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From: Gary <galevy@pipeline.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 01:00:55 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 08:37:01 -0400
Subject: UFOSEARCH  - The Roswell Films --

I will be posting to UFO UpDates, serially,  a group of essays
I have found to be thought provoking, which ask many questions
that other writers in the ufo field avoid.

Several of these essays were posted in the past in the
alt.paranet.ufo USENET newsgroup. There are approximately
25 essays in all.

I am posting these with the authors permission.  If you would like
to correspond with the author, unfortunately he is not presently
available on the Internet; however, I have arranged a temporary
internet email address that I will use for forwarding the
correspondence to him.  This is not a permanent email address.
The address is:

ufosearch@pipeline.com

I hope you find these essays as interesting and thought provoking
as I did.

Gary Alevy

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The Roswell Films -- Counterintelligence Aspects

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

Let's lead off with something I wrote several years ago for my
own use in investigating and thinking about UFO-related items:


The Hierarchy Of Information
A Guide To Evaluating The Modern World
by Val Germann

As we all know there are immense difficulties concerned with the
study of events and processes in the modern world.  The UFO is
just part of the problem.  Censorship of important news reached
unprecedented heights with Panama and the Gulf War.  In the world
of the UFO there has been a flood of "secret" and "inside"
information in the late 1980s and running into the 1990s, most of
it without any formal "verification."  But then the Gulf of
Tonkin affair was "verified" by the highest authority in the
land--and it was a lie.

What information is worthy of being accepted?  How can one go
about evaluating "new information" about the UFO in the world of
1993?  Well, I have been down the learning curve on this one and
think I have something to share.  The investigator has to possess
a sort of internal gyroscope, based on solid knowledge, or that
investigator will be lost.  Information has to be classified and
compared to other information and to a model of the world that
the investigator has constructed.  This is not an easy task.

What follows is, in a nutshell, my hierarchy of information.
Because this writer is a witness to a UFO the hierarchy begins
with the individual and works outward.  We think this will be
very, very useful to many readers as they attempt to make sense
of the cacophony that now dominates the "UFO scene" in America.


A Hierarchy Of Information

Class I:  Personal experience involving physical injury, pain and
blood.  One's life eventually revolves around physical injury or
disability.  This writer can remember injuries suffered as a very
small child.

Class II:  Personal experience involving unusual sight, sound or
touch.  If these experiences are not so out of the ordinary as to
create doubts about the individual's own sanity they are
indelibly etched into the mind.  An example of this might be a
childhood observation of an automobile accident with attendant
bodies, something relevant to this writer's experience.

Class III:  First-person accounts from relatives or close friends
that the individual knows very well and trusts implicitly.  Such
information is very credible but far from easy to reveal to third
parties since those involved are important to the individual.

Class IV:  First-person accounts of relatives or friends who are
not so well-known to the individual.  The reliability of the
witness now becomes the reliability of the account and the need
for independent "verification" definitely rears its head.

Class V:  First-person accounts given in person from new
acquaintances.  If the acquaintance is credible the account is
credible and an "investigation" may be launched.

Class VI:  Accounts received second-hand but in person from
reliable and credible people.  These are "hearsay" in legal
parlance but highly credible to nearly every human being in the
right circumstances.  Class VI accounts are the bedrock of most
actual "real world" investigations since they yield first-person
(Class V) leads.

CLASS VII:  Written first-person accounts from "reliable"
individual sources, living or dead, though living is better since
such persons can be interviewed.  These are the primary sources
of the historian.  Letters, diaries, articles, essays and books
make up this class.

Class VIII:  Television, Radio and Newspaper news and feature
stories in which the reporter and the source are identified.
Here we find some of what we call "the news."  In times past
information from "the mass media" would have rated higher but we
all must by now realize that "the news" is only an authorized
version of an event or process.  Today, "the news" is useful
because it can lead to written or first-person information.

Class IX:  Written accounts, documents, photos, etc., including
so-called "secret documents," without direct attribution.  Much
of the new wave of UFO material falls here.  Evaluation depends
on the credibility of the visible source, support from other
sources and investigator experience.

Class X:  Television, Radio and Newspaper accounts without the
quasi-official stamp of "the news."  Here falls much of the
"Tabloid" material on television today.  If the sources are
visible, identified and credible then these "Tabloid" stories
move up to Class V, three cuts higher than most of what is on The
CBS Evening News!

As you can see the key to evaluating UFO information is in
evaluating the source.  And in order to evaluate the source you
have to know something about that source.  This is difficult in
most cases because evaluating sources takes money and time.  But
some kind of source evaluation has to be done.  (See Report On
Communion for a real source evaluation.)

