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Clipped from the Denver Post, 1 July 1993:

PRESIDENT URGED TO FESS UP ABOUT UFOS

by Anne Groer, Orlando Sentinel

Washington. Just in case Bill Clinton doesn't have enough worries-
-what with Iraq, the tax bill and the discovery of a new half-
brother--he is now being accused of lying about space aliens and
unidentified flying objects.

Operation Right to Know plans to picket the White House on Monday to urge Clinton to declassify all government documents about aliens and their craft, including reports on the 1947 crash of a UFO in the New Mexico desert and 1987 sightings in the Florida Panhandle.

"UFOs are real," said Komarek, whose gorup claims 160 U.S. members and a chapter in Argentina. "they are extraterrestrial. And the
president, the military and the intelligence agencies are fully aware of it, and we want the president to tell the American people the
truth."

Roy Neel, White House deputy chief of staff, wasn't too concerned at the prospect of another protest.

"I have seen Elvis in the sky over my house, so I do believe that he is probably up there lying around in a spacehsip," Neel said.

Warming up for their White House protest, about 16 Right to Know
members yesterday picketed the Washington Post, claiming the newspaper was part of a conspiracy of silence to keep the truth about flying
saucers and aliens from the American public.

"We are looking into it," said managing editor Bob Kaiser, who seemed baffled by the marchers he encountered as he left the building for
lunch."

"You have to be brain dead if you don't have the faintest inkling that there are aliens operating on this planet," said group spokeswoman
Elaine Douglass.

Douglass said she contacted Post editors and writers this month asking them to read a book about the crash and consider investigating the
incident. They chose the Post for its history of investigative
journalism.

But Douglass said the Post refused to even review any material on the incident. She quoted reporter George Lardner, who writes about
intelligence matters, as saying, "I don't want to talk about UFOs, and I won't read the book."

"The Washington Post has fallen for the government's lies about UFOs,"
Douglass said, "and the Post is missing the biggest news story in
history."

During the afternoon demonstration, protesters carried signs saying,
"The Post is UFObic" and "Stop supporting the cosmic Watergate."

Kaiser, of the Post, said he has received information from th
organization and would "certainly consider it." But he said he thinks the group is disappointed because the paper refuses to endorse the
existence of UFOs.

"My sense is they want us to adopt their views on a series of matters, which is something we wouldn't do any more than we would adopt your views on a series of matters," Kaiser said.

Kaiser added that Post reporters have investigated several UFO reports but he was unsure whether the Roswell case was among them.

A book published in 1991 called "UFO Crash at Roswell" details the
incident, in which a rancher said he discovered the wreckage of a
spacecraft and the remains of alien bodies.

The Roswell Army Air Field investigated the site and declared it was a UFO, according to a story in the Roswell Daily Record published at that time. The next day, the Army retracted the statement and
identified the object as a weather balloon.

The only protester who said he actually saw a UFO was accountant
Stanley Tralins, 66, of Layhill, MD, who described seeing "an alien object that was disc-shaped with the lights flashing for perhaps 30 to 60 seconds" shortly before midnight about five years ago.

Douglass said the group asked Clinton for a meeting in June, and "we got back a form letter saying thank you very much, we will keep your point of view in mind."

Stan Hendler, 53, a laywer from Maryland, said he thinks the
government covered up the Roswell incident because officials were
concerned about national security following World War II. But Hendler said he thinks the American public can handle the truth now.

"They were sincerely afraid of the public panic," Hendler said, "but that screcy has far outlived its usefulness."

Reference: umad-mysteries.blogspot.com