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Scientist Challenges Air Force
Regarding UFOs
Nov. 13, 1997
"Frankly I am sick and tired of the US Air Force lying to the public,
the press, and members of Congress about UFOs," said nuclear physicist
Stanton T. Friedman at a public lecture "Flying Saucers ARE Real" in
Albuquerque. "I have had a serious interest in UFOs for 39 years,
lectured in a dozen countries, and visited seventeen document archives,"
he continued. "For 50 years there has been massive misrepresentation
about UFOs in general, and in recent years the Roswell Incident in
particular. The Air Force has come up with four different answers for
Roswell:
- A flying saucer
- A radar reflector and weather balloon
- A Mogul balloon train over 500 feet long with 23 balloons, sonobuoys, etc.
- And most recently, a Mogul balloon train plus crash test dummies dropped at least six years AFTER
the 1947 crashes Southeast of Corona and West of Magdalena."
Friedman, who spent fourteen years as an industrial nuclear physicist
working on a wide variety of classified, highly advanced nuclear systems
for major corporations, was the first civilian investigator of the
Roswell Incident.
"I hereby challenge Colonel Richard Weaver,
author of the outrageously misleading huge volume 'The Roswell Report:
Fact Vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert', and USAF Captain James
McAndrew, author of the 1997 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed', toa
formal debate.
"These two officers have made a mockery out of
serious investigation. They have used all the tools of the propagandist
with selective choice of data, false reasoning, false claims, positive
and negative name calling. These reports should be listed under fiction
in the library.
"The Mogul explanation doesn't fit. There are
gross differences among the testimony of their witnesses, and they
ignore the testimony they don't want to consider while claiming falsely
that they have talked to all the original witnesses still alive who
handled material totally different from the Mogul explanation.
"They left out vital aspects of quotes from the FBI. They falsely tried
to claim the Roswell story came to light because of a story in a tabloid
in 1978. That story didn't appear until 1980 after a colleague and I had
talked to 60 people connected with the case. I was falsely portrayed as
somebody who gets his UFO stories from tabloids.
"The fact is in 1978 I was the first to talk to a key witness, Major
Jesse Marcel the intelligence officer for the only atomic bombing group
in the world in 1947. I was referred to him by an old ham radio buddy of
his who had seen the press stories in 1947. Jesse never sought
publicity. I discussed many of these false charges in my book TOP SECRET
MAJIC.
"One of the silliest official USAF stories is the crash test dummy
nonsense. I spoke in person with Colonel Madson, whose picture is in the
Case Closed volume and was heavily involved in the research program. He
is adamant that the explanation doesn't fit. Remember that the dummies
had to be the same height and weight as air force pilots. None were
dropped anywhere near the two crash sites and none were dropped earlier
than 6 years AFTER the 1947 events.
"They used a crazy explanation for the red-headed officer observed
independently at the Roswell Base Hospital, and in the Plains of San
Augustin. World class pilot, Joseph Kittinger, was a redhead and was at
the Roswell base hospital after a ballooning accident. But it was twelve
years later! If the explanation doesn't fit, one must acquit. As it
happens, I was the first to hear the two independent stories about the
nasty red haired officer and the black sergeant, an unusual combination
for 1947. The Air Force says nothing about the black sergeant, or the
two independent stories.
"There are many other examples of massive misrepresentation by the Air
Force about UFOs. The USAF Office of Special Investigations even told
its own units to ignore their own regulations if they received an FOIA
request from me about UFOs. The USAF apparently even lied to the CIA
recently, falsely claiming that half the UFO sightings after 1955 were
the results of observations of super secret reconnaissance aircraft, the
U-2 and later the SR-71. But there was no increase in the number of
sightings after 1955. Why would anybody report a very high flying
aircraft moving in a straight line and never making right angle turns,
as stopping on a dime, instantly reversing direction, or silently
landing and taking off in the middle of nowhere, like UFOs so often are
observed to do???
"The Pentagon based Air Force Liaison officer has written numerous one
page letters in response to constituent requests for information about
Roswell to congressman. It took me five pages to correct all the false
claims he made.
"Colonel Weaver wrote a researcher that the Operation Majestic 12
Documents, which are the subject of TOP SECRET/MAJIC are known by
everybody to be BOGUS. In response to my Freedom of Information Act
request for any memos, letters, documents, etc. supporting this
ridiculous and baseless claim, I was told, "There are no records
available." This is a clear case of research by proclamation.
"Doesn't the Air Force have a responsibility to those who pay the bills
to be honest? Or are they above the law? I repeat my challenge:
"USAF officers McAndrew and Weaver, do you have the courage of your
convictions? Name the date and place. Perhaps Larry King or Walter
Cronkite or Ted Koppel would be willing to act as moderator."
Stanton Friedman
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