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This is Robert Bering, Director of the 20th Century UFO Bureau.

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I think that perhaps in all of my years of research and investigative procedures into

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the UFO phenomenon, what you are about to hear is probably the most unusual series of

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events that has happened to me in all of these years.

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I began my UFO research at a time that I was a journalist in the field of radio broadcasting

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and also affiliated with a newspaper in Buffalo, New York.

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It started for me in the year of 1957 and the month of November, that when I began researching

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the UFO subject.

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And it has carried through to the present time at which time it is now a full-time work.

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You know, over the years there have been reports of attempts to silence certain individuals

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experiencing close encounters of the first and second kinds.

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It eventually branched out to UFO researcher and investigators.

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It was during the 1950s and 60s that the MIB incidents became quite prominent and it usually

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involved three men investigating UFO cases relating to landings and the filming of UFOs.

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The men in black, they were called, without fail turned up shortly after a sighting, sometimes

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flashing Air Force credentials or in a few instances, NORAD identification cards.

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Now this did not imply that they were from a secret government agency involving themselves

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in the UFO mystery, but one thing always stood out.

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The men in black knew of the UFO cases and the persons involved before the witnesses

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reported their experiences to anyone.

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In too many cases, the witnesses would often remain silent in the event the local news

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media learned of the incident.

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The MIB would show up and instruct the witnesses to say nothing, absolutely nothing, or they

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could get themselves into a lot of trouble.

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The threesome were usually dressed in dark business suits and traveled in black government

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type cars.

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There was an unusual case near Damon, Texas that involved two deputy sheriffs.

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Earlier in the day, one of them was bitten by his pet alligator sustaining an open wound

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on his arm.

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The two some were now on duty and while touring assigned areas in their patrol car, they sighted

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a UFO up ahead and near the road.

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They attempted to move in nearer.

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The injured arm of the one deputy was resting on the edge of the car window.

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Without warning, the UFO approached them, passed over the car and bathed the injured

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arm with a light source emanating from the craft.

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By the time the deputies arrived in town, the wound was, listen, completely healed.

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It had been a pretty bad bite, but now it was as though nothing had happened to that

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arm.

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Arriving at a local restaurant with his buddy, the deputy with the previously injured arm

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was approached by a stranger and was told the following, quote, you know, if I were

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you, I wouldn't say anything about that thing you saw on the highway.

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The stranger as common as any earth man could be turned around and departed.

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Now up to that point, neither deputy had said anything to anyone.

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Another type silencer also surfaced.

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It was military.

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Now these mystery men were usually dressed in Air Force uniforms or they flashed impressive

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credentials from various government agencies.

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Colonel George Freeman, Air Force spokesman at the Pentagon at that time, said that these

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men in Air Force uniforms would silence witnesses who had sighted UFOs.

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Colonel Freeman confirmed that they had checked a number of these incidents and concluded

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them in were not associated with the United States Air Force in any way, shape or form

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and therefore they were imposters.

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A New Jersey incident involved a man in Air Force uniform who investigated a UFO case in

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that state and he warned the witnesses not to discuss their sighting and that they really

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hadn't seen anything after all.

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Well, a check was made at the local Air Force base in that locale and confirmation was received

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that nobody from that base had visited the witnesses on the date in question.

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Another mystery man, bearing credentials from the North American Air Defense Command, now

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that's NORAD, came to the home of Rex Hethlin who had taken several excellent pictures of

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the UFO near a highway in the state of California.

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And this man demanded the originals.

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Later NORAD denied having anything to do with that incident.

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The original pictures were never returned and the Air Force was unable to determine the

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identity of the mystery man reportedly from NORAD.

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It was during the early 1970s that I was interviewed by a Lady News reporter for a Philadelphia

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television station.

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In private conversation she related an incident that happened to her as a reporter for a Lancaster

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Pennsylvania News outlet.

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It was late at night when she learned of a UFO that had landed in a small burrow near

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Lancaster taking camera, paper and pencils.

