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Stanton Friedman Slams Author of
Roswell Initiative
Kent Jeffrey, using perfect timing just before the Roswell 50th
anniversary celebration, dropped a bomb on the very people who trusted
and supported him, and his intentions with the Roswell Initiative, which
he authored. Incredibly, he wrote a long dissertation on how he now
believes the government's lame versions of what took place in Roswell.
It was a shock to the UFO community to say the least. (The Roswell
Initiative is contained at the end of this general segment.)
The ridiculous leaps to conclusions and false assumptions are as
obviously fatally flawed as what he did on the autopsy film, which is
also contained elsewhere on this site.
In the following article Stan Friedman exposes Jeffrey's paper for what
it is... WORTHLESS!
Dave
Kent Jeffrey and Roswell
July 21, 1997
Stanton T.
Friedman
Kent Jeffrey's anti-Roswell conclusions (MUFON Journal, June 1997) are
based on the same kind of false reasoning that led to his pro-Roswell
views: don't bother me with the facts, my mind's made up; be
enthusiastic and ready to put ones money where ones mouth is, but don't
have the facts in hand first; don't bother finding out how security
works; believe what one wants to believe; do one's research by
proclamation rather than investigation. Select from the data available
to back up your conclusions and ignore the facts that don't.
Kent stated on a recent radio show with me that he has never had a
security clearance and his article certainly shows over and over again
that he doesn't understand that higher classification info cannot be
presented in lower classification documents, that having a particular
level clearance is not enough to gain access to classified information,
that one must have a need-to-know for that information, that people with
high-level security clearances do not pass classified information on to
people not having a clearance and need-to-know for the
information.
Kent decided the Santilli footage was fraudulent because of the curled
phone cord. I asked if he had checked with the phone company. He said he
didn't need to. He knew there were no curled cords in 1947. He was
wrong. The patent was granted in 1937 and production began in 1938. I
tried to keep him from wasting his money on attorneys because no
evidence had been presented that Frank Kaufman had played any role in
intelligence in 1947 (he was a civilian clerk on the base) or needed
legal counsel. Kent didn't need any evidence because he and his father
had a good visit with Frank. So he wasted thousands of dollars.
I tried to get him to understand that it was ridiculous to jump from
talking about events in New Mexico in July 1947, to demanding the
President declassify everything learned about ETs since 1947 which
might, of course, include technology of great importance from a military
standpoint. I didn't sign the Roswell Initiative because I do not
believe technical data (defensive or offensive) should be put on the
table for the Saddam Husseins of the world. Remember that one can't tell
one's friends without telling one's enemies.
Kent can't seem to understand the utter foolishness of his comment that
information about ETs is "knowledge of profound importance to which we
are all entitled." Important? Certainly. But why does he think we are
all entitled? There is an annual black budget of $30 billion. Our
elected representatives obviously believe there is a great deal of
information to which we are not entitled. Other foolish nonsense
includes "The existence of a crashed alien spacecraft would have been
much more of a social and scientific issue than a national security
issue." Is there no understanding that the government was confronted
with a vehicle having exotic flight capability (clearly potentially
useful for weapons delivery, for defense, for reconnaissance) whose
origin wasn't known, whose purpose wasn't known, and whose technology
would be useful, not only to the US, but to our enemies? What weapons
did the aliens have? Would aliens work with our enemies? Would they be
attacking Earth? These are major security issues.
Kent hardly mentions the security level of the many documents to which
he refers and which he proclaims would have certainly told about a
crashed saucer. He acts as if he has seen all the relevant documents and
as though all members of the advisory board would have had a
need-to-know for compartmentalized information. Only one document, as it
happens, was TOP SECRET and it dealt with "Analysis of Incidents", not
analysis of wreckage; two very different areas of technological
investigation. I have been to seventeen Archives now. At none of them
did I have access to Special Compartmented Information rated, for
example, TOP SECRET/UMBRA or ULTRA, or MAJIC. W.B. Smith, in a 1950 TOP
SECRET memo, said the matter of flying saucers was the most classified
subject in the USA, even more than the H-bomb. Arid Kent thinks we are
all entitled to know all about them!!!
Kent talked to three former officers of the FTD -- none of whom were at
Wright in 1947. He insults them by saying that if they had known
anything highly classified about crashed saucers, they would have told
him (no clearance and no need-to-know) what they knew. The very reason
they might have been so kind to him is that they wanted to be sure to
dissuade someone so naïve that there WAS anything. Furthermore, I
have several times been inside a vault at FTD when I was a project
engineer on a contract with them for Aerojet General Nucleonics. It was
a very compartmentalized place. The primary focus at FTD was paper work
from foreign scientists, from spies, from intelligence analysts. I have
trouble believing it was ever FTD's job to go from analyzing wreckage to
developing new technology. U-2, Stealth, the SR-71, and a myriad of
other technologies were devised by industry under contract to major CIA
or USAF or NAVY or Army groups; NOT at FTD.
