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Originally posted by cripmeister
reply to post by spacevisitor
SOM1-01 was what everyone interested in the Roswell/MJ12/Area51 mythos was waiting for in the early 1990s.
Originally posted by cripmeister
It shows a drawing of a triangle which looks exactly like the 1990 Belgium triangle.
Originally posted by cripmeister
Here are more discrepancies that haven't been addressed in this thread yet.
7. “Eyes Only” is not a security classification. It is sometimes used as a communication procedure and sometimes as custom in the military. It sounds very “James Bond.” However, when used in communication it is generally directed to one named individual. I would very much like to see a security manual that covers “Eyes Only".
And on.
Source
Is it possible that this manual is real? Possible yes, but highly unlikely.
How about an alternate more likely possibility. An Air Force buck Sgt. with some intelligence training (but who probably fell asleep in technical intelligence class) and some friends cut and pasted this little number from a military packing manual. The buck Sgt. was too young to have been around in 1954 so there are so many anachronisms.
I have no proof, of course. Just a little possibility.....
Originally posted by cripmeister
The fact that this document received the highest authenticity rating from majesticdocuments.com means that those guys are either gullible or knowingly spreading hoaxed material.
Originally posted by freelance_zenarchist
The SOM1-01 manual claims to be from 1954 but it contains the font Helvetica which wasn't created until 1957.
For example, look at this section of page 4 of the manual -
Now here it is with the Helvetica typeface next to it and layed over top.
That lines up pretty good considering it's a piece of paper being photographed at an angle and the paper isn't completely flat.
majicbar posted a link to a .pdf file that claims, despite showing any visual evidence to back it up with, that Franklin Gothic and Square Gothic are better matches than Helvetica to what's in the SOM1-01 manual.
After comparing the different fonts I can see why they didn't include a single example.
Here is the same text in the Franklin Gothic and Square Gothic typefaces for comparison.
You can see that Franklin Gothic is thicker than the type in the manual, and various characters have different features, such as the E,R,O and 1.
Square Gothic is thinner, has different spacing, and the E,R,A,S,C,G,D,P,O and 1 characters look noticably different.
I won't go into all of these characters, but one of the key indicators that the font used is Helvetica is the R's.
The right side of the Helvetica R has a rounded tail, while the Franklin Gothic and Square Gothic R's both have a straight tail.
The R's in the SOM1-01 manual are the same as the Helvetica R's.
Another indicator that Helvetica was used is the 1's.
Square Gothic is missing the curve at the top, Franklin Gothic has it, but it also has the extra pieces at the bottom that aren't seen in the SOM1-01 manual.
Only Helvetica has a similar 1 to what's used in the manual.
Can we put this silly manual to rest now and move this to the hoax forum?
Originally posted by spacevisitor
Originally posted by cripmeister
reply to post by spacevisitor
SOM1-01 was what everyone interested in the Roswell/MJ12/Area51 mythos was waiting for in the early 1990s.
What you saying here is nothing more than your own opinion right or can you back that up?
Originally posted by cripmeister
It shows a drawing of a triangle which looks exactly like the 1990 Belgium triangle.
You mentioned that earlier, but that’s makes it even more interesting in my opinion, because that gives the impression that the same kinds of crafts where already flying around here back then and the military where as it seems aware of that?
Originally posted by cripmeister
The fact that this document received the highest authenticity rating from majesticdocuments.com means that those guys are either gullible or knowingly spreading hoaxed material.
But there is no 100% proof that it is hoaxed material right.
And if it was, then I think it’s quite obvious that the real perpetrators of that all must be coming out of the military in my opinion.
And how would you make them gullible for knowingly spreading hoaxed material?