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'CRASHED UFO' WAS SPYING DEVICE, SAYS US AIR FORCE. THE world's most celebrated UFO, which plunged into New Mexico desert in 1947 sparking decades of speculation and conspiracy theories, has been officially identified as part of a secret American atomic spying programme. A US Air Force report into the Roswell Incident, the subject of at least four books and a film, said the government was lying when it said the wreckage was the remains of a weather balloon. The report said the debris came from a secret device placed in the upper atmosphere to pick up sound waves from nuclear test blasts around the world. The revelation shoud put to rest the half-century-long mystery surrounding what has been described as the best documented UFO sighting ever. But flying saucer enthusiasts are reluctant to abandon their theories about the crash, and quickly denounced the Air Force report as part of a cover-up. The popular mythology that has grown up around the Roswell incident is rooted in the fact that the mangled wreckage was seen and photographed by local people before being spirited away by the US Air Force. Over the years, accounts of the sighting have been embelished to include the supposed recovery of extraterrestial beings and speculation about a secret government project to reconstruct the spacecraft and to use its components to develop Stealth bombers and other hi-tech weapons. Pressure for dosclosure eventually became so strong that Steven Schiff, a congressman from New Mexico, called for the government to declassify all documents about the crash. The resulting Air Force report revealed that the UFO was part of a secret government programme known as Project Mogul to monitor the Soviet Union's effort to develop nuclear weapons. High altitude balloons were equipped with special sensors and radar reflectors but the project was inefficient and cancelled in 1950, with the balloons being allowed to fall back to earth. --== END OF ARTICLE==-- --- OLX 2.1 TD -------- <-- Tribble-kabob ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: ALL From: JAMES EASTON <Public> Subject: Roswell Report Press Rel. Date: 14 September 1994 Time: 21:17 Msg 2 of 5 in Area: UFOCrashRe Out of packet: STAIRWAY.002 This is a copy of what is allegedly the press release relating to the U.S. Air Force's Roswell report. WASHINGTON (AP) -- There'll be no convincing some people, but the Air Force says -- again -- the thing that hit the ground near Roswell, N.M., in 1947 was not the proof that UFOs exist. But it did prove that a crashing balloon could make a 47-year mess. There were no secret autopsies on space aliens who couldn't fly too well. No flying saucer pieces under guard on an air base. No big conspiracy. It was just a balloon. One of ours. Sorry. It took eight months to reach that conclusion, and the Air Force hopes now to put to rest talk in UFO circles that military authorities covered up a grand extraterrestrial event. The Air Force began the investigation in January after Rep. Steven Schiff, R-N.M., asked the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, to press the Pentagon to declassify documents relating to Roswell. Air Force officials tracked down principals, combed archives, and even sent some old news photos to the CIA for analysis -- all to try to deflate the persistent rumors of a massive government conspiracy to hide the truth. The effort produced a 25-page report, released Thursday, in which Col. Richard Weaver concludes that the debris a rancher found probably came from a once top-secret balloon designed to monitor the atmosphere for evidence of Soviet nuclear tests. Of the UFO theories, Weaver had this to say: ``What is uniquely lacking in the entire exploration and exploitation of the Roswell Incident is official positive documentary or physical evidence of any kind that supports the claims of those who allege that something unusual happened.'' However, Weaver predicted ``pro-UFO'' elements simply would dismiss his report as part of the cover-up. Indeed, Walter Haut, a volunteer at the UFO Museum at Roswell, a center devoted to gathering information on this and other UFO incidents, wasted no time in rejecting the Air Force conclusions. ``I feel very strongly about it,'' Haut said. Referring to those who made the original UFO claim, he said, ``We're not talking about flaky people.'' In July 1947 the owner of a ranch near Roswell picked up debris that included scattered foil-coated fabric, sticks, rubber and some small I-beams with strange markings. Maj. Jesse Marcel, the Army Air Force intelligence officer who brought in the wreckage, was reported to have recovered a ``flying disc.'' A local headline screamed that the Air Force ``Captures Flying Saucer.'' All this coincided with a surge of interest in unidentified flying objects, purportedly from outer space. Days later a higher-ranking officer identified the material as the remains of a weather balloon. But the seed of what became known as the Roswell Incident had been planted. There the matter stood until 1978 when the supermarket tabloid National Inquirer retold Marcel's story. A series of books followed advancing the UFO theory and accusing the Air Force of cover-up. The Robert Stack-hosted