REPORT OF U.F.O. CRASH IN 47 CALLED FALSE BY SCIENCE PANEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040025-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 26, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2d, 1987
Report of U.F.O. Crash in '47
Called False by Science Panel
Documents purported to be from the
. Truman White House that say the Pen-
: tagon recovered a crashed flying sau-
cer and the bodies of four alien crea-
.tures in 1947 are "clumsy counter-
feits," according to a report by a group
of scientists.
The report was released Monday by
the group, the Committee for the Scien
tific Investigation of Claims of the.
ParanormaL The report was prepared
by Phillip J :,Klass, the Washington edi-
tor of Aviation Week & Space Tech-
nology magazine and a leading de-
bunker of reports on unidentified flying',
objects.
The chairman of the committee,
Paul Kurtz, a University of Bulialo phi-
losophy professor, said the documents
represented "one of t,)ie most deliber-
ate acts of deception ever perpetrated
against the news media and the pub-
lic."
The documents, which said Presi-
dent Truman created a secret unit
memo released by Mr. Klass, the Ar-
chives is also suspicious because Mr.
Moore's does not bear the required top
secret registration number and is
marked "Top Secret Restricted Infor-
mation" - a designation that was not
used until the Nixon Administration. .
Another document in which Truman
supposedly ordered Defense Secretary
James Forrestal to create MJ-12, is
Aso a forgery, Mr. Klass said.
The document did not follow the for-
mat Truman used in writing letters to
his Cabinet secretaries and was
created by superimposing a spurious
message or, a photograph of an authen-
tic Truman letter, the editor ccncluded.
public in May by William L Moore, a
researcher on U.F.O.'s.
, White }louse Report
Mr. Moore told reporters then that
his research team had found a key
White House report in the National Ar-
J to have ' been prepared for the Air
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earlier.
According to a National Archives
that Mr. Cutler was not in Washington
when the report was supposedly writ-