General Arthur Exon told me in person that even HE did not have a
need-to-know for all the activities at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
even when he was base commander in the mid 60s. We cannot even be
certain that the three officers would have been told about events and
wreckage brought there more than a decade earlier. Their concern was the
here-and-the-now and the near future and enemy (not alien) technology.
It would have been much more likely to ship wreckage to a highly
classified facility such as Area 51 (supposedly established in the late
1940s) or a part of Los Alamos or Sandia. With the very successful
Manhattan Project as a shining example, it seems most likely that a
Special Project would have been established outside the US Air Force,
Navy or Army; let's call it Operation Majestic 12.
Kent talks about conversations with B-29 pilots. Why would they have had
a need-to-know for info re crashed saucers? That wouldn't help them be
better bomber pilots. Again he insults them by saying that if they knew
or had known anything beyond that which was in the papers, they would
have told him. I should mention I attended the 50th anniversary reunion
of the 509th in Wendover, Utah, and another reunion in Roswell and
talked with loads of people from the 509th. I was also very impressed
with the men of the 509th. Kent proclaims "The most significant and
dramatic event in recorded history would surely have been discussed by
these men." Security doesn't work this way. In the first place: no
need-to-know. In the second place: if they did know, they would have
known better than to talk to anybody. Remember that Jesse Marcel was in
Intelligence; Cavitt and Rickett were in the Counterintelligence Corps.
None were pilots.
Kent denigrates Pappy Henderson. I spoke with his wife, with his
daughter, with his son, with his WW II Bombardier. He told none of these
people before seeing a newspaper article about the crash, after 1980. He
did tell his good friend, Dentist John Kromschroeder, before the article
appeared; but with his promise on his honor as a former naval officer
not to talk about it. John didn't -- until after the Unsolved mysteries
program broadcast including Sappho Henderson. Pappy, after all, was
entrusted with flying VIPs over the harbor in the Pacific after nuclear
weapons were detonated there during operation Crossroads in
1946.
Kent rattles on about the high reliability of today's aircraft engines
implying that alien spacecraft would be much more reliable. One would
think that the only reason an airplane could crash was engine failure.
Yet Kent himself tells of an MD-88 that crashed because the flaps
weren't set properly. The Valujet and TWA 800 crashes didn't occur
because there was engine failure, but apparently because of unexpected
events having nothing to do with engine reliability. Landing gear have
collapsed on airplanes. I hate to remind Kent, a professional pilot,
that occasionally pilots make errors, too. Sometimes birds are ingested
into engines, no fault of the engine. Kent states the craft must be
capable of interstellar flight. Why? There are many reports of huge
mother ships carrying smaller saucers. Fighters attacking North Vietnam
didn't fly there directly from the USA on each mission. Many flew from
aircraft carriers located near the front.
Kent acts as though the debris found by Mac Brazel must have been all
there was. There have been aircraft accidents where an engine was found
many miles from the fuselage. I am convinced, partly from the Eisenhower
briefing, as delineated in TOP SECRET/MAJIC, that alien bodies (NOT
time-shifted crash test dummies) and other wreckage from inside the
craft, were found just a few miles from the debris field. Kent complains
about nothing exotic being found because he apparently thinks he knows
all about alien spacecraft construction. One of the things that Jesse
Marcel Sr. impressed upon me in 1978 was the lack of anything
conventional.
Kent doesn't know, for example, what the outer hull (skin?) of an alien
vehicle would look like. How could indestructible material be spread
out? By an incredible explosion induced by a lightning bolt dumping a
huge amount of energy into a magnetoaerodynamic propulsion system. The
steel left after the Oklahoma City bombing was still very strong even
though broken. A radar beam, known to have been on, could have disrupted
a propulsion or guidance system causing a collision. After all, 40% of
the UFO sightings in the summer of 1947 according to Bloecher involved
more than one vehicle. There is ample evidence, ignored totally by Kent
and others who, for whatever reason, do not want it to be true, that
another vehicle went down in the Plains of San Augustin as described in
Crash at Corona, and having a gash in the outer hull like two
parentheses face to face.
Jesse Marcel spoke to Walter Haut of a piece of the very strong
lightweight metal being rested on a rock with the other end on the
ground when the sledgehammer was applied with no dent; hardly paper
backed foil radar reflector easily torn by a four-year-old but pounded
while flat on the ground.
