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PHILIP
J . KLASS
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SOUTHWEST
WASHINGTON
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SKEPTICS' UFO NEWSLETTER (SUN):
CXlPYlUQIT
1989
December 1989
#1
"Smoking
Gun" discovered which
proves
t h a t "Top
Secre t MJ-12
(crashed saucer)
papers
are c o u n t e r f e i t .
A
pe rson ' s
handwri t ten
s igna ture i s l i k e a snowflake--no two are ever id e n t i c a l . Thus,
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12 papers
purpor t s
to be a memo, dated Sep t . 24, 1947, from
Pres iden t
Truman
to
Defense
Secre ta ry
F o r re s t a l . But t h i s
MJ-12
s igna tu re
i s i d en t i c a l
to one on an au then t ic Truman l e t t e r to
Dr. Vannevar Bush,
wri t t en Oct. 1 ,
1947,
l oca t e d in the Bush
co l l e c t i o n
in the Library o f Congress.
In s ign ing
the
B u ~ h
l e t t e r ,
Truman's
hand
acc ident ly
skidded
in wr i t ing
the
seco11d
ve r t i c a l s t roke
of the l e t t e r "H". The i den t i c a l sk id mark i s
found on the MJ-12 Truman s igna tu re .
Ful l d e t a i l s w i l l be
found
in
the
soon- t o-be-pub l i shed
Winter
1989-1990
i ssue
o f
Skep t ica l
Inqu i re r . Ar t i c le w i l l a l so
inc lude new evidence to show t ha t another
MJ-12
d ocument- -a memo
from Robert
Cut le r to Gen. Nathan Twining,
which
Moore and
Jaiu1e
Shandera
say
they
found
in The National A rch i v e - - i s a l s o a
phoney.
In the process of obta in ing
independent conf i rmat ion from a
recognized
document examiner
in
New
York, I l earned
t ha t he
had
e a r l i e r
concluded
t h a t the
MJ-12
Truman l e t t e r was
a
c o u n t e r f e i t
because the
purpor ted
1947
memo was wri t t en on t.1 S111ith Coronocl
typewr i t e r t h a t was
not
in t roduced u n t i l 15 years
l a t e r - - i n 1963.
Fur thermore, t h a t he had
e a r l i e r made t h i s
known to
Will iam
L.
Moore,
who made the MJ-12 papers publ ic in the spr ing
o f
1987.
After comparing the
authent ic
and MJ-12 Truman s igna tu res ,
the
document examiner ca l led Moore's assoc ia t e Stan ton
T.
Friendman
to inform
him t h a t
the
MJ-12 memo was a coun te r fe i t .
Ear l i e r thil:i year ,
Friedman--who
has been the 1nost out1:ipoken
proponent
of
the
au th en t i c i t y o f
the
MJ-12
pap e
r s - - r ece iv ed
a
$16, .
000
gran t
to
research
MJ-12
paper
a u t h e n t i c i t y from
the
Fund
for
U O
Hcuul.lrctl
FUFOH). W ll l
l'rludindJI':;
l c ~ 1
l c l u l t , _ ~
soon, inc lude the negat ive
(counte rfe i t )
f ind ings o f
the
New York
document examiner with whom
he
and Moore have
been
working?
. .
Whitley
S t r i e b e i ' s new
movie "Communion''
made
i
t s
d e but on Nov.
10,
accordi.
ng
to a near ly
fu l l -page
co lo r c t d v l : r t i ~ I . . I I I L J l t . in L l l l
Nov.
14
ed i t i o n
of the National Enqui re r .
The
Atlan ta
Con-_
s t i t u t i o n ' s
movie
c r i t i c
commented
t h a t S t r i e b e r ' s f i lm "should
appeal
to
t h a t t iny segment o f moviegoers who'v e always wanted
to
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Budd
Hopkins,
ch ie f guru o f "UFO abduct ions
an
d au tho r
of
the
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physicians
and anyone persona l ly o r
profe so ionu l ly
i n t ereot l d ill
the
UPO abduc t ion phenomenon."
Hopkins ' promotion mater ia l , dated June 20, d i s t r i b u t e d
a t
the 1989 MUFON
confe rence
in Las Vegas, s a i d t h a t "a
$25
c o n t r i b u t i o n
to IF
insures your
membership an d re
c e i p t
o f
a t
l e a s t
four
cop ies
o f
the IF B u l l e t i n .
