Part 30 (1/2)

When this high court convened on theit received was its orders; one of three verdicts would be acceptable:

All UFO reports are explainable as known objects or natural phenoation should be permanently discontinued

The UFO reports do not contain enough data upon which to base a final conclusion Project Blue Book should be continued in hopes of obtaining better data

The UFO's are interplanetary spacecraft

The written verdict, the group was told, would be given to the National Security Council, a council encies, and thence it would go to the President of the United States--if they should decide that the UFO's were interplanetary spacecraft

Because of ulations, the names of the panel members, like the names of so many other people associated with the UFO story, cannot be revealed Two of the men had made names for thehest theory for practical uses One of thesehole at the beginning of World War II, and the other had been one of the fathers of the H-bomb Another of the panel members is now the chief civilian adviser to one of our top military coht to get the UFO recognized is respected throughout scientific circles

There was a hly theoretical physics and mathematics, and another who had pioneered operations research during World War II The sixth member of the panel had been honored by the American Rocket Society and the International Astronautical Federation for his work in ers realm to the point of near reality and who is now a rocket expert

It was an i the first two days of the s for the scientists Since June 1947, when the first UFO report had been made, ATIC had analyzed 1,593 UFO reports About 4,400 had actually been received, but all except 1,593 had been immediately rejected for analysis From our studies, we estimated that ATIC received reports of only 10 per cent of the UFO sightings that were made in the United States, therefore in five and a half years sos had been made

Of the 1,593 reports that had been analyzed by Project Blue Book, and we had studied and evaluated every report in the Air Force files, we had been able to explain a great many The actual breakdoas like this:

_Balloons_1851

Known 157 Probable 499 Possible 1195 1851

_Aircraft_1176

Known 098 Probable 774 Possible 304 1176

_Astronomical_ _Bodies_1420

Known 279 Probable 401 Possible 740 1420

_Other_ 421

Searchlights on clouds, birds, blowing paper, inversions, reflections, etc

_Hoaxes_166

_Insufficient_ _data_2272

(In addition to those initially eliminated)

_Unknowns_2694

By using the terms ”Known,” ”Probable,” and ”Possible,” ere able to differentiate how positive ere of our conclusions But even in the ”Possible” cases ere, in our own minds, sure that we had identified the reported UFO

And who made these reports? Pilots and air crews ineers made 57 per cent, airport control tower operators made an even 10 per cent of the reports, and 125 per cent of the total were radar reports The re 637 per cent were eneral

The reports that ere interested in were the 2694 per cent or 429 ”Unknowns,” so we had studied thereat detail We studied the reported colors of the UFO's, the shapes, the directions they were traveling, the times of day they were observed, and nificant pattern or trends We did find that the most often reported shape was elliptical and that the most often reported color hite or ”metallic” About the sa seen in daytiht, and the direction of travel equally covered the sixteen cardinal headings of the compass