television show, ``Unsolved Mysteries,'' aired a re-creation of the Roswell incident. A made-for-TV movie is in the works. The original reports of a few foil scraps at one ranch site evolved into planeloads of material scattered over multiple debris fields. And the relatively simple materials found would later be described as exotic metals and fiber-optic materials. At a second site, according to some accounts, the Air Force found the bodies of extraterrestrials. All this was kept from the public by an elaborate conspiracy orchestrated by the Air Force, critics charge. ``The Roswell Incident has since grown to mythical, if not mystical, proportions,'' Weaver wrote in the Air Force report. The UFO theories, he wrote, are generally ``undocumented, taken out of context, self-serving or otherwise dubious.'' The report counters the charges of UFO buffs with the same argument used against Kennedy assassination aficionados, that the conspiracy theories are too complicated, and involve too many supposed participants to be credible. For example, the idea that a massive alien crash site could be kept secret by Air Force brass without even a trace of paper, ``stretches the imagination of those who have served in the military who know that paperwork of some kind is necessary to accomplish even emergency, highly classified or sensitive tasks.'' Cheers, James. ..................+............ ..*..../\/\/\/\/\../\/\/\/\/\.. ........../\....../\........... You see, but you do not observe. ....+..../\....../\/\/\/\/\.... ......../\...+../\............. Sherlock Holmes. .../\/\/\....../\/\/\/\/\/...*. ...........+................... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: ALL From: JAMES EASTON <Public> Subject: Roswell Report Press Rel. Date: 14 September 1994 Time: 21:18 Msg 3 of 5 in Area: UFOCrashRe Out of packet: STAIRWAY.002 Roswell Report Press Release ____________________________ >WASHINGTON (AP) -- There'll be no convincing some people, but the Air >Force says -- again -- the thing that hit the ground near Roswell, >N.M., in 1947 was not the proof that UFOs exist. But it did prove that >a crashing balloon could make a 47-year mess. The statement "But it did PROVE that a crashing balloon could make a 47-year mess." suggests that, finally, we have PROOF that there was a balloon crash. >It took eight months to reach that conclusion, and the Air Force hopes >now to put to rest talk in UFO circles that military authorities >covered up a grand extraterrestrial event. The statement "It took eight months to reach that CONCLUSION..." is something of a contradiction to the initial statement. >The effort produced a 25-page report, released Thursday, in which Col. >Richard Weaver concludes that the debris a rancher found probably came >from a once top-secret balloon designed to monitor the atmosphere for >evidence of Soviet nuclear tests. The statement ""Col. Richard Weaver CONCLUDES that the debris a rancher found PROBABLY came from a once top-secret balloon..." is now a direct contradiction to the initial claim. In any event, this claim was already in the public domain. >Of the UFO theories, Weaver had this to say: >"What is uniquely lacking in the entire exploration and exploitation >of the Roswell Incident is official positive documentary or physical >evidence of any kind that supports the claims of those who allege that >something unusual happened." On the basis of what this article implies that the report contains, we might equally say: "What is uniquely lacking in the Air Force's report is official positive documentary or physical evidence of any kind that disproves the claims of those who allege that something unusual happened." >However, Weaver predicted "pro-UFO" elements simply would dismiss his >report as part of the cover-up. You would not have to be classed as part of the "`pro-UFO' elements", to reach that conclusion. >Indeed, Walter Haut, a volunteer at the UFO Museum at Roswell, a >center devoted to gathering information on this and other UFO >incidents, wasted no time in rejecting the Air Force conclusions. >"I feel very strongly about it," Haut said. Referring to those who >made the original UFO claim, he said, "We're not talking about flaky >people." It will be very interesting to see who was interviewed by the Air Force and how the report dismisses the testimonies of Walter Haut, Glen Dennis et al. >"The Roswell Incident has since grown to mythical, if not mystical, >proportions," Weaver wrote in the Air Force report. The UFO theories, >he wrote, are generally "undocumented, taken out of context, >self-serving or otherwise dubious." The evidence which indicates that reports of events at Roswell are far from mythical is actually extremely well documented. Of course, we must note that Weaver is talking about theories and not evidence. >The report counters the charges of UFO buffs with the same argument >used against Kennedy assassination aficionados, that the conspiracy >theories are too complicated, and involve too many supposed >participants to be credible. Many people will be surprised to learn that the U.S. intelligence services are wholly incapable of organising a complicated conspiracy. >For example, the idea that a massive alien crash site could be kept >secret by Air Force brass