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HELICOPTERS, UFOS AND THE PSYCHE
By Dennis Stillings
—e.e. cummings
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document was uncovered at the
National Archives which unquestion-
MAJESTIC -12 ably verifies the existence of an "MJ12"
group in 1954 and definitely links both
the National Security Council and the
By William L. Moore President of the Unites States to it. A
copy of this document, with its
authenticating stamp from the National
The accompanying document is The accompanying document Archives, is also attached for your
part of the research properties of arrived in the mail in a plain brown examination.
William L. Moore. Jaime H. Shandera wrapper at the residence of Jaime These materials are being
and Stanton T. Friedman. Moore (a Shandera in December, 1984. A submitted for your examination and
professional writer) and Friedman (a detailed and exhaustive study of every consideration either as a member of the
well-known nuclear physicist) are aspect of this document has been under news media or as one whose own
recognized and respected UFO way since then. Although we are not in interests and research lie along similar
researchers of long standing with solid a position to endorse its authenticity at lines. Please be advised that no use of
backgrounds for factual reporting. this time, it is our considered opinion, this material may be made without
Both have written and lectured widely based upon research and interviews crediting its source as the Moore-
on the subject. Shandera is a Los conducted thus far, that the document Shandera-Friedman Research Project
Angeles television producer with a and its contents appear to be genuine. into U.S. Government UFO Policy.
background that includes directing a At the very least, it is possible to
variety of news and documentary state with certainty that absolutely Contents Copyright 1987 by WLM, JHS & STF.
shows. nothing has surfaced during the course All rights reserved.
In 1982, after Moore had worked of our research which would seem to
more than a year-and-a-half on his own, suggest otherwise. Indeed, one
the three teamed up on a research COPT OKE OP ONE.
project that would take them further
into the strange world of government
involvement with Unidentified Flying
Objects than anyone in the civilian field
is known to have ever gone before. This
project i n v o l v e d a n o n y m o u s ITl OPKUtlOl KAJS3TIO 12
government agents sharing research
pointers and dialogue alleging that '
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continue to maintain a high-level but
covert interest in this phenomenon at a
time when official position statements
assert that there is no government
interest whatsoever.
Over the past seven years, the
Moore-Shandera-Friedman team,
working closely with a number of other
associates both in the news media and
within the civilian UFO community, has
aggressively pursued contacts, t Thia la docuaent containing
developed sources, and carefully compwtaentalleed infonatioa eaaentlal to the national security
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interviews were conducted and many
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records at the National Archives in lervl. Heproduotlon In any fora or the taking of written or
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MJ 12, Continued ABDUCTIONS, Continued
permits his honesty to undermine his
"scar" thesis when he observes that
"almost anyone can dredge up a
July IV, 195V mysterious scar or a half-recalled
humanoid dream" (p. 133).
Tor Agreed, Hopkins and other
investigators are doing a commendable
job in sympathizing with these people
K TO;: OE-STOL TwiHirrr, and helping them form support groups
SUBJBTCi :tr.C/KJ-12 Special Stadias Project to deal with the trouble most of them
seem to have experienced. But insisting
The President has decided tbat tha W-12 SSP brieflne that their accounts are "objectively
should talc* place dgrtaf. the already sehsdaled Unite House
••rtlng of Jtaly 16, rather than fttiowlnf it as pretrtwialy true" is not only unnecessary but
intended* More precise arranffvnsata vill be explained to ultimately damaging to their recovery
you upon arrlvnl. Please alter year plnns aooordingly.
and to the UFO movement itself.
Sour ooneurrenee In the above ehongo of arrangencnta
is asawaod.
REFERENCES
J. Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story,
New York: William Morrow, 1987.
ROBERT UUTLBR 2. Budd Hopkins, Intruders: The Incredible
Special Aaslstaat Visitations at Copley Woods, New York:
to the President
Random House, 1987.
INTENT
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THE NATICtlAL ARCHIVES j Ualt«4
TH E GOVERNMENT COVERUP
Jorca OF THE UFO EXPERIENCE i
What does the government know
about UFOs and why won't it tell us?
