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This part of an FBI file holds a July 1967 letter sent to Director J. Edgar Hoover by a reporter for UFO Contact, the journal of the International Get Acquainted Program (IGAP), along with a copy of the magazine, dedicated to George Adamski. The magazine includes an editorial praising Adamski, an open letter to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and Ronald Caswell's account of contactee Fred Steckling's European lecture tour and his film of a UFO formation. The file also contains AFSCA newsletter items and an advertisement for AFSCA's 1966 Reno convention.
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There is no doubt that a great number . . the meteoric falls actually are remains of "natural" objects in space - but not by any means all of them. No doubt also, some of the falls of ice are from aircraft de-icing or breaking off by some other means; the theory about ice from the toilets is very doubtful, but even if we give this theory a certain chance, then it still explains only a very small part of the total number of reported falls. Until the Rocket age's attempts to explain conditions in the Space around us began, a remarkable attitude prevailed within certain scientific circles in regard to that Space. Earth was the navel of the Cosmos, around which and about which everything turned. The moon and the planets and the stars were hung in the sky for Earth's sake, and between all the bodies outside of Earth's atmosphere was this great empty Space, in which was to be found - absolutely nothing. But the rockets told another story - they had been out there. We can say then, that now it is proven that Space is not empty. Among other things, dust has been registered. And it has become dusty in the space-capsule when the capsule door has stood open. N is proven also, that certain chemical reactions can, in the course of a few seconds, form solid matter. (Einstein). As all the planets are born in the same Cosmos, this means to say that the same elements or units which make up the "creation" are to be found in invisible form in this so-called empty Space. It "only" needs the right chemical reaction to take place for the whole to take solid form and to build up as planets, comets, meteorites or ice - or for that matter, as many other things. It is therefore quite plain to see that science can, and must, soon add a new chapter to that book about the "factual" conditions in Space, which it is writing at this time. In this "book" it will be stated that, under certain conditions, solid matter is formed in empty Space - as well as much else - matter that can later fall onto this planet or others as "shooting-stars" or as ice from an airplane's toilet. And it will be enormously difficult, - yes, almost impossible, - to differentiate between what are remains of solid bodies, such as planets, comets or asteroids, and what is produced by some other means. One might point to evidence of bacteria, but this just will not do, because bacteria can be gathered up from anywhere in the Cosmos. For example, our planet, just the same as other planets, has, during its journey through space, trailed behind itself a long tail of dust and bacteria. This dust and these bacteria are caught up at some time or another by other heavenly bodies, in the same manner that we collect dust and bacteria from other worlds. In fact, we need not go to all the great amount of trouble that we do, to sterilize the space-ships and probes which are to be sent up; - our bacteria has long been present on our sister planets and many other planets, just as "their bacteria" ha long, long while living with us. Thus there exists great unexplored areas of research with which science can come to grips and learn from; and when, finally, these are explained, the next natural step will be to learn how one can come to live without being "infected" by bacteria. We are on the way; but for a while yet we shall be "infected" by bacteria, and believe that we can "infect" our sister planets' inhabitants with our bacteria. For a while yet we shall only find meteorites that originate from planets, comets or asteroids, and ice which falls from the toilet-systems of airplanes. October 1966. ## ☆ Here, in a report just received from the United States, is an important break-through into the area of research mentioned in the afore-going article. With precision timing, we now perceive that "through condensation this dust eventually forms meteorites which are dense enough to be attracted to a planet -". From: Los Angeles "Herald-Examiner", Sunday, January 22nd 1967. ## L. A. Man finds Life in Space THERE IS LIFE IN SPACE! Chlorophyll, key compound of life on earth, exists abundantly in outer space. These findings have been reported to a gathering of experts on Astronomy and Biodynamics meeting at the University of California at Berkeley by Dr. Fred Johnson of Electro-Optical Systems in Pasadena. Based on his findings, Dr. Johnson told the Berkeley colloquium the possibility that man is not alone in the universe is excellent. The physicist, astronomer and biochemist told the Berkeley sessions, which opened Friday, that after 13 years of research he had been able to identify interstellar dust and had found it is composed largely of the solid molecular substance chlorophyll and not ice or graphite as had been previously believed. "There is no reason to believe that we on this planet are unique", Dr. Johnson told the Herald- Examiner. "There is very good evidence, on the other hand, that there may be similar forms of life throughout the universe". Dr. Johnson reported that although interstellar dust is very small with each grain having an average density of 10 to 26 grams per cubic centimeter, he speculates that through condensation this dust eventually forms meteorites which are dense enough to be attracted to a planet. ## SIMPLE PLANTS. These meteorites, he said, then deposit the life substance chlorophyll and, as on earth, undergo the
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.