without even a trace of paper, "stretches >the imagination of those who have served in the military who know that >paperwork of some kind is necessary to accomplish even emergency, >highly classified or sensitive tasks." Considering the implications of admitting to the public that their government had heinously lied and deceived them for 47 years, it could be suggested that there was never the remotest possibility that a token Air Force investigation would uncover what would be some of the U.S government's most sensative documents. >In one example of the extent of the effort, the Air Force tracked down >the original photo negatives of newspaper pictures showing the >wreckage and sent them to "a national level organization" for digital >analysis. This probably refers to the National Photo Interpretation >Center, a super-secret branch of the CIA. >The analysis found that the photos were of "insufficient quality" >to produce substantive results. Assuming this reference to be correct; The National Photo Interpretation Center is presumably one of the most advanced imaging facilities in the world, utilising the most sophisticated technology. How strange that this "super-secret branch of the CIA" could not offer any assistance in analysing original photo negatives. It defies belief, it really does. Cheers, James. ..................+............ ..*..../\/\/\/\/\../\/\/\/\/\.. ........../\....../\........... Who hath believed our report? ....+..../\....../\/\/\/\/\.... ......../\...+../\............. .../\/\/\....../\/\/\/\/\/...*. The Prophet Isaiah. ...........+................... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: ALL From: JAMES EASTON <Public> Subject: Roswell Report Press Rel. Date: 14 September 1994 Time: 21:19 Msg 4 of 5 in Area: UFOCrashRe Out of packet: STAIRWAY.002 Roswell Report Press Release ____________________________ Some of the reaction from the U.S. : ___________________________________________________________________________ Finally, over here in the Colonies, there has been major media brouhaha (ruckus) about this 25 page whitewash from the liars who first covered up Roswell claiming that it's alright to believe them now. It really was a balloon, just a super-duper secret weirdo balloon. Of course, one must ignore the massive amount of debris, the huge crater gouged out, the wide area of the debris field, the struts with the markings, etc. And of course nothing about the second site and the bodies. The little old ladies in my office even laugh and ask, "how stupid do they think we are." I think they walked into a real mine field. Like the JFK case, the researchers know this case better than some Pentagon bureaucrats. When this gets exposed and a whitewash, fraud and a sloppy job by the USAF, they will look worse than if they said, "We never heard of Roswell." A major snafu. Look for many of the Roswell researchers to have a field day on the TNT special on Oct. 1. For those of you outside the states, see if there is a place you can pick it up on a dish. From the looks of the line-up, this was going to be good before this latest US Government bullet in the foot. ___________________________________________________________________________ Come on. It took the Air Force EIGHT MONTHS to determine that something THEY did was a secret weather balloon? I've heard of pathetic excuses, but this is ridiculous. Eight months to go to the archives, pull out the box of files, flip to July 1947 and say 'yep, it's a secret weather balloon'? I don't believe it. Sorry to be an anti-government skeptic, but this is pure government crap. The only reason they changed the story after 47 years was to answer this nagging question: "How does a weather balloon affect our national security?" It doesn't unless it suddenly becomes a TOP SECRET SPY BALLOON. What a bunch of horseshit. Scott (more disgusted than ever.) ___________________________________________________________________________ YES ... it was a "top-secret" time-travelling spy balloon launched by our gov't in 1947 to monitor USSR nuclear bomb detonation ... the Soviets didn't have the bomb until '49. I wasn't in Roswell so I don't know what fell from the sky ... however, it's a lot easier to believe it was a UFO ... than to swallow these BS stories they keep coming up with ... our politicians lie better than this during their campains:) ___________________________________________________________________________ The problem facing the Cover Ops--er, I mean Ups--with Roswell is that there was a press release, stories were printed and are publically archived, and hundreds of people are still living with memories of the events at the time (whatever they were). If nothing had happened, there would have been no story. If an experimental aircraft had crashed, the aviation folks at the time had so much clout that they would have simply said so. It would have bolstered the belief that the government was in charge and doing great things; the story would have joined the dozens of others before and since. If a "top secret" balloon had crashed, I can tell you that a weather balloon would not have been used as a cover story. Project Mogul may or may not have had a launch in the Roswell time window that could have accounted for the incident, but if it were the case the local military would not have issued the press release because they would have been advised to look out for the equipment to be recovered.Things just weren't that institutionally secret. It was a different world, where personal relations were much more honor-bound in practice. The balloon story was and is bogus, but the Cover Ups are stuck with it. Today, there would be a hundred more sophisticated techniques to clutter the scope, but the people at Roswell had no reason to lie and thus we have the "Flying Disk Recovered" press release. I regret that the current Powers That Be continue to play out this farce. ___________________________________________________________________________ Cheers, James. ..................