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J . KLASS

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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

sec:

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probe

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send r e views from your loca l pa]:Je r . )

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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."

f

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.)

----------------------------------------------------------------

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

.

for imag

e

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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

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u t

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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