject during my lifetime, and I am now 53.
I have spent thirty years investigating the paranormal ( supernatural ) and rest as-
sured I am not one to be taken in by fakery. I am very hard to convince. I have no
faith in "mediums" and wild claims, and "contactees" leave me absolutely cold. I am
swayed solely by fact. I evolved the ctoplasmic animal" theory relative to "fly-
ing saucers" in July 1947. Aside from a tiny mention of this theory in the Saturday
Evening Post (April-May 1949) and a word of it in LIFE (April 1952) nothing was
said of it till Jessup carried it in his books in 1955-56, and Vince Gaddis mention-
ed it in his TRUE article for August 1967. But what a splash that Klass "plasma"
notion made! Everyone was talking about it, even though it does not explain the
typical "saucer" at, all!
I hope you will read Hynek's latest article on UFOs in the current Playboy magazine.
- 2 -
In 1966 I exchanged some correspondence with Mr. Hynek, and in his last letter to
me, Hynek wrote, If I have decided to take your advice and dare to be a Daniel".
Since then, he has stood on his own two feet
thank heaven. No longer will
he be a controlled puppet of the Air Force.
I have claimed that the "saucer" is propelled by "teleportation", is mentally simi-
lar to the porpoise or chimpanzee, is capable of materialization and demateriali-
zation, and "lives" in the ionosphere, its natural habitat. But most people want
to believe that the UFOs represent vehicles from outer-space, peopled with benevo-
lent beings who are so vastly "superior" to us poor earthlings, and my theory is NOT in
the least popular! Keyhoe, of NICAP, for example, is a dyed-in-the-wool believer
the objects are of bolt and weld, and piloted by "superior" beings. I say this is
not realistic thinking, for the typical "saucer" wobbles, changes shape in flight,
and is often a transparent object, or a simple ring ( see the latest Dell quarterly
(on all newsstands, I believe) titled "Elying Saucers and UFO Reports".)
I do not pretend to have ALL the answers to the UFO enigma. I believe the disc-shape
object is an "ectoplasmic" shell, or ideo-form, created by the ectoplasmic" blobs
"piloting" it through space. I cannot explain the noisy "dirigibe" type objects
observedand heard by thousands in the 1890s and early 1900s. There actually MAY be
some aerial objects piloted by human beings
but I think they are in the minority.
that the typical object seen today is an "ectoplasmic" shell housing an animal in-
telligence. I am sure, that, were the entities "human" we'd already have had a
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD BRARY
contact
a bonafide contact involving government officials.
Now,
on
another
subject
the separation of church and state
I request that you
take a good, long look at the Post Office's Postal Inspection set-up. Playboy has
thrown much light on postal antics involving letter opening, harrassment of "suspects",
etc.. I have been researching torts of justice for 25 years, and have sent much
data to Cornelius Gallagher and Edward V. Long. "Obscenity" is still too phantasmal
to be defined ( despite the puerile Supreme Court "definition" of it ) yet the devout,
churchy postal boys presume to KNOW exactly what is and what is not "obscene"
In a word, lets separate CHURCH MORALITY FROM THE POST OFFICE. At present, the P.
Inspection Service is an extension of the Church, severely persecuting those who fall
victim to its many HIDDEN-TRAP LAWS ( which the Post Office steadfastly REFUSES to
morally and intelligently post up in its offices throughout the nation!). I do not
see the propriety in a government agency dealing with moral issues strictly of the
church. Mr. Ford, I have worked for over 20 years to have cleverly concealed postal
laws publicized in our schools and in our federal buildings. I havegot absolutely
nowhere. Let us take church morality out of the Post Office! Lord knows, harmless
prayers were yanked out of our public schools, and I understand a group is trying
to have a beautiful postage etamp bearing the picture of the Virgin Mary, banned.
This is childish nonsense. The real thing to get rid of is the Inquistion-like
involvement of the Post Office with SEX!
Very kind wishes!
Sincerely,
JOHN PHILIP BESSOR
P.S.
Any way to investigate the realty business? Here is inflation, runaway inflat-
ion, at its worst!
LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O"
(Bessor, John)
November 10, 1967
Mr. John Bessor
6349 Walnut Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206
Dear Mr. Bessor:
Thank you for your letter of November 6 concerning your interest
in unidentified flying objects.
As you may be aware, I have repeatedly recommended that thorough
investigative action be taken and the public be informed concern-
ing this matter. 1 had called for an investigation of this matter
in the Spring of 1966. Enclosed are some of the news releases
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
which I issued at that time.
As you undoubtedly know, the Air Force has authorized a thorough
and complete investigation of UFOs. This investigation is being
conducted at this present time at the University of Colorado under
the chairmanship of Dr. Edward U. Condon and we hope it will pro-
vide the public with all the facts we need about UFOs. I am looking
forward with all other interested citizens, to seeing the results
of this important investigation. Enclosed are two news articles
concerning this current study
Because of your interest in UFOs I as also enclosing a booklet
prepared by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of
Congress entitled, "Facts About Unidentified Flying Objects" and
the latest copy we have of Project Blue Book explaining the work
on UFOs by the Air Force.
Kindest regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
Encl.
N
BESSOR, 7-B
6349 WALNUT STREET
Horolly
PITTSBURGH, PA. 15205
Nov. 6th, 1967
Dear Gerald Ford :-
You and Senator Dirksen are about the only two men of action in Washington.
Please read the enclosed and see what you can do about this whole crazy mess.
Something very, very funny going on. Is the C.I.A. behind the whole "mystery
men" thing
or what ?
We are paying, in taxes, the fat. salaries of government officials, and they
should "level" with us.
I have done extensive "saucer" research for 20 years, and these "men in black"
are wilder than the UFOs themselves, believe me! At first I thought they were
products of over-active imaginations, but I have come to think differently
about them. PLEASE SMOKLOUT THE TRUTH AND LET US KNOW.
Cordially,
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
BESSOR, 7-B
NOT
RETURN
6349 WALNUT STREET
PITTSBURGH;"BA,
15206
The following story may sound
months I have trekked through
like the plot of the recent hit
UFO
some 20 states and talked with
movie, "Blowup," but it occurred
hundreds of people who have re-
several months before that film
portedly seen unidentified flying
was released.
objects and who have even
Late in 1966, a professional pho-
stranger stories to tell, stories
tographer in California was out on
a routine assignment when he
"AGENTS
which I was able to check out and
document. That anonymous Cali-
heard an eerie whirring sound
fornia photographer was not the
overhead. He looked out of his car
unearthly metallic disk hovering
OF
first to lose a set of flying saucer
and was stunned to see a huge,
pictures in a bizarre way. Nor will
he be the last.
directly over him. Fortunately, he
Somebody, somewhere doesn't
was well equipped with excellent
TERROR"
want certain types of UFO photo-
cameras and lenses and he was
graphs to be seen. In fact, there
able to click his shutter several
are several somebodies from sev-
times before the machine shot
eral different independent groups
straight up and vanished.
all working to suppress informa-
Believing that he might have
tion about UFOs, collect negatives
some sensational-and highly sal-
and prints of good photos, and
able-photographs, he rushed back
wipe away whatever traces may
to his studio and dunked the film
be left behind by these mysterious
into the developer. The photos
objects. Some of these agents are
turned out even better than he
directly employed by the United
had expected and the photogra-
States Government and are fol-
pher delightedly made several en-
By John A. Keel
lowing orders. Others seem to be
largements and hung them up to
playing the same game for rea-
dry.
sons of their own and are actu-
Feeling quite pleased with him-
ally being hunted by the govern-
self, he left his studio for a few
ment agents! In January of this
hours. He did not tell anyone
year Lt. Col. George P. Freeman,
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD IBRARY
about the UFO pictures. No one
current Pentagon spokesman for
knew that he had taken them.
the Air Force's Project Blue Book,
But when he returned to his dark-
revealed that the government was
room later he discovered that
concerned over frequent reports
someone had broken in and stolen
Fantastic truth behind the
of men in Air Force uniforms who
all the prints and negatives. They
mysterious "men in black"
allegedly attempted to silence UFO
did not touch any of his other
witnesses. We discussed several
pictures, nor did they attempt to
who masquerade as
cases which I had been investi-
steal any of his valuable equip-
ment. It was obvious that who-
government investigators but
gating, including the numerous
sightings around the Wanaque
ever entered his, studio had been
whose real job is to seize
Reservoir in N.J. in 1966. Accord-
after only one thing: the UFO
pictures of flying saucers,
ing to several witnesses there, Air
pictures.
