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Letter: Missing messages

Published 2 September 1995

From Helmut Lammer

Vincent Kiernan writes that UFO buffs are likely to be heartened by the General Accounting Office’s discovery that some government reports relating to claims that an alien spacecraft crashed in New Mexico in 1947 have been destroyed (This Week, 5 August).

I have the complete text of the GAO report, including congressman Steven Schiff’s press release. Schiff said in the press release that important documents, which may have shed more light on what happened at Roswell, are missing. The GAO report states that all outgoing messages from Roswell Army Air Field from this period were destroyed without proper authority.

Schiff pointed out that these messages would have shown how military officials in Roswell explained to their superiors exactly what had happened. In Schiff’s own words in the GAO report: “It is my understanding that these outgoing messages were permanent records, which should never have been destroyed. The GAO could not identify who destroyed the messages, or why.”

Why should someone destroy all documents describing the crash of a Mogul balloon? I think something strange happened in Roswell in July 1947.

Issue no. 1993 published 2 September 1995

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