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She went to her car and began the short trip to the town involved.

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As she approached her destination she was greeted by a barricade and police that stopped

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all traffic from entering.

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Now the next day she decided to try to look into the matter because by the time she returned

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to her home that night it was around the midnight hour.

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Right in early the following morning and en route to the UFO landing site the reporter

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discovered the barricade was gone and upon arrival local residents were questioned and

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it soon became apparent that all was quiet on the town front.

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Nobody was saying nothing about a landed UFO.

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Well the journalist finally hit pay dirt when she managed to secure information from a few

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isolated persons brave enough to come forth though they would not permit the use of their

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names.

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A UFO did indeed land in town the previous night and there were several minutes before

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departing when it vanished into the heavens.

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Now these same residents told of a black government type car arriving within an hour after the

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UFO departure and three men in black converged on the town residents instructing them to

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remain totally silent about what they had seen.

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All did except a brave few.

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The next move was to go to the police agencies covering that portion of the county and was

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amazed to find absolutely nothing on police records.

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She checked next with Lancaster police to see if they might have any information on the

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case.

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Well they didn't.

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Contact was made with other police units in and near the vicinity involved nothing absolutely

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was forthcoming.

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The reporter had run into a blank wall of silence involving the Lancaster County Pennsylvania

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UFO encounter.

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Well this marked another in too many cases of mystery men and their attempts to silence

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too many witnesses involved in too many unusual UFO encounters.

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My own personal experience involving a series of strange incidents had its beginning in

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the year of 1977.

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It was Lancaster County once again and the date was January the 21st 1977 when I appeared

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as a guest on the news oriented program during the noon hour on the Lancaster County television

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station.

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During that interview I showed several UFO film slides one of which was a fantastic picture

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of a circular shaped craft hovering at tree top level in the state of Oregon during the

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year of 1964.

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It was filmed by Dr. Daniel W. Fry who at one time was affiliated in rocket research

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for the government of white sands proving grounds in New Mexico.

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Many features stood out sharp and clear on that brilliantly white craft which included

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a rim section and a protrusion at the top and the bottom center.

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The interview was very well received by the viewers especially one.

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After the same year I was invited to appear again the date was August the 19th 1977 and

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prior to going on I learned of a most unusual incident.

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The hostess of the telecast told me that shortly after I left the studios on January

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the 21st she received a telephone call from a man who identified himself as being with

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the U.S. government agency and likewise gave his name.

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He was very upset over the showing of the Oregon UFO filmed by Dr. Fry and requested

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a videotape copy of that interview.

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It so happened since it was a live appearance that day they didn't videotape the session.

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Now he was quite outraged to think that it wasn't copied on videotape and he disgustedly

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hung up.

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That was on August the 19th 1977 when I was told of this incident and it was also the

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last time that I was to appear on that noon hour telecast.

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I was never invited again coincidental perhaps but there's more.

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One of the oft asked questions I received at various lectures on the UFO subject that

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I've given in the past was this question.

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Has anyone within government circles ever attempted to silence you because of some of

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the information you have on crashed UFOs?

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Well until the year of 1977 the answer to that question was no.

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However during the summer of 1977 that answer changed as a result of a series of incidents

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that occurred to me.

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Now on the 30th of March 1977 a Western Union mailgram was sent to the 20th century UFO

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of which I am its director.

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It was dispatched by a film corporation in the western United States.

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They were seeking information on the UFO subject for a major motion picture to be based on

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fact but it was going to be dramatized by professional actors.

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The data desired centered on three areas number one government contact with UFOs number two

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government withholding of evidence on UFO existence and number three information on

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UFO crashes and the withholding of that information by the government from the public.

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Now it was the latter category that I would be able to supply them the desired material

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needed for such a film and as a result I made contact with them and as a result of that

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was flown to one of their major offices at which time I presented my material.

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Now my material involved a crashed UFO in the state of New Mexico during the year of

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1962 an outline of the completeness that it was prepared and submitted for their consideration.