Force officers had harassed them
Who was responsible for this
suppress all evidence of
and ordered them to keep quiet.
theft will probably never be
sightings and contacts, and
"We checked with the local Air
known. The baffled photographer
Force base," Freeman told me,
finally called a well-known scien-
frighten all witnesses into
"and discovered that no one con-
tist, who was also a civilian UFO
complete silence-at the risk
nected with the Air Force had
investigator, and told him the
visited Wanaque on the date in
story in hushed tones, asking that
of their lives!
question. Whoever they were, they
his name be kept secret. After all,
weren't from the Air Force."
no one had seen the pictures and
I wrote a newspaper story about
he didn't want to be accused of
these "mystery men" and it made
making up a crackpot tale. We
headlines throughout the world.
have only his word that the pic-
Although many UFO buffs chuck-
tures ever existed at all.
led over the story, suggesting that
A year ago I would have taken
it was just another "cover-up" de-
this man's account, folded it
signed to reduce the criticisms
neatly, and tossed it into the "cir-
against the Air Force, the Penta-
cular file." But in the past 12
gon hierarchy took it quite seri-
OCTOBER
29
ously. Within days after the story
UFO AGENTS
D.C., in a single day, produced
appeared a confidential letter went
continued
rumblings from the White House
out from the Pentagon to all com-
on down. The omniscient Central
mands (please see letter on page
Intelligence Agency bounded into
31)
the situation, and, as usual, tripped
Who are these men who dare to
over its long black cloak and fell
masquerade in Air Force uni-
flat on its perpetually reddened
forms? "We haven't been able to
face.
find out anything about them,"
Some UFO investigators
A top secret panel of leading
Colonel Freeman admitted. "By
scientists, Air Force officers, and
posing as Air Force officers and
who've been warned by the
C.I.A. agents met behind closed
government agents they are com-
"Silence Group" have
doors in Washington in 1953 to
mitting a Federal offense. We
reconsider the whole UFO phe-
would sure like to catch one."
desperately burned their files
nomenon. Prior to that conference,
Of course, we've all heard the
and abandoned all interest in
an engineer and Intelligence officer
endless stories about the U.S. Air
Force's attempts to shut up UFO
the subject-others have
named Maj. Dewey Fournet worked
for several months preparing an
witnesses and suppress evidence.
simply vanished!
extensive presentation which out-
Those attempts have often been
lined the best-UFO sightings, radar
clumsy and ineffectual. But I now
trackings, Air Force incidents etc.
have documented proof that an-
He offered this mass of evidence
other group has been engaged in
to the C.I.A. panel, along with-the
the same kind of activity for years
endorsement of his superior offi-
-and has been getting away with
cers at ATIC.
it, much to the Pentagon's conster-
"He had eliminated each of the
nation. Furthermore, this second
caused all the UFO believers in
known and probable causes of
group has not been afraid to em-
Dayton to backtrack and in 1949
sightings," the final report of that
ploy wire-tapping, mail tampering,
they issued a 600-page report
panel stated, "leaving him 'extra-
thievery, and even physical vio-
called Project Grudge, which at-
terrestrial' as the only one remain-
lence in order to achieve their
tempted to "prove" that everyone
ing in many cases. His background
goals. After a long and detailed
was seeing weather balloons,
as an aeronautical engineer Cand
study of this bizarre undercover
meteors, and mirages. For the next
technical intelligence officer could
conspiracy I am forced to con-
two years, the Air Force had no
not be slighted. However, Othe
clude that the U.S.A.F. has,
official UFO investigating group.
Panel could not accept any of the
through a display of incredible
Flying saucers, they claimed, did
cases cited by him because they
stupidity, unwittingly been aiding
not exist and they weren't going
were raw, unevaluated reports."
these "mystery men."
to bother with the persistent UFO
They did not explain why they
To understand the complexity
reports.
considered Major Fournet's collec-
of this bewildering conspiracy, we
But in 1951, a group of irate
tion of hard data to be "raw" and
must first examine briefly the basis
scientists and industrialists, all
"unevaluated."
for the government's policies to-
very upset by the continual ap-
Another team, a group from the
ward the UFO phenomenon.
pearances of flying saucers over
Navy's Photo Interpretation Lab-
After a thorough study of the
their installations and factories,
oratory (P.I.L.), spent over 1,000
UFO incidents of 1947-48, the
applied pressure and caused the
hours analyzing a color motion
officers of the Air Technical Intel-
Air Force to reluctantly set Project
picture of flying saucers which
ligence Command (ATIC) at Day-
Blue Book. The late Capt. Edward
was considered by everyone to be
ton, Ohio, drew up a "Top Secret
Ruppelt was placed in charge of
authentic. They prepared graph
Estimate of the Situation." Their
the new project and he and his
plots of each of the 1600 frames
conclusion was that the unidenti-
staff, many of whom were ardent
in the film, showing the relative
fied flying objects were interplane-
UFO believers, worked hard and
motion of the objects and variation
tary vehicles. This detailed, care-
enthusiastically to make some
in their light intensity. When the
fully-thought-out document was
sense out of the mystery. In those
P.I.L. team appeared before the
presented to the then Chief of
early days they often released
Panel they received the same kind
Staff Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg.
details of interesting, "unexplain-
of reaction that had disappointed
To ATIC's chagrin, Vandenberg
ed" cases to civilian UFO investi-
Major Fournet. The learned panel-
threw it back in their faces, de-
gators and to the press.
ists brushed aside the charts and
claring that the Air Force could
A world-wide wave of flying
graphs and rejected outright the
not offer such a conclusion to the
saucer sightings in 1952, including
team's conclusions that the objects
public without solid physical
the appearance of 65 unidentified
in the film were "self-luminous,"
proof to back it up. This reaction
flying objects over Washington,
"intelligently controlled" and,
30
SAGA
naturally, of unknown origin.
According to the 1967 Project Blue
should be ignored as much as pos-
Thus the C.I.A. deftly disposed
Book report, there were only 1,501
sible.
of some important, and expensive,
sightings in 1952-399 sightings ap-
In addition, the Panel proposed a
UFO evidence that had been pains-
parently have been misplaced.]
program for "debunking" sightings
takingly prepared by Air Force
could not be justified. It was felt
and "training" the public. "The
and Naval investigators. The full
that there will always be sightings.
'debunking' aim would result in
text of the 1953 C.I.A. report was
Dangers might well exist re-
reduction in public interest in 'fly-
kept classified as "Secret" for 14
sulting from overloading of emer-
ing saucers," the Report stated,
years. (I have a complete copy of
gency reporting channels with
"which today evokes a strong psy-
this document in front of me as I
'false' information.
The con-
chological reaction. This education
write this.) The C.I.A. panel seems
sensus of the Panel was, based
could be accomplished by mass
to have decided that UFOs were
upon the history of the subject,
media such as television, motion
non-existent before they heard the
that the number of sightings could
pictures, and popular articles." The
evidence. And their report offers
be reasonably expected to increase
Panel went on to advise ATIC and
suggestions for the handling of
again this summer."
Project Blue Book on how to "de-
UFO information which clearly ex-
What the Panel was trying to
bunk" sightings and educate the
plains the confusions and con-
say was simply that, even though
public into believing that it was
spiracies which later developed.
the C.I.A. didn't believe in flying
all nothing but "swamp gas."
Here's another important quote:
saucers, they expected so many
Viewed in its entirety, the C.I.A.
"The Panel noted that the cost in
sightings to be reported that there
Report's tone is one of total dis-
technical manpower effort required
was a danger of official communi-
belief in the UFO phenomenon,
to follow up and explain every one
cations channels becoming jammed
even though it indicated, for un-
of the thousand or more reports
with UFO reports and data. To
specified reasons, that sightings
received through channels each
avoid this, the Panel was recom-
would increase.
year (1,900 in 1952) [Author's note:
mending that the UFO reports
(Continued on page 72)
OF
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20330
REPLY TO
1 March 1967
STATE
ATTN OF:
AFCCS
SUBJECT:
Impersonations of Air Force Officers
ADC
AFSC
HQCOMD USAF
SAC
TO:
AFCS
ATC
CAC
TAC
AFLC
AU
MAC
USAFSS
Information, not verifiable, has reached Hq USAF that persons claiming to
represent the Air Force or other Defense establishments have contacted
citizens who have sighted unidentified flying objects. In one reported
case an individual in civilian clothes, who represented himself as a member
of NORAD, demanded and received photos belonging to a private citizen. In
another, a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police and other
citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school room and told them
that they did not see what they thought they saw and that they should not
talk to anyone about the sighting. All military and civilian personnel and
particularly Information Officers and UFO Investigating Officers who hear of
such reports should immediately notify their local OSI offices.
HEWITT T. WHELESS, Whilen Lt General, USAF
Assistant Vice Chief of Staff
UFO "AGENTS OF TERROR"
he very sternly warned the astounded
[continued from page 31]
man to keep quiet about the whole
affair if be valued bis job and bis family
But the most disturbing section of this
were also buzzing around secret experi-
Who was this stranger? He never
document was its open attack against
mental stations in Arizona. The pilots
identified himself and Dahl never saw
civilian UFO investigators. "The Panel
and witnesses were reporting these things
him again. The Air Force did not for-
took cognizance of the existence of such
to Army Intelligence officers and some-
mally set up any kind of UFO investi-
groups as the 'Civilian Flying Saucer
where a file on these incidents was
gating project until several months later.
Investigators' (Los Angeles) [now de-
beginning to take shape. Since it was
Although hundreds of people in the
funct] and the 'Aerial Phenomena Re-
wartime, and since it was not known if
Tacoma-Seattle area reported sighting
search Organization' (Wis.) [now in
these objects were enemy secret weapons,
unidentified flying objects a few days
Tucson, Ariz.]," the Report noted. "It
Army secrecy was understandable.
after the Dahl-Chrisman incident, Air
was believed that such organizations
Immediately after the war, in 1946,
Force investigators eventually managed
should be watched because of their po-
thousands of mysterious "ghost rockets"
to whitewash the whole situation and
tentially great influence on mass thinking
were reported over Scandinavia. Gen.
branded it "The Maury Island Hoax"
if widespread sightings should occur.
Jimmy Doolittle was sent posthaste to
(much of that "slag" fell onto Maury
The apparent irresponsibility and the
Sweden that summer on a secret mission
Island).
possible use of such groups for subver-
which has never been explained. (The
Kenneth Arnold, the private pilot who
sive purposes should be kept in mind."
Swedish government established the
sighted nine flying disks near Mt. Rainier
There, in three sentences, the C.I.A.
world's first official UFO-investigating
three days after the Puget Sound indi-
gave the Air Force and all other agen-
bureau in 1910. During the 1950's this
dent, is generally credited with focusi
cies carte blanche to harass and abuse
agency and all its files were quietly
national attention on the presence
civilian UFO investigators. Further on,
merged with the Swedish Secret In-
flying saucers in our skies. There have
we will cite several cases of such harass-
telligence Agency.)
been many "Men in Black" cases
ment. Most important, however, this
Did General Doolittle learn some-
they are known) since then. Someho
incredible document revealed that despite
thing important about flying saucers in
these unknown agents manage to appear
their apparent disavowal of the reality of
Sweden? Something so hush-hush that
on the scene almost immediately after
"flying saucers," the C.I.A. anticipated
only a few men in the upper echelons of
sighting. When I first became involved
what might happen "if widespread sight-
the U.S. Government were privy to the
in UFO research I regarded this
ings should occur." The whole report is
information? Was one of these men
lence Group" (S.G.) as a fiction creatée
so poorly and so illogically assembled
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg? From June
by over-imaginative saucer fans. But now
that one can only marvel at how it could
1946 to May 1947, General Vandenberg
I have personally investigated and docu
possibly have been accepted by any Gen-
served as head of the Central Intelligence
mented several of these cases and I hay
eral or C.I.A. official. If you or I had
Group, forerunner to the C.I.A. It was,
even chased after "Men in Black
been in a position of governmental re-
you recall, General Vandenberg who
missing one by a scant hour in We
sponsibility and this report had crossed
later rejected ATIC's "Top Secret Esti-
Virginia recently.
our desk, we probably would have hurled
mate of the Situation."
