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DID ROSWELL ET TECHNOLOGY LEAD TO TRANSISTOR? Hundreds of thousands of people visited the website, and many of them added their own comments and opinions. Some sent documents and even corroborating evi- dence to authenticate parts of the story. Several sources suggested that transistor effects were first demonstrated in September 1947, after Bell Labs scientists gained access to advanced material combi- nations whose special conductive proper- ties were hitherto unknown. On 4 October 1997 ACC posted a notice on its website, announcing that representa- tives of the Department of Defense and other interested parties had met in closed session with representatives of American Computer, including company president Jack Shulman, during the previous week at a location near Princeton University, to examine and discuss evidence of a possible connection between UFOs, secret govern- ment projects and the development of the transistor at Bell Laboratories in 1947. According to CNI News, Jack Shulman presented a variety of different exhibits, including a 50-year-old laboratory note- book, an amateur UFO video clip, legal documents, texts of eyewitness testimony pertaining to the 1947 Roswell incident, and statements from people who claim first-hand knowledge of a connection between the development of the transistor and the transfer of secret information from a mili- tary source to Bell Labs in 1947. Shulman was inter- viewed on the syndicated radio program, "Sightings on the Radio" with Jeff Rense, on the night of 15 October 1997. During the interview, Shulman said that the meeting was attended by 18 people from the Department of Defense, Air Force and several other government agen- Company (ACC), of Cranford, New Jersey, posted an interesting story on its Internet website, speculating that in 1947 the US Army Air Force may have trans- ferred a captured alien spacecraft to Bell Laboratories for commercialisation of its technology, resulting in the announcement of the transistor later that year and its patenting in 1948-49, as well as the devel- opment of other major engineering and communications discoveries. What started off as internal speculation has grown into international uproar. I July 1997, the American Computer NEXUS - 59 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1998