+............ ..*..../\/\/\/\/\../\/\/\/\/\.. ........../\....../\........... You see, but you do not observe. ....+..../\....../\/\/\/\/\.... ......../\...+../\............. Sherlock Holmes. .../\/\/\....../\/\/\/\/\/...*. ...........+................... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: ALL From: JOHN A HAYES <Public> Subject: Roswell Testimony Date: 21 September 1994 Time: 11:12 Msg 14 of 27 in Area: UFONews Out of packet: STAIRWAY.003 Message originally from Jim Doyle to All: ----------------------------------------- Here's a little more fuel for the fire. Enjoy! From: cschmidt@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Christopher Schmidt) Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors Subject: Roswell Testimony Message-ID: <1993Jan14.191800.8564@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> Date: 14 Jan 93 19:18:00 GMT Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA Lines: 1418 ROSWELL TESTIMONY 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Document Description 1.2 Sequence of Events 2 THE CIVILIANS 2.1 Loretta Proctor 2.2 Marian Strickland 2.3 Bessie Brazel Schreiber 2.4 William Brazel Jr 2.5 Glenn Dennis 3 THE COPS 3.1 Barbara Dugger 4 THE PRESS 4.1 Frank Joyce 4.2 Lydia Sleppy 4.3 Walt Whitmore Jr 5 THE MILITARY 5.1 Jesse Marcel 5.2 Jesse Marcel Jr 5.3 Walter Haut 5.4 Bill Rickett 5.5 F.B. 5.6 Robert Porter 5.7 Robert Shirkey 5.8 Robert Slusher 5.9 Robert Smith 5.10 Melvin Brown's Daughter 5.11 Pappy Henderson 5.12 Pappy Henderson's Wife 5.13 Pappy Henderson's Daughter 5.14 Pappy Henderson's Relatives 5.15 Pappy Henderson's Friend #1 5.16 Pappy Henderson's Friend #2 6 PROSAIC EXPLANATIONS 6.1 Weather Balloon 6.2 Secret Rocket or Airplane 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Document Description A flying saucer crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. This document contains testimony from people who were closely associated with this incident. Most of the testimony in this document is from the 1992 book "Crash at Corona" by Stanton Friedman and Don Berliner, published in the United States by Paragon House. That book contains lots of other interesting material, including material regarding another crash site in New Mexico. That book is the source of all testimony in this document except where noted. 1.2 Sequence of Events On July 2, 1947, during the evening, a flying saucer crashed on the Foster Ranch near Corona, New Mexico. The crash occurred during a severe thunderstorm. (The military base nearest the crash site is in Roswell, New Mexico; hence, Roswell is more closely associated with this event than Corona, even though Corona is closer to the crash site.) On July 3, 1947, William "Mac" Brazel (rhymes with "frazzle") and his 7-year-old neighbor Dee Proctor found the remains of the crashed flying saucer. Brazel was foreman of the Foster Ranch. The pieces were spread out over a large area, perhaps more than half a mile long. When Brazel drove Dee back home, he showed a piece of the wreckage to Dee's parents, Floyd and Loretta Proctor. They all agreed the piece was unlike anything they had ever seen. On July 6, 1947, Brazel showed pieces of the wreckage to Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. Wilcox called Roswell Army Air Field (AAF) and talked to Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer. Marcel drove to the sheriff's office and inspected the wreckage. Marcel reported to his commanding officer, Colonel William "Butch" Blanchard. Blanchard ordered Marcel to get someone from the Counter Intelligence Corps, and to proceed to the ranch with Brazel, and to collect as much of the wreckage as they could load into their two vehicles. Soon after this, military police arrived at the sheriff's office, collected the wreckage Brazel had left there, and delivered the wreckage to Blanchard's office. The wreckage was then flown to Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, and from there to Washington. Meanwhile, Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt of the Counter Intelligence Corps drove to the ranch with Mac Brazel. They arrived late in the evening. They spent the night in sleeping bags in a small out-building on the ranch, and in the morning proceeded to the crash site. On July 7, 1947, Marcel and Cavitt collected wreckage from the crash site. After filling Cavitt's vehicle with wreckage, Marcel told Cavitt to go on ahead, that Marcel would collect more wreckage, and they would meet later back at Roswell AAF. Marcel filled