Consider this one, which took place
it back at the C.I.A. in disgust and fired
The circle narrows. Could General
near Key West in 1951, at a time when
everyone connected with it. Perhaps that
Vandenberg have had some other reason
the Air Force had disbanded all UFC
is the main reason it was kept in the
for rejecting that painstaking analysis
investigating groups after having official-
classified files for 14 years.
besides "insufficient evidence"?
ly decided that the whole business was
Could it be, however, that the C.I.A.
Somebody knew a lot about flying sau-
nonsense.
knew more about UFOs than they were
cers before the general public had even
Several Naval officers and crewmen
pretending, and that the whole 1953
heard of the mystery. That somebody was
were in a motor launch when they saw
Panel affair was merely a ruse to keep
ready to move when, in 1947, the whole
a pulsating cigar-shaped craft hovering
the Air Force from suspecting? They
thing broke in the newspapers.
over the water. They watched it through
gave the Project Blue Book personnel a
On June 21st of that year, two harbor
binoculars and could see a greenish
chance to present their case (that the
patrolmen, Harold Dahl, Fred Chrisman,
column of light extending down to the
flying saucers were extraterrestrial), and
and Dahl's young son, were boating on
surface of the water. The sea was strewn
then they rejected the evidence as "in-
Puget Sound when they saw what they
with dead fish. Suddenly a fast moving
sufficient" and literally ordered the Air
described as "six doughnut-shaped fly-
fighter plane appeared and the object
Force to debunk the subject, suppress
ing machines" which spewed out a great
took off, vanishing in seconds. As soon
the flow of future reports, and clamp
quantity of a slag-like substance. One
as that motor launch docked, the Naval
down on civilian investigators. Captain
piece of this "slag" killed Dahl's dog.
men were surrounded by "hush-hush"
Ruppelt, Major Fournet, and the other
Another injured the boy's arm and the
officials who hustled them away and held
early Air Force UFO buffs left the ser-
boat was badly damaged by the barrage.
them for hours, questioning them in a
vice and were replaced by hard-headed
This incident did not appear in the
manner, one of the witnesses said years
types who followed the new "line" with-
papers until several days later. Yet the
later, which "seemed more aimed at
out hesitation.
very next morning, before Dahl and
discrediting" them than anything else.
Actually, flying saucers began to ap-
Chrisman really had a chance to spread
In 1955, 20 workmen were making
pear in large numbers during W.W. II
their tale, a late model car pulled up in
repairs on the outside of a large factory
and there is every indication that some-
front of Dahl's house and a mysterious
building in southern New Jersey when a
one high in government knew something
stranger joined him for breakfast. Later
gigantic circular craft silently descended
about the subject before the first explo-
Dahl said the man was about 40 years
from the sky and hovered almost at
sion of UFO publicity in 1947. Pilots
old and was wearing a dark business
ground level above the 600-car parking
over Germany and Japan were seeing
suit. He sat down and told Dahl pre-
lot. The object was so big that it covered
things which they called "Foo Fighters"
cisely what had happened the day before,
the entire lot and the workmen watched
in 1944. In that year, strange objects
almost as if he had been there, and then
it for several minutes, hardly believing
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cidents and learning the facts. Until
Two sedate gentlemen in bowler hats
sighting while a tape recorder was run-
recently, this Silence Group succeeded in
appeared at the Templeton home a few
ning in full view and recorded the whole
suppressing many contact stories.
days later and questioned him carefully
discussion. The Major never realized he
For example, there were actually doz-
about the photograph. This pair did not
was "on the air." In other well docu-
ens of contact cases, some with several
identify themselves and referred to each
mented cases, the Air Force shamelessly
witnesses, from coast-to-coast in early
other by numbers. Certainly any self-
took evidence from witnesses and later
November of 1957. But only a few of
respecting secret agents could invent
returned shabbily contrived imitations of
these incidents ever leaked out to the
phony "cover" names for themselves.
the original material. They have even
general press. One of these involved an
They could call each other "Charlie" and
been caught in the act of doctoring UFO
Ohio house painter named Olden Moore
"George" instead of "Number 9" and
pictures so they could brand them
who, on November 6, 1957, observed
"Number 14."
"fakes." In one instance after another,
the landing of a large circular machine
These two numbered agents asked
the Air Force has found its blue trousers
with a pointed dome on top in a field
James Templeton several intriguing
at half-mast. bold investigators like
near Montville, Ohio. The next day,
questions, including: Had he seen any
Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, head of the
Kenneth Locke, the Lake County Civil
birds in the area when he had taken the
National Investigative Committee on
Defense Director, examined the site and
pictures? (It is not generally known,
Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), have con-
found it was highly radioactive. He also
but all the sea gulls in Puget Sound
stantly reminded them of their fallibility.
discovered six strange footprints in the
vanished for the entire summer of
While Project Blue Book's pitifully
field and two fresh holes three feet in
1947.) From James Templeton's baf-
small staff (two officers, a sergeant, and
diameter. Air Force investigators de-
fled description of this encounter, it is
a couple of secretaries) has struggled
scended on the scene, picked up Olden
obvious that these two men knew a
to maintain its dignity, this other, Par
Moore and drove him to the landing site
great deal more about the UFO phe-
more secret group, has been operating
where a helicopter was waiting. The
nomenon than even a hard-core amateur
quietly and earnestly. Organized civilian
helicopter carried him to an Air Force
ufologist. Again, who were they and
UFO researchers have long been aware
base and from there he was flown to
why were they so interested in a freak
of this "Silence Group" and have cau-
Washington, D.C. Two officers closeted
snapshot of someone in a space suit?
tiously followed their operations. A
him in a "hotel-like room" in Washing-
Still another mystery man, this one
of crackpot literature has appeared
ton and grilled him for three days, try-
claiming to be from "an agency so
this subject, and a wearisome amount
ing to get him to admit that he had seen
secret that he couldn't give its name,"
of half-educated speculation has been
nothing but a "fireball." He was literally
visited a school in Norwalk, Conn., and
published about these unknown men.
held prisoner and was never left alone.
carefully interviewed two 12-year-old
For years, civilian UFO investigators
Finally, he was asked to sign an oath of
boys who said they had been pursued
have suspected that this "Silence Grou
secrecy and then he was flown back to
by a small flying disk in April 1966.
is really a branch of the Central Intell
Ohio.
These tactics don't make much sense.
gence Agency. As we have already
Why, we wonder, did they go to such
A genuine secret agency would most
pointed out, there is evidence that the
extraordinary lengths when Olden
likely operate behind a very bland front,
C.I.A. does, indeed, know a great deal
Moore's story had already been pub-
such as "The Acme Research Company."
about the UFO phenomenon and may
lished in the Ohio papers and Kenneth
The quickest way for a secret agent to
have established the 1953 Panel so that
Locke's findings had already been made
become conspicuous is for him to refuse
they could officially clamp down on the
public?
to identify himself or the name of his
Air Force's enthusiasm. Anyone who has
These mystery men do not confine
organization. And no agent wants to be
ever been in the service knows that our
their activities to the United States.
conspicuous. At least, not usually.
military machine, and our government,
Shortly after an engineer named Gian-
Our peripatetic "secret" UFO investi-
runs on fear. The Captain is afraid of
pietro Monguzzi took some pictures of
gators are very talented at making them-
the Major, the Major fears his Colonel,
a flying saucer in the Italian Alps in
selves conspicuous. It's almost as if they
etc., up the line. It would be relatively
1952, he claims he was visited by "an
want to get caught as they leave a wake
easy to switch the pro-saucer officers to
American secret agent" disguised as an
of confusion and mystery behind them.
an anti-UFO position. Not many career
Italian ski mountain policeman who in-
A few have posed as F.B.I. agents. One
men will risk their careers bucking the
terrogated him through a long night,
fellow is rubbing salt in the Air Force's
official "line." Those few mavericks who
apparently trying to get him to repudi-
wounds by openly impersonating Maj.
do find themselves being passed over at
ate his story of having seen a disk-
Hector Quintanilla, chief of Project Blue
promotion time. But the thousands of
shaped object land on a glacier.
Book, throughout Ohio and West Vir-
well-documented UFO incidents of the
In England, on May 26, 1964, a fire-
ginia. He even shows impressive creden-
past 20 years indicate that thousands of
man named James Templeton took some
tials from the Air Force but, from
military men have been involved in
snapshots of his five-year-old daughter
descriptions given to me by several
official UFO research and investigation.
in a park near the Chapelcross Atomic
witnesses, he resembles the Major in
Many of these men have gone into
Energy Station. When the pictures were
about the same way that Mickey Rooney
civilian life carrying with them, sup-
developed he was flabbergasted to dis-
resembles John Wayne. The Air Force
posedly, many secrets about government
cover that "someone else had gotten
is supposed to be trying to catch up
UFO research projects. Yet not a single
into one of the pictures." That someone
with him.
one of these men has spoken out. It is
was a very tall human-shaped being in a
The techniques employed by these
contrary to human nature and against
white space suit and space helmet. No
unknown agents are quite different from
the law of averages for all of them to
one in the park at the time the pictures
the silencing methods used by the U.S.
keep their mouths shut.
had been taken had seen such a man.
