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58 What is very clear is that whoever composed the Eisenhower briefing paper, be he a legitimate part of an MJ-12, a vintage hoaxer or a recent one, knew a great deal about UFO history, about the crash near Corona, and about the inner workings of the U.S. government, including the backgrounds and activities of the twelve men alleged to have been the original members of Majestic-12. It could hardly be just another crude hoax perpe- trated by some wag with an old typewriter, like several that had bedeviled the private UFO community over the years. It had taken a lot of research and checking and probably prior hoaxing experience, and thus must be very important to its originator, rather than a mere prank. But why go to all this trouble to create a phony document? Was it to embarrass and discredit UFO investigators (thereby reducing their effectiveness) by getting them to accept the document as real and then revealing it as a fake and those who believed it as pathetically gullible? If so, the hoaxer has let a lot of years and a lot of opportunities go by without speaking out. And with each passing year there is the growing likelihood that a claim or admission of hoaxing may not be believed. After all, for someone simply to stand up and announce "Ho ho! I did it and you dummies fell for it!" won't be enough. Proof that it was a hoax will be demanded, and that could prove as elusive as establishing absolute authenticity has so far been. Was it meant to occupy the time and energy of the best people in the UFO community and thus draw their attention away from some other government UFO event or non-UFO project that was considered more sensitive, or on the verge of being revealed? One has to wonder just what could be more volatile than the discovery of proof that UFOs are alien spacecraft. More and more, it appears that even if the Eisenhower brief- ing paper is a hoax, there must be something very similar in existence, since the reality of the Corona crash increases in probability with each passing day. Why fake a document when a real one with substantially similar content may be in the very next filing cabinet? CRASH AT CORONA