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Air Defense Coation was started at once

Flight Service, which clears all hts, was contacted and asked about the location of aircraft near the Carson Sink area at 3:40PM They had no record of the presence of aircraft in that area

Since the colonels hadaircraft, and both the Air Force and the Navy had a few of this type, we double-checked The Navy's deltas were all on the east coast, at least all of the silver ones were A few deltas painted the traditional navy blue were on the west coast, but not near Carson Sink The Air Force's one delta was terounded

Since balloons once in a while can appear to have an odd shape, all balloon flights were checked for both standard weather balloons and the big 100-foot-dia was found

A quick check on the two colonels revealed that both of them were com tihly classified assignnize _anything_ that the United States knows to be flying anywhere in the world

Bothsaucers” at some time, but both had openly voiced their skepticism Now, from what the colonels said when they were interviewed after landing at Colorado Springs, they had changed their opinions

nobody knohat the two colonels saw over Carson Sink However, it is always possible to speculate Maybe they just thought they were close enough to the three objects to see theht have been three F-86's: ht Service lost the records

It could be that the three F-86's had taken off to fly in the local area of their base but had decided to do soht Service would have no record of a flight like this Maybe both of the colonels had hallucinations

There is a certain mathematical probability that any one of the above speculative answers is correct--correct for this one case If you try this type of speculation on hundreds of sightings with ”unknown” answers, the probability that the speculative answers are correct rapidly approaches zero

Maybe the colonels actually did see what they thought they did, a type of craft coood UFO report provides an incident in which there is hardly room for any speculation of this type The conclusion is more simply, ”Unknown,” period

On January 20, 1952, at seven-twenty in the evening, twodown a street on the Fairchild Air Force Base, close to Spokane, Washi+ngton

Suddenly both e, bluish-white, spherical-shaped object approaching from the east They stopped and watched the object carefully, because several of these UFO's had been reported by pilots froeants had written up the reports on these earlier sightings

The object was traveling at a moderately fast speed on a horizontal path As it passed to the north of their position and disappeared in the west, the sergeants noted that it had a long blue tail At no time did they hear any sound They noted certain landmarks that the object had crossed and esti these landles between these landmarks in order to include theot the report at ATIC, our first reaction was that the e meteor From the evidence I had written off, as meteors, all previous sieants' report, however, contained one bit of infored the previous picture At the ti there had been a solid 6,000-foot-thick overcast at 4,700 feet And ave a rather fantastic answer If the object was just at the base of the clouds it would have been 10,000 feet fro 1,400 ardless of the speed, the story was still fantastic The object was no jet airplane because there was no sound It was not a searchlight because there were none on the air base It was not an autoht will not produce the type of light the sergeants described As a double check, however, both men were questioned on this point They stated firhts playing on clouds, and that this was not what they saw

Beyond these lies fruitful speculation The object remains unidentified

The UFO reports eants are typical of hundreds of other good UFO reports which carry the verdict, ”Conclusion unknown”

Some of these UFO reports have been publicized, butto UFO's ithheld from the press--if the press knew of the occurrence of specific sightings Our policy on releasing information was to answer only direct questions froiven UFO incident, they naturally couldn't ask questions about it Consequently such stories were never released In other instances, when the particulars of a UFO sighting were released, they were only the bare facts about as reported Any additional inforations and analyses was not released

There is a great deal of interest in UFO's and the interest shows no signs of di saucer skipped across the sky in the summer of 1947, thousands of words on this subject have appeared in every newspaper anda six- newspapers carried a total of over 16,000 ite July 1952 reports of flying saucers sighted over Washi+ngton, DC, cheated the Democratic National Convention out of precious headline space

The subject of flying saucers, which has generated more unscientific behavior than any other topic of s of professional scientific societies, causing scientific tempers to flare where unen supreme

Yet these thousands of written words and eneral interest--have generated ht Out of this avalanche of print and talk, the full, factual, true story of UFO's has eeneral public, for its interest in UFO's, has been paid off in roups must have sensed this, for while I was chief of Project Blue Book I had dozens of requests to speak on the subject of UFO's These civilian requests had to be turned down because of security regulations