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Out of the more than 100 mailgrams sent to UFO organizations and researchers by this film

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corporation only three were selected of which our bureau was one of them.

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Many facets of the case were listed including the tracking of the UFO and military radar

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scopes in the southwestern United States and intercept mission undertaken the performance

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of the spacecraft which indicated flight difficulty and the crash of that vehicle some 80 miles

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south of Hollam and Air Force Base.

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The size and the basic description of the craft was also given along with the discovery

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of two alien cadavers inside that craft.

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I also related where the bodies were eventually taken for scientific study of their body structure

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and what happened to the space vehicle once it was removed from the crash site.

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The submitted material was accepted and within two weeks a contract was sent to me by the

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corporation for the use of the 1962 case and other related UFO data in their movie which

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was to be the main portion of the picture.

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I was to be a technical consultant to the nonfiction film and the planned release to

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theaters across the country was late November or early December 1977.

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Now remember this it's important.

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On the enough and at the same time I was involved with the film corporation in the western United

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States.

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I was contacted by a second motion picture company headquartered in New York City.

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Now what was unusual about this was they too were working on the same type of a nonfiction

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film crashed UFOs and the suppression of the information by the government.

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Their film was scheduled for release during the summer of 1978.

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Now one of their advertising slogans now that's the second motion picture firm for their

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feature length film on crashed UFOs was the following quote the true story of the best

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kept secret of our time.

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Now we have two motion picture corporations working on the same type of picture at the

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same time.

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After receiving my contract from the film company in the western United States I had

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reason to make contact with the gentleman that I would be working with in the production.

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I placed a person a person called to him and was informed that he was not there and wouldn't

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be for another day or two.

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He was in Washington D.C. on business for the corporation.

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The contract was mailed to me on June the 17th 1977.

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By the time I received the contract and reviewed it and made my call to him it was around June

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the 20th or perhaps a little later.

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I was at this point just a few days away from receiving a letter with the heading which

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read Central Intelligence Agency Washington D.C.

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Dated the 30th of June 1977 I was informed that recent reports received from CIA field

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representatives indicated I had received information that I shouldn't have.

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The letter in part said the following quote a check of your file in the domestic collection

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divisions UFO records center does not indicate you were ever cleared to receive crypto material.

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The CIA letter indicated that they were aware of the two motion picture companies in the

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process of producing a film on crashed UFOs and government suppression.

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I was told the following neither of these companies is receiving cooperation on their

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respective projects from this agency and of course now this would seem to indicate that

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the cooperation of the Central Intelligence Agency would be required if said film companies

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were to release such a film on this particular phase of the UFO subject.

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Not only that but I was further informed the director of Central Intelligence is totally

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opposed to disclosure about UFOs at the present time and that the data on the crashed UFO

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case of 1962 is not releasable to the public until further certain conditions are brought

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about by presidential announcements and of quote.

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Then came the hair razor the letter stipulated that since I had received unauthorized information

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the director hereby request your presence at CIA headquarters Langley Virginia at 9

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a.m. on the 8th of July 1977.

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I was now scheduled for a debriefing session on the crashed UFO information and as a result

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would be placed under a CIA restriction not to disclose any of this information until I

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had received the proper legal clearance.

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Real silence on my part was requested as it relates to the CIA letter I had received

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since the communication to me was considered a confidential matter between the director

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and yours truly.

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I was further told to make no telephone calls to the CIA or to any other parties regarding

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the matters discussed herein.

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This matter will not be discussed by phone and of quote.

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The CIA letter was signed as follows quote for the director Arnold B. White chief of

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the domestic collection division and of quote on July the 7th 1977 the day before my schedule

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meeting with the director of the central intelligence agency who at that time was Dan

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Field Turner a second letter was received from someone using a code name.

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It said in part that the original letter had not been authorized by the CIA and that I was

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not to fear.

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Well now it was time for action.