But one
person who
promptly
con t r ibu ted has
ye t
to rece ive
h i s
f i r
s t i s sue as
of
December.
Les t
ex i s t i n g
UFO groups
be
concerned
about
a p o t e n t i a l new
r i v a l ,
Hopkins
sa id
h is
new
group
wil l
coopera te
f u l l y
and non
compet i t ive ly
with
the Mutual UFO
Network
[MUFON] and the J .
Allen Hynek Center fo r UFO
Studies
[CUFOS] . (Emphas i s added. )
Whitley S t r i e b e r , who t>pl i t with Hopkino--lli: .; o n lltentor--lld:J
a l so
launched a quar te r ly new s le t t e r , ca l l ed T
he
Communion
Let t e r , and has publ i shed two i s su e s .
Subscr
ip t i o n pr i ce i s
$20.00.
(The
Communion Let t e r , P.O.
Box 1975,
Bo
u ld e r , Colo . ,
80306-1975.)
Although S t r i eb e r d o es n ' t mention
Hopkins by name, he
i s
c r i t i c a l
of
hi s modus operand i . For example , in
the
f rst
i s s u e , -
re fe r r ing
to
the
"abductee"
se l f -h e l p
groups
wh
ic
h Hopkins
has
formed around the coun t ry - -S t r i eber cau t ions again s t "groups t h a t
have been
formed by people
with
s t rong be l i e f
s a bout who
the
v i s i t o r s
are and what they are doing"
[Hopkins
c la ims UFOnauts
are
engaged in
gene t ic
exper iments . ] S t r i eb e r a dds :
We
have
a l so found d i f f i c u l t i e s
with
psychologis t s s t a r t
ing
groups and
making people
pay as
they would fo r group therapy .
"
But in the
next
(summer,
1989}
i s sue o f The Communion
Le t t e r , St r ieber r epor t s a
"dramat ic
response t o the idea
of
c rea t ing Communion
groups . There are
a c t iv
e group s i n Cleve land ,
Denver, Houston, Los
Angeles,
Minneapol i s ,
New
Yo r k
City , New
Mexico, Por t l and , Ore . , San
Diego/Palm Spr ings a nd
San Antonio.
New groups are s t a r t i ng
in
Buffa lo ,
Chicago,
New
Ha mpshire ,
New
Je rsey , Oklahoma, Sal t Lake City , San Franc i sc
o ,
Te nnessee and
two
in Canada, in
Edmonton and Winnipeg."
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In the same
i ssue I
Whitley
repor t ed
a n :ce n t nightti.llll.:
encounter which prompted him to
hur l
a beds ide
nig
t1t t ab l e
a t
the
(al leged) v i s i t o r ,
s h a t t e r i n g the
t a b l e
and
i t s
l a mp . Although
St r ieber
sa id
h i s
wife
' 'had a
gl impse o f
what wa s
go
ing
on (she}
saw
noth ing
in the room." (His emphasis)
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Highl igh t of the 1989 MUFON
conference in La
s
Vegas
was the
Satu rday
nigh t speech
by Will iam L. Moore which
su rp r i sed
and
shocked most of those in the aud ience . Moore ' s long- t ime
co l l abora to r
Stan ton
Friedman,
appeared as
shocked
as
o ther s .
Unlike
other MUFON
speakers , Moore did no t
submi t
h i s paper in
advance
fo r publ i ca t ion in the conference
p ro ceed in g s . Audience
was t o ld
it
could be purchased a f t e r h is
t a l k fo r $10.00.
[ I f
you 'd l ike to buy
a
copy, wri te to Moore a t
4219 W.
Olive Ave. ,
Sui te 247, Burbank,
Cal i f . ,
91505.]
In Moore's
t a lk
he
cla imed
t h a t
he
had e a r l i e r se rved as a
government agen t
to
i n f i l t r a t e and
r e p o r t on the a c t i v i t i e s o f
APRO
(Aer ia l Phenomenon Research
Organ iza t i
o n)
and othe r
UFOlogists and as a government dis in fo rmat ion agen t to
feed
spur ious in format ion i n t o
the
UFO movement. Moore "admi t ted"
t h a t
the
dis in fo rmat ion
was r e s p o n s i b l e fo r the
nervous breakdown
o f
a
UFOlogis t
in
Albuquerque.
