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Klass challenges CIA report
From: BaDge <baj7d@avery.med.virginia.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 22:48:51 -0800
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Hi,
Boy, the list has been slow, lately!
Did everyone see the letter to the editors that Phil Klass sent to the
Washington Post?
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Wednesday, August 27, 1997; Page A18
The Washington Post
The Post's Aug. 8 editorial "The Summer of UFOs" falsely implies that I
fully endorse a recent CIA historian's report that prompted The Post's
Aug. 5 news story "Cold War UFO Coverup Shielded Spy Planes."
In fact, in the letter to the editor I submitted on Aug. 6 (which was not
published), I sharply challenged the claim made in the article that "the
Air Force and CIA willfully misled the public by claiming that thousands
[my emphasis] of [UFO] sightings were caused by ice crystals, temperature
inversions and other tricks of nature, when in fact they were produced by
flights of high-flying super-secret [U-2, SR-71] spy planes."
My letter, based on data available for more than 30 years, revealed that
during the mid to late 1950s, when the U-2's existence and covert mission
were under wraps, and during the early 1960s, when the SR-71 was under
wraps, the Air Force explained only 59 UFO reports as "mirages and
inversions" or "clouds and contrails" -- not "thousands." If the Air Force
knew that a UFO report had been generated by a covert U-2 or SR-71 flight,
it could simply list it as "unidentified" -- i.e., unexplained. During
this same nine-year period, the Air Force characterized 136 UFO reports as
"unidentified."
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I have to agree with him, why would the AF do other than just say
'unident'?
Seems to me the historian has some bats in his belfry to have submitted
the Aug 5th story anyway, since it can't possibly be accurate.
regards,
_____
BaDge
<baj7d@virginia.edu>
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