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I immediately called the central intelligence agency and spoke with Elliot Rice of the

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security division and related all the data contained in both letters.

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Mr. Rice informed me that he would look into the matter and if I was scheduled to appear

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the following day he would immediately get back to me by phone.

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That was the last I ever heard of him.

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Before our conversation ended he told me the information would be turned over to others

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within the security division and perhaps I would hear directly from them and perhaps

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not.

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That was on July the 7th 1977.

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Nearly one year later on the 17th of April 1978 I sent a letter to the CIA requesting

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their findings of the investigation into the original CIA letter.

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After some time had passed I finally received a correspondence informing me what I already

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knew that such a letter was not the action of the CIA and if I ever received another

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such letter contact them immediately.

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Well what for?

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It certainly didn't do me any good to contact them the first time.

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They denied having anything to do with it.

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But there's more.

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In the meantime there's a question.

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Was the CIA letter a complete hoax and sent by someone not affiliated with at least at

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that time with any intelligence branch of the United States government or was it a scare

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tactic to keep the crashed UFO data from being used by the motion picture firm?

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There's more.

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The letter to me and dated July the 18th 1977 from the law firm representing the film corporation

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in the western United States that I was working with on the crashed UFO film I was told to

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stop all my work on the assembly of UFO related material.

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Now one of the problems confronting me from the film firm was their request of naming

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my main information source which I could not give them at that time for obvious reasons

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since this man was still involved in government work.

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The attorney's letter also outlined the following.

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Furthermore, due in part to the difficulties the film company has encountered in obtaining

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the proper legal clearance of UFO material of this nature, the organization has been

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unable to meet its original production and distribution schedule for a UFO picture and

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therefore has abandoned this project altogether.

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I reflect back once again to the month of June 1977 when I attempted to contact the

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director of research development with the film firm to discuss some aspects of the contract

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offered me and was told that he was out of town.

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He was in Washington D.C.

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You know it's very interesting to bring out at this point that both film firms who were

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involved in the same type of production stopped their work on their films and as a result

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neither company completed their original undertaking of releasing a non-fiction motion picture

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film on crashed UFOs in the United States and the suppression of such cases by the government

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from the public.

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Interesting isn't it?

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Well with the release of the motion picture film entitled Close Encounters of the Third

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Kind which was scheduled for December 1977 which had as its technical advisor Dr. J.

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Allen Hennick formally with the United States Air Force Project Blue Book Unit investigating

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UFO cases, is it possible that the government wanted to wait for the public reaction to

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such a film as this, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, before the release to theaters

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of a non-fiction picture on crashed UFOs?

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Well it's food for thought.

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Now reflecting back to the CEI letter and the statement that crashed UFO information

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is not releasable to the public until certain conditions are brought about by presidential

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announcements, another factor, an important factor surfaces to make this cloak and dagger

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case all the more convincing.

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In the April 18, 1977 edition of U.S. News and World Report, an interesting comment was

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made in their Washington Whispers column which said that the official word was coming

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on UFOs before the end of the year.

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Now this official word was to have some unsettling disclosures on UFOs and that such revelations

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based on information from the CIA would be a reversal of official policy that in the

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past has downgraded UFO incidents, end of quote.

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Now this official announcement by the government according to the article could possibly come

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from the president.

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Now you know that is most interesting since my CIA letter did implicate the president

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and also the fact that once again the CIA is implicated within the framework of UFO

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information.

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Another interesting point to all of this is the fact that I received my greetings from

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the government in the form of a letter with the heading of Central Intelligence Agency

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Washington D.C. on it and dated June the 30th of 1977 which was a matter of slightly more

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than 10 weeks from the Washington Whispers column report in U.S. News and World Report

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magazine.

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Since the CIA letter states that I received unauthorized information, you know it would

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seem to lend support to the fact that the 1962 UFO crash case in New Mexico is informational

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public should not be told and most of all let's keep it out of the movies.

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Interesting since both film companies did just that, kept it out of the movies.

