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Newspaper report on UFOs
Daily News, Ft. Walton Beach, Fl-July 8, 1990 Cr: R. Reid
MYSTERY OF ROSWELL HOT TOPIC AT UFO GATHERING
By Kris Wheeler
Daily News Staff Writer
PENSACOLA-Unraveling the mysteries of unidentified flying objects drew more than 1,000 UFO enthsts to the Pensacola Civic Center on Saturday for day two of the Mutual UFO Network's 21st annualItrational Symposium.
Among other topics Saturday, they heard about one of the long-debated UFO mysteries, a supposedsh landing of an alien craft in Roswell,N.M., in July 1947.
Donald R. Schmitt, MUFON's state director in Wisconsin, has long been on a trail to expose whatand many others believe is a government coverup of epic proportions regarding the recovery of thebde of four aliens and a UFO wreck at Roswell.
"Roswell appears to be the target of a disinformation program," Schmitt said.
That accusation is nothing new among those who have made it their business to investigate UFO sings.
St the time of the crash near the Roswell Army Air Force Base, military officials initially idnied the object that crashed as a UFO. But later the military changed its official version of wha h bject actually was, identifying it as a miguided weather research balloon.
Schmitt and many of his colleagues say there is overwhelming evidence proving otherwise.
Schmitt and other UFO investigators have relied on testimony over the years from military intelnce officers who were at the crash site, their family members, and relatives of a rench hand who icvred the crash site, to peice together their version of the Roswell UFO mystery.
Schmitt said he and a colleague recently interviewed two men who were once stationed at RAAFB who were involved in the recovery operation at the crash site.
Most of the military personnel who had first-hand knowledge of the crash are now dead, Schmitt .
The men interviewed, the chief of security at the crash site, and a military intelligence officare two of the few crash-site witnesses still alive, he said.
Schmitt said the former chief of security refused to comment about the matter, saying he was n to secrecy.
Schmitt questioned why information on a crashed weather balloon would be kept secret.
"Why the need to conceal the recovery of a weather balloon?" Schmitt asked.
The other man interviewed was an intelligence agent who was also involved in the recovery. Sch said the man would only say that, "Something came down and was recovered."
MUFON officials selected Pensacola as the sight of their annual international UFO symposium bec of the magnitude of reported UFO sightings in nearby Gulf Breeze-more specifically, those photogahdby Gulf Breeze residents Ed and Francis Walters in November 1987.
The Walters have written a book about their experiences called "The Gulf Breeze Sightings."
The photographs and the Walters' stories have been challanged recently by some critics and UFO stigators who say it is a hoax.
One Gulf Breeze man has said publicly that he was shown by Ed Walters how the UFO photos were f.
Walters has denied all of the allegations.
MUFON has reopened its investigation into Walters' matter. MUFON officials, however, say they eve Walters' photographs are authentic until proven otherwise.
The Walters were scheduled to speak to the MUFON delegation and hundreds of its guests about thtter late Saturday night.
The three-day MUFON symposium began Friday and will conclude with an open forum slated for 4 p.oday.
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