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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.
“UFO Research Society”2 pages
MUFON UFO JOURNAL been lying to me - unnecessarily wasting inor dinate amounts of their own personal time in a protracted game of charades. We have now gotten to the heart of the story and established that the debris recovered from the Foster ranch and laid out on the Marcel kitchen t100r was, except for some unusual sym bols, of a very mundane nature. The following should then be asked of those still arguing the is sue: How do you get a crashed alien spaceship out of such ordinary debris? What basis is there now for postulating the existence of a crashed UFO? The Future At the beginning of this article, I included a letter from a 6th-grade student, Lauren M., asking about Roswell and about information to help her prove that there are UFOs and aliens. My re sponse to Lauren with respect to Roswell has al ready been made patently clear throughout this at1icle. With respect to aliens, I would tell Lauren that probably only the most narrow-minded of people consider the earth as being the only place where there is intelligent life in the universe. The . earth is but a small speck in a vast universe that is, according to current-scientific thinking, most likely teaming with life some of it probably far more intelligent than we are. Incredibly, New York Sun editorial writer and former civil war correspondent Francis Pharcellus Church seemed to have a grasp on all of this a hundred years ago. In his timeless editorial to Virginia O'Hanlon he wrote "In this great uni verse of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capa ble of grasping the whole of truth and knowl edge." UFOs or alien spcecraft, however, are another matter. While we don't yet have tangible evi dence that alien spacecraft exist, there have been many intriguing sightings by credible people that seem to defy conventional explanation. Like the few brief tantalizing signals that have been picked up by the SETI program, the evidence for UFOs has not yet qualified as solid proof in the eyes of the scientific community. Perhaps that might come in Lauren's lifetime. If such confirmation does come, it would rep resent one of the most remarkable events in hu man history. The long-contemplated philosophi cal and scientific question of whether we are alone in the universe would be answered once and for all with absolute tlnality. Perhaps most important of all, the knowledge that it is possible for a civilization to survive the growing pains of becoming technologically advanced, without completely destroying itself and its environment in the process, would provide a renewed hope for the future of life here on earth. Dr. Neil Hibler, the forensic hypnotist who conducted the Jesse Marcel, Jr. sessions. From the video by Denise Mar cel. June 1997 Number 350 Page 17
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.