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This file, released by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library under FOIA request 2006-0476-F, holds White House correspondence records for case 243544. In a July 8, 1997 letter to President Clinton, Kent Jeffrey of the International Roswell Initiative submitted more than 20,000 signed copies of the Roswell Declaration, which asks for an Executive Order declassifying UFO information. On December 9, 1997 the Air Force replied that such an order was unnecessary because declassification under E.O. 12958 was already underway.
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MUFON UFO 1~'LII\'I"'1"> fice. Shandera then sent DuBose a set of the pic tures, prior to conducting the second interview. Throughout the two interviews, Shandera questioned DuBose with the doggedness of a district attorney, asking him nine times in nine different ways whether the debris had been switched. Nine times, General DuBose made it emphatically clear that the debris had not been switched. Among DuBose's responses were "We never switched anything ... We were West Pointers - we would never have done thaLI have damn good eyesight...1 had charge of that material, and it was never switched," When shown the pictures from Ramey's office and asked if he recognized the material, he replied, "Oh yes. That's the material that Marcel brought in to Ft. Worth from Roswell." In William Moore's book The Roswell Incident, Jesse Marcel, Sr., was interviewed about the debris. His responses were somewhat puzzling in that he indicated that the photos of him were of the actual debris, but that the later photos (without him) contained substituted ma terial. Later photos with substituted debris (even if they existed) wouldn't really matter. If the de bris in the photo with Major Marcel was the ac tual material, it was from an ML- 307 radar re nector. Again, end of story. Among Marcel's responses were "They took one picture of me on the floor holding up some of the less-interesting metallic debris .... The stuff in that one photo was pieces of the actual stuff we had found. It was not a staged photo." During one of my interviews with Irving Newton, he mentioned how in Ramey's office, Marcel had pointed Ollt the symbols and indi cated that he (Marcel) thought they might be some form of alien writing. When I asked him if he was sure that it was Marcel who did that, Newton was emphatic that it was the man who "had collected the debris from the ranch." This is, of course, one fUither indication that the de bris in Ran1ey's office was the debris from the Foster ranch. There was no substitution. The de bris in the pictures was the same debris collected by Major Marcel at the Foster Ranch. It was the debris from an ML-307 radar reflector. There is also an interesting quote in Moore's book from Marcel about the so-called indestruc tibility of the material. It sounds like this now legendary indestructibility was actually more the kind of indestructibility that you would find in material from something like a tough, paper backed foil. Marcel stated, "It was possible to flex this stuff back and forth, even wrinkle it, but you could not put a crease in it that would stay, nor could you dent it at all. J would almost have to describe it as metal with plastic proper ties." Throughout the two interviews, Shandera questioned DuBose with the dogged ness of a dis trict attorney, asking him nine times in nine different ways whether the debris had been switched. Nine times, General DuBose made it emphatically clear that the debris had not been switched. June 1997 Number 350 Page 13
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 47 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.