Air Force. Many of the Air Force's
One simple explanation comes to
Baffled, Mr. Templeton took the picture
"cover-up" efforts have smacked of a
mind. Maybe the Air Force doesn't have
and negative to the firm that had proc-
comic opera. Major Quintanilla once
that much to hide. Perhaps their long-
essed the film. They couldn't explain it,
berated an Ohio police officer and tried
time negative position has resulted in
nor could police photographic experts.
to get him to switch his story of a saucer
(continued on page 76)
74
SAGA
(continued from page 74)
aged to personally investigate several
pictures at Project Blue Book headquar-
equally negative results. The Project
hundred of these 10,000. In about 50
ters in Dayton, Ohio, he told me, but he
Blue Book investigation might be naively
cases, I learned that the Air Force had
did not see any of those pictures. here
sincere. Maybe all of these men do
also been in touch with the witnesses,
are they? Who has them?
blindly believe in "swamp gas." After
usually by telephone. In some of these
There has been a "credibility gap" for
all, back in 1953 the C.I.A. told them
instances, several different Air Force
years between the truth and what the
firmly that there aren't any flying sau-
officers had interviewed the witnesses for
Air Force says is the truth. That gap
cers. What Major with his eye on that
as long as three hours on the phone by
grows with each new sighting. Some ob-
nice 20-year pension would dare tell the
long distance. It was obvious to the
servers, such as Dr. James E. McDonald,
C.I.A. otherwise?
witnesses that whoever they were talk-
a meteorologist at the University of
So whenever a sighting comes along
ing to at the other end was filling out a
Arizona, believe that the Air Force has
that seems to indicate that flying saucers
very long and very complicated form.
simply fallen victim to its own propa-
may be real, these men quickly alter the
Far more complicated than the standard
ganda and is now struggling to adhere
facts to suit the C.I.A.'s orders. I've
form. It would be interesting to see a
to an obsolete and untenable position.
come across many examples of this.
copy of that form and find out where
It's the old story-when you tell one lie,
In the summer of 1966, I visited
the completed ones are kept.
you have to tell a bigger one to cover
Presque Isle, Pa., where a UFO landing
One witness at the Wanaque Reservoir
it up.
had been reported on July 31st. The
sightings, a policeman, received a call
Part of this "cover-up" would natur-
witnesses were badly shaken up by the
from a "Mr. Johnson in Washington"
ally involve keeping the press from dis-
sudden appearance of some kind of tall,
who questioned him at length. The mys-
covering and reporting on the truth
unidentifiable creature, and three large
tery is: the policeman has an unlisted
The UFO buffs have been screaming
wet spots were later found on the beach
phone and doesn't know how "Mr. John-
years that UFO reports are being kept
where the UFO had allegedly touched
son" located him. Colonel Freeman at
out of the papers and that newsmen who
down. Policemen and officials of Presque
the Pentagon claims that no one has
have gone prying into the situation have
Isle Park had pointedly told Air Force
ever reported the Wanaque incidents to
been silenced. It's even true that this has
investigators that there were no bears or
the Air Force and therefore the Air
happened in a few isolated cases.
other large animals there. They also had
Force has never officially investigated
When Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the di
some of the wet sand analyzed on their
any of the sightings there. "Mr. John-
tinguished astronomer who has served
own and learned that it contained silicon
son" is another of our mystery men.
an official Air Force UFO consultant
(not silica, which is common sand).
You can see the puzzling contradic-
20 years, was called before a hearing
When dried, these moist spots formed
tions. The Air Force seems to be dis-
the Committee on Armed Services
a transparent, flexible, plastic-like ma-
interested, and determined to prove that
Washington, D.C., on April 5, 1966,
terial. However, in their final report on
it is all "swamp gas." Yet they care-
told the assembled Senators and Con-
the case, Project Blue Book announced
fully question some witnesses for hours,
gressmen: "Mr. and Mrs. Chase of Ket
that, "raccoons and bear are known to be
and even whisk others to Washington
sington, N.H., who live a, few miles
in the woods in that area" and "there
for further questioning. They also lie
down route 50 (near the site of the
was nothing unusual in the soil sample
baldly to newsmen and the public with
famous Exeter, N.H., UFO sightings,
except urine." Urine, of course, dries up
appalling frequency.
told me that an Air Force officer had
very quickly on a sandy beach in the
The first time I wandered into the
gone around to all the stores selling
middle of the summer. These wet spots
tiny office of Lt. Col. Maston Jacks, then
newspapers in Exeter and purchased all
lingered for over 24 hours and dried
the Pentagon spokesman for Project Blue
copies of the Manchester, N.H., Union
into the plastic substance.
Book, I learned first-hand of the Air
Leader newspaper which carried a de-
Every Air Force base has a UFO offi-
Force's anti-UFO policy.
tailed account of these sightings. Mrs.
cer today. Usually he is a young lieuten-
"You're wasting your time here," he
Chase also told me that a friend of hers,
ant in the Public Information office at
stated flatly at the beginning of our talk.
a Mrs. Parker Blodgett, works as a cor-
the base and he is equipped with a pair
"There's nothing to this flying saucer
respondent for the Haverhill, Mass.,
of binoculars, a Geiger counter, and a
business. It's all hearsay."
Gazette and was asked by the U.S.A.F.
pile of the standard sighting reports. I
In the course of that interview in
not to publish UFO reports."
have met several of these men in my
April 1966, Colonel Jacks told me sev-
For the past year, American news-
travels, and some of them do a thorough
eral times that the Air Force did not
papers have been filled with UFO re-
job of investigating UFO activities in
have any kind of a photo file at all.
ports and information about flying sau-
their area. Others tend to treat the whole
Nor did the Air Force ever confiscate
cers. I sometimes receive as many as 300
business as nonsense and a chore. The
pictures from citizens, he insisted. A year
clippings in a single week. The problem
Air Force investigates only those inci-
later, however, a science writer named
is not that these UFO reports are not
dents which are reported directly to
Lloyd Mallan was given over 100 pic-
being circulated, but rather that there
them by the witnesses. In most such
tures from that nonexistent file! I ex-
are too many of them. The wire services
cases, a standard form is merely mailed
amined those photos and was rather dis-
cannot possibly carry all of these stories,
to the witness to be filled out. Only
appointed to find that they were mostly
nor could any newspaper print them
about 10 per cent of all recorded sight-
spots of light or dark blobs-for I know
all. So, many papers have simply given
ings are ever reported to the Air Force
for a fact that Air Force Officers (or men
up and report only local incidents-and
at all. They claim that 1,060 cases were
claiming to be) have seized remarkably
only the most outstanding of those.
sent to them in 1966. I have over
detailed UFO pictures taken by bonest
Newspapers in major cities, where UFO
10,000 clippings and reports in my own
American citizens. These people have
incidents are few, tend to slight all UFO
files for that same year, and I'm sure
shown me copies of photos whose nega-
news. Even so, the papers in New York
that I have managed to collect only a
tives had been brazenly collected by Air
City printed over 100 UFO stories in
small percentage of the total number of
Force officers. I described some of these
1966, but the UFO buffs are still wail-
1966 sightings.
pictures to Mr. Mallan recently. He was
ing that the New York press has been
Working full-time and alone, I man-
given complete access to a large file of
"suppressed."
76
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but after his 'visit' he stopped answering
these mystery men really be amateur
and reported the incident. They held a
his mail, and gradually faded out of the
UFO investigators having a little fun?
press conference for him which was at-
saucer picture. In Brooklyn, N.Y., an-
The answer, unfortunately, is a definite
tended by other people who had reported
other leading researcher named Eliot
"Yes."
seeing unidentified flying objects in the
Rockmore suddenly stopped publication
In the spring of 1966, a young couple
immediate vicinity that night. Since his
of his magazine Flying Saucer Review,
on a beach late at night on Long Island
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and refused to answer mail or even talk
saw what they described as a "large red
berger has had no rest. Huge crowds
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disk" hovering directly above a bath-
descend on his once-peaceful home every
correspondent whom I consider extreme-
house. Later, when local reporters heard
weekend. He is constantly hounded by
ly reliable, I learned of still another
about the incident and tried to talk to
UFO buffs, religious cranks, skeptics bent
weird incident: he had obtained a sau-
the youngsters, they were told: "Some-
on "exposing" him, and just plain curi-
cer fragment, and sent it to be analyzed
body from Washington warned us not
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locally. Thereafter he was also visited, by
to say anything about it." It didn't take
Though it may be difficult to believe,
some sort of goverenment agent, who
much digging to find out that that
Woodrow Derenberger is not unique.
warned him not to divulge the results
"somebody" was a team of men from
Today thousands of people in all walks
of the analysis to anyone, and who
the Washington headquarters of NICAP
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spoke to him so threateningly that he
who had made a quick trip to Long
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feared for the safety of himself and his
Island following a flurry of sightings.
ing saucer pilots. Until recently, such
family."
Other NICAPers made such a nui-
"contactees" were rare and of question-
In 1960, a UFO researcher in Miami,
sance of themselves at the Wanaque
able character. Their stories were ridi-
Fla., William Dunn, Jr., wrote to Mose-
Reservoir in New Jersey that one police-
culed by the press and, in most cases,
ley and told him, "My UFO files were
man remarked: "If somebody says they're
probably were psychotic works of fiction.
broken into-the only damned thing that
from NICAP, we won't even talk with
In 1966-67, this situation changed. The
was broken into in the entire house-
them." Witnesses in Virginia, West Vir-
majority of the new "contactees" seem
and many of my valuable reports were
ginia, and Ohio have also complained
to give identical details, even though
burned right in my room, and many of
about NICAP.
their stories rarely receive publicity and
my photos, and so on, were stolen!"
