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This publication lists instructions for the reporting of
'information of vital importance to the security of the United
States of America and Canada and their forces, which in the opin
ion of the observer, requires very urgent defensive and/or inves
tigative action by the .S. and/or Canadian armed forces.' Sight
ings within the scope of JANAP 146 include 'Unidentified Flying
Objects' as distinct from 'Hostile of unidentified single air
craft or formations of aircraft,' and t~ere are lengthy and elab
'orate instructions for reporting UFOs" (Good, 192).
And later he states: "Because of, reports like these [UFOs],
airline pilots became subject to military restrictions contained
in a Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication (JANAP), drawn up by
the Joint Communications-Electronics committee, and promulgated
, by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and could thus find themselves li
able to a prison term of up to 10 years and/or a fine of $10,'000
if they discussed their sightings with the media or public"
(Good, 283).
* * *
Stan Barrington offers a document about "Operation Majority,
which concerns the dealings of MJ-12. The following discussion,
taken from the alt.conspiracy section of, Usenet, focuses on tqe
validity of those documents:
"What is the latest status of the MJ-12 documents
(concerning authenticity)? I know that Klass did his usual de
bunking job, but also read that Friedman produced all the sup
porting evidence Klass had demanded (similar typefaces in use on
other documents of the same era, etc.). Has the U.S. Government
taken a formal position on the MJ-i2 documents? What evidence,
pro and con, has been produced on the authenticity issue since
their release. What are the "details of the release? Any and ail
information will be appreciated. Thanks."
The reply was: "I don't know about the U,S. Government's
position, but Klass has done a pretty good job of showing that
there is at least some fraud in ,the papers. In particular, he
has shown that the supposed signature of Harry Truman on one of
the critical papers is identical to the signature on anot,her
document in the National Archives, except that it's (if I recall
correctly) 3.6 percent larger. It is impossible for two
signatures to be identical unless one is a photographic copy of
the other, and interestingly, most copying machines do ~ very
small expansion of what they copy to prevent edge effects--a
blow-up of exactly 1.2 percent. So it would appear this supposed
signature is actuailya third-generation photocopy of Truman's
signature. Handwriting experts have confirmed this. I believe
it's written up in the current (Spring 1990) Skeptical Inquirer,
but I can't find my copy at the moment so I can't say for sure."
I don't know who Klass or Friedman are, (although Friedman
may be the same person that was mentioned as a in Majestic
by Whitley Strieber, and also mentioned as a government official
in the speech) but the ~keptical Inquirer is a respected paranor
mal debunking newspaper put out by James "the Amazing" Randi.
It also seems to me that the idea that Truman's signature is
a photocopy of another one in the National Archives is a bit odd.
There must be thousands of Truman signature in the Archives, and
thinking, that someone could find the one that exactly matched a
3.6 percent enlargement is laughable (but then again, those same
people find the idea of a huge UFO cover-up laughable).
* * *
Whitley Strieber is a strange character in this whole af
fair. He is the writer of Wolfen and The Howling, two horror
novels. Lately, he turned to writing about UFOs.
His first book on the subject, Communion, deals with his
personal experiences 'with abduction by an unknown intelligence
(Strieber always tries to avoid the word "alien," so he can leave
the options open that these are humans that are traveling through
time or even an unknown earthly intelligence). His second book,
Transformation, is not as familiar to me, but I have heard that
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