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

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According to a report released by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, documents claiming that the Pentagon recovered a crashed flying saucer and alien bodies in 1947 are deemed to be "clumsy counterfeits." The report, prepared by Phillip J. Klass, an editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, and a leading debunker of UFO reports, states that the documents are one of the most deliberate acts of deception ever perpetrated. The chairman of the committee, Paul Kurtz, called it a deliberate act of deception against the media and the public. The documents, released by a researcher on UFOs, William L. Moore, were said to have been found in the National Archives. However, the report states that the documents are suspicious and does not bear the required top-secret registration number. The report also concludes that another document ordering the creation of a secret unit is a forgery, as it does not follow the format Truman used in writing letters. The report discredits the claim of a UFO crash in 1947.

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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-