Congressional, White House, UFO-related Constituent Correspondence, 1998

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On a recent "UFO rncorcli:ig''
rrll-asrd by Columbia, calt.:d "UFOs:
The Credibility
Factor",
:VlcDi\·itt
clrarly shows how his mcmorirs have
ch:u1ged or bc,m cl1a11g(•d to enhance
the mystery ot' hi3 C'Xpcricnce: "They
(NAS.-\) chcck,'d :'iOR..\D...to sec
what they had up on radar ancf there
w:isn't anything within very close
range of us." Readers can measure the
credibility of this statcm~nt against .
the facts.
If McOivitt was fooled by his own
booster ten years ago, is it too much
to expect him to admit it now? What
would that do to all of his public
assertions of mystery? There is an
easier way out, and i'vlcOivitt took it
when I sent him an advance copy of
my manuscript. After keeping it two
months, he wrote back, "[ was not
able to read it very thoroughly and I
cannot offer any ext~nsive comments.
I do not foresee the opportunity for
me to provide any further re~w."
There
weren't any errors in my
analysis, he implied, but it woulc! be
better kept quiet.
NASA never had any real doubts.
"We believe it to be a rocket tank or
spent second stage of a rocket," wrote
a high space official on July 1, 1965.
NORAD officials, confronted with my
scenario,
endorsed
it:
"Your
comments on the NORAD role related
to the case appear to pe logical,"
wrote NORAD Public Information
Officer D.W. Kindschi on Feo. 23,
1976.
So the "~lcDivitt case" is closed.
The best space UFO case has now been
identified. Do not expect to see any
change in the UFO press, however.
Such
results are simply
ignored.
Photographs made in space show
negative effects, such as the "McDivitt
UFO" aura, often. Spacecraft ·and
astronauts may be engulfed in a
strange aura caused by overexposure
to sunlight brighter than ever seen on
Earth. Blowups of photographs of
known space objects show them
appearing as "blobs" due to the
enlargement
process
and
to
the·
courseness of the grain. Ordinary space
pictures are full of clouds of debris,
constellations of man-made starlike
points fluttering through space.
The Condon report was fascinated
with the ~lcOi\·itt cas<', and fe\\· UFO
enthusiasts have not heard of it. But
n,:itlwr the Condon r£>st)archers nor the
average reader had ever had all the
facts. Now people can m:ike up their
own minds. I havl' ''" d,iub~ th;,t
~lcl)i\"itl w:i~ ~<!l'i:1g his ow11 Til.::n
tJCJostrr stage.
Or. Roach wa~ also fasd n:•l•~cl wi t!t
another :,.1coi,itt si~foiti'.11}, that uf a
point of light ::rc:,i:::·::; the ; k·: . The
object
soundr.,j
j•.1.,l
Iii-:<>
th•!
appearance of an
artifici.!l
earth
satellite, and that is e~:actly wh:it
\kDivitt thought it \•:.:s. There is no
information to suggest it w.:_s anything
else.
Another Condon
favorite
is
a
Gemini-7 case. The report of sightings
of a cloud of debris right at the
moment of boostt•r separation (these
particles included frozen fuel droplets,
the booster itself. assorted insulation
and structural fragments from where
the explosive bolts were fired, and
other smaller objects never identified
and never cared about) is not very
impressive. The crew, on their first
space mission, saw a few pieces they
had nol expected (the pilot guessed­
wrongly-that they "were in polar
orbit"). Only a partisan digging for
evidence, and desperate to find such
evidence, would make much of this
common event.
But a sign of desperation is indeed
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0f gtn·criun•_•nl oflici, I:; t~yi11!{ to c:ur••r
up t.he truth ahoul GfU:;. R;,hrr, it :s
thr dl'spernlion of some outsider
tryi:1~
t rJ
m:t~:;f:-,.-:-tu:c1
couni .~rf,.i,
"astrnnaut L:FO" <?videnc~. Jn acli·. ;r.\·
which should not be nc>ce:s;a,y if th~
" rt'al"
L: FO
evidence
w~rC'
as
persuasive as many thint.
It involves :i photograph showing
two very strange glowing ocjects. Each
is he:,agonal in shape, ~·:ew!c'd at an
angle, ~nd supported by ;;. dazzling
"force field" below it. A cloud­
covered
earth
is
se.?n
in
the
background. s~~ p\cd~ ~1 ~ :l.8
This photograph has appeared in
books, magazines, newspapers, and
pamphlets. It is part of the travellina
slide show of UFO lectur~rs from th;
Mutual UFO Network (i\!VFON) and
elsewhere. I have heard it described
as •\showing a typical UFO force field
propulsion system", and "similar to
other UFO photograph taken on
Earth the same year".
The photograph is a forgery. It is a
hoax. What the anonymous counter­
feiter did (I have reason to suspect a
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