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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 The fact that wreckage of a crashed UFO would have been taken to the Foreign Technology Division of AMC at Wright Patter son Air Force Base for analy sis is disputed by no one, to my knowledge. If that had been the case, Klinikowski would have known about it, but he didn't. June Number 350 Page 16 the late I940s, was the Director of Intelligence Collections at the Foreign Technology Division from 1957 until 1962. (The FTD was called the Air Technical Intelligence Center prior to 1961.) Like Klinikowski, Vatunac found the matter of alien bodies and a crashed spaceship very hu morous and was incredulous that so many people actually believe it. After my conversations with Klinikowski and Vatunac, Harry Cordes, a former 509th pilot and a retired brigadier general, suggested I call a for mer acquaintance of his, George Weinbrenner, who had also been at the FTD. I contacted Weinbrenner, who was more than accommodat ing, especially when he found out that I knew Walter Klinikowski. Weinbrenner told me pretty much what I had already learned from Klinikowski and Vatunac, but it was interesting talking to him, nonetheless. With respect to the crashed UFO subject, he also found it humorous and stated that "if something like' that had hap pened, I would have known about it." He cer tainly would have. George Weinbrenner was the commander of the Foreign Technology Division for six years (1968 unti11974). I cannot state strongly enough that I have ab solutely no doubt that these three men were telling me the truth. I repeat, no doubt. Those who want to rationalize away the facts by sug gesting that these men are still participating in some super-long-term, massive coverup might give some thought to the following. If there had been a crashed UFO, and for some reason it was still being kept secret, why on earth would these men waste inordinate amounts of their own time playing a ridiculous game of charades with me? They wouldn't. There would be absolutely no reason for doing so. All they would have had to do, would have been to politely tell me they didn't know anything, and leave it at that. Klinikowski, Vatunac, and Weinbrenner are all retired colonels. They all held important posi tions at the Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson. As such, they represent the ul timate source of information with regard to the crashed UFO question. This is the word "right from the horse's mouth," the incontrovertible, ir refutable truth, the final confirmation - no alien bodies, no secret hangar, and no UFO crash at Roswell. Case closed. A Red Herring In essence, the 1947 Roswell case has turned out to be a red herring, diverting time and re sources away from research into the real UFO phenomenon. Despite overwhelming facts to the contrary, there are those, however, who will fight to keep the myth alive at all cost. Roswell is a sa cred cow for some, and a cash cow for others. Inevitably, there will be tierce opposition to much of what has been said in this article. I would be the last, however, to discourage ratio mil and thoughtful response, for healthy debate and a free exchange of ideas are part of what makes our democratic system work, Any complete and reasonable response by those who still contend that a UFO crashed at Roswell in 1947 will need to directly address the points below, each of which would have to be a true statement if such a crash occurred: • A machine with unimaginable technological sophistication and consequent incredible reliabil ity would have simply broken down and crashed. • The only known wreckage from this sophis ticated vehicle, capable of interstellar travel, would have consisted solely of a few short beams, pieces of foil-like material, and small pieces of thin plastic-like material. • By incredible coincidence, the material from the crashed spaceship would have very closely resembled the material left by the radar l'et1ectors from a balloon array that went down in the same general area a few weeks earlier. • Despite the fact that this would have been the most spectacular event in recorded history, and despite the fact that word was already out that something had happened (because of Lt. HaUl'S press release), there was absolutely no contemporary discussion or talk about such an earthshaking event among the pilots and naviga tors of the close-knit 509th Bomb Group. • West Point graduate and retired general Thomas DuBose, would have to have lied nine times in an interview when he stated that the de bris (definitely that from an ML-307 radar ret1ec tor) shown in the pictures in Ramey's office was not substituted material and was the "real debris" recovered from the ranch northwest of Roswell. • Major General C. P. Cabell, Director of Intelligence for the Air Force at the Pentagon, who prepared a report on the unidentified flying object situation for the Secretary of Defense, as toundingly, would have been preparing the report totally ignorant of the fact that the Air Force was in possession of a crashed flying saucer. • Three retired Air Force colonels, all former top officials at the Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson Air Force base would have 1997
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.