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DATE OF UPLOAD:  September 17, 1990
ORIGIN OF UPLOAD:  ParaNet Alpha/Los Angeles, CA
CONTRIBUTED BY:  Mike Keithly/ParaNet Contributor
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A clip in the Rocky Mountain News, Sept 15 1990.

Its name is No. 7088 and it was spotted on a radar screen by  Air
Force  radar  jockeys  working  deep  within  the  catacombs   of
Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain on a December night four years ago.

Since  then, it and dozens similar inexplicable radar  blips,  as
well  as possible strange sightings, have been the subject of  an
intensive,  expensive and possibly illegal, covert  investigation
by the U.S. intelligence community.

So says Howard Blum, a former New York Times reporter and  author
of the newly released Out There The Governments Secret Quest  for
Extraterrestrials. "I'm not saying UFO'S exist," Blum said in  an
interview  recently.  "I'm saying the government is  covering  up
what  it is ignorant of.  It was done without the  taxpayers'  or
congress knowledge."

Despite  years of official denials that the possibility of  other
life  in the universe is even considered officially  interesting,
Blum reports the existence of a top-secret UFO Working Group.

Comprised  of top intelligence officials,scientists and  military
officers,  the  group  meets  at the  Pentagon  to  evaluate  and
investigate  reports of unexplained sightings and  electronically
recorded disturbances of our niche in the solar system.

Along  the  way, Blum says, the group has overseen a  50  million
effort  by  the  intelligence  community  to  keep  tabs  on  UFO
believers  - actually supplying them with bogus ufo  information,
he  says,"so  people  won't  take  them  seriously."   Air  Force
intelligence agents infiltrate and harass UFO groups, he said.

CIA  Agents,masquerading as NASA scientists,have visited  Elmwood
Wis.,  Population  991,  a  self  proclaimed  UFO  capital  where
townspeople  cooperated  to  build a UFO landing  pad.   He  says
agents copied people's medical records and took soil samples.

NASA has an aboveboard version of the quest,a 100 million program
called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,or SETI.

It  uses  an array of electronics to scan and record  10  million
radio  waves a second in case other forms of life out  there  are
sending us messages.  Scientists will have to break the code.

Blum supports SETI,which has promised to make public all contacts
with extraterrestrials.  He says the UFO Working Group is  trying
to "take on" SETI so it can "control the dialogue."

The   groups  existence  remains  officially   unconfirmed   and,
apparently, no closer to solving the UFO mystery.  So the  search
continues like an episode of televisions Unsolved Mysteries.

"The generals think they can get armaments and stealth technology
from  aliens, and the scientists want insights into how  life  is
formed,"  Blum said.  And the people of Elmwood are  looking  for
something more spiritual."

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