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SUBJECT: CINCINNATI OHIO RESEARCHERS FILE: UFO2788
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Hi Everyone
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My name is Dale and I belong to a local group of UFO
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researchers in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.
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Besides going out into the field we produce a tv
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program. This program is aired on Warner Cable's public
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access in Cincinnati. Along with the tv program we have a
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newsletter that reflects the program but also provides
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information on the UFO phenomenon.
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I hope this is of interest to you all.
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Vol. 1, No. 1 UFO Update Jan./Feb 1994
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Premiere Issue
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Welcome to UFO Update newsletter. This publication is not
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simply a companion piece for the UFO Update cable access program,
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but an informative and -- hopefully -- thought provoking forum on
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the UFO phenomenon.
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A regular feature in each edition will be an entry focusing
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on the most recent segment of the UFO Update cable program. More
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than just a synopsis, each article will provide additional
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background information and commentary on the topic discussed.
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One can never know enough about UFOs, especially since it is
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difficult to find objective reporting in mainstream publications.
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We will also occasionally report on local cases of interest,
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even those that turn out to have down-to-earth explanations. It's
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important that our readers understand that UFO research requires
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patience, persistence and an understanding of general scientific
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principles.
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When an interesting UFO book hits the newsstands, we'll let
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you know what we think of it. We'll also keep you informed about
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other UFO related media and materials.
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Finally, we'd like to hear from you. If you have any
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questions or comments regarding UFOs, please send them along.
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Even if your letter doesn't get printed, we'll try to drop you a
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line in response -- so please include a self-addressed stamped
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envelope. Remember, we reserve certain editorial privileges, and
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your letter may have to be condensed to fit our limited space.
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Send your correspondence to
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UFO Update Newsletter
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239 East State Road
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Cleves, Ohio, 45002-1369
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A reminder -- If you'd like a response, please include a
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self-addressed, stamped envelope. Who knows? If your letters are
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a good enough, you might be asked to submit an article!
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What's on Ice at Wright-Pat?
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One of the more enduring rumors of UFO lore has been the
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story that alien cadavers are being kept in cold storage at
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. As crazy as it sounds, there is
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some logic behind this claim: Wright-Pat is home to the Foreign
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Technologies Department of Air Force intelligence. It's difficult
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to imagine a more foreign technology than an extraterrestrial one.
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The story actually has its beginnings in a book written by
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Frank Scully in 1950. BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS tells of the 1948
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retrieval of one downed UFO near Phoenix, Arizona and two others
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that crashed near Aztec, New Mexico. In total, thirty-four alien
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bodies were recovered along with the three craft.
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Scully's source was one Silas Newton, who in turn was acting
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as a liaison for an enigmatic "Dr. Gee". Subsequent investigation
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by J.P. Cahn for TRUE magazine revealed that Newton had been
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involved in a number of previous schemes, including fraudulent
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stock practices. "Dr. Gee" turned out to be Leo GeBauer. Who owned
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a radio and television parts supply house -- a far cry from his
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claim to being the "top magnetic research specialist in the United
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States."
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With Scully's book exposed and discredited, any reference to
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crashed saucers was avoided by the major UFO groups of the 50's:
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NICAP and APRO. It was difficult enough to garner objective press
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for UFOs without inviting guilt by association.
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Nevertheless, the story persisted. Independent researchers
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developed contacts and leads that seemed to lend some credence to
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the hearsay. By the mid and late 70's, investigator Len
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Stringfield had compilation impressive file of witnesses who had
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firsthand knowledge of alien bodies and/or crashed saucers. Much
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of this data was released by Stringfield in a number of status
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reports issued over the last fifteen years.
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The watershed event came in 1978 when Col. Jesse Marcel, Sr.
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was interviewed on the old IN SEARCH OF... television program. He
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told of his task, as intelligence officer attached to Roswell Army
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Air Force Base, of collecting strange material from a ranch in
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Corona, New Mexico in early July 1947. Marcel described the
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substance as being like nothing found on Earth. This observation
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was later supported by Jessie Marcel Jr. and Bill Brazel -- whose
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father, Mac, discovered the debris and notified the air base.
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The collected scraps were taken back to the Roswell air field
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where they were loaded on to a transport plane and flown to
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Wright-Patterson. Accompanying the crates of fragments were three
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or four oblong boxes inside which were concealed alien corpses.
