"An Open Letter to the Citizens of Gulf Breeze"

 

The following letter from UFO investigator Bob Oechsler appeared

in the May 12, 1988 issue of the Gulf Breeze Sentinel.

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"An Open Letter to the Citizens of Gulf Breeze" 

Dear Gulf Breeze Citizenry:

     For those who don't know me or my contributions to the 

investigation of UFO related activity in Gulf Breeze, I am a UFO

Investigator/Reporter from the Annapolis, Maryland area.  My 

involvement in your local sightings case has been quite extensive

with well over 100 hours of research and telephone interviews 

with investigators, witnesses, photographers, meteorologists, path-

ologists, technologists and the media.  I've been reporting the events

on radio in Baltimore and have included "live" interviews with Ed, 

Duane Cook and others.  I have battled the skeptics and have

reported my findings to the UFO Intelligence Community.  During

this period of time, I have had to investigate numerous sightings of

UFO activity in the Annapolis Bay Bridge area which has served to

limit my otherwise total involvement in the Gulf Breeze Sightings.

     Please be assured that not all "distant experts" are scientifically

critical of the extraordinary events that have been occuring in your

peninsula city.  Before getting too far into this letter, allow me to set

the record straight on one issue of significance to no one by myself.

Mr. R--- S-------  is not a resident of Annapolis, Maryland.  You

remember RS, the author of a report with a Strange Breeze blowing

through his head whose Psychic Premonitions lead him to believe

that The Sightings were all an elaborate hoax.  Mr. RS resides and

receives his mail in College Park, Maryland, some 35 miles from the

quaint little peninsula capitol of the state of Maryland which so 

happens to be the city where I call home.  And so now you see the

reason for my interest in setting the record straight.

     It should be noted that statistically speaking, there are now on

record over 50 sightings of UFO activity in the Gulf Breeze area that

have no connection to the noted photographer Ed.  There are now

on record five photographers of UFO's only one of which has not

been in direct contact with MUFON investigators.  There is now re-

ported to be a second video tape of a moving and hovering UFO;

the photographer is in no way related to Ed.  And, there are over

100 witnesses of sightings who have asked to file reports, with

some accounts involving five and six witnesses.

      Remember the "Jan Tide" with the funny looking blimp of 

radar equipment floating about in Pensacola Bay that was suppose

to leave in late January or early February?  Well you may have

noticed that it is still there over 90 days later. And, in case no one

has noticed, there is now a similar companion vessel out there

with the insignia NASA on the side.  Let's also not forget about that

cute little Army vehicle with the 150-foot telescoping RADAR

globe that had to be moved out of Ft. Pickens due to excessive

curiosity of visitors.  A civilian employee of Pensacola NAS has

reported that there are now 18 of those RADAR vehicles operating

in the Gulf Breeze area.

     What does all of this mean?  We're checking the records, but 

it is doubtful that there has been a significant increase in drug

smuggling activity in the area.  Why has the Network News Media

taken such a hands-off approach to reporting these events outside

of the Pensacola area?  Is there Government INTEREST in this case

of UFO activity?  Is the Government turning some subtle screws to

clamp down on exposing what's really happening here?  If so,

WHY?  The answer may lie somewhere in the MJ-12 documents

that I've enclosed with this letter.  These documents have been 

available for over a year now, and have been widely published in

their entirety in (among others) The Danville Newspapers in 

Pennsylvania and at least one major newsletter out of Cranston,

Rhode Island.  Experts who have researched these documents 

thoroughly say they are authentic.  A memo from President

Truman makes direct reference to the MJ-12 operation.  There

is more, much more, but this should be enough to encourage any

doubters out there that UFO's are REAL.  Their purpose is now 

fundamentally known.  We may be powerless to stop it, although

some experts feel otherwise.

     A letter to the President of the United States was mailed today

along with correspondence to several members of congress and 

the Senate.  The purpose is to seek official help in matters related

to the Gulf Breeze Sightings.  Matters that involve the purpose 

behind the visitations.  Help is very much needed here.  Although

exceptionally competent as I stated in my report to the UFO 

Intelligence Community on April 21, 1988, there are but less than

a handful of part-time qualified investigators available in the 

area to handle the massive workload.  Scientific monitoring and

evaluation by civilian technologists is all but vacant here, except

for the exhaustive efforts of Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Ph.D.  The 

reassuring hand of Budd Hopkins has been quite welcome therapy

for those in need, but it is not nearly enough.  

     Will help be on the way?  We'll keep you posted as the gears

and cogs of our bureaucracy oil up for action.  The critics and 

skeptics will not be able to sweep this intrusion under the carpet

with the guise of a hoax for long.  Our prayers are with you and 

all whose lives have been changed forever.

Bob Oechsler

UFO Investigator/Reporter