his vehicle with wreckage. On the way back to the air field, Marcel stopped at home to show his wife and son the strange material he had found. On July 7, 1947, around 4:00 pm, Lydia Sleppy at Roswell radio station KSWS began transmitting a story on the teletype machine regarding a crashed flying saucer out on the Foster Ranch. Transmission was interrupted, seemingly by the FBI. On July 8, 1947, in the morning, Marcel and Cavitt arrived back at Roswell AAF with two carloads of wreckage. Marcel accompanied this wreckage, or most it, on a flight to Fort Worth AAF. On July 8, 1947, around noon, Colonel Blanchard at Roswell AAF ordered Second Lieutenant Walter Haut to issue a press release telling the country that the Army had found the remains of a crashed a flying saucer. Haut was the public information officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell AAF. Haut delivered the press release to Frank Joyce at radio station KGFL. Joyce waited long enough for Haut to return to the base, then called Haut there to confirm the story. Joyce then sent the story on the Western Union wire to the United Press bureau. On July 8, 1947, in the afternoon, General Clemence McMullen in Washington spoke by telephone with Colonel (later Brigadier General) Thomas DuBose in Fort Worth, chief of staff to Eighth Air Force Commander General Roger Ramey. McMullen ordered DuBose to tell Ramey to quash the flying saucer story by creating a cover story, and to send some of the crash material immediately to Washington. On July 8, 1947, in the afternoon, General Roger Ramey held a press conference at Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth in which he announced that what had crashed at Corona was a weather balloon, not a flying saucer. To make this story convincing, he showed the press the remains of a damaged weather balloon that he claimed was the actual wreckage from the crash site. (Apparently, the obliging press did not ask why the Army hurriedly transported weather balloon wreckage to Fort Worth, Texas, site of the press conference, from the crash site in a remote area of New Mexico.) The only newspapers that carried the initial flying saucer version of the story were evening papers from the Midwest to the West, including the Chicago Daily News, the Los Angeles Herald Express, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Roswell Daily Record. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune were morning papers and so carried only the cover-up story the next morning. At some point, a large group of soldiers were sent to the debris field on the Foster Ranch, including a lot of MPs whose job was to limit access to the field. A wide search was launched well beyond the limits of the debris field. Within a day or two, a few miles from the debris field, the main body of the flying saucer was found, and a mile or two from that several bodies of small humanoids were found. The military took Mac Brazel into custody for about a week, during which time he was seen on the streets of Roswell with a military escort. His behavior aroused the curiosity of friends when he passed them without any sign of recognition. Following this period of detention, Brazel repudiated his initial story. 2 THE CIVILIANS 2.1 Loretta Proctor [NB: In the sections of this document that contain testimony, all text not enclosed in brackets, like those that enclose this sentence, is verbatim testimony.] [Loretta Proctor, Mac Brazel's nearest neighbor, was one of the first to see pieces of the wreckage Brazel had found. She was interviewed in July 1990.] [Mac] had this piece of material that he had picked up. He wanted to show it to us and wanted us to go down and see the rest of the debris or whatever, [but] we didn't on account of the transportation and everything wasn't too good. He didn't get anybody to come out who was interested in it. The piece he brought looked like a kind of tan, lightbrown plastic. It was very lightweight, like balsa wood. It wasn't a large piece, maybe about four inches long, maybe just a little larger than a pencil. We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it, and it wouldn't burn. We knew it wasn't wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn't have a real sharp corners, kind of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn't have any grain, just smooth. I hadn't seen anything like it. [The following statement by Loretta Proctor suggests the possibility that Mac Brazel had been bribed to keep quiet.] I think that within that year, he had moved off the ranch and moved to Alamagordo or to Tularosa and he put in a locker there. That was before people had home freezers, and it was a large refrigerated building. You would buy beef and cut it up and put it in those lockers and you had a key to it and you could get your beef out when you wanted it. I think it would have been pretty expensive, and we kind of wondered how he could put it in with rancher's wages. [Here is what Loretta Proctor said on the American television program "Unsolved Mysteries".] Floyd [Loretta's husband] and a neighbor was in Roswell and saw Mac surrounded by some of the Air Force people. And they walked right by them and Mac wouldn't speak to them. They thought it was kind of funny, I guess, really wondered what he'd got into. And Mac, he wouldn't talk about it after he come back home. But he did say if he ever found something else he wouldn't report it. 2.2 Marian Strickland [Marian Strickland was a neighbor of Mac Brazel. She was interviewed in 1990.] [Mac] made it plain he was not supposed to tell that there was any excitement about the material he found on the ranch. He was a man who had integrity. He definitely felt insulted and mis-used, and disrespected. He was worse than annoyed. He was definitely under some stress, and felt that he had been kicked around. He was threatened that if he opened his mouth, he might get thrown in the back side of the jail. He gave that impression, definitely. 