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Subject: ROSWELL-DECLARATION PART 8
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## Nachricht vom 07.03.95 weitergeleitet
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## Ersteller:  Joachim Koch@242:1000/7.20
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Subject: Roswell-Incident 1947

Organization: International Roswell Initiative


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## Ersteller:  Joachim Koch@2:2410/504.20
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Hello !

This is PART 8 of the material distributed with the
ROSWELL-DECLARATION. Have you received the previous parts?

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***PLEASE CIRCULATE*PLEASE COPY*PLEASE SIGN THE ROSWELL-DECLARATION***
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THE INTERNATIONAL ROSWELL INITIATIVE - UPDATE FEBRUARY 10, 1995

An Open Letter to All Those With an Interest in the UFO
Phenomenon:

There is presently a large-scale movement underway in the United
States to persuade the U.S. government to share what it knows
about UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence with its citizens
and the people of the world.  The effort is known as the
"International Roswell Initiative" and has the joint support of
the three largest and most respected UFO organizations in the
United States -- the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the J. Allen
Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), and the Fund for UFO
Research (FUFOR).  Because government suppression and
withholding of information on this subject is a universal
concern, organizations in several European countries, including
Great Britain and Germany, have joined the effort in an
unprecedented show of unity.  This letter is an invitation to
organizations and people throughout the world with an interest
in the UFO phenomenon to join this unified, worldwide movement
to end government secrecy on the UFO issue once and for all.

Although definitive answers are being sought on what the
government knows about all aspects of the UFO phenomenon, the
focus of the effort is the 1947 Roswell incident, one of the
best-documented UFO cases in history.  The Roswell event
involved the recovery of unusual debris from a ranch near
Roswell, New Mexico, a press release from the U.S. military
stating that a "crashed disk" (UFO) had been recovered, and a
subsequent denial by the military claiming that the debris was
really only the misidentified remains of a weather balloon.
Credible military and civilian witnesses who were directly
involved have testified that the weather balloon story is false.

The strategy of the Roswell Initiative is to collect as many
signed copies as possible of a one-page document, the Roswell
Declaration.  The Declaration contains a request for an
Executive Order from the President of the United States to
declassify any government-held information regarding the
existence of UFOs or extraterrestrial intelligence.  The
Declaration is not an endorsement of a position or belief, but
rather, a request for a change in the law -- a change that would
mandate a policy of openness and candor on the part of the
government.  Such a policy would far better reflect the will of
the people than the present government policy of secrecy,
suppression, and denial.

On a yet-to-be-determined date (probably sometime in 1995),
signed copies of the Roswell Declaration will be delivered to
the U.S. President and all members of Congress.  On the same
day, UFO organizations throughout the world will deliver signed
copies of the Roswell Declaration to the American embassies in
their respective countries.  (Organizers in Great Britain also
plan to deliver copies to both Houses of Parliament.)  The
objective will be to draw credible media and public attention to
the Roswell matter and to the need for a more open and honest
government policy concerning the UFO phenomenon in general.
Public and media pressure can be a key factor in bringing about
change in government policy.

The Roswell Declaration was published in April 1994 in the
journals of both the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies and
the Mutual UFO Network.  The Fund for UFO Research subsequently
included a copy of the Declaration with its quarterly
newsletter.  In July, a copy of the Roswell Declaration was
mailed to the members of the Society for Scientific Exploration
(SSE), an organization consisting of more than 400 scientists
throughout the world.  The cover letter for the SSE mailing was
written by Robert M. Wood, Ph.D., a member of the board of
directors of the SSE, and a strong advocate of the Roswell
Initiative.  Dr. Wood holds a doctorate degree in physics and is
a recently retired executive of McDonnell Douglas Corporation.

In October, the Roswell Declaration and an accompanying story
were published in Omni magazine (U.S. circulation, 713,000).
The Declaration has also been published in UFO magazine and
International UFO Library magazine.  It has been placed on a
number of computer bulletin boards, as well as on America Online
and the Internet, making it available worldwide.  Overseas, the
Roswell Declaration has been translated into several languages,
and a significant number of signed, foreign Declarations have
already been received.  The Declaration has been featured in
publications abroad, including the official government newspaper
of Russia, Izvestia  (circulation 1.2 million), which published
a full-length story about Roswell and the Roswell Declaration in
its September 14, 1994, edition.  Other foreign publications
have also expressed interest in the Roswell Initiative.

Polls have shown that the majority of people believe in the
possible existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence.
There is, without question, a universal interest in this subject
and a strong desire to know the truth.  The Roswell Declaration
provides a vehicle to galvanize that interest and that desire
for the truth into a large-scale grassroots movement.  So far,
the response has been overwhelming.  Declarations have been
received from people representing all walks of life and all age
groups.  Omni magazine recently received a box of 800 Roswell
Declarations from a high school in New Hampshire, where the
students had made it a class project to collect signed
Declarations.  Overall, more than 15,000 signed Roswell
Declarations had been received as of January 1995, including
hundreds from scientists and engineers.  People want to know the
truth!

