From: John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com

Dear Folk: Here is some information that was sent to me about NASA.

Now it appears that someone sent the commands to the Clementine spacecraft
to exhaust all of the fuel on board so it is essentially DIW (Dead in the
Water).  NASA and DOD claim there was a computer glitch, however under
normal circumstances, this could only be commanded from the ground.  This
apparently is a desperately cheap shot at sabotaging a perfectly working
spacecraft so that is cannot perform the rest of the mission Congressmen
have insisted on it performing.  Apparently, Clementine has found evidence
of moon bases and artificial structures on the moon.  Has anyone called
for an investigation of this act of space sabotage?

The following article is by E----- D------- an organizer with the
Operation Right To Know (ORTK).  ORTK is the group that is sponsoring a
demonstration 23 May 1994 at noon at the Pentagon (South Parking) to
protest UFO secrecy.  She would be happy to dialog with anyone about the
article or the demonstration.

Article begins:

                How long can NASA keep the Big Secret?

by E------ D-------, Operation Right to Know (202-232-2410)

There are indications the space agency NASA is so pregnant with the
UFO secret it can hardly contain the secret much longer. It seems
people who work at NASA are feeling used and uneasy about having to
keep the UFO secret, and that in fact some of these people have
decided to let the secret out.  For example, a former NASA director
says point blank in the April issue  of Int'l. UFO Library Magazine
that the Mars Observer probe is not dead but is in fact sending
pictures back to NASA. Furthermore, says the author Maurice Chatelain,
some of these pictures will be published soon "despite the official
cover-up."

This may tie in with a current rumor that a month ago two people from
NASA took information on the cover-up to the BBC in England. The
expectation  was the BBC would air the information by now, but they
haven't. Is this what  Chatelain was referring to?

In the meantime, the west coast edition of NBC TV news broadcast this
remarkable story May 3: the NASA-DOD Clementine mission now leaving
the moon  has been diverted to Mars instead of going to an asteroid,
as previously  planned. This information was not broadcast on the east
coast. Mars  researchers who phoned a video clipping service for
copies were first told  copies were available and then told they
weren't. Next day the New York Times reported that due to "budget
cuts," DOD is trying to kill the Clementine mission entirely.

For some time now we've been hearing about cliques in the bureaucracy-
- groups of people in DOD, NASA, and intelligence who meet
unofficially to talk  about UFOs. My hunch is some of these cliques
have decided to take matters  into their own hands, and the astronauts
are involved. For example, Gordon Cooper is now reported to have given
an interview in which he discusses the back-engineering of ET craft.

Richard Hoagland, the dogged pursuer of NASA, is responsible for some
of this pressure. Another factor is it looks like NASA is in a
struggle with another agency. For example, there were two attempts to
sabotage the Mars Observer  camera before the Observer left.
Astounding! Hoagland brought this story out.  Trash was twice dumped
inside the camera's lens.*

Seems like somebody was screaming a big "No!" to NASA about going to
Mars at all, and indeed they might--because it is the fallout from the
"failed" Mars Observer mission that has accelerated NASA's loss of
control  over the Big Secret.

If NASA hadn't gone back to Mars last year, the agency could have kept
a  lid on the controversy over the anomalous landforms on Mars (the
Cydonia  "face" and associated structures). But once in the air, NASA
came under  intense pressure to re-photograph the face. Speculation is
the unexpectedly  strong pressure is why NASA decided to claim the
mission was lost. And just  before the loss was announced, a new
element for NASA to cope with had arisen --the formidable Stanley
McDaniel.

Some people think the McDaniel Report on NASA and the Cydonia
landforms  drove NASA to take its desperate step. A report may not
sound like much, but that's only until your read the McDaniel Report.
It is a devastating critique  of NASA and also exposes Carl Sagan as a
disinformation agent. Why haven't Mr. Lichtenstein, Mr. Rockefeller,
Mr. Bigelow, Mr. Andrus, or Mr. Hall funded  this high quality
academic report for distribution to Congress?