Following Moore 's 1-1/2
hour t a l k , h ~ dnd
Frit dman
(whotie
speech preceded
Moore's)
were
scheduled
to respond to
ques t ions
from
the audience .
Ins tead , when
Moore
f in i shed
he dashed
o f f
the s tage
and
disappeared . He was not seen p u b l i c l y a t the con
fe rence the fol lowing
day. One
MUFON member, whom I encountered
a t t h e
a i rp o r t ,
summed up his r eac t ions in
thes e words:
"Moore
took
ca re fu l aim a t h is foot ,
missed, and blew
h i
s head
of f .
UFO
magazine 's account
of
Moore 's MUFON t a l
k was head l ined :
Uli'Q H ~ l H . H . t r c h u r ' t i 'Confl oolondl ' : Diui-ufunuul.iun l
1
Juy
1 \ u v ~ o , u l ~ d .
The
a r t i c l e
quoted Barry
Greenwood,
ed i to r
o f
Ju s t
Cause
U ~
n ew s l e t t e r as saying: "In
hi s [Moore 's]
speech he c r1 t i c i z e s
othe rs
fo r spread ing
dis in fo rmat ion , bu t fo r
the
l a s t
10
yea rs ,
Bi l l himself has
been
one of the bigges t source
s
o f d i s in fo rma
t ion in
a l l
UFOlogy."
When
in terviewed by
UFO
magazine,
Moore r a t i o n a l i z ed
h is
a l l eged ro l e us
a government--mole
.md
d i s in f o r 11u l ion i.ll.JL'Ilt
in
thi:JI;j\::J wordl.i: I f t lwy
lh.tdn'
t
foun
1111.. LlH.:y wvulJ lid
VI.. 1uu11d
somebody e l s e .
In
Moore's Las
Vegas speech,
he
endorsed Wh it
l ey
St r i e be r ' s
UFO-abduction
c la ims , saying
"Whit ley
has
come v
ery c lose to
the
t r u t h
in
a
number
of
ways . .
gives
every appear
ance
o f
being
a
r ea l s i t u a t i o n What Moore f a i l e d
to
t e l l
the
audience was
t ha t
he
had served as
a
paid c o n s u l t a n t to
S t r i e
be
r
fo r hi s new
book "Ma'est i .c"--whose
theme
invo lves MJ-12 co v er up o f crdshed
saucers
and
a cnj,l
hood
"UFO-abduct ion" o f one of th ose
involved
in MJ-12.
The
book i s l i s t e d as Fic t ion , but in St r i e be r ' s
ta lk-show appearances
to
promote the book he impl i es it i s , based
on f a c t .
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St r i ebe r ' s
new
book
Majest ic , ' ' publ i shed
by Putna
m, went
on
sa l e
in
September.
A review of the book in the New Age Journal
by
Dennis Stacy, Edi tor of the MUFON
UFO
Journ a l , offe rs the
fo l lowing appra i sa l :
Majes t ic ,
unfor tunate ly
fa i l s
to approach
i t s
t i t l e
simply
plods ,
bere f t
of
e i t he r
gr
ace
or majesty,
peopled
with f igures not so much
wooden
as wan. (
I f you
spot a
review,
please
send
me
a photocopy.)
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Report on Communion,
by Ed
Conroy, publil:lhed by i
l l idm Morrow
& Co., h i t the s tands on
Nov.
10--coincident with th e re l ease
of
the movie
Communion.
Conroy, a j ou rna l i s t , p
rovides
useful
i n s igh t s
in to St r i ebe r ' s younger years via
in t e
rviews with
family,
f r iends and
t eachers , which i n i t i a l l y see m
moderately
objec t ive .
But
not
un t i l
the
l a s t
chapte r
of the
bo ok
does
Conroy
reveal
to h is
readers
t ha t he bel ieves
t ha t
he h itn s e l f
has
a l so
exper ienced UFO abduc t ions . ' ' (According
to
St r i e
ber
, wri t ing in
the summer i ssue
of
his newsle t te r , Conroy had an
encounter ' '
wi th
the vis i to rs
while an
overnight gues t
a t St r i e
ber ' s cabin
in ups ta te
New York.)
