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From: "Val Germann" <vhg@socket.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:16:55 -0600
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:05:27 -0500
Subject: UFOSEARCH #12 -- UFO History; Part III

UFOSEARCH #12 - UFO History; Part III

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

The Build-Up To 1968; The Age Of Zamora

The late summer of 1965 saw one of the best known of all U.S. UFO
cases, the Texas incident in which a police officer noticed that
an injury had been instantly healed after a close encounter with
a UFO.  Four years later, in Vietnam, I would speak with another
soldier whose father was a close friend of this officer.  Two
days after the incident, the officer in question came to dinner
at my informant's house and spoke a little about his run-in with
a UFO.  He could not hold a cup of coffee without spilling it, so
upset was he during the retelling of the event.

Also in the late summer began the Exeter series of sightings
which would lead to John Fuller's great book 'Incident At
Exeter'.  The fall of 1965 would also see the Kecksburg incident
and the huge power failures in the northeast, which some said
were UFO related.  But the biggest flap of all was waiting for
1966, in the spring, in Gerald Ford's Congressional District in
Michigan.  This flap would hit the mass media so hard, and the
"swamp gas" foul-up would hold the government up to such
ridicule, that in the end the Secretary of Defense, Robert
McNamara, would have to make a public statement.  In the
background, inside the Beltway, the Air Force's Science Advisory
Committee, Sagan a member, made a recommendation, one that led to
the  O'Brien Committee, which then led to Condon.

Strong medicine was needed because, as Keyhoe said, "Public fear
of UFOs is at an all-time high."  By the fall, Dr. McDonald was
using the 'CIA-word' and causing great consternation in secret
places, and at Lake Wanaque, N.J., just 50 miles from Manhattan,
a spectacular series of UFO sightings took place.   Then, early
in 1967, McDonald was shown the Robertson Report, an event which
helped launch him on a personal crusade to end UFO secrecy once
and for all.  His campaign picked up great resonance when, in the
summer, 'Ramparts' magazine blew the CIA's cover on dozens of
domestic spying operations.

Then, in the very late summer, in September, came the Snippy
case, the first-ever animal mutilation, which was hugely played
in 'Life Magazine'.  How well I remember this, and how it made me
sick to my stomach.  What could _this_ be about, I thought!  But no
one had any idea.  And today, more than three decades later, do
we know any more about any of this than we did then?  And if not,
why not?

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