With u foreword by Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Robert Wanderer is a MUFON EXPERIENCES anomaly" Hopkins had ever heard of.
specialist in communications who She was overweight from a
seeks a middle ground between Strieber tells of a "dramatic hormonal imbalance, at seven she
"believers" and "debunkers." personality change" which resulted in began regular menstruation, at ten she
he and his wife going "through personal had grown to her adult height and was
We're at a UFO symposium, and hell because of my demands and being treated for high blood pressure,
we've just heard a panel of four accusatory behavior" (p.31). He at fourteen she was operated on for
"abductees." The man sitting next to describes his sudden adverse reaction gallstones and her gallbladder was
me, a long time UFO investigator, turns to a house they were considering removed — well, the list goes on a great
and observes, "I wish they'd abduct buying some years earlier and cities it as length (p.54-55). No specific single
someone credible for a change!" "frightening" because of his "clear problem here would rule Kathie as "not
Mind you, this man is convinced awareness that this was a paranoid credible," but the sheer volume of
that extra-terrestrial spaceships are fantasy" (p.50). In his hypnosis he psychological and medical ailments
visiting the earth, and that "aliens" on worried about "the possibility that I was leaves one dubious. The "buried
board are "abducting" people. But even unconsciously eager to comply with an trauma" listed by her psychologist
such a "hard-core believer" is becoming outcome I might secretly have longed would strike me as a possible basic
uncomfortable with the continuing for. I might want powerful visitors to experience leading to the creation of an
questionable quality of the "abduction" appear" (p.56). "abduction" story many years later;
evidence. He writes of his "distressed state" however, Hopkins employs a curious
He and the general public will find over the past year in which he circular reasoning that in this case
no solace for their doubts in the year's repeatedly went through the house in would suggest the early trauma was a
two new major studies. Whitley the middle of the night, "opening previous "abduction" as a small child.
S t r i e b e r , " who describes his closets and looking under beds" A deeper question of credibility
"abduction" in Communion, is a writer (p. 101). He says he was "terrified" as a might be raised about Hopkins himself;
who until 1983 penned "imaginative little boy by an appearance of Mr. or, to be more specific, there seems to
thrillers" but has since turned to "more Peanut which "never happened," and be a vast difference between his way of
serious fiction"; one immediately how he "told for years" of being present assessing probabilities and "creating
wonders if his "imaginative" abilities at the University of Texas during reality" and that which strikes me as the
haven't resurfaced. Budd Hopkins, the Charles Whitman's shooting spree more common and rational way. Take,
major researcher in the "abduction" from the tower in 1966, "but I wasn't for example, the story of "Nan" (p.98),
field, worked with Strieber as he there" (p. 121). He describes the described as "Kathie's best friend."
attempted to come to grips with his "terror" of how he woke from sleep one
experience, and also wrote Intruders, night to find "small people" lined up BIZARRE REPORT
on his research into a series of beside his bed, but at great effort he
"abductions" in an Indiana suburb. managed to smile, the small people, Nan went out to her kitchen one
Both Strieber on the very first page "dashed away with a whoosh," and he evening, and during the few seconds
and Hopkins near the end of the book immediately "plunged" back into sleep before the fluorescent light came on she
raise the key question: Are these (p.174). was "terrified" to see a tall figure staring
"abduction" experiences "real," or are "Kathie," the chief protagonist of at her through the window a few feet
they what Hopkins calls "some new and Hopkins' book, "has had a long struggle away. When the light came on she
heretofore unrecognized and nearly w i t h several chronic, possible could no longer "see" the man. And (1) \
universal psychological phenomenon?" psychosomatic illnesses — colitis, their beagle, "which notoriously barked
Both w r i t e r s seem a b s o l u t e l y irregular heartbeat, acute anxiety, at any sound or movement," remained
convinced that their stories are "real," insomnia and so forth." When she was quiet, (2) their backyard was
and the material they present is in group therapy her psychologist completely fenced in with high mesh
designed to support that contention. suspected "some as yet undiscovered broken only by two squeaking gates,
The reader looking for a more credible cause for her problems, such as a and apparently no squeaking was
point of view must ferret out clues here buried trauma, a particular heard, (3) "there was fresh snow on the
and there which lend some support to a unremembered event" (p.20). She had ground, but no sign of either the
"psychological" explanation. suffered "just about every medical intruder or any footprints," and (4) the .
