In a message dated 01-19-98 George Jiri Opletal wrote to Jack Sargeant:
 GO>  Take for example the Tehran sighting I have discussed with
 GO> some of these people.  It has been dismissed by the peopl for
 GO> the following reasons
I forwarded a multi-part post in SKEPTIC that you ignored. Why? (Several
people responded to it, so it certainly did make it out around the world.)
 GO> 1) the document is false.  Simply untrue when you can make a
 GO> FOIA request to the DIA for it yourself.
Funny, if you bothered to read the article I posted there, you would have
seen that the document was never classified by the MAAG, but a _copy_ was
indeed classified by one of the US entities it was sent to (labeled
"classified" -- the LOWEST security level). 
Nevertheless, it remained (and remains) unclassified by the MAAG. In other
words, you make a big deal out of it coming out of FOIA, whereas it has
always been available.
Indeed, a copy was leaked to the UFO group NICAP and reprinted in NICAP's
November 1976 issue of its 'UFO INVESTIGATOR.' 
Funny that you should bring up anonymous peopl (sic) whose questions you
argue with here -- when your initial argument has problems and you ignore the
facts (as reposted in the SKEPTIC echo) showing that the information was
available -- unclassified -- by UFO groups mere days after the report was
issued.
Some might conclude that this is a straw-man argument you've set up just to
knock down.
 GO> 2) some made the claim that it was 2nd hand evidence fowarded
 GO> by an governmental FTB observer in Iran.
It _is_ second-hand evidence. Moreover, subsequent interviews with the flight
crews found them contradicting themselves -- something you are either unaware
of, or decided to ignore from that article repost in SKEPTIC.
You should return to the SKEPTIC echo and reread that multi-part article,
which clearly shows that your claims are based on limited and inaccurate
information.
  Salut!!!
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