If NASA has lied about the loss of the Mars Observer, it is the most
audacious act of political deception this century. Whether decisive or
not,  McDaniel added to the heat on NASA. One NASA spokesman went on
TV showing  signs of stress, and 10 minutes later NASA announced the
Mars Observer was lost. Right away the leaks began. Hoagland,
McDaniel, Bob Oechsler, and others  received calls saying the
announcement was a cover story. Now former NASA Director of
Communications Maurice Chatelain has put it into print.

Some people who work at NASA are acting strangely. For example, they
meet with relative strangers in crowded public places and speak in
loud voices  about the top secret deception. NASA scientists are
accompanying some ET  researchers on UFO-watching expeditions and
seeing UFOs with them.  When the interview with Gordon Cooper comes
out in which Cooper talks  about back-engineering alien craft, the
cover-up will surely be near its end.  And the astronauts have been
sidling up to this for a while.

Three years ago Cooper's 1978 letter to the UN calling UFOs
"extraterrestrial vehicles" was published; and in 1991 Edgar Mitchell
talked  about government extraterrestrial secrets on Oprah Winfrey.
Now comes Maurice  Chatelain. His article details 9 separate occasions
when UFOs observed,  stalked, or assaulted US spacecraft, including
the exact date, names of the astronauts on the mission and what
occurred.

We have recently learned that the Ringling Bros extravaganza "Cosmic
Journey" has been revived. Astronauts were involved in original
concept, in the story brought out by Bob Oechsler and Tim Good. The
concept was a public exhibition of US space technology--and UFOs/ET.
The project was canceled. But  about a month ago, a Cosmic Journey
staff member bought $150 worth of UFO books at a Washington DC
bookstore. One researcher made inquiries and reached a Ringling Bros
contractor, Ed Buckbee of Huntsville, Alabama. Buckbee said that
Cosmic Journey "will not get into the UFO issue until later."

And according to Reuters Dec. 1, 1993, one of the current astronauts
says he is "trying to communicate with the life out there." Astronaut
Storey Musgrave, member of the Hubble repair mission, told a reporter:
"When I'm  circling I try in whatever ways I can to get them to come
down and get me."  Mr. Musgrave sounds like an "experiencer," doesn't
he?

Richard Hoagland says some Congresspeople were about to get together
recently for a conference on Mars, but NASA exerted "tremendous
pressure" to get the conference cancelled. Stan McDaniel, who was also
involved, says, "We  were told government people would be there, and
then they disappeared."  McDaniel could not confirm Hoagland's claim
that threats were made against members of Congress.

Hoagland says that people who are talking to him have been offered
jobs to shut them up. "Come and work with us on the 'dark side',"
Hoagland says they were told.

Instead of Mars, Hoagland now is focused on the moon. There are
artificial structures on the moon, he claims, and so does Maurice
Chatelain.  In his article, Chatelain casually drops the bombshell
that the Apollo mission  found "several mysterious geometric
structures of unnatural origin" on the  moon. And in fact some sort of
startling new picture book has just been  published: Extraterrestrial
Archaeology, by David Childress.**  Chatelain says he's going to
reveal what happened to the astronauts on the moon in a forthcoming
article.

According to UFO researcher Bill Hamilton, x-space programmer Brian
O'Leary says the Air Force has "its own secret space program and its
own  military astronauts." Hamilton's 1991 book, Cosmic Top Secret,
reports on an  amazing newspaper article: August 7, 1989 the LA
Herald-Examiner ran a story  which stated DOD was dismantling a secret
$5 billion coast-to-coast space  complex and would now begin
collaborating with NASA's civilian space shuttle. The article stated
that a secret cadre of 32 military astronauts based in LA  was
disbanded in 1988. If this story is true, it sounds like DOD moved a
major  clandestine operation into NASA in 1988-89, and that may be the
key to what is happening now at NASA.

