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MARGINALIA

(Author's note: I was sent the enclosed document anonymously, The document itself, a photocopy, is
government-speak, blank to the point of unreadability. But the notes scribbled in the margins are
intriguing.)

Title page:

United States General Accounting Office
GAO report to the Honorable William X. Lambie,
House of representatives
June 1998
GOVERNMENT RECORDS
Results of a Search for Records Concerning
the 1983 Explosion near Cross Fork, Nevada
SUMMARY ONLY
GAO/NSRAF-96-244

Cover note:

From: United States General Accounting Office, Washington, DC
20548 National Security and International Affairs Division. June 24,
1998.
To: The Honorable William X Lambie, House of Representatives.

Dear Mr. Lambie:
After fifteen years, speculation continues on the truth of the large explosion which is alleged to have taken
place at a covert US military research facility in Nevada.
Some observers speculate that the explosion was the destruction of a conventional rocket; others that it
was caused by the crash of an aircraft, perhaps of an extraterrestial nature; others that agencies of the
government have been engaged in a misinformation campaign to conceal some deeper truth, such as a
successful launch of some space vehicle; others that this was the demolition of covert military facility.
In its 1984 official report and since, the Air Force has denied the reality of the explosion.
Concerned that the Department of Defense may not have provided you with all available information on
the incident, you asked us to determine any government records concerning the incident we examined a
wide range of classified and unclassified documents dating from 1965 through the 1980's. The full scope
and methodology of our work are detailed in the full report...


Sir:
I read your counterfactual "novel." About NASA going on to Mars in the 1980's, instead
of shutting everything down after Apollo? What a crock.
Counterfactuality does not serve the needs of the truth. But now at last, the truth is
starting to come out. And the truth is, people have been to Mars.
They are walking around among us right now. And nobody knows about it.
Of course much of the data returned by the old Mars probes has always been kept from
the public. These include:

1) Grainy photographs of what could be structures on the surface taken by the space
probe Mariner 4 in 1964.