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ABDUCTIONS, Continued THE NIGHT SKY
angle from which she "saw" the figure
would require him to be either eight feet By Walter N. Webb
tall or floating a few feet off the ground. MUFON Astronomy Consultant
Hopkins says "one does not know
what to make of a bizarre report such AUGUST 1987
as this." I would judge it a 99%
probability of a misperception, but Bright Planets (Evening Sky):
Hopkins only reluctantly considers that
even as a possibility, to "suppose" that Jupiter, in Pisces, rises in the east about 10:30 PM daylight time in mid-Augus!
"Nan's eyes could have played tricks on and an hour earlier by month's end. This bright giant of the solar system shines
her, as they say." He adds later (p. 106) at magnitude -2.7. It begins retrograde or westward motion on the 20th.
that "with the staring figure in her Saturn, in Ophiuchus, is in the south at dusk, moves into the SW when twiligr'
backyard, Nan also seems to have her ends, and sets in the WSW about 12:45 AM in midmonth. The second larger.
own personal involvement with the planet resumes direct or eastward motion on the 19th: Its magnitude 15+0.4.
(abduction) phenomenon." What is the
reader to make of an investigator who Bright Planets (Morning Sky):
takes what appears to be Nan's two-
second misperception and turns it into Jupiter is high in the south at dawn.
full-blown proof of her "involvement" Meteor Showers:
with "abductions"? .
One point these books certainly The period from late July to mid-August is the most fruitful time of the year fo"
make clear, if the previous cases meteor-watching. Two meteor showers range across the night sky, the DelU;
haven't convinced you, is that Aquarids and the Perseids. In early August the Perseids are building to a peak
"abduction" people experience their on the morning of the 12th, while the Aquarids appear in decreasing number?
hypnotically-induced stories as "true." until midmonth (their maximum occurred July 29). Ordinarily on the 12th an
They are not suffering a major known observer might see about one Perseid per minute toward dawn. This year,
psychological problem, they are not however, bright moonlight will severely hamper viewing. Most swift meteors
hallucinating, they are not faking it. coming from the north will be Perseids; slower ones from the south are
It boils down to two possibilities: Aquarids.
(1) their stories are "objectively true,"
or (2). there is some factor in their Moon Phases:
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background that causes them to go into
something like an altered state of
First quarter-August 2
Full moon-August 9 O
consciousness under hypnosis in which Last quarter-August 16
they create their "abduction" story and New moon-August 24
sincerely believe it to be true. It seems
to me the evidence points clearly
First quarter-August 31
The Stars:
€
toward the second alternative,
particularly because of the continuing August evenings bring the Summer Triangle high overhead. Not actually e
lack of acceptable independent constellation itself, the triangle instead in composed of the brightest stars o
corroboration of any of these three separate constellations.
"abduction" stories.
Another point that is becoming The most brilliant of the three stars, Vega, lies in the constellation of Lyra the
increasingly clear from these books and Harp, basically a crooked rectangle of lesser stars. This is the magical harr
previous accounts is the poverty of the given to Orpheus by his father Apollo. The instrument's music was said tc
continuing attempt to find some enchant even the beasts of the forest.
physical correlation that would help East of Vega is Deneb, which marks the tail of the flying Swan Cygnus. The
support the "reality" hypothesis. Once "pattern is often nicknamed the Northern Cross, with Deneb at the top of tht
again we hear of lights in the sky and cross. Albireo, the foot of the cross, is a beautiful blue-gold double star in a.
