***** Cowflop Alert*****Special Edjtjon ***** Friday, September 22, 1995

that he "did most of the work on the sect ion of the

RANDLE DUMPS -- AND DUMPS ON -- SCHMITT book" in question . He also said :
By Ro be rt G . T odd
I went back and re-read page 7 and real ized
In a to-whom -it-may -concern letter , dated September that it wasn 't as clear as it could have been .
10, 1995 , Kevin Randle , half of the Center for UFO There is no file in Blue Book that relates to
Studies' (CUFOS) Roswell "i nvestigation " team, Roswell specifically . The only mention of
scrambled to distance himself from Donald Schmitt Roswell actually appears in a newspaper
(the other half of the team) and what Randle claims cl ipping for a case from Idaho on July 10, 1947.
were Schm itt's numerous lies . Randle also sought to
distance himself from what Randle generously charac- He also said:
ter ized as incompetent research performed by or for
Schmitt, but which Randle claims did not find its way I also see that I didn 't make it clear that
into one or both of the Randle-Schmitt books on the the "file " on Circleville is not part of the Blue
overblown Roswell incident. Book system other than a mention inside
After recounting details of numerous falsehoods another case in the newspaper clippings that
uttered by Schm itt , Randle cautions the reader not to are filed with it. We meant that the cl ipping on
bel ieve anything Schmitt says. Circlev ille contains more detail.
While heaping scorn on Schm itt , Randle blows
his own horn by procla iming: "Everything I put into So, finally , one of the CUFOS "investigators "
the books , I knew to be the truth because I researched had fessed up -- well , almost. It wasn 't a lie that
it myself , or I had checked to make sure the documen- there were Blue Book "files " both on the Roswell
tation existed. " incident and the Circleville case -- with the reader
Randle now has a convenient scapegoat on being misled into believing the "file " on Circ lev ille
whom he can pin every false claim , fact , characteriza- contained letters , investigative forms , and an offic ial
tion , or other mistruth that appears not only in their weather balloon explanation, while the Roswell "file "
two books , but the countless articles the CUFOS contained "nothing but that lone cl ipping" -- it was
"investigators" wrote for the International UFO Re- merely a lack of clarity that was confusing .
porter (I UR) , the official propaganda organ of the In contrasting the contents of these two imagi-
Center for UFO Studies (a .k.a. "The Ministry of nary "files ,• Randle and Schmitt were suggest ing that
Truth"). But how truthful has Randle been? the differences in the contents suggested someth ing
After reading their first book , UFO Crash at sin ister in the official handling of the Roswell incident .
Roswell, and finding numerous claims of a dubious The clear implication of their remarks was that the
nature , I wrote to Schmitt about one of those claims, Circlev ille "file " contained letters, investigative forms ,
which appears on page 7 of their first book : and the off icial weather balloon explanation , wh ile the
"file " on Roswell contained nothing but a single news -
The government cover-up extends to the paper clipping. The truth was that there was no Blue
public records of the Air Force UFO investiga- Book file on either incident , that the nonexistent "fil e"
tion as well. These records were released in on Circleville did not contain official letters , investiga-
1976, and the file on Roswell contains but a tive forms , or weather balloon explanation , and that
single press clipping . No letters, no investiga- there was , in fact , no difference at all in how these
tive forms , no official weather balloon explana- two cases were handled in the Blue Book files . Each
tion , nothing but that lone clipping. The file for "file " consisted of a "lone clipping ."
the recovery of an actual weather balloon in Randie 's feeble -- if not downright insulting --
Circlev ille , Ohio, a week before the Roswell "explanation" for this sad affair was that the newspa-
event , contains far more documentation on its per clipping on Circleville -- over which the Air Force
particulars . Where is the material that should had no control -- contained "more detail. " Tha t
be in the Roswell file? "explanation" is worthy of being character ized by
using Randie 's own words , the very words he used in
Pr ior to the involvement of the CUFOS "i nvesti- accusing Schmitt: " He was caught and tried to li e hi s
gators," Roswell ''researchers" had always claimed the way out of it. "
Blue Book records made no mention of the Roswell I wrote back to Randle and observed that what
incident . Eager to see the files on both incidents, I he and Schmitt published in their book appeared to be
looked , and looked , and looked. The index to the Blue more than a simple lack of clarity. It seemed to be a
Book cases li sted neither incident, and after looking del iberate lie intended to cast the Roswell incident in a
through the actual case files , these two mystery files more sinister light . Randle took great offense at m y
still couldn 't be located . suggestion , and refused to cooperate any fu rthe r .
I wrote to Donald Schmitt and explained that I When I inquired about other dubious claims th ey
wasn 't able to find the file either for the Roswell made , including the claim about the missing mili tar y
incident or the Circleville case, and asked him to tell personnel files , neither Schm itt nor Randle rep li ed .
me where they were located . Since CUFOS ' "investigators" had also cla imed that
Schmitt never replied to my letter , but Randle their research mater ials were available at CUFOS for
did , by letter dated December 9, 1992. He explained verification , I contacted CUFOS only to be to ld 1hat

Friday, September 22, 1995 Cowflop Alert * 1

the materials in which I expressed an interest either
were not at the Center, or Schmitt and Randle were
not disposed to cooperate with me because I had
accused them of lying. Later, in the pages of CUFOS'
propaganda organ, Randle would claim he didn't allow
me access because he wanted to protect the copyright
of his materials , despite the fact that he and Schmitt
-- and presumably CUFOS -- had made materials
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position , and Randle continues to do so to this very
day . So, either CUFOS' "scientific diri~ctor" lied in
response to my repeated requests for access, or
Randle lied. I leave it to those two to fight it out
amongst themselves to see who will take the blame for
the lies -- and the selective use of rewards and punish-
ments they deem so crucial to the "scientific method."
Also of interest is the fact that , although aware
of this supposed lack of clarity, neither Randle nor
Schmitt -- nor CUFOS -- took any action to correct the
public record.
Reproduced on this page are the complete
contents of the Blue Book "files" Randle cited on page
7 of his first "Book of Roswell " -- ostensibly co-
authored with Donald Schmitt.
If the past is any indication, we can look for-
ward to a third "Book of Roswell" -- wr itten by Randle
alone . Hallelujah!
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"fil e" on the Circleville, Ohio, "file" on the Roswell incident,
radar target case, according to Kevin according to Kevin Randle.
Randle
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