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SUBJECT: The Majestic Twelve FILE: UFO1066
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PART 23
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The Seattle Times Friday, May 8, 1987
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60,000 sightings can't be wrong, Seattleite insists, "The bottom line
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is: Don't believe me, but do read what is available." Dale Goudie
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By Peter Lewis Times Staff Reporter
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In their most commonly reported from, the aliens have large
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heads and stand 3 to 4 feet tall. Their enormous eyes rest under
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a transparent helmet. Clad in jumpsuits adorned with insignias, the
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humanoids walk in sure, positive movements. Far out? Maybe so, but
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that's where they probably come from. And Seattle resident Dale Goudie
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has talked to people who say they've seen them.
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Goudie has spent the past 14 years researching UFOs and using the
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Freedom of Information Act to collect federal documents that he contends
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prove UFOs exist.
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The official position of the U.S. Air Force, for example, is that
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it got out of the UFO business when Project Bluebook ended in 1969.
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But Goudie says the Bluebook was succeeded by Project Aquarius. Since
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1942, there have been an estimated 60,000 UFO sightings in the United
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States alone and only 5 percent of sightings are actually reported,
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Goudie says. Feeding characteristics of the 60,000 sightings into
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a computer, 250 different shapes emerged, suggesting to Goudie that
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there may be more than one species involved in UFOs. "The bottom
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line is: Don't believe me, but do read what is available," says Goudie,
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who has dedicated a room in his home to countless files and papers
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on UFOs.
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"The real problem is, no one wants to take the responsibility
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of telling the American public this (UFOs) is real." Consider a series
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of once classified material on Project Aquarius: An Air Force document
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dated Nov. 17, 1980, from the Office of Special Investigations at
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Rolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., to OSI at Kirtland Air
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Force Base in New Mexico refers to a "request for photo imagery
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interpretation." Other papers indicate that the request stemmed from
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a series of "alleged sightings of unidentified aerial lights" over
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the Manzano Wepons Storage Area at Kirtland between Aug. 8 and Sept.
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3, 1980. An analysis of at least two pictures of the sightings concluded
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that the film was unaltered and that they were "legitimate negative(s)
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of (an) unidentified aerial object," according to the Nov. 17, 1980,
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document. Of the two confirmed sightings, one "contained a trilateral
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insignia on the lower portion of objects..." The document also states:
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"The official U .S. government policy and results of Project Aquarius
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is still classified top secret with no dissemination outside official
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intelligence channels. ...Because of a chance of public disclosure,
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no knowledgeable personnel with SPA (it's not clear if SPA stands
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for Special Project Aquarius, or something else) will be provided..."
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But another Air Force document dated Jan. 25,1983, says "possible
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unauthorized release of classified material" cast doubt on the authenticity
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of the Nov. 17, 1980, document.
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The later document says the earlier one included nonexistent officers,
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and it sought to discredit the validity of the purported imagery
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interpretation. When a Freedom of Information request letter dated
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Feb. 20, 1986, sought information on Project Aquarius, the National
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Security Agency responded, in part, with a letter dated March 3, 1986:
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"Please be advised that Project Aquarius does not deal with unidentified
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aerial objects. We, therefore, have no information to provide you
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on the subject." But when Sen. John Glenn wrote the National Security
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Agency on Jan. 7 of this year on behalf of a constituent who was having
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trouble getting responses to Freedom of Information requests about
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Project Aquarius, the reply letter, dated Jan. 27, said in part:
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"Apparently there is or was an Air Force project by that name which
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dealt with UFOs. Coincidentally, there is also an NSA project by
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that name.
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The NSA project does not deal with UFOs.. .." It is Goudie's contention
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that the responses about Project Aquarius demonstrate the government
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is saying one thing and doing another. He theorizes that the government
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is reluctant to admit the existence of even one UFO because as soon
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as it does, it fears opening the door to mass hysteria.
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Spokesmen for the Pentagon, the Air Force and the National Security
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Agency either declined comment or denied that any government agency
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is actively investigating UFOs. The Air Force quit studying UFOs in
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1969 after a $500,000 study conducted by the University of Colorado
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concluded that "UFO phenomena do not offer a fruitful field in which
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to look for major scientific discoveries," according to Capt. Jay
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DeFrank. DeFrank noted that in 1977, President Carter asked the National
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Aeronautic and Space Administration to look into the possibility of
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resuming active investigation of UFOs. This is the same man who in
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1973, when he was governor of Georgia, said, "I don't laugh at people
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anymore when they say they have seen UFOs because I've seen one myself."
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NASA spokesman Dave Garrett recalls that agency's response to the
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president: "We said, 'Thank you, but no thank you.' We have never
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been in the business." Dennis Chadwick, chief spokesman for the National
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Security Agency at Fort George Meade in Maryland, an arm of the pentagon,
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would not say whether NSA or any other government agency is actively
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investigating UFOs.
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Goudie, a 45-year-old freelance ad man and former TV talk-show producer,
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is not deterred by the government's stance. Two years ago, he established
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a computerized UFO bulletin board - CUFON (for Computer UFO Network)
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- that has more than 1,400 members. It spits out information, free
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of charge, to anyone with a computer and a modem. He also runs UFO
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Information Service International, a global network of UFO sightings,
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and Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research Inc. None of these enterprises,
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he says, is a money-making operation. Goudie says he and others like
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him have been helped in their many Freedom of Information requests
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by military personnel who want the public to know about UFOs, but
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who can't afford to be named.
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Many of the documents he's obtained indicate that "suspicious unknown
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air activity" has occurred at top-security military installations
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where nuclear weapons are stored. The documents relating to UFOs
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dropping in on Air Force bases have been published elsewhere - and
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professional skeptics such as Phillip Klass, an editor with "Aviation
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Week & Space Technology," have written books debunking the authenticity
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of those and others sightings. But Goudie notes the government itself
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has never volunteered any information, much less any explanations,
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about UFOs at military bases. "You can explain anything away," says
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Goudie, referring to Klass and the other debunkers. "But these aren't
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solid answers."
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Goudie also says he has consulted with "optical physicists" who have
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performed "video-negative photoanalysis" of videotapes of UFOs to
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substantiate that the object are not of this earth. Goudie also says
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he has interviewed about 40 people over the years who claim to have
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been abducted by UFOs. All occurred in rural areas, including some
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episodes outside Redmond, in Maple Valley and north of Seattle. He
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thinks about three-fourths of them are telling the truth. In many
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cases, the victims have suffered physical scars that they didn't have
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before their encounter, Goudie says. "I've tried to get these people
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to come forward. They don't want anything to do with newspapers.
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They're scared to death of losing their jobs..."
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Considering the threat to national security and the risk to civilians,
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Goudie believes the government has an obligation to be more forthcoming.
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You don't have to look to far away places for physical evidence of
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UFOs, according to Goudie. He has a videotape of an object flying
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over Tacoma in 1982, enhanced by a process known as "video photo analysis"
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which allows the viewer to see vertical and horizontal lines within
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what Goudie calls "the plasma" that covers the true shape within.
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He expects the video to air on Sunday's "Town Meeting" on KOMO.
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Television, specifically a Dick Cavett show that aired in 1973, started
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Goudie's preoccupation with UFOs. He's since appeared on CNN's Larry
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King Show and CBS-TV network news shows, among others. He spent countless
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hours and dollars pursuing UFOs. His goal, he says, is to see the
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subject become an area of serious scientific inquiry. "I'm doing
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it because I think people deserve the facts, and no one's taking the
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time to do it."
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end of part 23
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