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From: Dennis <dstacy@texas.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 19:11:02 -0500 (CDT)
Fwd Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 01:35:16 -0400
Subject: Re: Question for Rebecca

>From: XianneKei@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:53:38 -0400 (EDT)
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Question for Rebecca

>I have asked, I was told, sure, I'll send you a copy, and I'm still waiting.
>I was also told the letter would be posted to the website. That hasn't
>happened yet either.

>I know the letter exists because I had a copy of it when I sent the three
>boxes of petitions by FedEx to the Legislative aide at the White House.

>I wish I had hung on to a copy, but I didn't. Sorry. I will post it to the
>list when it arrives. I want to see again, for several reasons.

>Rebecca


Rebecca & List:

Here's a copy of Kent's letter to the Prez. I had to scan and OCR from a
streaked fax, so any mistakes in spelling are probably my own. The original
was underneath the International Roswell Initiative letterhead.

July 8, 1997

President Bill Clinton
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Clinton,

This letter is accompanied by over 20,000 signed copies of a statement known
as the Roswell Declaration.  The Declaration requests a mandated policy of
openness on the part of the U.S. government with respect to any knowledge it
might possess or acquire about UFOs or extraterrestrial intelligence.  The
signatories to this mainstream, grassroots effort, the International Roswell
Initiative, include hundreds of scientists and engineers, three retired air
force generals, and two former U.S. astronauts.

While the initiative was originally inspired by the 1947 Roswell event,
extensive research has established that the Roswell incident itself did not
involve an extraterrestrial craft.  Whether it is justified or not, there
is a widespread lack of confidence in the government's forthrightness with
regard to the UFO phenomenon, even among those who do not believe a UFO
crashed at Roswell in 1947. For example, a late-1996 Gallup poll revealed
that 71 percent of the American  public believes that "the U.S. government
knows more about UFOs than it is telling."

An executive order guaranteeing that information as profound and important
as that relating to other intelligent life in the universe would never be
withheld by the U.S. government would surely be considered a positive move
by those on all sides of the issue. Whether or not any such information
exists, such a mandate would undoubtedly do much to alleviate the American
peoples' long-term distrust and suspicion of their government concerning
this subject.

Sincerely

Kent Jeffrey [signed]
Coordinator, International Roswell Initiative


A second, different letter, dated the same day, was also sent to Janet
Murguia, Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs.
Presumably, this is the one Rebecca referred to. I'll scan, OCR and post it
later. At the moment, however, Venus is just rising and I want to be sure
it's mistaken for a Pleiadean beamship. (Har-de-har!)

Ahem, seriously, hope this helps.

Dennis