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SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCER STORY FUELS DEBATE FILE: UFO3255
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This article appeared in the Advertiser, Lafayette, Louisiana, on
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10-29-92:
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FLYING SAUCER STORY FUELS DEBATE
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IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Both sides in a UFO debate remain light years
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apart nearly half a century after the Army claimed briefly it had
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recovered a flying disc in New Mexico.
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About 200 experts and enthusiasts at a weekend conference agreed the the
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1947 announcement about an unidentified flying object in Roswell was a
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big mistake. They disagreed heatedly over how the mistake was made.
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"The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday
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when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group... was fortunate
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enough to gain possession of the disc," the Army release said.
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Skeptics say there is no hard evidence the wreckage was anything other
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than the remains of a military balloon. That was the Army's final
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explanation.
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"It was a big embarassment," UFO debunker PHilip J. Klass said at the
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national meeting of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
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Claims of the Paranormal.
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CSICOP, based in Buffalo, N.Y., encourages the critical investigation of
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paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible scientific point
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of view, the group says.
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The release was issued on the authority of an intelligence officer who
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was unable to identify the wreckage, said Klass, former senior editor of
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Aviation Week and Space Technology.
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But some researchers believe the government goofed in 1947 by calling
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attention to the find -- and has had to cover it up ever since.
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"It was no... weather balloon," was the deathbed declaration of an
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eyewitness, according to Donald R. Schmitt, co-author of "UFO Crash at
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Roswell" and director of special investigations at the J. Allen Hyneck
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Center for UFO Studies in Chicago.
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No only does Schmitt believe the wreckage was a UFO, he is investigating
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reports that the military recovered the bodies of aliens from the craft.
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He is trying to find a nurse believed to have helped with an "autopsy."
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The nurse had told a friend the bodies were smaller and more delicate
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than an adult human, with large heads and large concave eyes, Schmitt
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said in his book. Their hands had four fingers and no thumb, she
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reportedly said.
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"We are convinced she is still alive," Schmitt said Saturday.
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[end of article]
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