One of the worst things about Kent's article is that it employs tunnel
vision. What about the testimony of Bill Brazel, who found strange
wreckage himself? Of Judd Roberts the radio station man? Of Elizabeth
Tulk and Phyllis McGuire, the sheriff's daughters? Of Loretta Procter,
of other ranchers? I spoke with all of these in April. What about all
the testimony relating to the Plains of San Augustine crash and the easy
proof that the NSA and CIA are withholding UFO-related information. Why
does Kent act as though as though flying disc and UFO mean the same
thing? My lecture is Flying Saucers are Real, NOT UFOs are real because
only some UFOs are flying saucers, though all flying saucers are
UFOs.
He acts as though the US government would never lie. When the Trinity
Site nuclear explosion occurred in July 1945, a cover story was issued
saying an ammunition dump had blown up -- but, fortunately, no one was
injured. During WW II elaborate disinformation schemes were used to
misdirect enemy activity. Yes, Virginia, governments do lie, and yes,
the US government did recover two crashed alien saucers in New Mexico in
July 1947 complete with bodies as described in Crash at Corona. Despite
the attacks of noisy negativists.
Kent blindly accepts the current stories from Cavitt and Newton although
they completely contradict earlier stories told by them long before
Roswell became a big deal. The stories even contradict each other as
well as the testimony of Jesse Marcel and Lou Rickett as told to me
first hand long ago. The only basis for even considering a Mogul balloon
explanation is the disinformation newly told by Mac Brazel after being
reprogrammed (according to Judd Roberts, Bill Brazel, Loretta Proctor,
the Stricklands, Frank Joyce) and reported in the Daily Record on July
9, 1947 with the supposed June 14 recovery date and the sticks-and-foil
nonsense. July 8 articles say the stuff was recovered "last week." Even
the RDR says the stuff covered an area 200 yards in diameter -- neat
trick for a few sticks and foil from a radar reflector. Brazel would
never have made the difficult trip to Roswell for a tiny radar
reflector. If Cavitt was being truthful, Brazel would have tossed the
wreckage (Cavitt said it would fit in one vehicle) into the back of his
pickup and there would have been nothing to take Marcel back to
see.
But wait: Cavitt now says he immediately recognized it as a balloon...
covering an area 20 feet square. Captain McAndrew says it was a huge
Mogul train of balloons over 500 feet long with 23 balloons and
sonobuoys and radar reflectors. How could that come down in an area 20
feet on a side? Why didn't Cavitt describe any foil and sticks? Could he
have thought that he was supposed to say a balloon -- rather than a
Mogul Balloon? Why had Cavitt tried to convince Don Schmitt and Kevin
Randle he wasn't even based in Roswell in early July 1947, when he now,
many years later, has clear recall of a simple balloon? Why did Cavitt
lie when he said he went out with Jesse and Rickett and saw nobody else.
There was no way he could ever have gone to the debris field without
following Brazel.
Marcel and Rickett each said they had gone out separately with Cavitt.
Why doesn't Kent tell us the last line of the July 9 article: "I am sure
what I found was not any weather observation balloon." Remember that
Brazel had previously recovered balloons. Why doesn't Kent mention that
Colonel Richard Weaver, in his huge Air Force report, intentionally
eliminated a most important phrase from a July 8, 1947, FBI memo about
the supposed balloon: "The object found resembles a high altitude
weather balloon with a radar reflector [but that telephonic conversation
between their office and Wright Field had not borne out this belief] ...
disc and balloon being transported." The intent is clearly to
deceive.
Newton's testimony is very different now from what it was in 1979 to
Bill Moore after I had located him. Could it possibly be relevant that
both are loyal career officers on nice pensions who need no hassles in
retirement? Remember that almost 20 years ago Jesse told me that the
wreckage covered a huge area hundreds of yards long and that he and
Cavitt each took away only a small portion of it. Remember, too, that
Mrs. Cavitt told Bill Moore, "He's not going to tell you anything. They
told him not to." Bill had unfortunately mentioned at the Toronto MUFON
conference that we had located Cavitt -- before he had been
visited.
Kent says the symbols drawn based upon Jesse Jr.'s testimony are the
same as those recalled by Newton. They look about as much alike to me as
Greek and Russian letters. Did it not occur to Kent that Newton might
have seen Jesse's symbols at the Roswell museum or on an extruded
replica? Funny, he hadn't mentioned the symbols years ago. Funny that
the CIA's most sophisticated photo analysis couldn't find any of that
wonderful toy factory tape in the photos.
In short, Kent Jeffrey's enthusiastic "definitive" article is a splendid
example of propaganda -- NOT of investigation.
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