Friday, March 10, 2023

"Ground Saucer Watch" Bulletin - 1970-1980s - Early FOIA battles, early Travis Walton investigation, allegations of a CIA agenda "to promote a pro-saucer viewpoint" (the "Federal Hypothesis")

The "Ground Saucer Watch" group is best known for its involvement in early Freedom Of Information Act legal battles seeking the release of UFO documentation and a very early investigation of the Travis Walton "abduction" (which concluded that the purported abduction was a hoax.

Other matters covered in issues of a bulletin published by Ground Saucer Watch in the 1970s-1980s include computer analysis of UFO photos and also discussion of allegations of a CIA agenda "to promote a pro-saucer viewpoint" (the "Federal Hypothesis").  For example, the April 1981 issue of the Ground Saucer Watch Bulletin contains a relatively lengthy article by William H Spaulding (Bill Spaulding) entitled "The Federal Hypothesis" which contends that "With each new month of researching the perplexing UFO phenomenon more information and logic is surfacing to seriously consider that the CIA involvement with the subject is one that was established to promote a pro-saucer viewpoint rather than suppress interest".

Issues of the Ground Saucer Watch Bulletin have now been added to my free online UFO archive, thanks to my recent collaboration with CUFOS (particularly liaison with CUFOS researchers George Eberhart and Mark Rodeghier).





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