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From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:17:39 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Fwd Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:11:19 -0400
Subject: More On Ramey Photo & Note
Hi Errol,
Since your address is not included in Derrel's e-mail list and I
am sure I can share the e-mail message below with you and
others, here it is. Has anyone else tried to read the contents
of the "Ramey Note" in the past with any success as Ronald
Regehr and other team members claim to have had?
Nick
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:10:03 -0500
From: Derrel Sims <derrel@holman.net>
To: "'Regehr, Ronald'" <RONALD.REGEHR@Aerojet.com>
Subject: RE: Ramey Note
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU MY FRIEND...SO PROUD....KEEP ME POSTED..I
WILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT I UNCOVER IN THE OTHERE AREAS WE
DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY....IT SHOULD BE A GREAT YEAR FOR
ROSWELL...DERREL SIMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Regehr, Ronald [SMTP:RONALD.REGEHR@Aerojet.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 1998 3:29 PM
To: fsphys@brunnet.net; decker@ufomag.com; Art
Cc: Bond; Chris O'Brien; derrel; Dr. Bob; Karle; Marilyn Ruben; Neil Morris; Debbie; Ryan Wood; Roger; Gill, Steve; Bel
Subject: Ramey Note
Hello my friends,
Things move too swiftly sometimes for me to keep up. As you
might be aware, several of us have deciphered much of the note
Gen. Ramey is holding in his hand in the infamous "Ramey/DuBose"
photo taken by James Bond Johnson over 51 years ago. The
"translation" was performed indendently at at least two
locations and achieved an outstanding degree of correlation.
Each team member worked from a 16 x 20 print made from the
original negatives available from the UTA archives. The file
from which I worked is a scanned image of solely the message and
is 821 megabytes (this from an approximate 1" x 3/8" image
size!). Because of the differing image intensities we were
required to vary the brightness and contrast of different areas
of the image in order to best resolve the individual characters.
Translation took 3 to 4 hours. Several factors assisted us.
* First, it was a non-proportional type, meaning each
character and space occupied the same amount of space (unlike
today's ever-popular proportional type);
* Second, all the letters are upper-case; third we had
large-format images.
* Third, today's equipment is sufficiently capable to
enable us to perform this task
Yesterday evening Bond and I presented the preliminary results
to an excited audience at MUFON Orange County's monthly meeting.
The highlight of the presentation was enabling the audience to
actually READ some elements of this hithertofore "hidden"
message. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that had Gen. Ramey
read this note BEFORE Johnson took his photos they would never
have seen the light of day and we would not have this vital clue
to enable us to solve one more element in the "Mystery of the
Century".
The message, as best we can determine to date, is:
Cradle Telephone
or
Liberty Bell Symbol
[ Large Underlined Header ]
[ Top Left ]
[ Official Crest ] [ handwritten
numerals ]
15 33
? time of
receipt ?
1) ....................................................... AS THE
?? PLA KIF
(could this be PLANE WRECK?)
2) ........ 4 hRS THE VICTIMS OF.THE.DOA.REYK....FORWARDED TO YOU
3) ......... AT FORT WORTH, TEX.
4) .............. THE "DISK"
..............................L.......AT 0984 ACKNOWLEDGES
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