From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates.nul>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 02:21:13 -0400
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Subject: Boldly Going Nowhere




Source: The South Missourian - Salem, Arizona

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05-27-04


Boldly Going Nowhere

Conspiracies in high places
by
Bret Burquest


A conspiracy is a secret agreement among a group of people
attempting to conceal something. It's like a bad dream =96 too
nasty to deal with and too important to ignore. The two biggest
conspiracies in our lifetimes, if true, are the assassination of
John F. Kennedy and the cover-up of the presence of
extraterrestrial beings on earth.

Kenn Thomas, author of a book titled Maury Island UFO: The
Crisman Conspiracy, points out a remarkable string of
coincidences that may actually tie the two conspiracies
together. According to Thomas, a man named Fred Crisman played a
central role in these seemingly unrelated events.

On June 21, 1947, an airplane pilot named Kenneth Arnold spotted
what he described as =93flying saucers"=94 over Mt. Ranier in
Washington, launching the modern UFO era. The term =93flying
saucer=94 soon became part of the UFO lexicon. There were many UFO
sightings later in 1947, including the famous Roswell crash
incident.

Four people, including Harold Dahl and his son, witnessed the
event from a salvage boat in a nearby bay. They reported seeing
six doughnut-shaped craft, approximately 20 feet in diameter,
hovering high above. Five of the craft formed a circle
surrounding a craft in the middle that was wobbling badly. The
seemingly damaged craft suddenly dropped down about 700 feet,
then spewed two substances =96 one was a paper-like metal that
floated in the bay and the other was a hot, steaming, black
sludge that rained down, striking Dahl's son and killing his
dog.

Dahl reported these events to Fred Crisman, a man he believed to
have some connections in the intelligence community. Crisman
subsequently went to Maury Island to investigate the incident.
He found a great deal of both materials on the shore and
recovered some for himself.

Crisman shared his experience with Ray Palmer, a magazine
publisher, who then hired Kenneth Arnold (the original pilot) to
investigate further. Three days later, Arnold had more
sightings, culminating with a woman recovering a 30-inch saucer
in the same vicinity, who then turned the saucer over to FBI
agent Guy Banister.

Capt. Lee Davidson and Lt. Frank Brown, Air Force investigators
under the command of Gen. Nathan Twining, soon joined Arnold in
retrieving debris on Maury Island. Crisman was later compelled
to turn over his samples to the two investigators. MJ12
documents, recently discovered under the Freedom of Information
Act, also indicate that Crisman turned additional samples he had
held back over to CIA agent Clay Shaw.

In November of 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
Many people believe it was part of a larger conspiracy, far
beyond a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald. In his 1968
investigation of the assassination, New Orleans District
Attorney Jim Garrison claimed that Guy Banister and Claw Shaw
were involved in the plot to kill JFK, and that Fred Crisman may
have been one of the gunmen.

Some interesting coincidences between the JFK assassination and
the 1947 UFO cover-up include:

=46rom 1943 to 1952 Guy Banister was FBI Special Agent in Charge
in the Pacific Northwest, later transferred to Chicago. Upon
retirement he opened a private investigative office in New
Orleans where he occasionally hired Lee Harvey Oswald in a
variety of capacities.

In 1963, former CIA agent Clay Shaw was the director of the
International Trade Mart in New Orleans, a CIA front
organization. He later went to trial as one of the co-
conspirators in JFK's death but was found not guilty by a jury.
Key evidence linking Shaw to the assassination was not permitted
by the trial judge.

According to many JFK assassination researchers, Crisman was one
of the three so-called hoboes who were picked up in the railroad
yard immediately following the shooting, then released shortly
thereafter.

The world is full of strange coincidences and possible
conspiracies in high places. Unfortunately, when you believe in
a conspiracy, there's not much you can do about it except bang
your head against the wall.

Between the JFK and UFO conspiracies, there's enough intrigue to
keep heads banging for a long time.