It is out in the open, as well as being on your website for some time before I
was even told where to find it. But I also believe that should an effort be
made in this direction, it will require several confirmations. The first is the
actual validity of the photograph. After perusing your website, I take your
word that it is. The second confirmation will have to be respected individual's
from the "outside" confirming the results. And the third and final confirmation
will have to come from the source, and Peter Gersten at CAUS is probably the
most qualified to pursue that.

Let's face it. You have on your website truckloads of valuable information. You
have the actual photographs of the Roswell debris, and the full cooperation of
the individual who took the photos. That is a major plus. I am not trying to
make this a pep rally, but the facts speak for themselves. Until the
development of the internet, the UFO community never had access to the
information that it does now, nor has it ever been in the position it is in to
gather new information.

When I saw the photograph for the first time I was skeptical because there are
tens of thousands of photographs of field-grade military officers handling
dispatches and other communiques during that period, but needless to say my
interest peaked so I downloaded the series of photographs and examined them. I
will acknowledge right now that I used your results initially as a means to
guide the basic structure of the message, and to get an idea how it was
written. You are "dead on" insofar as many of the actual words go...the weather
baloon statement is so clear it jumps right out at you. And there are others.

But the second line troubled me so I looked at that first. The biggest problem
with this photograph is simply the way it was taken. The cameras in those days
used "universal" exposure bulbs which did not distinguish between the available
light in the target area, as well as controlled light exposure on the film
itself. Certain types of bulbs could be used to reduce the "flash" effect and
exposure, but unlike today's cameras, exposure control was very primitive.

But by all means, there is no reason to complain, because I believe that this
could very well be..the piece that confirms the rest of the puzzle. I spliced
the second line, as it stood, and measured the character depth. On your website
you had the figure of 4 *HRS and that was interesting because military
communiques abbreviated obvious intent wherever they could, and trained their
handlers to understand them well.

After the character reduction, it was unmistakeably determined that the first
two letters are EX. The third, after enhancement, was a "T". Directly after
that, you can see the damage caused by the simple use of the camera, the fully
exposed area of light. This is caused by the paper being folded behind the
finger of the handler. Now directly after that segment, the last letter of that
cell appears to be an S. But after I straightened it a very obvious "T"
appeared. Then I went backwards and pixelized the previous two and it came out
to be a "C" and an "A". The folded cell, is, unreadable. I tried to look at
that particular cell in a hundred different ways, but the as I stated above,
the camera itself was the cause of disrepair.

So the first target cell was this E-X-T--A-C-T. Knowing that it was generated
in the United States I ran that segment through an english language database
and the results, everytime, was EXTRACT. The second cell group consists of 3
letters which are clearly "THE". Very clear. The third cell grouping is
"VICTIMS", as you had stated on your website which is also confirmed. Now the
next cell was tricky. If you look at it closely, it is also folded by the
handler. Once straightened and measured, I concluded that the total cell depth
was two words of 5 characters total. After examination over a period of about a
week, and then verification, it was confirmed that those two words are "OF
THE". The next cell was determined to be 5 characters and that, in agreement
with your website, was "WRECK". The next cell comprised 3 characters and after
examination was "AND."

Now the question. I will stake my reputation that the very next word has the
letters "CONVAY" in sequence. You are right that the following segment directly
after that cell could have been a typo on the part of the original source, but,
I have a good feeling that it isn't. Here is why. In general communications
operations in those days, if it were a Battalion command or even Company
command then yes, maybe a clerk who received this teletype could mispell a word
and then "XXXXXXXX" it out. That type of situation had happened regularly. But
to me, and this is my opinion, General Ramey would most certainly have chosen
the best communications personnel for his staff, and part of an individual's
performance appraisal, since communications was their particular job title,
would have been conscientious in the delivery of such communications. In other
words, and in those days, mistakes weren't tolerated. And......If this is what
we think it is, and knowing the urgency and importance for clear
communications, isn't it even more likely that attention to detail would be of
the utmost importance? If a UFO dropped near your Airforce Base, wouldn't you
be extremely intolerant of any mistakes? I know I would be. I would bet that
the clerk who received or transcribed the message made sure, checked and
rechecked, the original before sending it on to Ramey. But yes, let me know
what you think about that, because these are the issues you will have to deal
with once the claim of its "importance" is made. That would be my argument.

But concluding that the next series of letters is CONVAY, ignore the next two
cells which are simply two letters and the last two cells are comprised of two
words- one of two letters and one of three letters. The first letter of the two
letter word is clearly "T" and the second letter was confirmed to be "O". The
last cell in the line of three letters is "THE." On your website photograph,
after the CONVAY, you have "ON". I believe, and it is just my opinion, that the
words you have, minus the dots, are all that is there. When you enhanced the
photograph, the area after CONVAY became dark, but if you will look at the
original line, that darkness was caused by shadow and the cell area can be
clearly distinquished between the two. The CONVAY in the enhancement appears to
be a longer word, but it is not. That last segment is comprised of the
following cells. The first cell is six letters and states CONVAY. Ignore the
next dar enhancement that you have because it is shadow. It is a space. The
next cell is 2 letters which states "ON" and the next cell is "TO" and the last
is "THE".

Now, it is one thing to examine a converted photograph and it is another
entirely to examine the original. If this photograph is unaltered (the scan of
ramey) then I stand by the results. But by all means if anyone notices anything
I haven't come up with, or a mistake, then by all means, don't hesitate to
contact me. In this task, all the eyes on the subject that can be gathered will
be a plus.

My opinion? If this is the true photograph, then it is clearly ordering General
Ramey to transport "victims" of some wreck to a location at Fort Hoood, Texas.
And yes, the message implies urgency in dealing with weather baloons to some
capacity but I have yet to confirm, from my observations, the exact message as
of yet. Now, if it turns out that this message containing "victims" and
"weather baloons" can be confirmed by professional sources, the only thing I
can conclude is that this could be...the story of the century...if not in all
of humankind's history.

Sorry for the length of this e-mail, and if you do not wish to receive further
e-mail then let me know. I responded to everyone because Neil sent your
addresses to me with his letter.

Cheers,

Chris