In the United States, public awareness of the Roswell event
continues to increase.  A number of respectable books on the
subject are available, and several mainstream network television
shows have featured segments on Roswell, including ABC's Good
Morning America and CBS's 48 Hours.  A major television movie,
Roswell, aired on the Showtime network last year and received a
Golden Globe nomination for best television movie.  The movie is
now available on video and will likely be shown on network
television and in Europe sometime this summer.  Additionally,
the Roswell Declaration has been mentioned on three national
television programs (including a Larry King special on October
1, 1994), as well as on a number of radio talk shows.

At the request of New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff, the U.S.
Government Accounting Office (GAO) is now conducting an inquiry
into the Roswell case.  In addition to overseeing fiscal
matters, the GAO has the authority to investigate whether proper
reporting procedures have been followed by government agencies.
While the GAO's inquiry into the Roswell matter is a step in the
right direction, it is doubtful whether its investigators will
be able to gain access to the information on Roswell if the Air
Force -or whatever other agency holds the information -- wants
to keep it secret.  It may be a year or more before the GAO
reports its findings to Congressman Schiff.

On September 8, 1994, in reaction to public and political
pressure, and in what Newsweek magazine called a "preemptive
strike," the Air Force issued its first official statement on
Roswell in 47 years-- a 23-page report stating that the "most
likely" source of the Roswell debris was a balloon from a secret
program known as Project Mogul.  The purpose of Project Mogul
was to detect Soviet nuclear tests by using sensitive
instruments carried aloft by high-altitude balloons.  Contrary
to the impression that the Air Force wishes to convey to the
public, the conclusion of the 1994 Air Force report represents
little change from the original weather balloon cover story
issued in 1947.  The neoprene (rubber) balloons and radar
reflectors used in Project Mogul were the same type used in
meteorological observation flights during that time period.  The
primary difference was that while the weather observation
flights generally used a single 350-gram, four- foot-diameter
balloon and a light-weight radar reflector (made from balsa wood
sticks and reflective foil), the Project Mogul flights used an
array of 350-gram balloons and light-weight radar reflectors,
and carried different instruments.  In effect, a downed Project
Mogul balloon should have been no more puzzling to those who
found it than a common weather balloon.

It is very important to note that the Air Force report is
nothing but speculation, as its conclusion is not backed by
files or records specifically documenting the Mogul hypothesis.
In reality, it confirmed nothing.  Considering the government's
penchant for keeping records, it seems incredible that Air Force
researchers were unable to produce official records or files
showing any of the following significant events:  1) the
recovery of the material from the Brazel ranch by U.S. military
officers who were acting in an official capacity;  2) the
alleged "mis- analysis" of that material as a crashed UFO by
officers of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell -a mis-analysis
which led to a press release that resulted in spectacular
headlines in 30 U.S. newspapers;  3) the transportation of the
recovered material from Roswell Army Air Field to Fort Worth
Army Air Field by military personnel using military aircraft;
4) the re-analysis of the material at Eighth Air Force
headquarters;  5) the highly publicized announcement of the
result of that re-analysis at a specially called press
conference by the commander of the Eighth Air Force, General
Roger Ramey;  7) the ultimate disposition of the recovered
material (i.e., the return of the remains of the alleged "Mogul
balloon" and its instruments to the Project Mogul team at
Alamogordo, New Mexico); and 8) a log entry by the Project Mogul
team acknowledging that one of their balloons had been recovered
near Roswell by the Eighth Air Force.  No official records of
any of these events exist, despite the fact that the "crashed
disk" press release from the 509th Bomb Group and the subsequent
"weather balloon" explanation by Eighth Air Force headquarters
constituted one of the biggest U.S. military public relations
fiascoes ever!

To those familiar with the Roswell evidence, the 1994 Air Force
report is not convincing, much less definitive.  The research
behind it was neither objective nor complete.  Many key Roswell
witnesses, such as General Arthur Exon, Glenn Dennis, and Jesse
Marcel, Jr., M.D., all of whose testimony would have directly
contradicted the Air Force's conclusion, were not interviewed.
It is difficult to imagine that such blatant omissions were
accidental.

Because much of the mainstream media accepted the Air Force
report at face value and dutifully reported its conclusions as
fact, the report has resulted in a temporary public relations
setback for the campaign to get to the truth on the Roswell
matter.  However, due to its lack of objectivity, a selective
presentation of the facts, and a highly prejudiced point of
view, the Air Force report could ultimately backfire and,
ironically, become a factor in ending the coverup.



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