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From: RHJr1983 <RHJr1983@aol.com> [Ralph Howard]
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:53:00 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:10:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Spaulding & Heflin Pictures


>  Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 23:50:56 -0500
>  From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
>  Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: Brasilia's Letter [Hopkins' POV]
>  To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

>  Now we are 20 years after the Spaulding analysis.   Spaulding
>  himself dropped out of sight years ago.   But, what to our
>  wondering eyes should appear. but  (no, not 8 tiny reindeer) the
>  ORIGINAL HEFLIN PHOTOS which were "borrowed" by the Air Force
>  (according to Heflin) way back in 1965 and have been missing for
>  32 years (about).  Yes, folks, the original photos returned about
>  a year ago.....

>  So now SOMEONE can, presumably find out who is the hoaxer....
>  Spaulding or Heflin (or both????)

I recently saw, and will pass on, that, according to a newspaper
story carried in Lucius Farish's "UFO Newsclipping Service, "
researcher Ann Druffel IS in fact having the Heflin photos
analyzed.

Here is an excerpt from a newspaper story dated July 6, 1997 in
the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, by Clay Miller; the paper's story was
thorough and well done, and included Heflin's original 9/18/65
statement (the event was 9/3/65):

<start newspaper story quote>

"The Air Force gave the pictures back. NORAD folks came. [...]
Trouble is, says former NICAP member Ann Druffel, they probably
weren't really NORAD. They took the pictures and nobody saw them
again until 1993, when Heflin got a call from someone who told
him to look in his mailbox. There were the faded polaroids he
hadn't seen for 25 years. [.......] "

Druffel, now a Pasadena researcher of the UFO phenomenon, has the
photos. Robert Wood, a former aerospace engineer who met Heflin
in 1968 when the Condon Committee was interviewing him, says
Druffel is having the photos analyzed with new two-dimensional,
digitally enhancing equipment at California State University,
Northridge. (We had some difficulty finding anybody at CSUN who
knew what all this was about.) Wood says the photo scan will pick
up traces of the smoke trail that Heflin mentioned in 1965 and
any air disturbance in the craft's wake.

Druffel is tight-lipped; she wants to publish the work in a
scholarly journal first.

There are no strings on the photographed craft, she emphatically states. None.
Zip. Nada. The photos, she adds, will be available to the public sometime.
Heflin wants that."

<end newspaper story quote>