Dr. Brian O'Leary , who
l e f t
NASA's
ast ron
a u t
co
rps
for
more
exot ic a c t i v i t i e s , a l so r epor ted ly encountered St r i ebe r ' s
vis i tor s
while a
gues t in his
ups ta te
N.Y.
c abi n . St r i ebe r
says
O'Leary
wi l l descr ibe the experience in h i s new book
Explo{ing
Inner
and Outer S p a c e ~ The
book , according to
Str iebe r , explores some of the d i rec t ions t ha t sc ien ce must
tdke
in
order
to
r e - e s t a b l i s h
i t s
connect ion wi th
r e a l i
ty
.
(Emphasis
added.)
Possibly
it
was intended
to
t e s t
the new
USSR
p
ol ic
y
of Glas
nost
to
determine
i f ET
v i s i to r s would be we l c o
med, or
shot
down l ike
KAL-007,
t ha t
prompted
UFOnauts to (a l l e yed
ly) land in
Voronezh,
in l a t e September,
as repor ted
by TAS
S s evera l weeks
l a t e r .
Pres ident Gorbachev's planned press conference
to
announce the momentus event was cance l led when adv i so rs warned
t ha t
th i s
would vio la te MJ-12 Treaty wi th th e u. s . , signed in
1947,
under which USSR agreed to withhold
UFO in f ormation and
noted t ha t the USSR always respec ted t r ea t i e s to t he l e t t e r .
In
recogni t ion
of
the Sovie t propens i ty
for
b
ui ld ing
g ian t
ICBMs
and a i
r c r a f t , g ia n t - s i z e UFOnauts
(9
-1
2 f t .
t a l l ) wer
e
se lec ted for the mission t o voronezh, ra th e r than th e
4- f t .
t a l l
ones
tha t typ ica l ly are
repor ted elsewhere . In con
t r a s t to th
e
large-headed U O ~ a u t s repor ted in the West, th o s e
a t
Vorone z h
were sa id to
have
t i ny knob-size
he
ads. (Perha ps
only UFOnaut s
with t iny bra ins would want to
v i s i t
the USSR. )
The
Oct. 1 2
edi t ion of Komsomolskaya
Pravda
publ ished h i gh
l igh ts of
an
interview by
j ou rna l i s t Pavel
Mukhortov with t he UFOnauts who
to ld
him they caine from the cons te l la t ion
Libra - - Red
Sta r .
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According
to
my
pr iva te
sources in
the
KGB, the TASS
ed i to r
who approved
publ ica t ion
of
the Voronezh
UFO t a le has been given
a Sta l in Award, i . e . a one-way t i c k e t
to
Siber ia - sk i .
Breeze
Sight ings:
The Most Astounding Mult iple
UFOs
in
u.s. His tory , by Ed and Frances Walters
i s t i t l e of a new book scheduled for publ ica t ion in
l i ke ly
to genera te
cons iderable media/publ ic
Most
of
the UFO
photos--which
show a
c ra f t - l i ke objec t with
por tholes seemingly
hovering near Walters
house
in near
or
complete
darkness--were shot
with an old Polaroid camera which
can eas i l y be used to
shoot double-exposures
i f the opera tor does
not pu l l
out the f i lm a f t e r the
f i r s t
shot . Although Ed had
used
the
camera
for 17
year s ,
he cla imed
to
be complet e
ly
unaware
tha t
t could be used to make a double-exposure .
I n i t i a l l y , Walters claimed the
UFO photos
were taken by a
Mr. X and
tha t
he
was
only
serv ing
as
an
in te rmedia ry to
t ransmi t them to the loca l newspaper.
Late r ,
a f t e r severa l MUFON
i nves t iga tors seemed impressed with the photos, Ed
admit ted
he
was Mr. X, but decl ined to allow hi s
name
to be
made
publ ic .
St i l l
l a t e r , a f t e r
Ed's photos
and t a l e s
of being
abducted via
a
blue beam, hear ing UFOnauts speaking in Spanish
and
t he i r
showing him pic tures of
nude
women ~ i t h extremely la rge bosoms
were
accepted
by
severa l MUFON
inves t iga tor s , Walters agreed to
l e t
his
name
be
made
publ i c .
