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68 about an Army Intelligence alert for "any data whatsoever concerning flying saucers." This reported crash has yet to be properly investigated by private UFO groups. The final paragraph on page five mentions the increased level of UFO activity in the spring and summer of 1952—the huge sighting wave centered on Washington, D.C. However, the activity had returned to normal levels (four to five per week) well before the briefing paper was delivered, and so the obvious concern is a sign that the Pentagon was highly disturbed by the flap. Hence it is pointed to as the basis for increased security in order to prevent panic, as well as for unspecified "international and technological considerations." A contingency plan dated January 31, 1949 (a year and a half after the crash), was put in place "should the need to make a public announcement present itself." Just what would constitute justification for a public release of information is not even hinted at, though one can guess that a landing or a crash observed by many people (or even TV cameras) might be the sort of event that would over- ride all plans for keeping the news under wraps. The seven attachments not included with the leaked docu- ment (or made available later by the high-level informants of Moore and Shandera) must contain a world of vital informa- tion. They cover such matters as the analyses of the wreckage, bodies and symbols. Easily the most controversial of all the MJ-12-related mate- rials is usually referred to as the Cutler-Twining memo. It allegedly was sent from Robert Cutler, a special assistant to President Eisenhower, to Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining. It appears to concern the rescheduling of a Majestic-12 Special Studies Project (MJ-12 SSP) meeting on July 16, 1954. The controversy revolves around the manner in which the document was discovered. William Moore and Jaime Shandera found it in 1985 while searching through more than a hundred boxes of recently declassified documents in Records Group 341 (RG 341) at the National Archives in Washington. The memo CRASH AT CORONA RELATED DOCUMENTS