"Some of our members get a little
are often ignored by local newspapers
That was the year that a mysterious
carried away," Richard Hall, deputy di-
because they are so "far out." But ufol-
man with a heavy build, dark olive com-
rector of NICAP said recently as we
ogists are carefully examining this new
plexion, and foreign accent, made a tour
discussed this problem. "When we catch
crop of contact cases and wondering just
of the United States, systematically visit-
someone being overbearing or misrepre-
how far out it is to claim that thereyis
ing civilian UFO investigators. He called
senting himself, we kick him out of our
somebody riding around in flying sauc-
himself "Mr. Alexander" and in St.
organization."
ers.
Louis, Mo. he visited a researcher named
"I won't let anybody from NICAP
The general public usually thinks,
George Marlo who later wrote: "I am
into my house anymore," Woodrow
laughingly, that UFO occupants are
finished with radio and TV appearances
Derenberger of Mineral Wells, W. Va.,
short, greenish characters with pop-eyes.
about UFOs. I will talk on other sub-
grumbled in April. He said that a local
But from the some 2,500 cases in which
jects, but this one is too dangerous for
NICAP member had harassed him,
reliable people have claimed to have
me. Since talking to Alexander I know
ordered him not to talk to anybody but
glimpsed the UFO pilots, it would
2p-
better now."
NICAP, and annoyed him daily after he
pear that they are actually of medium
Was "Mr. Alexander" a C.I.A. man
had allegedly experienced a UFO contact.
height, with angular faces, pointed chins,
sent out to squelch the UFO buffs? It
Derenberger is a robust, ingratiating
high cheekbones, and long oriental-like
would be nice to believe that the heavy-
man of about 40, and until the night of
eyes. Their complexion is usually de-
handed C.I.A. was taking an interest in
November 2, 1966, he led a quiet, nor-
scribed as "very dark, like a heavy sun-
the flying saucer problem. But I worry
mal life, working as a sewing machine
tan." Many witnesses compare them to
that the agency might believe its own
salesman to support an attractive young
Indians or Gypsies. Their manner of
1953 report. In October 1966, the C.I.A.
wife and two small children. Then,
speech is said to be slow, halting, a-curi-
issued a formal statement declaring that
around 7 p.m. on that fateful night, as
ous monotone of clipped phrases "as if
it had no interest in the UFO situation
he was driving home on Interstate 77,
they had taped thousands of conversa-
and had not been concerned with it at
outside of Parkersburg, W. Va., a flying
tions and memorized them." Generally,
all since 1953. The F.B.I. has not been
saucer sailed silently into his life.
they are said to be dressed in either
able to issue such a denial because it has
According to his story, which has been
coverall type uniforms or in black jackets
been directly involved in investigating
told and retold in hundreds of news-
and black visored caps.
the wave of mysterious kidnapings which
papers and magazines, a charcoal-colored
have been occurring from coast-to-coast
object shaped something like the globe
There have been other descriptions
in the last two years and which appear
from an old kerosene lamp settled in
over the years, of course, of "little men,"
to be definitely linked to the flying sau-
front of his truck, stopping him. An
"seven foot giants," and even hairy
cers. In some of these cases, whole
average-sized man in a glistening blue
monsters. But in the last two years the
families have vanished after a UFO was
uniform got out of it, he says, approached
"Gypsy" type has dominated such reports.
sighted near their home or farm. Any-
him with a broad grin and spoke to him.
The chilling thing is, some of the
way, F.B.I. men always identify them-
The conversation was brief, as Mr.
mystery men who have turned up over
selves properly. They may be responsible
Derenberger tells it, and the UFO OC-
the years have answered this same de-
for some of our mystery men cases,
cupant did not pass along any earth-
scription. A former UFO researcher
but not all.
shaking message or deep outer space
named Albert Bender has claimed for
Since the Air Force investigations are
philosophy, but only asked a few polite
years that three such men appeared in
sporadic and are largely conducted by
questions about the area.
his home in Connecticut in 1953 and
mail and phone, who else could be to
Understandably unnerved by the ex-
frightened him so badly that he destroyed
blame for these stories? Could some of
perience, the salesman called the police
his files and gave up his interest in flying
78
SAGA
saucers. Not even his friends believed
INVEST
NOW!
him.
One of the key questions in my in-
vestigations is: "Have you had any
strange visitors since you saw the UFO?"
I never explain what kind of visitors
the witnesses might expect. But some of
14ACRES
them write to me later when a "mystery
man" does turn up. Mrs. Mabel Mc-
in
Daniel is one such correspondent. A
MEADOW VALLEY
stable woman with a good reputation in
Point Pleasant, W. Va., she has, like so
RANCHOS
in
many of her neighbors, sighted UFOs
frequently in the past year. On March
DOWN
NEVADA
FISHING: A fisherman's paradise. Huge
12, 1967, she wrote the following: "A
Rainbows, Brook Trout and German Browns
man came into my office [she worked
abound in Alpine-like lakes and streams.
for the local Unemployment Office in
MONTHLY
GOLF: Enjoy leisurely golfing, with never
Point Pleasant at the time] last week
a rush for starting times, at the city owned
Ruby View Golf Course. This beautiful golf
and acted terribly strange. He didn't
look like a colored person, but still was
$595
course is only minutes from the property.
very dark and his English was so poor I
FULL
PRICE
LAKE OSINO: No charge to Rancho owners
for full privileges at nearby Lake Osino. Fish,
never did really figure out what he
Picnic, Relax at this private recreation area.
wanted. His eyes were funny looking,
THE BOOM THAT HAD TO
HUNTING: You will find the hunting of
your life. Big game Mule Deer are abundant.
kind of starey and glassy. From what I
COME IS NOW ON IN
could get from him, he was looking for
NEVADA. Ground floor
Duck, Quail and Chukar are plentiful.
buyers are reaping for-
YOUR PROFITABLE TOMORROW -
an insurance company, only he kept
tunes from small initial
YES, wise investors are now buying in MEADOW
saying 'trip insurance'."
investments. A factual ex-
VALLEY RANCHOS, but America's largest corpora-
tions, who buy in advance of population explosion,
I immediately phoned Point Pleasant
ample of skyrocketing
are also investing throughout Nevada. U.S. COM-
and learned that this man had been
values is Las Vegas, Ne-
MERCE BUREAU FACT: Per capita income in
vada. Land in Las Vegas
Nevada is highest of all 50 states.
dressed in a black coat, a black cap, and
that originally sold for $200.00 an acre now
TAX RELIEF - No State Income, Gift or
that he had also visited the branch office
sells for $20,000.00 an acre, a profit of
Inheritance Tax. The low Real Property Tax is
of the Athens, Ohio, Messenger. Other
1000%! Buyers who took advantage of low
actually limited by the State Constitution.
witnesses said there were three such
opening prices have become wealthy. The
ground floor opportunity of Las Vegas is gone,
WHAT ARE THE TOTAL COSTS?
men, accompanied by a fourth who
BUT ANOTHER AREA OF PROPEROUS NEVADA
The full price of the title to your 1½ acrc
looked different and was more shabbily
IS BEING RELEASED FOR PUBLIC SALE!
Rancho is only $595. Total payment schedule.
dressed. Grabbing my suitcase, I took
This area has such a tremendous growth
is $1 down, and $10 per month. No interest,
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD BRARY
off for West Virginia.
potential, such a fantastic unlimited future,
no carrying charges. John D. Rockefeller
that wise investors have purchased large
said, "The big fortunes of the future will be
This strange quartet had been making
acreage. Bing Crosby's ranch was one of the
made in Real Estate." You are not required
systematic visits to many homes in the
largest ranches in the county. James Stewart
to do anything to your land. Live or vacation
is Honorary Sheriff. Yes, the smart experi-
on it, or watch its value grow, then sell all or
Ohio Valley. At some houses they pre-
enced investors have sensed the future and
part of it for a profit. Your profitable tomor-
sented themselves as magazine salesmen,
are buying MEADOW VALLEY RANCHOS in
row is here today in MEADOW VALLEY
at others they claimed to be conducting
RANCHOS.
Elko County, Nevada.
"surveys." Although I found many
Humboldt River
MEADOW VALLEY RANCHOS has all the factors
people who had seen them and spoken
needed to boom
to prosper
to skyrocket
to them, I could not find out where
its land values. Ideally located in the prosper-
MEADANCHOS VALLEY
they were staying. The few local hotels
ing Elko Valley, The Ranchos have the back-
ELKO
drop of the statuesque Ruby Mountains. The
Lake Tahoe
and motels had not seen them. They
sparkling Humboldt River, actually flows
HWY.
Clover Valley
had traveled on foot and lingered in the
through the property and is a valuable asset
Point Pleasant area for several days-at
of the Ranchos. Every Rancho fronts on a
Humboldt Fork River
a time when UFO sightings were at a
graded road. The City of Elko, with its long
established schools, churches and medical facil-
Send $1 deposit Franklin for
peak in the region.
ities is MEADOW VALLEY RANCHOS friendly
each Rancho desired to:
Ruby Lake
Far to the north of Point Pleasant,
neighbor.
two other men were visiting homes in
Stockmen MEADOW Bldg., VALLEY RANCHOS
Elko,
Nevada
the Parkersburg area. They also changed
their cover stories at each house. They
NOW! DON'T MISS THIS OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY
would visit one family and introduce
themselves as encyclopedia salesmen.
Then they would go next door and
MEADOW VALLEY RANCHOS
MAIL COUPON TODAY
represent themselves as Mormon mis-
4843 STOCKMEN BLDG., ELKO, NEVADA 89801
sionaries. They even visited Woodrow
Yes!-Reserve acreage at MEADOW VALLEY RANCHOS for me-$595 for each 1½ acre parcel-
Derenberger's wife, telling her that
payable $1 down and $10 a month. No other charges. Send purchase contract and map
they were from a vacuum cleaner com-
showing exact location of my holding. You will return my $1 deposit if I request same
pany and had just come in from Salem,
within 30 days. I enclose $1 deposit for each 1½ acre Rancho desired.