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And now what about this Arnold B. White who allegedly headed up the domestic collection

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division of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Such a person and the division actually exist?

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Well, a personal friend of mine also a UFO researcher investigator was aware of my CIA

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letter.

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I had discussed it with him previously.

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Making contact with a gentleman formally with the National Security Agency, my friend

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asked if he knew a quote, Mr. White with the CIA and that's as far as my friend got.

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The former NSA man interrupted by saying, oh you mean Arnold White?

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He's head of the domestic collection division of the CIA.

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And of quote, and not only that, but Arnold White was involved in the UFO phenomenon with

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the CIA as far back as 1967.

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Well with that bit of information I bring to a close this facet of the Cloak and Dagger

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game and move to the month of June and the year of 1978.

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We might call this the Dayton incident.

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Well the Dayton incident occurred within the framework of the Ninth Annual Mutual UFO Network

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Symposium during its two day schedule of July the 29th and 30th of 1978.

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The location was the Dayton Convention Center just a few miles from the famous Hangar 18

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case at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio.

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Mufon had scheduled a number of speakers for the event including one Leonard H. Stringfield

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of Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Mr. Stringfield was formally affiliated with United States Air Force Intelligence and in

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civilian life a highly respected UFO researcher investigator since the early 1950s.

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His subject was retrievals of the third kind which was to be a case study of alleged UFO

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crashes and alien cadavers in the custody of the military.

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Little did he realize that while he would be speaking a threat upon his life would be

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made.

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Mr. Stringfield is a personal friend of mine and over a number of months we indulge in

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numerous telephone conversations.

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Some of our discussions involve the category of crashed UFOs and we mutually exchange data.

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It was during the May-June 1978 time period that we went quite in depth in our UFO discussions

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one of which was the case of the CIA letter I had received the year before.

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Being quite interested in the overall situation of the letter be it reality or a hoax, Len

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invited me to share a portion of his allotted time on the speakers platform to relate the

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incident since directly involved was the 1962 crashed UFO case in New Mexico.

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Len Stringfield and myself corresponded regularly between telephone and letters during June

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and early July 1978 in preparation for our presentation on the crashed UFO syndrome and

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the CIA letter.

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Because of the sensitivity of our subjects I decided to make contact with one of my main

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sources of whom I shall refer to as Mr. Q. This man was affiliated with the United States

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Air Force in the early 1950s and eventually became affiliated on a full time basis with

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the Central Intelligence Agency.

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His investigations into the UFO phenomenon for the CIA over a number of years covered

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many aspects including the crashed ones.

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During a telephone conversation with him during the first week of July 1978 just a few weeks

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away from the Dayton Symposium I was informed the intelligence unit was considering sending

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him to the symposium but decided against it when a news release went nationwide relative

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to the topic categories of Mr. Stringfield and yours truly.

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As the discussion between intelligence and Mr. Q continued they said nothing of the CIA

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letter that I had received with the exception of confirming that they were aware of it.

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It seems it was Leonard Stringfield they were concerned about and the reason involved the

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22 abstracts that he would be presenting at the symposium on crashed UFO cases and humanoid

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bodies recovered.

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It seems that 80% of his information was accurate and this was based on one to one contacts

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that Len previously had with those directly involved in retrieval operations of crashed

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spacecraft.

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On the 22nd of July 1978 I was again in communication with Mr. Q relative to the upcoming UFO symposium

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in Dayton, Ohio.

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It was during this time that I was told both Len and I must proceed cautiously from this

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point on and stay with the data that we had planned to present and do not deviate from

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it.

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He suggested my wife Lucy and I should have a gun in our possession while in Dayton.

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Taken back by this I sort of casually chuckled someone and told him that we didn't know him

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again.

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He then suggested that we take a spray gun with us for our own protection.

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This would indicate something was known as a possible happening during the symposium

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but he would not elaborate.

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He only cautioned us to be sure and have a spray gun in our possession at all times

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while we were in Dayton, Ohio at that symposium.