2.3 Bessie Brazel Schreiber [Bessie Brazel Schreiber is Mac Brazel's daughter. Here is her description of wreckage from the crash.] [The material resembled] a sort of aluminum-like foil. Some of [these] pieces had a sort of tape stuck to them. Even though the stuff looked like tape, it could not be peeled off or removed at all. Some of these pieces had something like numbers and lettering on them, but there were no words we were able to make out. The figures were written out like you would write numbers in columns, but they didn't look like the numbers we use at all. [There was also] a piece of something made out of the same metal-like foil that looked like a pipe sleeve. About four inches across and equally long, with a flange on one end. [Also] what appeared to be pieces of heavily waxed paper. The Mystery Choppers Situations involving the mystery helicopters appear to be a little more insidious. A good example is an event which occurred in Madison County, Montana, between June and October of 1976. Twenty-two confirmed cattle mutilations had occurred during that period, and they were accompanied by reports throughout the county of silent, unmarked, jet-black helicopters, flashing or steady anomalous lights in the air and near the ground, unmarked fixed- wing aircraft and white vans in remote and previously inaccessible areas. Toward the latter part of this period, in early autumn of 1976, a hunter from Bozeman, Montana, was out alone around 3:00pm one day in the Red Mountain area near Norris. He watched as a black helicopter without markings flew overhead and disappeared below a small hill. The curious hunter climbed to the top of the hill. There was the black chopper (a Bell Jet Ranger, he thought) on the ground, the engine still running. Seven men had apparently exited from the craft and were walking up the hill toward the observer. As the hunter advanced toward the seven, he waved and shouted congenial greetings. It was then that he realized there was something about the men -- they were all Oriental. They had slanted eyes and olive skin and were jabbering among themselves in some indecipherable language. They wore "everyday" clothes, not uniforms. Suddenly they began to return to the helicopter. The hunter, still waving and shouting friendly greetings, started after them. The Orientals quickened their pace. When the hunter approached within five or six feet, they broke into a dead run, crowded into the chopper and took off. In a documented "mystery helicopter" wave in England, accounts place Oriental-appearing occupants in an unidentified chopper. Slant-eyed, olive skinned, Oriental-seeming occupants have been a staple at the heart and at the periphery of UFO accounts for years. Significant numbers of the infamous "men-in- black" (MIB) have a similar appearance, but very often they are seen as very pale and gaunt men who are sensitive to light. In STIGMATA No. 5 (Fall-Winter 1978) Tom Adams outlined the most prominent speculative explanations accounting for the mutilation/helicopter link, including the following: o The helicopters are themselves UFOs, disguised to appear as terrestrial craft. o The choppers originate from within the U.S. government/military and are directly involved in conducting the actual mutilations. o The helicopters are government/military and are not involved in the mutilations but are investigating them. o The helicopters are government/military, and they know about the identity and motives of the mutilators and by their presence, they are trying to divert attention to the possibility of involvement by the military. The answer, as far as Tom Adams is concerned, could be a combination of the above explanations. There also has been speculation that they are involved in biological experiments with chemical or biological warfare or the geobotanical pursuit of petroleum and mineral deposits. On one occasion, an army standard-type scalpel was found at a mutilation site. Since the disks have been mostly involved with the mutilations, it is thought that this was a diversionary event. These events, or the discussion of them, is just the precursor to the actual revelations of what is behind the mutilations: alien acquisition of biological materials for their own use. To discuss this in a logical and sequential manner, we must review what has been really happening right under our noses: direct interaction with extraterrestrial biological entities (EBE's). To discuss that, however, we must attempt to start at the beginning with what we now know to be true. Continued in UFOS part 2.