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

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NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040025-7
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November 4, 2016
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April 1, 2008
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25
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August 26, 1987
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01: NSA-RDP96XO079OR000100040025-7 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 Approved For Release 2008/04/01: NSA-RDP96XO079OR000100040025-7 earlier. According to a National Archives that Mr. Cutler was not in Washington when the report was supposedly writ-