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These had been found some miles west of the debris field, along
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with the rest of the fallen saucer.
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In 1980 THE ROSWELL INCIDENT was published. Although flawed,
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Charles Berlitz and William Moore's book broke through the Scully
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stigma and established a degree of credibility for the crashed
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saucer reports. A decade later, Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt
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interviewed over two hundred people in compiling UFO CRASH AT
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ROSWELL, solidifying the scenario even more. Stanton Friedman
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and Don Berliner came along a year later with CRASH AT CORONA,
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which argued that a second saucer -- part of a midair UFO
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collision -- came down on the Plains of San Augustin. Clearly,
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the circumstances behind the Roswell UFO crash mystery are among
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the most fully researched in ufology.
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But where are the alien bodies now? As Part of in the IN
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SEARCH OF... investigation, a trip was made to Building (Hangar)
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18 at Wright-Patterson. As could be expected, when the film crew
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got there the cupboard was bare. Interestingly enough, however,
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was that Building 18 housed a deep freeze unit. Jet engines were
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tested there to see how they'd hold up against the frigid
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temperatures of the Aleutian Islands. Not a bad place to keep a
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few extraterrestrial carcasses.
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If there ever were alien bodies, the almost forty-seven years
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since their recovery has probably seen them distributed widely to
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countless research facilities. In many cases, the examiners probably had no
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idea what it was they were ordered to classify. An oath of silence that
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carried unspoken threats held the questions at bay. Such would be secrets
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taken to the grave.
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Local Connection
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There is a local string tied to this mystery. In 1959 Charles
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Wilhelm heard the strange confession of his neighbor who was dying of
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cancer.
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A young man at the time, Charles had been hired by the woman
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to cut her grass that summer and had earned her confidence. As death
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approached, she took Charles aside and told him a secret she was unwilling to
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take to the grave.
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Accordingly, the woman held a clerical post with Top Security
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Clearance at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and was often charged
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with cataloguing equipment and supplies. In the course of these duties
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she had seen, concealed within a secret hangar, two saucer-shaped craft.
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One of the objects was intact, while the other was damaged. She further
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claimed that the bodies of two small beings were being preserved in another
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secret building and that she had handled their autopsy reports.
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Then in 1966, Charles Wilhelm obtained apparent verification
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of his late neighbor's revelations from a friend of his in the Army
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Reserve. This man's father was once assigned to Project Blue Book and held
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high security clearance. Nearing death, the father admitted to his son
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that two disc-shaped craft -- one intact, the other damaged -- were
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secured in a hangar at Wright-Patterson. Additionally, he acknowledge that a
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total of four humanoid bodies were kept preserved in chemicals.
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The confessions were made well before the current Roswell
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investigations were started, but they tally well with what was
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allegedly recovered from that New Mexico ranch so many years earlier.
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Kecksburg
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In the late afternoon hours of December 9, 1965, something
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fell from the sky and landed in a wooded ravine just west of Kecksburg,
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Pennsylvania. There was concern that it might be a small airplane,
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and the fire department responded to the scene. Four teams of rescuers
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combed the area and eventually something was found. It wasn't an airplane, it
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just may have been something not of this world.
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Shortly after the firefighters made their find, a detail from
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the Air Force's 662nd Radar Squandron, based near Pittsburgh, arrived
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to seal off the area. Moore troops and a flatbed truck soon arrived and the
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object was remove from the ravine and spirited away. Stan Gordon, MUFON
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state director for Pittsburg who has studied the case for over ten years,
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has gathered goverment documents that indicate that as many as 212
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military personnel were on the scene that night.
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According to eyewitnesses the object appeared bell- or
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acorn-shaped amd measured ten feet long by eight feet wide. It was bronze
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colored and adorned with a collar near its rounder end. On the collar were
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etched strange figures that resembeled no earthly language.
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The original, official explanation was that the Kecksburg
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object was a meteorite. Clearly, the eye-witness descriptions eliminate
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this rationale.
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A more recent identification has been offered by NASA
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scientist, James Oberg. Although there is no record of such an event, he
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contends that the object was a Russian payload. The Air Force arrived to take it
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away so that its heat shield could be analyzed. One would also hope they
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studied what made it shatterproof, too! After all, an accidental re-entry
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is a high velocity event, and any manmade object would either burn-up in
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transit or disintegrate upon impact with the earth.