Ore. (Unknown to the Derenbergers,
SIZE
PER
Name:
Salem was in the midst of a big UFO
ACRES
DOWN
MO.
flap at the time.) They spent two hours
11/4
$1
$10
Address
2½
2
15
discussing flying saucers with Mrs. Der-
33/4
3
20
City:
Zone:
4
State:
5
25
(continued on page 81)
Indicate No. of Ranchos
Total enclosed
$
OCTOBER
79
(continued from page 79)
could possibly have known what Harold
enberger and didn't make much of an
Dahl had seen? Who could have known
NOW SAVE $3.00 ON
effort to sell her a vacuum cleaner.
about the sighting of those two police
EVERY 20¢ BATTERY
Later, Mr. Derenberger checked with
officers in Texas or the two boys in
GIVE ANY MAKE OF BAT-
the vacuum cleaner company's office in
Connecticut? Who might have the best
TERY 15 NEW FRESH LIVES
FOR ONLY PENNIES A YEAR
Parkersburg and was told that they
possible motive for suppressing UFO
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didn't employ any men answering that
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stories and seizing photographs and
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physical evidence?
FAMILY CONSTANT PEAK
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PERFORMANCE ON ALL
In April 1967, while I was racing up
The unlikely solution stares at us:
BATTERY-OPERATED TOYS
and down the hills of West Virginia,
AND DEVICES.
$595
the UFO occupants themselves!
trying to catch up with these elusive
What do you do when a battery
If this is true, then how have they
COMPLETE
grows weak? You toss it into the
"salesmen," a woman on Long Island
managed to trick the U.S. Air Force into
trash can, But all these tossed-out
received a visit from four "Indians."
playing their game? Have they actually
This woman lives alone in an isolated
been carrying out many of these out-
area and her home can be reached only
rageous acts while the Air Force has
by a narrow, almost impassable dirt road.
taken the blame?
One morning in early April she found
One final link is missing. Is it pos-
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four men at her door. Three of them
sible that sometime between 1945 and
BATTERY
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1953, one small, highly placed group
batteries-even if
12
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pointed faces. They were neatly dressed
in our government stumbled upon some
they only have a spark
of life left in them are
in expensive business suits. The fourth
horrible truth about "flying saucers"
still chemically fresh and
man looked different, she said, and was
capable of being fully rehabil-
which made it imperative for us to "do
itated by the Home Battery
"poorly dressed" in a frayed black jacket.
it their way"? Whatever the unidenti-
Charger.
As an extra bonus,
Sound unbelievable! It's
you get this adaptor
Identifying themselves as "Indians,"
fied flying objects are doing here on
TRUE! You can easily bring
that plugs into any
any rundown battery back to
they told her that her land had once
cigarette lighter &
Earth, it seems that they wanted to do
fresh full life again. And it
keeps all 12 volt
belonged to their tribe and they were
it as secretly as possible for as long as
will give you as much top per-
car batteries fully
formance as a brand new bat-
charged & ready for
going to try to get it back. What fright-
possible. The U.S. Government has gra-
tery. You can do this not once,
instant starts all
not twice, but a minimum of
ened the woman the most, and she was
winter long.
ciously obliged them and helped them,
15 times!!! For years, leading
frightened she admitted later, was that
either willingly or through incredible
technical magazines prove the rechargability of dry
cell batteries. Save money, time, trouble and temper.
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Never again will you have to put up with tantrums
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shoes and there was no car in sight.
Now the UFOs are continually ap-
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There had been a lot of rain and the
lights, or flashbulbs that don't flash and waste film.
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Man's greatest adventure-or his greatest
that the four dark-skinned men could in
SONG
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catastrophe. Even now, as the UFOs
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energetically enter what promised to be
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Another mystery man, this one wear-
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level UFO sightings around a Coast
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Why would the C.I.A. or the F.B.I.
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There is one frightening and incred-
ONLY
in the Pentagon. A colonel with a dark
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complexion, narrow eyes, pointed chin,
have known what that California photog-
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"U.F.O."
legislative
(ALLEN, M. David)
re: Hse rslt 946
November 21, 1967
Mr. M. David Allen
19656 Andover
Detroit, Michigan
48203
Dear Mr. Allen,
Thank you for your letter of November 17 relative to your interest
in liouse Resolution 946, the bill which would authorize the Com-
mittee on Science and Astronautics to investigate unidentified fly-
ing objects.
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
As you know, this resolution is presently pending action by the
Rules Committee. As yet, nothing has been scheduled on it.
I was pleased to have your recommendations concerning this matter,
and I will be nappy to pass them on to my colleggues and friends
on the Committee. Should this legislation come to the Floor of the
House of Representatives, I will give it my closest attention,
having your remarks well in mind.
Kind regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M. C.
GRF:pc
alatem
November 17,1967
Congressman G.Ford
House of Representatives
Washington D.C.
Dear Congressman Ford:
This letter concerned Louis Wyman (R.,N.H.) House
Resolution 946, which I am asking you to vigorously support.
Thank you for your time,
Sincerely yours,
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
M.Dard Allar
M.David Allen
19656 Andover
Detroit ,Michigan 48203
Cmons
Ats tuFo.
mothing
Leg.
"UFO"
Kevin 1. Rettger (Rettger
315 East 309th Street
Willowick, Ohio 44094
November 27, 1967
Congressman Gerald Ford
Longworth Building
Washington 25, District of Columbia
Dear Congressman Ford;
N/F/A
Thanks for the information on Mantell, I did notice that the air force
said that he was chasing a sky hook, thats the best I ever heard on
Cap. Mantell, he (Mantell) was trained to identifi enemy planes in a
split second! And the Air Force knows, it, besides I am sure he would
have known that what he was chasing a balloon and pretty fast! Right?
I don't think the Air Force is going to ever be able to tell us that
his body was never really found.
Thankyou for the info on Russia investigating the UFO's, it was a
good idea for Russia to investigate the UFO's.
DON'T I repeat DON'T tell anyone this, its between you and me.
I have evidence of some AF officers that are not of the Air Force, that
are probably from another planet, I know this sounds pretty far fetched
but it is true! Here are two of them. They (both cases) are from the
agency and other sourses.
Mysterious men dressed in Air Force uniforms or bearing impressive
credentials from government agencies have been "silencing" UFO witnesses
according to Col. George P. Freeman, Pentagon spokesman for Project
Bluebook.
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD I BRARY
"We have checked a number of these cases," Col. Freeman said in an in-
terview, "and these men are not connected with the Air Force in any way.
Col. Freeman cited one recent case in which the police officers
and other witnesses at the UFO sightings in Wanaque, N.J., were alleged-
ly collected together by a man wearing an Air Force uniform. They were
told that they "hadn't seen anything" and that they shouldn't discuss
the incident.
"We checked with the local Air Force base," Col. Freeman declared,
"and discovered that no one connected with the Air Force had visited
Wanaque on the date in question. Whoever it was, he wasn't from the
Air Force."
Another mystery man, this one bearing credentials from the
North American Air Defense (NORAD), turned up at the home of Rex Heflin,
a man who had taken a series of UFO pictures in California in 1965, and
demanded the originals. Later, NORAD denied having anything to do with
the incident. Major General M. M. Magee, NORAD's chief of staff, later
told Representative James B. Utt, R-Calif., that "for your information
NORAD does not have the responsibility for the evaluation of UFOs and
therefore would not knowingly be in the business of collecting UFO pic-
tures for evaluation. In addition, the office of primary interest for
UFO matters is the department of the Air Force."
Heflin's photos have never been returned and the Air Force has
never been able to determine the identity of the mystery man who took
them.
That is why I said at the top "if the Air Force is able. I would like
you to tell me what you think we can do to help the real Air Force get
the facts out.
GTHE PEOPLE
Lets see if we can find out what it is, it is not very hard to see
that there is something holding the information back, and it must be
stopped!
Also I would like you to get me a printed record of the "Missing Top
Secret Document. It was April 5, 1966, the Committee On Armed Services
of the House of Representatives held a hearing on the subject of Uniden-
tified Flying Objects, I do believe you were there. During this hearing,
various letters and documents were read and enclosed in the proceedings.
A private citizen writer stated that the Air Technical Intelligence
Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, had concluded in a top
secret document that UFOs were real and interplanetary. The date of the
document was given as July-August, 1948.
I read Edward J. Ruppelts book called "The Report on Unidentified
Flying Objects and he states that he saw that document, it said the
following After a preliminary study of UFO reports, ATIC concluded
that, to quote from the letter, "the reported phenomena were real." Then-
the hearing of the 89th Congress printed another letter sent to Hon. L.
Mendel Rivers, Chairman, Committee on Armed Services, House of the
Representatives, Washington, D.C. This letter had been sent by Colonel
Dwight W. Covell, USAF, wrote that "there has never been a top-secret
document, entitled 'Estimate of the Situation', which concluded that
UFOs are interplanetary in nature."
In the book called "The UFO Evidence, on page 109 Major Dewey J.
Fournet stated that he also had seen this document. Then Major General
W. P. Fisher and Colonel Carl M. Nelson stated that there has never
been an Air Force conclusion that flying saucers were real interplanet-
PHOTOCOPY FROM GERALD FORD BRARY
ary space ships. Ruppelt and Fournet should know if anyone because these
officers were directly connected with the documentary reports compiled
by the Air Force Project Investigating Flying Saucers. Somewhere in
some top-secret file there rests a thick document - and this document
contains an official conclusion that the UFOs are real and do exist.
I would like you to get me the record of this document and everything
that was brought up about it.
Also with this letter I put in a copy of Saucer Scope that I typed
out, I would like you to let me know what you think about it.
I have some information on UFOs (Flying Saucers) that would say that
the Saucers are causing "Earth Quakes" if you would like a copy tell
me in the letter, I will send you a copy. I think it will help you
too as much as it has me. I have the dates of the quakes and
the datesrof the saucers and when they were seen, there is a definite
connection between the two.