Whoever in NASA put the two Viking pictures of the face on Mars into
the  open record 17 years ago is an unsung patriot. From what I've
heard, however,  not all the interesting pictures were put out. Hear's
what Mars researchers  Vince DiPietro and John Brandenburg told me
happened a few years ago. A  graduate student at the Univ. of
Louisiana phoned DiPietro excitedly several times and described a
numbered NASA Viking photo of Mars on display in the department. The
Martian surface photo showed a group of 6 faces. Each looked  just
like the Cydonia face. When DiPietro tried to get the photo, a
professor told him it was "lost."

Another thing that's happening is that UFO researchers are beginning
to  realize that the network of surveillance satellites the U.S. had
in orbit is fully capable of tracking UFOs and therefore, researchers
are realizing, NASA  must be tracking UFOs. This introduces a new
dimension into the cover-up. It means much of the data coming into
NASA has ET information, and this has to be scrubbed out. Data from
the space probes and the Shuttle missions, as well as the vast
intelligence product that pours in from the surveillance  satellites--
including the orbiting telescopes, the commercial and  environmental
satellites--has ET evidence that NASA has to get rid of before  the
data can be released to anyone.

There has to be a gate keeper first in line for all incoming data who
captures and reroutes ET evidence into black channels. And this is
just what  we saw in the form of Michael Malin, whom NASA put in
charge of all Mars Observer photos and said he could keep them for 6
months before release. An example of scrubbing is related by Maryland
resident Don Ratsch from Houston researcher Don Madeley. They say a
female NASA employee was shown how NASA technicians air brush images
of UFOs which show up on NASA's pictures of earth.

Don Ratsch was the one who recorded the apparent voice of a shuttle
astronaut from space saying, "We have the alien spacecraft under
observation"- -but the authenticity could not be proved. Ratsch went
on to record the STS-48 tape from NASA TV Sept. 1991. The tape shows
inexplicable moving lights in the upper atmosphere, one of which
appears to be shooting at the other. Adding to  that, Linda Howe says
a military officer told her he's hearing reports of "some kind of war
in space." Could it be? Naw.

Still, the leaks are everywhere. Even Rush Limbaugh. He told his radio
audience in late 1992 that a trusted friend in NASA said the Hubble
telescope was never broken, but was being used to study ETs in some
way. In the meantime,  I personally learned of a fellow at McDonnell-
Douglas who also said the Hubble was operating in the black.

This fellow reported he was doing interface programs that enabled
innocuous-sounding instructions from the ground to translate into
different, secret directives to the telescope. He said the output was
not broadcast to the ground, but was downloaded by hand on Shuttle
missions.

So who's squeezing NASA the hardest? The CIA? Hoagland and McDaniel?
The aliens? A friend of mine called NASA recently and cajoled a press
officer into a confidential conversation. According to my friend, the
press officer said,  "NASA is very fragmented and many people in NASA
want the truth." And then added, "NASA is no longer running itself. A
major intelligence group is now running NASA."

So there you have it ladies and gentlemen. Your tax dollars at work!

Let's hazard a theory. In 1988 DOD moved clandestine space operations
into NASA, and since then DOD or some "major intelligence group" has
been trying to run NASA. As a result, NASA is now in a power struggle
with this  other group. The two groups violently disagreed on how to
run the Mars Observer and the Clementine missions, and evidence of
this conflict broke into the open.

In the ranks at NASA, there are several sources of discontent. People
who want to run a civilian space program, not an intelligence
operation.  People who are angry at being shut out of the Big Secret
but who still have to tell lies to the public. And people who are
worried they could be indicted and go to jail for their roles in
maintaining the Big Secret.

Even though the ruling groups disagree, they are still determined to
maintain their hold on the Big Secret.  But the ranks at NASA are
breaking and the ruling groups are losing control over the ranks. It's
about time! ______________________

* Quarterly Journal of the Mars Mission, Winter 1994, 122 Dodd St.,
  NJ 07087.

** Extraterrestrial Archaeology by David Childress, $21.00, Adventures
Unlimited Press, Publishers Network, Box 74, 303 Main St., Kempton,
Ill. 60946.


John Winston.