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From: "Val Germann" <vhg@socket.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:38:29 -0600
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:08:59 -0500
Subject: UFOSEARCH #11 -- UFO History; Part II

           UFOSEARCH #11 -- UFO History; Part II

                         Val Germann
                      Columbia, Missouri

        ***  Buildup To 1968; The Age Of  Zamora ***

Thirty years ago this month I was a freshman in college and
What I call The Age Of Zamora was nearly four years old.
Public interest in (and even fear of) UFOs was still very high,
Though not as high as it had been earlier, say in the summer
Of 1966, in the wake of Allen Hynek's "swamp gas" blunder.

The year 1968 would see full-blown Congressional hearings
concerning UFOs, and full-blown PhDs would tesitfy, at
Length, as to the reality and significance of UFOs.  But it
did not matter as the Condon Commission report (which
everyone was already waiting for as 1968 began) would put
the kabosh on UFOs in a big way at the end of 1969.  The
Congress was shown to have no real power where UFOs were
concerned.  No, that power, if any, resided in the executive
and with the military, and that was the end of that.

Dr. James McDonald had already found that out, having
been shown the report of the Robertson Committee, which
had met back in 1953.  That group, made up of several
scientists with strong connections to the CIA and NSA,
recommended that the UFO be debunked in public, and it
had been made so.   By the time of the Zamora incident in
1964, the UFO had been nearly dead for a decade, only a
brief flap in 1957 having broken the relative silence, at
least here in the USA.

I well remember 1964, but not for Zamora.  What I still
remember from that year are the build-up in Vietnam,
the first of the big 1960s race riots and, finally, the
Presidential election: Goldwater vs. Johnson.   As for
UFOs, the big run-up would begin in February of
1965, in New England, and spread in a huge wave to
most of the country by the summer.  By July of '65
UFOs were front page news yet again.

***