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Cooper contacted Friedman, who was not only well-known in
UFOlogy, but by that time well established as an expert on the
authenticity issues of the first Majic-12 document, the so-called
"Eisenhower Briefing" document. Friedman, living now in Nova
Scotia, put Cooper in contact with Robert and Ryan Wood, two
associates with some expertise in document authentication. Again
Wood and Wood argued quite persuasively for the authenticity of
the documents, but again, following option (3), they argued that the
documents are "plain straight legitimate."
Two of the Cantwheel Majic-12 documents have become focal
points of UFOlogy interest, and for good reason: The "White Hot
Intelligence Estimate" of Air Force General Nathan Twining, and
the "Majestic Twelve Project First Annual Report." These are the
documents that contain actual technical descriptions of the alleged
crashed alien craft recovered at Roswell, along with
recommendations on what to do about it.
Accordingly, we shall accept the arguments of Robert and Ryan
Wood and their exhaustive process of document authentication, and
assume that the documents are legitimate, and using internal
indications and inconsistencies, we shall argue that these two
documents are best interpreted as containing part truth, and part
deliberate deception, and that both of these elements point possibly,
though nowhere near conclusively, to a terrestrial, and German,
origin for the exotic craft that crashed in New Mexico in 1947, and
that this is the element that is the ultimate obejctive of the cover-up,
as alluded to by Colonel Corso's statements that form the epigrams
to this chapter. The methodology will be that already hinted at by
Corso's statements, and more completely outlined by Nick Cook:
Make the link between Germany and the flying saucer and here was an
opportunity to solve not only the anti-gravity propulsion riddle, but, in
the process, perhaps, one of the most baffling mysteries of the 20th
century: the origins of the UFO.... The flying disc must have exhibited
performance so in advance of its time that it had been superclassified,
then hidden in plain sight - behind the UFO myth -for the
best part of 60 years. 17
17 Cook, op. cit., pp. 46-47.
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