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MUFON UFO JOURNAL
model at KOAT required the operator to flip a
switch to receive an incoming message. This,
Korff says, disproves Sleppy's claim of FBI in
terference:
But does it? He does not tell us how the FBI
determined the Teletype model decades after the
fact, and his notes reveal the "evidence" on
which he bases his conclusion: a series of per
sonal telephone conversations in 1996 between
the author and unnamed persons in the FBI's
headquarters and its Dallas field office.
(2) The late Oliver Wendell "Pappy"
Henderson was a C-54 transport pilot at Roswell
in July 1947. According to family members and
his friend John Kromschroeder, Henderson saw
alien bodies and flew saucer wreckage to Wright
Field, Ohio. Kromschroeder also claimed
Henderson showed him what he said was a piece
or pieces of the doomed saucer.
Here Korff seems to have scored a useful hit.
He located and interviewed Jonathan Smith, one
of Henderson's military buddies. Smith revealed
Henderson had some fragments of a German V-2
rocket (not a"buzz bomb," as misidentified by
Korft), which he often showed friends, telling
them they were pieces of a crashed UFO.
(3) In 1987, what purported to be a draft Top
Secret document was made public, revealing the
existence of MJ-12, a group of government offi
cials and scientists formed after the Roswell inci
dent to manage and keep secret the truth about
UFOs. One alleged member of the group was as
tronomer and vehement UFO debunker Donald
Menzel, who did much classified work for the
U.S. government. This has been taken by many,
notably Roswell luminary Stanton Friedman, to
be one proof of the reality of MJ-12.
Korff convincingly relates that, while working
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
1988, his duties permitted him to view all of
Menzel's security files. They contained not even
a hintofMJ-12. Another useful hit.
(4) In 1989, Roswell researcher Bill Moore
stunned the UFO field in. a speech before the an
nual MUFON symposium. Moore said he was
working with intelligence operatives, spying on
and sowing disinformation in the UFO research
community. He did this, he said, to gain informa
tion about UFOs from his spy masters.
With amusing melodramatic flourishes,
Korff tells us that in 1982 Moore at
tempted to use him to acquire film of a UFO
from the late Pete Mazzola, a New York re
searcher. Korff says Moore told him essentially
the same story he made public seven years later,
claimed aliens had been influencing us for thou- _
sands of years and were responsible for things
now attributed to Jesus Christ, and warned Kortl
he "could be killed" if he did not cooperate.
Interesting, if true, but why did Korff wait 15
years 10 tell this tale?
(5) & (6) These are the promised never before
published military records and cOITespondence
a page from Roswell Army Air Field intelligence
officer and key Roswell incident witness Jesse
Marcel, Sf.' s May 6, 1948, officer efficiency re
port in which his tendency to "magnify prob
lems" is mentioned, and a ca. 1950 letter to
Marcel from his sister, asking him to seek release
from the service so he can look after their 92
year-old invalid mother. While it is true these
documents have not been published before, last
year Robert Todd made public the substance of
the former, and the latter merely provides the
precise reason for Marcel's September 1950
hardship release from active duty.
These "nice to haves" and "so whats?" consti
tute the entire body of this dreadful book's "reve
lations powerful enough to change public opin
ion forever." Even the chapter devoted to de
. bunking the infamous alien autopsy hoax film is
remarkably superficial and tells us nothing new
of any significance. This is especially disappoint;
ing, since high-tech analysis of imagery is one of
Kortl's areas of true expertise, as he so devastat
ingly demonstrated in his expose of the Billy
Meier cult/con (Spaceships ofthe Pleiades: The
Billy Meier Stm:y, Prometheus, 1995).
Sadly, The Roswell UFO Crash is a
waste of time and money for anyone in search of
"what they don't want you to know" about
Roswell.
Copyright © 1997 Karl T. Pjlock
Karl Ptlock is the author of Roswell in
Perspective (1994), published by and still avail
able from the Fund for UFO Research or, auto
graphed, directly from him. His current research
is based on the working assumption that the an
swers to the UFO enigma may well lie in the
data accumulated from the mid-l 940s through
the mid-1960s. He also is collaborating with
James W. Moseley, "notorious" editor of
"Saucer Smear," on Shockingly Close to the
Truth! Moseley's ufological memoir. Karl in
vites anyone who has information bearing on
any case from the "Golden Age of UFOs" or re
lated matters to contact him: PO Box 93338,
Albuquerque, NM 87199-3338; 505/867-0893;
klperehwon@aol.com.
Korff convinc
ingly relates
that, while
working at
Lawrence
Livermore
National
Laboratory in
1988, his du
ties permitted
him to view all
of debunker
Donald
Menzel's secu
rity files. They
contained not
even a hint of
MJ-12.
June
1997
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