It is most important that the UFO investigator be educated in the
whole field of Ufology if that investigator is to navigate
successfully through the information minefield.   Until a person
has become familiar with most of what has gone before he or she
is in a poor position to make evaluations.  This familiarity
takes years to acquire but is a necessity.

The UFO investigator has to have some understanding of human
society and its organization.  How can one define "alien" until
what is "human" is known?  And the investigator has to have some
self-awareness.  Is the investigator a witness?  Why is the
investigator interested in the subject at all?  These are major
questions that must be answered.

Finally, the obvious involvement of what we here in the United
States call "intelligence assets" requires extreme sophistication
on the part of the investigator.  Much UFO activity may be a
deception run by the intelligence agencies--or by the actual UFO
operators themselves, either alone or in concert with our own
intelligence operatives.

Let's look at a couple of examples.  As a small child this writer
saw a very large, dark, diamond-shaped object fly overhead.  It
was under a solid overcast and made no sound.  It seemed huge, as
large as a commercial airliner.  I did not see it coming but had
a sudden urge to look straight up, to the zenith, which is hard
to do when you are on a tricycle!  When I bent over backwards and
looked straight up I saw the object.  It frightened me deeply and
I remember looking around for places to hide.  In seconds I was
running into the house but I never told my mother or father about
the object.  It was somehow too personal, too private to ever
tell anyone.  Only in recent years have I talked about it at all.

Now, to me this a Class II, maybe even a Class I, affair.
I definitely felt threatened by this object.  I was at least
psychically injured.  I have no doubt that the object was "real"
and that I somehow interacted with it, that is, I was induced
somehow to look up and see it.

To you, reading this, my experience is (I hope) Class VII,
information in writing from a reliable source.  But am I
reliable?  You don't really know, do you?  You have to make a
decision based on what you have read about my experience on this
page.  If my account is well-written that makes it more credible.
But it would help to know more about the source.  If fact, the
more you know about me as a person the more information you have
about what I saw.  You would like to know all about me in order
to evaluate my experience.  But I am not going to tell you that
and you are not going to go to the trouble to find out.  It is
not that important.  So my experience is just a "story."

But if my story became important would not I begin to be
investigated, just as so many others have been before?  Viz: Dr.
James McDonald in the late '60s, the man who became Philip Klass'
first target.  McDonald's reputation was tarnished because of the
wide publicity given to Klass' groundless accusations.  If there
is any constant in the world of the "UFO" it is that people with
information and credibility are going to have their character
assassinated, over and over and over again.

As a final information example let's look at the so-called "Lear
Letters."  They are by themselves Class IX and not very credible.
Only John Lear himself lends them any weight, that and the fact
that many investigators have suspected a deep, dark secret behind
the "UFO" for some time and Lear's information ties in very well
with some of these suspicions.  For most in Ufology, however, the
Lear Letters are too far out, too dark to be accorded any
credibility.  Of course, the Lear Letters contain "secrets" that
are hardly any "darker" than those behind the recently revealed
radiation experiments run on tiny children and pregnant women by
the brave scientists, their draft deferments keeping them out of
combat with other brave men, at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos.  But no
matter, the "Lear Letters" are beyond the credibility and
comprehension of so many otherwise sophisticated Ufologists.

In his 1987 book The Crimes Of Patriots former Wall Street
Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny sets out a story of financial
crime and cover-up that is in its own way every bit as strange
and frightening as the UFO story.  Near the end of the book he
comments that every time startling revelations on CIA dummy
corporations or financial wrong-doing has surfaced in the press
there have soon been other, really bizarre people coming forward
to "support" the original source.  But the story they told was so
strange, so at variance with some of the known facts, that the
whole affair soon became bogged down in a swamp of invective and
bad faith.  Does this sound familiar?  Re: Hopkins. . .Strieber;
.. . .Lear. . .Cooper.

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ABOUT THE ROSWELL FILMS

Now, about the Roswell autopsy films.  On the surface there are
only two possibilities -- they are the real deal or they are
phony.  That's obvious, right?  Well, no, it isn't.  Let's think
a little deeper, get a little more sophisticated.

It has been about 20 years now since the "crashed disc" material
was reintroduced to the world of Ufology.  The leading edge of
this material were accounts published by Leonard Stringfield and
Raymond Fowler, accounts that were at best Class VI and at worst
too un-credible to be classified.  About 15 years ago the first
Roswell book was published, to no great fanfare.  But in that
book were real people, witnesses, still living, who could be
tracked down and interviewed.  And some of those witnesses were
too old to care anymore and would TALK.  Things began to move
into the higher classifications.

