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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1987
Report of U.F.O. Crash in '47
Called False by Science Panel
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (Reuters) - memo released by Mr. Klass, the Ar-
Documents purported to be from the
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.
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.
Another document in which Truman
supposedly ordered Defense Secretary
James Forrestal to create MJ-12, is
tific Investigation of Claims of the falso a forgery, Mr. Klass said.
The report was released Monday by
the group, the Committee for the Scien-
· 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 fiying
objects.
The chairman of the committee,
Paul Kurtz, a University of Buffalo phi-
losophy professor, said the documents
represented "one of the 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
called Majestic 12, or MJ-12, to study
the saucer and its contents, were made
public in May by William L. Moore, a
researcher on U.F.O.'s. .
White House Report
.
Mr. Moore told reporters then that
his research team had found a key
White House report in the National Ar-
chives dated July 14, 1954. It appeared
to have been prepared for the Air
Force by Robert Culter, a White House
aide, and mentioned a change in plans
for an MJ-12 briefing for President
Eisenhower. .
Mr. Klass said his research showed
that the document was false. He said
that Mr. Cutler was not in Washington
when the report was supposedly writ-
ten, having left for Europe 11 days
earlier.
. According to a National Archives
The document did not follow the for-
mat Truman used in writing letters to
his Cabinet secretaries and was
created by superimposing a spuricus
message or a photograph of an authen-
tic Truman letter, the editor concluded.
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