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Date: 20 Jun 1997 01:01:13 -0400
From: Steve Wingate 
Subject: IUFO: (Fwd) MMWWW UFOrmation: Breaking News


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Date:          Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:00:23 -0700
From:          Glen Boyd 
To:            jcpaul@cris.com
Cc:            mmlist-l@newciv.org, mansplat@earthlink.net, ufovicki@aol.com,
               skywatch@mail.phoenix.net
Subject:       MMWWW UFOrmation: Breaking News

....And there is a lot of it!

Thought I'd share some of these breaking UFO news stories with the list.
For more UFOrmation, be sure to check out the Millennium Matters
UFOrmation page at: http//www.m-m.org/~jz/ufo.html

(Note to JC: Please post these stories on the UFOrmation Page as 
"Breaking News")

FLASH! Phoenix UFO Sightings Recieve Coverage in USA Today and NBC
Nightly News

Wednesday June 18 may well be remembered as the day the national news
media took notice of what some have called the most significant UFO
event since the Roswell Incident 50 years ago. Today's editions of the
USA Today newspaper and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw both featured
stories on the Arizona UFO flap which began March 13 of this year and
has been ongoing ever since.

The Arizona flap (also commonly referred to as the "Phoenix Sightings")
became big news to the UFO research community last March 13 when an
enormous object (or objects, depending on whom you talk to) was observed
over several Arizona cities by thousands of witnesses, and videotaped by
dozens. The object has most often described as a series of six lights
forming a "V" type formation, trailed by a seventh light. The other most
common descriptives are that it was enormous...reports describe it as
anywhere from three football fields to a mile long...and silent as it
passed. The object was seen by Arizona air traffic controllers who
reported it did not register on their radar screens.

Today's USA Today devoted a full page in it's "A section" to the story
and the report was a good one...complete with pictures, testimony from
witnesses, and even what seemed to be a subtle call for someone to
investigate the story. Neither Arizona State and City, or federal
Government Officials have investigated the story so far. The Air Force
has also passed, citing their usual "sorry, not in the UFO business..."
party line. A Phoenix City Councilwoman, Frances Barwood is pressing for
an investigation. In the meantime, as one witness puts it in the USA
Today report, "it's like having 50,000 people watch a football game in a
stadium, then having someone tell us we weren't there".

The NBC Nightly News report was not as positive as the USA Today story,
despite showing spectacular video footage of the object. The report
centered heavily on the UFO Mania sweeping America in light of the usual
culprits...in this case everything from the movie Independence Day to
the publicity surrounding the 50th Anniversary of the Roswell Incident.

Still, it was an odd sight watching Tom Brokaw snicker about things
"back here on Earth" as the video of an enormous object with six lights
of intense brightness covering the entire Phoenix skyline played
directly behind him. Either he wasn't seeing the same thing as his
audience or he was in total denial!

ROSWELLAPALOOZA

With the 50th Anniversary of the purported crash of a UFO and it's crew
in Roswell, New Mexico rapidly approaching, the Roswell story seems to
be everywhere right now. At your local newsstand you'll find Roswell
comic books, a commemorative magazine (with an equally "commemorative"
ten dollar price tag), and Roswell cover stories on everything from
Popular Mechanics to Time Magazine.

The Time story is noteworthy for it's very one-sided treatment of the
Roswell Incident...going so far as to infer the 1995 congressional
General Accounting Office investigation report reached much the same
conclusion as an Air Force Report released at the same time which
determined the crashed object to be a Project Mogul weather balloon. In
fact, Congressman Schiff complained loudly of documents relevant to his
investigation having been mysteriously destroyed. The Time report makes
no mention of this. 

Meanwhile, get ready for yet another official Air Force explanation.
According to the Time report, a report to be released later this minth
will explain the presense of "bodies" at the crash site. The last Air
Force report (the "Mogul" story) neglected to do that because, according
to Col. Richard Weaver "since we proved there we're no UFOs, that
automatically meant there we're no bodies".

Weaver goes on to explain the bodies reported by Roswell witnesses this
way. It seems the Air Force conducted experiments where they would drop
dummies out of balloons flying at high altitude to determine the effects
of impact. The "dummies" we're 3.5 to 4 feet tall, bluish in color, with
ho hair, ears or eyebrows. "People who saw them mistook them for
aliens", according to Weaver.

Meanwhile, Senator Strom Thurmond's office has issued a statement taking
issue with the foreword Thurmond wrote for the controversial book "The
Day After Roswell" by Col. Phillip J. Corso (Ret.). In the book, Corso
claims that as Chief of the Army's Foreign Technology Division he
"stewarded" the alien artifacts recovered from an alien ship which
crashed at Roswell. He goes on to claim that reverse engineering of the
artifacts resulted in such modern technologies as Fiber Optics and
Integrated curcuit chips.

Thurmond writes a nice introduction to the book which verifies Corso's
military and intelligence credentials. He has however, since disavowed
the book claiming he was led to believe that the forward he wrote would
be for an entirely different book about Corso's life...rather than the
"Roswell Expose" which has hit the stands.

"The Day After Roswell"s" co-author William J. Birnes has, according to
an Internet source, since stated that he stands by the book...including
the inclusion of Thurmond's foreword, and that he had Thurmond's
permission and knowledge of the foreword and "has his release to prove
it".



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