Afier Walt
Andrus, MUFON s
Gulf Breeze and
in te rv iewed
Ed and
t he i r
UFO
photos, he
was
quoted
saying th i s
i s
one of
the
most
inves t iga ted
in the pas t 30 years
in te rna t iona l
d i r ec to r v t s i t ed
Frances
Walters and
examined
in the Gulf Breeze Sent ine l as
amazing UFO cases
t ha t
I
have
in
the United Sta tes .
But
two
long-t ime
pro-UFOlogists who
par t i c ipa t ed
in the
MUFON inves t iga t ion found dis turb ing discrepanciL>s in both
1
lw
UFO
photos and in
Walters
wild
t a l e s .
One of these was
Dr.
~ l l y Smith, a
long-t ime assoc ia te of
the l a t e Dr. J . Allen
Hynek. The other
was
Bob Boyd, MUFON s s t a t e d i r ec to r
for
Alabama. When Smith
and Boyd sharply c r i t i c i zed
the work
of
more
credulous MUFON i nves t iga tors and expressed t he i r view t ha t the
Gulf Breeze case was
a
hoax, both were
expel led
from MUFON.
.
f
N o t
s u r p r i ~ n g l y ,
the National Enquirer became
in te res ted in
the Gulf
Breeze
case , but
before agree ing
to buy the Walters
photos they submitted them to
Dr.
Robert Nathan, of NASA s Je t
Propuls ion Laboratory for analys is because of his long-t ime
i n t e re s t
in UFOs and exper t i se
.
in using computers
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cou ld
not endorse
the
au th en t i c i t y
of the Gulf
Breeze
photos ,
the
t ab lo id l o s t i n t e r e s t .
In
e a r l y
February ,
1988, Dr.
Bruce
Maccabee--an
o p t i ca l
phys ic i s t
employed by
the u.s.
Navy who heads
the Fund for UFO
Research (FUFOR)--visi ted
Gulf
Breeze
to
i n v es t i g a t e
the case .
Maccabee, in
my
opin ion , i s one of the n a t i o n ' s
most
t e ch n i ca l l y
competent
and hard-working
pro-UFO i n v e s t i g a t o r s - -b u t ,
r eg re tab
l y , one o f
the
most credulous .
Maccabee
borrowed Walters ' old Polaro id
camera,
used it to
c rea te a
double -exposure
UFO-li e _ _ _ r . h o t o us i n 2___9 yel low ~ . _ t : ' _ ~ e t -
lamp.
Maccabee repor ted
a t the 1988
MUFON
conference thctt "when
showed
the p i c t u re to Ed, he seemed to
be
conv1nced t ha t I had
photographed
a yel low-co lored UFO
in
roughly
the same l oca t ion as
the
UO [un iden t i f i ed objec t ] in
h i s
f i r s t f ive photos . When
Maccabee expla ined t ha t h is F ~ _ ' l o t o
was
. : _ _ 1 0 ~ _ 2 { - ~ ? u b l e
e x p o s u . r ;
he
sa id
t ha t
Walters
"gave
no
1ndica t ion
thctt
he
wct s
ctwctre
u t
Lltl:
double exposure t echn ique
I
used.
In Maccabee 's MUFON paper ,
he
acknowledged
f inding
anomal ies
in
some
o f
the
Walters UFO
photos ,
but
he
was ab le to dev i se
exp lana t ions
which he found
s a t i s f a c to ry . Short ly t he r e a f t e r ,
Walters accep ted a
$200,000
o f fe r from William Morrow to w r ~ t e
a
book,
and
Maccabee
accepted
Walters '
o f f e r o f
$20,000 to wri t e a
chap te r d e t a i l i n g
the r e s u l t s
o f h i s UFO photo an a ly s i s . Budd
Hopkins
agreed t o wr i t e the
book ' s
In t roduc t ion which s t rong ly
endorses the a u t h e n t i c i t y
of
the p h o t o ~ und the t a l e s
to ld
by
Ed
and h is wife .
PJK
PSYCHIC PREDICTION #1:
Within
seve ra l
months,
photographic
evidence w i l l
be
made
publ ic
t h a t shows t ha t Ed Wa l t e r s not only
knew how to
use
h is Polaro id
cctmerd
to lll