28 February 1989
(Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau , Missouri
Quote from the article:
“Voluntary UFO organizations made up
of concerned and curious citizens, are just about all that’s left now, at least
officially, said Walter Andrus, international director of the Mutual UFO
Network in Seguin , Texas
Andrus said his organization has
obtained more than 7,000 official government documents that he claimed reveal
all branches of the military, intelligence agencies and even the State
Department are collecting UFO reports.
‘The U.S. Air Force was simply a
front to receive reports from the public,’ Andrus said. ‘The good reports never
got to the Air Force, they went to the CIA and the National Security Agency.’ ”
According to the Pentagon, however,
for more than two decades the Air Force and the Air Force alone led the
official government investigation into alleged close encounters.”
NOTE: The newspaper date is 28 February 1989.
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