From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:44:02 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:24:11 -0400
Subject: Re: Chiles-Whitted Sighting - Clark


>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:09:56 -0500
>Subject: Re: Chiles-Whitted Sighting [was New Mexico Governor]

>>From: Christopher Allan <cda.nul>
>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:25:11 +0100
>>Subject: Re: New Mexico Governor Rekindles Roswell


Patient and gentle Listfolk:

>As pelicanists won't tell you, there was a fully conscious,
>knowledgeable observer who, an hour before, witnessed what may
>well have been the same object. It didn't look like a meteor. As
>I write in my book, "On August 10 [1948] the officer in charge
>of the Sixth District Office of Special Investigations ...
>interviewed Walter Massey, a ground-maintenance crewman
>stationed at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia. Massey related
>that two hours prior to the Chiles-Whitted sighting [which

Careful readers will have caught the contradiction here. Did
Massey's sighting take place one hour or two hours before
Chiles-Whitted's? I'm afraid I have it both ways here.

When writing the above, I was consulting several sources - one
my book, the rest other accounts of the incident. Most of those,
I am chagrined to learn, say the Massey observation occurred an
hour before.

I may have been in error in my own published account.

Apologies for confusing anybody who caught the contradiction. If
any patient and gentle reader can shed light on the matter,
please let us know.


Jerry Clark