Thank you
Kevin 1. Rettger
Kevin I. Rettger
315 East 309th Street
Willowick, Ohio 44094
December 2, 1967
Congressman Gerald Ford
Longworth Building
Washington 25, District of Columbia
Dear Congressman Ford;
I thank you again for the information, but there is one thing I can
not agree on with the Air Force.
The Air Force always says that it does not miss-lead us on the subject
of Flying Saucers (UFOS,) well you can find out for your self if you
so want to, thats if you don't know already.
You do remember in March 20 and 21, 1966 in Michigan (your home state)
when strange lights were seen in the area of Dexter and also Hillsdale.
The Air Force says that the sightings were caused by "swamp gas" or
(marsh gas). I sure hope you will go to the nearest wether bureau and
look up the record for those dates and you will see that the wether
did not permit for "swamp gas."
Also the Air Force seems to be over-looking two other dates when this
same thing happened. The dates are March 14 and 17, 1966 as you
probably already know.
Please go and find out for your self and you will see that the Air Force
does not tell all they know "behind the Flying Saucer Mystery."
But you probably already know that. Some times you start to think and
you say to your self "The Air Force must take us for blind fools" who
do they think their kidding, we aren't no dummys that we don't know
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whats going on. Before they come up with some of their ideas they should
first think it over and at least come up with half sensibles answers!
I have sent similar information to Senator Frank J. Lausche, Senator
Stephen M. Young, Congressman William Stanton, and I might send a copy
to Vice Persident Hubert H. Humphrey.
Please write back and tell me what you find
thats if you don't already know.
Thank you
Sincerly,
Kevin 1. Rettger
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Sightings
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Talkings on UFOs
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1947 Saucer Landing In Texas??????
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For many years UFOs (Flying Saucers) have been around
our Earth. There are meny reports that would say that the
saucers are probably "Hostile!" There are realy a lot of true
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and untrue reports but they should still be investigated more
then they are being now. I myself think the public should have
the right to know all the facts about these saucers that some
day might change their lives.
There should not be any rule like AFR 200-2 to hold the reports
back from the public. I don't know who made it but they certinaly
weren't very smart to make such a rule and leave us in a blanket
of their stupid silence.
These Flying Saucers might be Hostile or friendly or even both, but
whatever, they should be investigated thoughly and truthfuly. And
the Air Force shouldn't put lies in the reports to fool the public.
In the future don't let the U.S. Air Force fool you, but watch out
for false reports from sighters, it could be your life!!!!
Sincerly,
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"It hovered for two or threq minutes over, the house, Jones said,
"then fell and burst into flames, setting fire to the Lewis' lawn."
After the Joneses alerted the Lewis family and extinguished the fire
they found particles of a brittle, metellic-type material. "It was
light-weight and looked charred, Jones said. If aith smelled of
sulphur. When he first sighted the dancing light, Jenes è stimated it
to be the size of a basketball. Upon close inspection by Oscar Moonig,
one of the countries outstanding authorities on meteorites, it was
found to NOT a meteorite. Upon closer inspection by very learned au-
thorities of a "private" concern it was found to have a "VERY HIGH"
magnesium content, much like the U.F.O. fragment found in South
America some years ago.
1966 (Naples, Fla) Bill Keralas didn't hesitate one moment in telling
officer Dave Dampier why he was doing 115 miles an hour-it was because
a "blue-green light 100 feet across" was chasing him.
Keralas, who officer Dampier said "did not appear overly tired nor
had the symptoms of drinking, said the light "shoosed" over his open
convertible Friday night and followed him along nearly 10 miles of the
desolate Tamiami trail.
IN FACT, Keralas, a real estate man from Cape Coral, didn't even worry
about a speeding ticket. He went straight to the police station.
"I" felt as though nothing good was going to happen if I stopped, so I
got out of the area as fast as my car would go, he said.
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Corporal Dampier said "I think this man was telling the truth-he was
right scared. In fact, thats what he said: "I wans't nervous. I was
scared!'
No other sighting was reported.
1966 (Willoughby, Ohio) City police had their turn at sighting an
unidentified flying object today.
Patrolmen William Young and Kenneth Eisele sighted a "glowing object"
while on patrol in the area of the Hospitality Motor Inn Route 306 at
4:50 a.m.
"We saw an object moving in a south easterly direction coming from
the west. It was very high and was giving' off a glowing light, the
police report stated.
Officers said the object was very high, but its movements were "slight-
ly erratic from east to west." Patrolman Eisele's report said they were
not able to judge the speed of the UFO.
The Ashland County Sheriff's Department received a call at 5:20 a.m.
from a person saying he had seen a strange light moving from the north-
west.
December 11, 1955 (Jacksonville, Fla.) About 9:00 p.m. fast maneuver-
ing round objects, glowing orange-red, reported by two Airliner crews,
numerous ground witnesses, along Atlantic coast near Jacksonville,
Florida. Two Navy jet fighter pilots on night practice were vectored
toward UFO by JAX Naval Air Station tower. When jets tried to close,
UFO shot up to 30,000 feet, then dived back, circling and buzzing the
jets. JAX officers and tower controllers saw action on scopes, confirm-
ed that jets were helpless against the unknown objects. A full report
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April 27, 1966 During a flight made by the governor of Florida in his
and own private then veered plane, under two the UFO's right paced wirds the aircraft for quite some time,
of the plane and dissapeared
from sight.
Octobe *1965 Du the early hours, this report was made by Miss
FOR wald 0.521 Cloud Ave., Cléveland, Ohio. Pat sighted a
shaped object with white lights around its center. The ob-
jects body was silverish in appearance and had a dome or ball type
superstructer on top. This report was witnessed by six other people.
This report was made at 8:45 P.M.
Five minutes later a call came into the Cleveland Ufology Project re-
port center from Wade Ave., Cleveland, Ohio - this one was witnessed
by 12 people who all saw a very large round object with lights all
around it. The object itself was spinning or the lights were. Both of
these objects were into effect. The Cleveland Press reported four
sightings were called in. The Cleveland Plain Dealer had none. Case
Tech reported that they had a change of personnel within the last
half hour and did not have any information on any UFO. The Cleveland
Hopkins Airport told the Report Center to inform the USAF. The Report
Center called the U.S.A.F. Special Investigations Center. There was no
answer.
January 2, 1966 (Cleveland) Mrs. Hineline of Merriman Road in Akron,
Ohio, reported this very unusual sighting. The time was 11:45 P.M.
when she saw this very bright light outside her living room window.
At first she thought the light was a neighbors car pulling into the
next door driveway. Then she noticed the bright orange color and high
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intensity of the mystery light. She watched the mystery object for 4
to 5 minutes when all of a sudden there was what she explained as an
"explosion, but with no sound". Then the object began to rise. In 4
to 6 seconds it was out of sight.
As if her story was not convincing enough, The Akron Police Department
was notified of a mystery explosion in the area of Sand Run Park. All
total there were three police cruisers dispatched or seen in the area.
Two red balls of light were also reported that evening by two other
sources. These balls of light were seen coming from the eastern por-
tion of the sky.
January 26, 1964 (Ft. Worth, Texas) An erratic flaming phenomena fell
from the skies in Benörook the evening of January 24th. It was descr-
ibed as definitely NOT a meteorite. There was speculation the object
may have been part of a missle:
The light sailing light was sighted as it bobbed slowly through the
sky by Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Jones of 206 Eric about 8 p.m. They
followed its wandering course about eight blocks from the home of
Mrs. Jones' mother, Mrs. L.C. Eberhard of 1102 Wade Hampton to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin 1. Lewis at 1303 Park Center.
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was sent to the Air Force.
Monday, January 11, 1995, (washington, D.C.) At 4:20 p.m. twelve to
fifteen UFO's were sighted by 12 highly placed government officials
and others from the Munitions Building at 19th Street and Constitu-
tion-Ave., circling over the capitol. The UFO's were being chased by
two delta-winged interceptor aircraft. Radar from Washington Interna-
tional Airport clearly tracked both UFO's and interceptor aircraft
during the sighting. The Air Force officially denied the entire thing.
The 12 officials were TOLD "they saw nothing. They say differently.
December 28, 1964 (No name of place) The U.S. Navy tracked two UFO's
on radar at estimated speeds of 4800 m.p.h., which exceeds the known
speed of any U.S. aircraft, and that of any foreign power at this time.
The UFO's maneuvered in tight turns at this speed. This information
was never released by the USAF, officially in charge of the UFO invest-
igations. (Project Bluebook)
April 8, 1964 (Cape Kennedy was Cape Canaveral, Fla.) The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a two-man Gemini Space
capsule which went into its planned orbit and was publicly declared a
successful shot. This was never made public: during its first orbit
the capsule was approached by four unknown craft which surrounded it,
taking possitions up at close range, two above, one beneath, and one
after. They appeared to inspect it minutely, and after pacing the
capsule for four orbits, they then pulled away and vaished.
1966 (Sandusky, Ohio) A Sandusky man may have had insommia Friday mor-
ning, but he wasn't sleepwalking when he saw what he termed "some kind
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of flying object" over Lake Erie.
It was shaped like an "oversized watermelon," with a bright light on
each end, explained Dr. George Heiler, 1619 Cedar Point Road. He said
he noticed the object about 4 a.m. as he looked out his picture window
towards the east. Heiler said he awakened his wife and son a senior at
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Xavier University, and they watched the object through binoculars.
The object stayed in the same part of the sky for an hour and a half
before it disappeared out* of sight in the east, he explained.
"The object was revolving because at certain times only one of the
bright lights was visible, Heiler said.
Talkings On can's
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During the years since the end of orie War II, the subject of
"flying saucers" or Unidentified flying objects have come to the
public more and more often.
There are those who believe in the thousands of sightings made during
these years. There are also many sceptics, who along with the USAP,
the Air Force "party line, and many "news" reporters think that AIL
sightings are the cause of missiles, balloons, birds, kites, search-
lights, aircraft navigation and anticollision beacons, jet engine
exhaust, condensation trails, astronomical bodies, meteorological
phenomena, spurious radar indications, hoaxes, fireworks, flares,
temperature-inversions and hallucinations.
