Earthlings Demand Answers
UFO Rally Rips Roswell 'cover-Up'
Published: 03-30-95
Dana Calvo
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- Mindy Gerber said the last time she was transported by a disc in the sky she underwent a physical examination and a mind probe by aliens who were attempting to create a hybrid breed of earthlings.
"Hypnotic regression is the only way to access these experiences," she explained.
ORBIT OF PROTEST
Gerber, 34, a registered nurse from Windsor, N.J., is a member of Operation Right to Know, which believes the military has covered up evidence of alien life.
The group protested Wednesday outside the General Accounting Office to raise awareness about an examination being conducted by the GAO into the whereabouts of official documents about a weather balloon crash at Roswell in 1947.
The military collected the remains of the craft and originally described the downed craft as a flying disc. Later that description was retracted and the craft was described as a weather balloon.
A report released by the Air Force last August concluded the balloon was part of a then-classified project. "That's all it was," said Air Force Maj. David Thurston. "The purpose of the project was reconnaissance of the Soviet Union for their nuclear tests. It involved nothing extraterrestrial."
Operation Right to Know believes the "weather balloon" actually was a vehicle from another planet.
Operation Right to Know boasts hundreds of supporters, although only 25 showed up for Wednesday's protest.
At the urging of the group, Rep. Steven Schiff, R-N.M., has asked the GAO, Congress' investigative arm, to release information on the records kept about the crash.
Barry Bitzer, Schiff's press secretary, said the congressman became suspicious when his request for more information resulted in a bureaucratic runaround.
"It was his opinion that the government was not as forthcoming as it should have been with information," Bitzer said. "He's not after UFOs. He's after answers."
Schiff sits on the Science, Space and Technology Committee and is a member of the congressional space caucus.
Cleve E. Corlett, a spokesman for the GAO, said the office was examining the Air Force's records about the Roswell crash, but that the audit was not any sort of truth commission.
"The General Accounting Office is not investigating the so-called Roswell incident of 1947 nor have we been asked to do such an investigation. We are conducting an investigation into the record management practices of the Air Force and other relevant federal agencies to determine what records were kept following the crash of what the Air Force said was a weather balloon and what their policy was in keeping those records," he said.
