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Apparently, the Bureau’s telephonic rejection of Klass’s
protestation left such a bitter taste in his mouth that he
couldn't resist getting in another dig at the Hynek per-
sona. It comes in the form of a lune 14, 1975 letter sent to
Hoover's successor, Clarence Kelley. Would Klass, some
30 years hence, have felt at all embarrassed at indulging
in such ad hominem rhetoric? Those of us who knew him
personally have no doubt that the word contrition had no
place in his vocabulary.
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of the business. Now, according to the_enclosed“.’ I
article,theiFBI’s,decision to pub1i.sIi_.the'Hyne;; articles
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government admits that UFOs worthy oficonceriifi
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law enforcement officers to take the time}-,—from
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For the past 10 years, my hobby has been investiw» ,
gating, AND EXPLAINING, famous,UFOI cases that, s
Hynek and others proclaiznto be un9XPlainable;,]7 ;
Recently-, I have publishede book’ entitled-f‘gUFQs
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The National Tattlefs June 16, 1975 edition happens to
present, on page 9, a straightforward account of Hynek’s
five-thousand-word article “The UFO Mystery—Investi-
gating Reports of Sightings." Tattler’s only lapse into po-
etic license occurs in the headline: “FBI Admits UFOs Ex-
ist (Story in Agency’s Official Magazine Instructs Lawmen
on Procedure to Follow When Saucer Is Spotted).”
I’m sure that I-Iynek would’ve preferred that the head-
line had read: “FBI Admits UFO Reports Exist.” After all,
as the good professor used to emphasize: We're studying
not UFOs, but reports of UFOs.
For his part, director Kelley wasted little time in replying
to our cordial Mr. Klass. Kelley's kiss-off letter of Iune 23,
1975, a monument to how bureaucrats can handle a peskily
oflicious citizen, offers these two closing paragraphs:
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at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln to withdraw their
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