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Both the meteorite and Russian satellite theories are ruled
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out by another interesting point: the object flew no faster than a small
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airplane and made no fewer than four sharp course changes before touching
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down in Kecksburg. The descent was powered and controlled. If it had been
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a manned Soviet capsule, we would have been accused of somehow shooting it
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down to steal Russian space science secrets! Sorry, Dr. Oberg, try again.
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So, what did become of the Kecksburg UFO? Most likely it was
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shipped to Wright-Patterson where the Foreign Technologies Division
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would try to take it apart. There is, in fact some testimony that might
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bear that out.
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Kecksburg Connection
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On September 19, 1990, NBC's UNSOLVED MYSTERIES aired a
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re-enactment of the Kecksburg incident. It was a evenhanded treatment that
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featured comments from eyewitnesses and Stan Gordon. Soon after the
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broadcast, Gordon was overwhelmed with calls from viewers who thought they
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might add some information to the case. One of the callers was an Ohio man
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who claimed to have seen the acorn shaped object a few days after the Kecksburg
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event while deliverying bricks to property adjacent to Wright-Patterson.
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Gordon passsed this story on to a local investigator Len Stringfield.
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Stringfield, assisted by researcher Brian Thompson, pursued the case and
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interviewed the witness. At the time, the source preferred to go by his
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first name: Myron.
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The followinf is a summary of his testimony:
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Myron and his cousin, "JS", delivered a large inventory of special
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glazed bricks to Wright-Patterson just a few days after the Kecksburg
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event. Curiously, the order came through the Navy. The bricks were to be
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used to construct a double-thick, lead lined structure 50 x 80 feet in size,
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inside an already existing red brick building.
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After following a jeep bearing an officer (possibly a general) and a
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driver to the site, they were left to unload the bricks. Myron noticed that
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there were several men dressed in what resembled decontamination suits
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scurrying about. He also reconized the Navy officer who had selected and
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ordered the special brick. After some time, Myron took a break from his
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labors. His curosity got the best of him, so he decided to have a look at
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what was so important. The security officers had apparently grown used to
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Myron's presence and failed to check his approach soon enough.
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Although his glimpse was brief before being hustled back to the brick
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delivery by a gaurd, Myron claimed to have seen plenty. There, inside the
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building and supported by metal scaffolding was a bell-shapped object about
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ten feet tall.
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Although Myron describes the object as bell-shapped, it was his viewing
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of the UNSOLVED MYSTERIES program that caused him to contact Stan Gordan. In
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fact, when asked by Stringfield if "acorn-shaped" was a suitable description,
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Myron agreed it was.
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Myron's story is supported by his cousin, JS, who was able to add his
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own observation.
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The day before he worked with Myron, JS had made a solo run to
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Wright-Patterson with the first load of bricks. He recalled seeing a flatbed
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trailer near the red brick building. It's carge, although convered with a
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tarp, was "liberty bell" shaped and stood eight to ten feet tall.
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Clearly, there is a strong indication that Myron and JS witnessed the
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arrival and intial analysis of the Kecksburg object at Wright-Patterson.
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But there are some questions that must be asked: Why were the bricks ordered
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through the Navy?
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If the Navy was the investigative body, why wasn't the object taken to a
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naval base?
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Was this action directed by the Joint Chief of Staff?
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The implications are astounding and suggest that the Kecksburg object was
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considered by the U.S. military as a violator of American air space.
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For an in-depth examination of the Kecksburg episode, the reader is
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encouraged to consult UFO CRASH/RETRIEVALS: THE INNER SANCTUM by Leonard
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Stringfield. THE ROSWELL INCIDENT, UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL, and CRASH AT CORONA
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are all still available through local bookstores.
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NEXT ISSUE:
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THE FACE ON MARS
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Acknowledgements
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This modest periodical was made possible through the efforts
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of serious researchers dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs.
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Special thanks goes to Jerry and Peggy Black, Pat Packard, Brian Scow
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and Bob Leibold.
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UFO Update Newsletter
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Terry Endres - General editor
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Illustrator
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Bill Owen - Contributing artist: page 1
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Kim Endres - Patient spouse
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Text 1994 by Terry Endres
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