Strieber's COMMUNION lit the afterburner on all of this, making
discussion of UFO and abduction-related items almost respectable.
This led, in 1989, to the awesome segments on Unsolved Mysteries,
segments about UFOs, Roswell, abductions, etc., with witnesses
who would appear on camera and be identified.  I can say that
these programs, which are running all the time on cable all
across the United States, have done more to raise the credibility
of the "UFO" than nearly the combined effects of everything else
that has ever happened in this area.  Tens of millions of people
have seen these programs and they are excellent, the best work
that has EVER been done in this field.  I have most of them on
tape and watch them from time to time, shaking my head.  They are
better, more accurate, than almost any NEWS documentary you are
likely to see.  And the witnesses are named.

You see, the cat is out of the bag already.  In the course of
normal activities I meet and talk to a lot of people and on
occasion I overhear or instigate conversation in this area.
There is no doubt, most people I have some time to talk with
have an opinion, which is in itself amazing, and that opinion
is basically, "Yeah, I think a flying saucer crashed out there,
yeah."  That cat is history.

All that's left is the official notification, the notification
that will put it on the Evening News, into the textbooks, into
the mouths of Presidents and Premiers and university professors
and James Oberg and Philip Klass.  It's not yet official.

The question is, "Will it ever be?"  Ah, yes, there's the rub.

My position is that the basic story is out because it is too big
to contain but that official notification will never come, even
in the face of what any reasonable person would consider ironclad
evidence, i.e., proof.  It will never come for three reasons:

1) It would severely threaten the power of our current elites;
2) Who may well be cooperating with these OTHERS at this time;
3) And who are perfectly capable of selling the rest of us out.

Our betters have no intention, ever, of willingly revealing
either of the first two things.  They will have to be forced
and that is not likely under current conditions, at least as
I understand them.  But, of course, I could be dead wrong.

But, let us say first, for sake of argument, that Roswell did
happen and there were discs and bodies, and autopsies that were
phototgraphed.  And let us also say that information on the
general subject was leaking to such an extent that the cover
story was being blown.  Of what use would those photos be?

Well, the typical tactic is to arrange to hide things in plain
view, in a pile of disinformation, and let the normal confusion
that reigns in the human world do the rest.  The hope is that the
subject will soon be thrown into such disrepute that no decent
person will ever look into it again.  This has been the tactic
used in the UFO arena for nearly half a century now.  It still is
a pretty good one and it still works much of the time, very well
with the sub-elite and scientific hoi-polloi, the kind of folks
who populate CSICOP, and who believe in Scientism to the core.
And it is these people who really need to be contained, the
opinions of truck drivers, clerks, real estate salesmen and
insurance agents counting for little in the great scheme of
things.  No, that sub-stratum of folks who work in the technical
and semi-technical fields, and who teach, need the attention, the
support, something they can hold onto personally and throw out
onto the InterNet as they trash their opposition.

So, I would make a film, a docudrama, of the real event, which
would have that horrifying ring of truth that would startle all
who saw it.  But I would make the film so that eventually it
would be revealed to all to be a hoax.  From then on, to the end
of time, the material in that film would be taboo for any person
with any credibility at all.  All it takes is the money to make
the film and the well-paid people to put it into circulation.
These requirments are not much of a burden to our secret polices,
who have money to burn, believe me.  It could be done, as it was
done with the Majestic-12 documents, in my opinion.

In the trade this is called Black Propaganda and it WORKS.

You see, we have an epistomological problem here.  In the world
today we can KNOW, in a Class I or Class II way, very little or
perhaps nothing (if you're not a witness) vis-a-vis the UFO
situation in the world.  And even if you are a witness what you
have seen (or more likely been deliberately shown) by THEM is
part of a campaign of deception just as deep and frightening as
the one run by our human spooks, when you look into it.

Everyone wants to KNOW what is going on but, let me tell you, we
are NEVER going to KNOW -- it's just not our fate.  Our spooks
would like you to think that THEY know but even if they are in
direct communication with THEM they still don't KNOW anything,
for the simple reason that these OTHERS could be lying their
alien asses off and our spooks would have no way to check.  Our
people KNOW only what these OTHERS choose to show them and
that could well be part of the same kind of deception campaign our
boys typically run against their own people, us.  That's one of
the reasons some are scared and are leaking, in my opinion.

In closing, let's all have fun and enjoy the show.  After all, we
as taxpayers probably paid for it, whatever it is!!

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