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This is a White House ARMS email record created on 11 July 1997. Philip Schuler of the University of Maryland, College Park sent it to Philip C. Droege at the Executive Office of the President. It forwards a satirical news item headlined "Air Force Denies Stories of UFO Crash." In the parody, a Mars Air Force general says an object that crashed near Ares Vallis was a weather balloon. Conspiracy theorists in the story call this a cover-up.
ARMS Email System detachable vehicle roaming across the Martian desert were blatant fiction, provoked by incidences involving swamp gas. But the general public has been slow to accept the Air Force's explanation of recent events, preferring to speculate on the "other-worldly" nature of the crash debris. Conspiracy theorists have condemned Rgrmrmy•s statements as evidence of "an obvious government cover-up", pointing out that Mars has no swamps. --- end forwarded text Philip Schuler http://www.wam.umd.edu/-pschuler University of Maryland, College Park mailto:psll2@umail.umd.edu -------------------- ATTACHMENT 1 ------------------- ATT CREATION TIME/DATE: 0 00:00:00.00 TEXT: RFC-822-headers: Received: from conversion.pmdf.eop.gov by PMDF.EOP.GOV (PMDF V5.0-4 #6879) id for droege_p@al.eop.gov; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:59:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from storm.eop.gov (storm.eop.gov) Page 2 of 2 by PMDF.EOP.GOV (PMDF V5.0-4 #6879) id for droege_p@al.eop.gov; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:59:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from umdS.umd.edu ([128.8.10.5)) by STORM.EDP.GOV (PMDF VS.1-7 #6B79) with ESMTP id for droege_p@al.eop.gov; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:59:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [12B.8.19.148) (ascend3-21.dial.umd.edu [12B.8.19.14B]) by umd5.umd.edu(8.8.S/95Sepl3) with ESMTP id RAA30919; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:59:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: psll2@umailsrvO.umd.edu To: Recipient List Suppressed.;@umail.umd.edu@umdS.umd.edu X-Mailer: Mac EudoraPro v.3.1.1 ------------------ END ATTACHMENT 1 ==================
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.