Many noted authorities and experts think otherwise. Such as the
following:
SENIOR CAPTAIN WILLIAM B. NASH, PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS - 16 yr. Vet.
"I am certain that the UFO's we saw were intelligently operated craft
from somewhere other than this planet."
ALBERT M. CHOP, DEPUTY PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR, NASA
"I've been convinced for a long time that the "saucers" are inter-
planetary. We're being watched by beings from outer space."
REAR ADM. DELMER FAHRNEY, USN (Ret.) FORMER CHIEF OF NAVY GUIDED
MISSILES DIVISION.
"Reliable reports indicate that unidentified objects are coming into
our atmosphere at very high speeds and that they are controlled."
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DEWEY FOURNET, JR., FORMER AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS' INTELLIGENCE
MONITOR, UFO PROJECT.
The Air Force is still withholding information on Unidentified
Flying Objects, including UFO sightings reports.'
VICE-ADM. ROSCOE H. HILLENKOETTER, USN (Ret.) FORMER CIA DIRECTOR.
"The unkhown objects are operating under intelligeht control. It is
imperative that we learn where they are coming from."
LT. COL. HOWARD STRAND, BASE COMMANDER - MICHIGAN AIR NATIONAL
GUARD.
My own conclusion is that UFO's are real and can come only from
another planet with a civilization older than ours."
Many of our top law-makers in Washington have voiced the opinion on
occassion that there should be congressional hearings on the subject
of UFO's and lack of information forthcoming from the Air Force.
These Lawmakers say UFO's should be investigated:
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18. 6
SW.
availate DISKSEN, Ildie [lénerity leader)
"I cannot support government accreep in these fields unless the
national security is involved and 1 cannot believe that 1t 1s."
como. V. LINDGAY, M. N.Y. (NOW TES MATOR or N.T. GITT)
"Information covering sightings of UTO's is of vital importance. The
American people are fully capable of unierstanding these problems."
SSN. STUART SYNINGTON. DEL ID.
"The public has sound reason for being confused about this subject.
The public should be given all information which not adversely affects
our national security."
CONG. JUIN 1. DEL MASS. OF THE HOUSE)
"I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the information
it has on the Unidentified Fiying Objects. You can't diaregard 80 many
unimpeschable sources."
SRN. BARRY Me GOLDWATER. ARES. ERRO. CAN. 1964,
8817,
"I se indeed interested in UTO'S 1 frankly feel that there is great
deal to this and 1 have disenssed it often with many Mr Force Officer."
SETT. THOMAS J. DODD. DEN., COHN.
"UPC'S have been never realy accurately explained. Be con't have all
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the facts and certainly the Senate committee should have all the fact."
Listed above are just of "ton" of the many top lawmakers who are not
missiled by the Air Force "party line" or the public information
officers connected with Air Force Intelligence Office or ATIO (Project
Blue-Book) at Wright-Patterson All Dase, Dayton, Chic.
1947 Jancer Landing In Texas ??????
18. 9
The following account is from the Bryan (Texas) Duily Eagle of
July 8. 1947, which we believe has never been published by a saucer
publication.
"The mysterious case of the fiying disks was still on trial today
before $ skeptieal Texas jury. Entered as "evidence" basides "tast"
inday" of at least 50 eyewitmssees, WES the "remaine" of two disks
"One of the disks VES reported found on & beach near Trinity Bay
near Rounton. It was found by Norman Hargrave, a jeweler. Es said he
found an aluminm disk Sunday floating near the beach. The Houston
Chronicle said mystery aurrounded the finding.
The paper mid Hargrave first described the object minutely, even
anying $ message was inscribed on It indicating It had military sign:
nificance. But Inter, Hargrave said"it was all at joke." Despite that,
the Chronicle made an extensive check and stated: There are some
mysterious facts contained 1a Hargraves first report that lend cre=
dence to the tale." Bargrave first reported the Cist was inscribed
with the following information:
"Military secret of the United States of America, Army, Amy Air Foress
Anyone damaging or revealing description or whereabouts
of this missle subject to prossention by the U.S. Government. Call
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collect at onee, ID 446, Arey Air Forces Depot, Spokane, Wash."
"The Chronicle telephoned Spokans, but the commanding officer would
neither confirm 07 dony the existence of soch a missle.
"The accord flying disk N&S reported found by Bob Septt, $ farmer
living two and & half miles east at Hillsboro. He mid the disk fell
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on his place Friday. He mid he YES afraid people might believe he
was "going to extrames in imagining things" and he told no one but
his family until Sunday. Then be notified 0.F. Kissick and Joe Cerick,
Hillsboro, who went to the field and investigated. Heamhile more and
more Texas reported susing the flying over 50 Texans have
reported seeing the mysterious objects during the last tun day."
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LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
(Rettger, Kevin L.)
November 24, 1967
Mr. Kevin L. Rettger
315 East 309th Street
Willowick, Ohio
Dear Mr. Rettger:
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful letter regarding your continued
interest in unidentified flying objects. I am glad to know that the
information I sent you was helpful to you.
Enclosed is a copy of a report from the Department of the Air Force
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entitled, "The Mantell Case 7 January 1948" concerning the incident
with Captain Mantell.
Because of your interest in UFOs I thought you would also like to see
the enclosed copies of news articles that were sent to me by the National
Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena dealing with Russia and
their study of UFOs.
I trust that this additional information will be of assistance to you.
Kind regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:oh
Encl.
borathy
Kevin 1. Rettger
315 East 309th Street
Willowick, Ohio
November 9, 1967
Congressman Gerald Ford
Longworth Building
Washington 25, District of Columbia
Dear Congressman Ford;
Thank you very much for all the information on UFO's. I really enjoyed
reading the back copies of "news releases" that you presented to the
congress meetings. I sure was impressed when I saw the legislative
Reference Service of the Library of Congress entitled, "Facts about UFO's,
it sure tells alot of information about the objects. I am also thankful
of you to sead me Project Blue Book 1967 and some of the new articles
concerning the new project of the Air Force's in Colorado under Dr.
Edward U. Condon of the University of Colorado.
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I would like you to find out the answers to some more questions of mime.
OR
First, has Capt. Thomas Mantell Jr.'s body really been found after his
plane was completely disintegrated after he closed in on a UFO. I have
many reports that say his body was found and many that say it wasn't
I would like you to find out the real answer to this for me.
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Has the Air Force got a Flying Saucer in their hands that came crashing
to the ground. I have reports about crashed saucers from the organization
can get the answer to this better then I can.
to which I belong to, called "Cleveland Aerial Phenomena Investigation PHOTOCOPY
Club (CAPIC), " they always say at the end the air force comes in and
takes over and what they do with them they don't know. I think you
If you can get me a complete report on the Astronauts and Cosmonauts
of their sightings, please do so.
Other people might have a different appinion, but I think the U.S.
should get together with Russia, maybe then we might get to really
know what kind of life is up there. I think it is better two countries
work together to find out the mystery then one cause then they might
find out more information about such things.
I don't know how true this is but in 1999, we (the earth) is suppost to
be invaded by Mars according to the Astrologists, and it isn't very
often that their wrong, besides I can believe it the way this world is
gowyon with UfO's coming around us. It is no longer impossible it is
now probable!!!
Sincerly,
Kevin L. Rettger
LEGISLATIVE
"U.F.O."
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(Rettger, Kevin L.)
November 6, 1967
Mr. Kevin L. Rettger
315 East 309th Street
Willowick, Ohio 44094
Dear Mr. Rettger:
Thank you for your letter of October 31 concerning your interest
in unidentifled flying objects.
As you may be aware, I have repeatedly recommended that thorough
investigative action be taken and the public be informed concern-
ing this matter. I had called for an investigation of this matter
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in the Spring, of 1966, Enclosed are some of the news releases
which 1 issued at that time.
As you undoubtedly know, the Air Force has authorized a thorough
and complete investigation of UFOs. This investigation is being
conducted at this present time at the University of Colorado under
the chairmanship of Dr. Edward U. Condon and we hope it will pro-
vide the public with all the facts we need about UFOs. I am looking
forward, with all other interested citizens, to seeing the results
of this important investigation. Enclosed are two news articles
concerning this current study.
Because of your interest in UFOs I am also enclosing a booklet
prepared by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of
Congress entitled, "Facts About Unifentified Flying Objects" and
the latest copy we have of Project Blue Book explaining the work
on UFOs by the Air Force.
Kind regards.
Sincerely,
Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
GRF:h
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brother
Kevin 1. Rettger
315 East 309th Street
Willowick, Ohio 44094
Congressman Gerald Ford
OcT. 31, 1967
Longworth Building
Washington 25, District of Columbia
Dear Congressman Ford;
During the recent months I have become interested in the reports on
Unidentified Flying Objects. I have read meny books and magazines
about the U. F. 0.s. I have a good meny questions about the
governments attiude toward this subject. Perhaps you, a Congressman
can answer me. I understand that the public has been told that their
seeing things.
First, why has the U.S. Air Force kept all facts and information
about UFO sightings from the American public as a whole, as well as
reliable civilian investigators?
Why has the U.S. Air Force, as well as other agencies in Washington
put "the squeeze" on reliable and intelligent citizens who have made
their sightings public in spite of ridicule and censure?
Why has the U.S. Air Force been telling some real good lies that don't
even make senge? I'm sure they wouldn't have made the AFR 200-2 if
there wasn't anything to them.
I would appreciate a direct and honest reply to my questions. It is my
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opinion that if this country is to go on functioning as a democracy,
its citizens have the "right to know" and Should Be Told about
something which could drastically affect our lives in the years to
come. We, as citizens of this country, don't need to be shielded from
the truth by other citizens, even if they do happen to have stars on
their shoulders.
Sincerly,
Kevin L. Rettger