UFOs seen, but nothing that I can find small telescope.
to show that these sightings are more
than coincidental. Hopkins pushes his Below Cygnus we find Altair, the third star in the triangle. It marks the head of
theory that unexplained scars on one's Aquila the Eagle. This is the bird that carried Jupiter's thunderbolts.
body came from previous "abductions" Both the Eagle and the Swan are flying in opposite directions along the Milky
where the "aliens" were taking cell Way. This cross-sectional view of our star city home, a spiral galaxy, splits the
samples or whatever. But Hopkins sky overhead from north to south. Try to escape the streetlights of your city or
(continued on page 15) town and admire the dim and delicate splendor of the Milky Way from a dark
vantage point. j
DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
by
Walt Andrus
The MUFON Eighteenth Annual submit his symposium paper titled "The Mantle, Representative for England.
UFO Symposium, hosted by the Fund Canadian UFO Scene" in adequate Jeffrey R. Neal, Major U.S.A.F.,
for UFO Research and held on June 26, time to be published in the 1987 former State Section Director for Clark
27, and 28 at The American University proceedings, it will be published in a County and Acting State Director for
in Washington, D.C., exceeded all future issue of the MUFON UFO Nevada, is being transferred to
expectations. As the theme implied Journal. Bill Chalker's paper was Germany in August. John Lear, an
"International Symposium on mailed in two segments (Australia). The airline captain living in Las Vegas,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: 1947 first part was published in the became the new State Section Director
— 1987," or subtitled "Forty Years is proceedings, whereas the second part for Clark County on May 26th. As a
Long Enough," speakers from every titled, "History of UFO Involvement of note of his accomplishments as a flyer,
continent of the World appeared. Official Government Organizations" is Mr. Lear is the only pilot to hold every
World press was thoroughly exposed being considered for the Journal, also. pilot certificate issued by the Federal
to the symposium due to its location Mr. Chalker presented the government Aviation Administration (FAA).
and the agenda of international involvement in this speech in Larry G. Lemke, an aerospace
speakers. Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Washington, D.C. engineer in Sunnyvale, Calif, has
Chairman, and his symposium volunteered to serve as a Research
Committee must be commended for * ** Specialist. He has a Masters Degree in
conducting the finest and most Aeronautics and Astronautics (1978)
impressive UFO symposium in the On June 20, 1987 at 12:30 pm and a B.S. in Physics (1976). Paul C.
forty year history of the phenomenon. CDST, Paul Harvey, noted radio and Cerny, Western Regional Director has
An additional feature of this year's TV commentator, devoted his entire appointed Franklin A. Youri to the
symposium included short papers program to the status of current position of State Section Director for
contributed by participating attendees UFOlogy and announced the dates and Merced and Stanislaus Counties in
as well as the regular workshops and place for the MUFON 1987 California.
panel discussions. International UFO Symposium in * **
The MUFON 1987 International Washington, D.C. Marking the 40th
UFO Symposium Proceedings are anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's UFO In order to better serve the
available from MUFON for $15 plus sighting in Washington State, Ted membership of MUFON and to
$1.50 for postage and handling. It Koppel, host for ABC-TV's "Night modernize the headquarters office, a
contains all of the papers delivered by Line," planned his entire program on computer, display monitor, printer,
the featured speakers that were June 24th on UFOs and provided modem, associated equipment and
received for publication by June 1,1987 additional publicity for the symposium. software has been purchased. Some of
when the proceedings went to press Even though the 1987 symposium the first applications will be adhesive
(222 pages). The 1987 Proceedings are has just concluded, we are soliciting address labels on the cover of the
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OUTSTANDING WORK IN THE Leone, State Section Director. superior to xerox copies. The increase
UFO FIELD FOR 1986 - 1987 plaque Chicago would be an ideal central in the membership dues structure in
was awarded to Raymond E. Fowler location for such an event. February 1986 has enabled MUFON to
in absentia, by his colleagues in Mr. Ulf Ekstedt of UFO-Sweden make this purchase.
UFOlogy. The Fund for UFO Research in Eskilstuna has accepted the position
presented a cash award in the name of of MUFON's Representative for
Isabel Davis (a co-founder of the Fund) Sweden. He is the cashier and chief
to Mr. Fowler in recognition of his investigator for UFO-Sweden, member
accomplishments. of the board of Project URD, and
member of the Project Coordinating
* ** Committee for Project Hessdalen. In
addition to these credentials, he comes
Since Stanton Friedman did not highly recommended by Philip