FILENAME: AHUIS.TXT DATE: 28-MAY-1995
In late 1994, a group of documents were declassified and released to us by a
military intelligence agency. To the best of our knowledge, we were the first
researchers to receive this particular packet of documents. The packet was
sent to us unexpectedly in reply to a FOIA request we thought was "dead".
There were a few pages withheld for classification review by agencies other
than the one which sent the packet.
In May 1995, we received several of the pages which had previously been
withheld. Among these few was the document a copy of which is included in this
file.
It is a letter written the same month as the Roswell crash specifically
mentioning Roswell and Brig. General Roger Ramey. This, in itself, makes this
document important. ANY genuine document which mentions Roswell by name, and
is contemporary with the crash itself, is a rare thing.
We do not claim that there is anything more here than a letter; nothing more
than it appears: a person used newspaper reports of the Roswell incident in an
attempt to leave occupied Germany and obtain travel to the United States.
We decided to immediately issue the newly discovered document. On May 22,
1995, the Statement below and photocopies of the document itself were sent to:
Representative Steven Schiff
Mr. Walter Andrus, MUFON
Vicki Cooper-Ecker & Don Ecker, UFO Magazine
Mr. Stanton Friedman
Mr. Stan Gordon, PASU
Mr. Barry Greenwood, CAUS
Mr. Richard Hall, FUFOR
Mr. Christian Lambright
Capt. Kevin Randle, USAF (Ret.)
Mr. Mark Rodeghier, CUFOS
Dr. Jacques Vallee
Dale Goudie Jim Klotz
Director, UFO Reporting and Information Service CUFON SYSOP
P.O. Mail unavailable, Mercer Island, WA 98118
(206)721-5035
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Statement Concerning the
Letter from Heinz-Adalbert Ahuis to the US Embassy Dated July 16th, 1947.
10-MAY-1995 We are writing to relate some news. We have just received a FOIA
records release which contains a document mentioning Roswell and Brig. General
Roger Ramey. Unfortunately, it will not break the case, but it is interesting.
Brief Comment
This letter was among a group of papers released together, some few of which
were letters making various claims related to "flying disks" or "flying
saucers". Desire to obtain passage from occupied Germany to the United States
via these claims appears as a common theme of these letters. The enclosed
letter appears to be no different in this regard..
The American Embassy forwarded the letter to The Office of Political Affairs,
Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.). It was then sent on to the
Office of the Director for Intelligence, Counter Intelligence Section, who
passed it to the U.S. Army Deputy Director of Intelligence at European Command,
Frankfurt.
The first paragraph of the letter notes that Mr. Ahuis has "read much about the
so-called 'flying disks'", in "American and German papers". The newspapers are
presumably the sole source of Mr. Ahuis' knowledge of the Roswell crash. The
letter was written about two weeks after the (disputed date) of the 1947
incident. At that time, newspaper articles about the Roswell recovery and the
weather balloon story could still have been fresh in Mr. Ahuis' mind.
This would appear to relegate this letter to the status of a sidelight on the
Roswell issue.
The wording of the letter in two places, however, might possibly indicate that
it is something more than is indicated on the surface.
The usage, "disquieting your publicity", is interesting. Indeed, "public
relations" was a major factor in the actions of the military and intelligence
communities regarding UFO. This was not common knowledge in 1947.
"I am very skeptically as to the "calming-explanation" of Brigadier General
Roger Ramey and others, who say that these disks are merely meteorological
observation-balloons - or supplements to them - , etc." This statement is
prophetic for those who believe that General Ramey's weather balloon was/is a
cover for something more exotic.
The document may be what it seems, or something more. But the fact remains
that it is a document contemporary with the Roswell crash. It was held for 46
years in the secret files of a military intelligence agency.
attachment:
Copy Ahuis letter
/s/ /s/
Dale Goudie Jim Klotz
P.O. Mail unavailable, Mercer Island, WA 98118 - (206)721-5035
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COPY
Heinz-Adalbert Ahuis Asnabruck, July 16th, 1947
(23) Asnabruck, Hansa-Str. 7
Germany, British Zone
_To_Embassy_of_U.S.A._in_Germany_
Strongly Secret!
Subject: "Flying Discs".
Dear Excellency:
Last few weeks in American and German papers I read much
about the so-called "flying discs" (or "flying targets") that
are said to be seen suddenly coming up in some states of your
country, and that are disquieting your publicity so much.
I would like to examine more accurate the type that came
down near Roswell (New Mexico).
Please, do also take this matter as serious as it _really_
is, and do not think it a vision.
Just concerning this I am an expert. I am very sceptically
as to the "calming-explanation" of Brigadier General Roger Ramey
and others, who say that these disks are merely meteorological
observation-balloons - or supplements of them -, etc.
I am interested in this business very much, and so is the
American Army, I am sure.
In connection herewith and in order to explain my odd wish,
Excellency, I must inform you of the following:
Since 1929 till the end of the war by the way as a hobby)
I occupied myself, - completely interested in sport only -, in
developing flying-models of all kind and shape, chiefly sail-
planes and rocket types. Sailplane-soaring was and still is my
favourite sport.
With my researches in 1936, among others, I met also the
idea of the "flying disks" and pursued it, considering it already
at that time once to be of any importance. Later I searched into
the qualities of this model in connection with rocket-experiments,
and about the good result I was extremely surprised. (nowadays
we could already use atomic power, too) - I found, that my
models of a "flying disk" - in smaller and bigger size -
1.) for the investigation of the sphere,
2.) for military aims, and
3.) for the air-traffic of the future
could and presumably will play a not too undervaluing figure,
and in many a point even it will be superior to all other planes
and rocket-projectiles, including the German "V-2 - rocket" you
know already; for I think it possible, _manned_disks_
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1.) to fly every course we want, and
2.) to and safely again, (what we cannot absolutely affirm
3.) the most rocket-constructions know until today).
I am ready to continue my researches and developments of such
a kind of disk-models and disk-planes (as well as still other very
interesting ones) _on_a_place_in_U.S.A._that seems fit to xx for
that purpose.
Perhaps I may come and see you once to talk about some details
necessary?
Respectfully yours,
/s/ Ahuis
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