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From: koch@wad.berlin.fido.de <Joachim Koch>
Date: 07 June 97 19:43:00 GMT
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 02:21:21 -0400
Subject: Berlin Memorandum Update #1
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*I n t e r n a t i o n a l R o s w e l l I n i t i a t i v e*
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German Coordinators
Joachim Koch and Hans-Juergen Kyborg
May 1997
(Update June 7th, 1997)
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*B E R L I N M E M O R A N D U M*
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The International Roswell Intiative is based upon an idea of Joachim
Koch and Hans-Juergen Kyborg who intended to support the research of
Mr. Kent Jeffrey in the so-called Roswell-Incident of 1947 after a
meeting with him in the lobby of the Palace-Hotel, Berlin, in 1993.
Our idea was to write down a text which should be distributed
worldwide and signed by as many people as possible to make it the most
powerful grassroots effort in modern UFO history. We wrote a letter to
Kent Jeffrey and explained our project. Thus, he wrote the "Roswell
Declaration" and brought the International Roswell Initiative to life.
At that time it seemed to be within reach that an Executive Order
could be induced by Congressman Steven Schiff and the Declaration
should be a most powerful tool to support this.
By the time, the Roswell Declaration really became powerful by the
signatures of 20,000(plus) people from all over the world. Despite all
momentary developements all the 20,000 plus signed Roswell
Declarations will be delivered to the White House in early July as
Kent Jeffrey promised in a fax dated of May 8th 1997. The Initiative
received signed Declarations from people of all ages and professions
including two astronauts whereof one walked on the Moon. And it
seemed, that the Roswell Delaration could generate within those who
had signed it some kind of trust and - hope.
Because of his personal conclusions which he wrote down in a 17 pages
paper entiteled "Roswell--Anatomy Of A Myth" and wherof a summary is
released on June 7th in the MUFON UFO Journal, Kent Jeffrey marches no
longer with us on our way towards the truth about the Roswell Incident
which still remains unsolved. As far as we and other researchers know
no new documents have surfaced and according to the testimony of Jesse
Marcel, Jr., his hypnosis session in Washington in late January 1997
brought no new information to what he has remebered and told before
about what he saw when in July 1947 his father brought the unusual
debris into the kitchen of his home.
So we, the German Coordinators of the Roswell Initiative, feel obliged
to all those who have signed the Declaration to show them all that the
trust and hope they have invested in the Initiative was and is fully
justified.
We, Hans-Juergen Kyborg and Joachim Koch, are born in a city which has
suffered a lot in the years after WW II. Especially we Berliners have
experienced what it means to have friends whom you can trust and who
give you hope for a better future and what it means to resist in a
united effort.
Bound to these ideals we, as the German Coordinators and as Berliners,
declare publicly that we stay steadfast to the primary goal of the
Roswell Initiative: to find out the truth about what happened in New
Mexico in 1947 and to continue in our effort to end the policy of
secrecy and cover-ups on a fact that has become crystal-clear to
everyone who has done serious and open-minded research in what is
called the UFO phenomenon: that we are not alone in the universe.
We shall withstand all attempts to diminish the power of the
International Roswell Initiative such as official reports and film
footage in the past or secluded conclusions in the present.
Independent, serious and self-critical researchers have provided piece
after piece of an enigmatic puzzle and will continue to do so. And
more and more, one certain picture crops out: Roswell *was something*
*else* than the crash of a (or some) balloon(s) consisting of mundane
material like balsa wood and flower painted tape.
*Shouldn't we all declare that we are Berliners -- again?*
If you think that what is written above corresponds to your point of
view and you would like support this BERLIN MEMORANDUM you are invited
to do so - no matter where you are, where you come from and what
your education is - by sending us a few sentences with your current
view of Roswell and, if you think so, why it is important to have such
efforts like the Roswell Initiative. We would appreciate to add your
supporting comments to the many others you can read below (in order of
the date of income). We shall publish the updated BERLIN MEMORANDUM
from now on several times until July 8th 1997.
*Upon our request worldwide know and respected*
*researchers have sent us spontanuously and*
*immediately in an act of solidarity their view*
*of the current state of Roswell and their opinion*
*about an effort such like*
*the International Roswell Initiative.*
*This is the place to say thank you with all our heart.*
(All the following contributions are in order of the incoming date)
Date: Tue, 13 May 97 22:49 +0100
From: *Dr.Johannes Fiebag*
What happened 1947 in Roswell? To be honest: I dont know. But only a
few people here on this planet will know what realley happened there.
Was it the crash of a weather balloon? Or a spy balloon? Or after all
an extraterrestrial spacecraft?
On thing is for sure: since Roswell gained more and more attention for
the researchers and the media since the seventies, the attempts of
covering-up, disowning and debunking of official and non-official, of
governmental as well as obscure private (or alledgedly private) groups
and individuals increased in an astonishing rate.
To say it clearly: if it really was "only" a MOGUL balloon, which
crashed in the desert of New Mexico, then one must say that the U.S.
Air Force during the past decades has done everything to contribute to
the momentary confusion and lack of information by its dubious
behavior (or was this full intention...?)
And if not? If was something different? Then it is high time - despite
all developments, disclaimers and contradictions - finally to put the
facts and the truth on the table. To achieve this is the basis of the
Roswell Initiative.
And no matter which is one's own point of view regarding this
incident, we all should be interested to know the truth!
*Dr. Johannes Fiebag, Germany*
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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 05:24 GMT
From: *Walter-Joerg Langbein*
50 years have passed by since the Roswell Incident. No one, no single
group, has the right to have information about "UFOs" for its own.
There is the central question: are we alone in the universe? Every
human being here on this planet has the right to get every information
which could help to answer this.
For these reasons I support the Roswell Initiative since years in my
books. It is the main concern that impotant information which are
withheld from the public due to official cover-up policy must no put
into the open. Therefore was and is the Roswell Initiative still of
greatest importance.
*Walter-Joerg Langbein, Germany*
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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 08:29:51 -0300
From: *Stanton Friedman*
As the nuclear physicist who began the civilian investigation of the
l947 Roswell Incident in 1978, was the first to locate and talk to
many witnesses and as author or coauthor of numerous relevant papers
and 2 books "Crash at Corona" and TOP SECRET/MAJIC, I am absolutely
convinced that the evidence is overwhelming that the US government
recovered the wreckage of 2 crashed flying saucers (one in the Plains
of San Augustin, the other near Corona) and several alien bodies New
Mexico in July 1947.
The Mogul explanation doesn't fit the data. The government should
offer total amnesty to military or other witnesses connected with the
two recoveries (New Mexico, July 1947), since according to the USAF a
long since declassified MOGUL balloon was all that was involved. If
they cannot offer amnesty, one has to ask why not?
*Stanton Friedman, Canada*
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Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 10:13:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: *Kevin Randle*
There is no doubt in my mind that what fell outside of Roswell, New
Mexico was a craft built on another planet. There is no doubt that the
military, and the American government initiated a cover-up to hide
these facts. And there is no doubt that the copver-up persists today.
The Roswell Initiative is important because it is the first
coordinated effort to crack through that cover and learn the truth.
*Kevin Randle, U.S.A.*
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *continued in part two* >>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Joachim
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