Part 32 (1/2)

But severalfor an airliner to Los Angeles and I watched gulls soaring in a cloudless sky They were ”riding a therh that you couldn't see them until they banked just a certain way; then they appeared to be a bright white flash, ulls There was a strong resemblance to the UFO's in the Tremonton Movie But I'm not sure that this is the answer

The presentation of the twoIn five days we had given the panel of scientists every pertinent detail in the history of the UFO, and it was up to the through our atmosphere If they were real, then they would have to be spacecraft because no one at the ht to the possibility that the UFO's ht be a supersecret US aircraft or a Soviet develop on in the US and they knew that no country in the world had developed their technology far enough to build a craft that would perform as the UFO's were reported to do In addition, ere spending billions of dollars on the research and develop the speed of sound It would be absurd to think that these billions were being spent to cover the existence of a UFO-type weapon And it would be equally absurd to think that the British, French, Russians or any other country could be far enough ahead of us to have a UFO

The scientists spent the next two days pondering a conclusion They reread reports and looked at the two ain, they called other scientists to double-check certain ideas that they had, and they discussed the proble themselves Then they wrote out their conclusions and each raph said:

We as a group do not believe that it is impossible for soent creatures Nor is it impossible that these creatures could have reached such a state of development that they could visit the earth However, there is nothing in all of the so-called ”flying saucer” reports that we have read that would indicate that this is taking place

The Tremonton Movie had been rejected as proof but the panel did leave the door open a crack when they suggested that the Navy photo lab redo their study But the Navy lab never rechecked their report, and it was over a year later before new data caot out of the Air Force I met Newhouse and talked to him for two hours I've talked to many people who have reported UFO's, but few impressed me as much as Newhouse I learned that when he and his family first saw the UFO's they were close to the car, much closer than when he took the movie To use Newhouse's oords, ”If they had been the size of a B-29 they would have been at 10,000 feet altitude” And the Navy ood look at the objects--they looked like ”two pie pans, one inverted on the top of the other!” He didn't just _think_ the UFO's were disk-shaped; he _knew_ that they were; he had plainly seen theence officer who interrogated him He said that he had Then I reence officer a list of questions I wanted Newhouse to answer The question ”What did the UFO's look like?” wasn't one of the you don't norence officer didn't pass this information on to us I'll never know

The Montana Movie was rejected by the panel as positive proof because even though the two observers said that the jets were in another part of the sky when they saw the UFO's and our study backed them up, there was still a chance that the two UFO's could have been the two jets We couldn't prove the UFO's were the jets, but neither could we prove they weren't

The controversial study of the UFO's' motions that Major Fournet had presented was discarded All of the panel agreed that if there had been soraph of a UFO's flight path or a photograph of a UFO's track on a radarscope, they could have given the study ht But in every one of the ten or twenty reports that were offered as proof that the UFO's were intelligently controlled, the motions were only those that the observer had seen And the human eye and mind are not accurate recorders How roup of people watch two cars collide at an intersection?

Each of the fifty of our best sightings that we gave the scientists to study had some kind of a loophole In many cases the loopholes were extremely small, but scientific evaluation has no room for even the smallest of loopholes and we had asked for a scientific evaluation

When they had finished co on the reports, the scientists pointed out the seriousness of the decision they had been asked to make They said that they had tried hard to be objective and not to be picayunish, but actually all we had was circumstantial evidence

Good circu concrete, no hardware, no photos showing any detail of a UFO, noin the way of good, hard, cold, scientific facts To stake the future course of millions of lives on a decision based upon circuravest mistakes in the history of the world

In their conclusions they touched upon the possibility that the UFO's ht be some type of new or yet undiscovered natural phenoiven this too much credence; however, if the UFO's were a new natural phenoeneral appearance should follow a definite pattern-- the UFO reports didn't

This ended the section of the panel's report that covered their conclusions The next section was entitled, ”Recommendations” I fully expected that they would recommend that we as least reduce the activities of Project Blue Book if not cancel it entirely I didn't like this one bit because I was firmly convinced that we didn't have the final answer We needed iven

The panel didn't recommend that the activities of Blue Book be cut back, and they didn't recommend that it be dropped They recommended that it be expanded Too many of the reports had been made by credible observers, the report said, people who should knohat they're looking at--people who think things out carefully Data that was out of the circumstantial-evidence class was badly needed And the panel must have been at least partially convinced that an expanded effort would prove so because the expansion they recommended would require a considerable suative force of Project Blue Book should be quadrupled in size, they wrote, and it should be staffed by specially trained experts in the fields of electronics, raphy, physics, and other fields of science pertinent to UFO investigations

Every effort should be s are frequent, so that data could beIn other locations around the country military and civilian scientists should be alerted and instructed to use every piece of available equipment that could be used to track UFO's

And lastly, they said that the American public should be told every detail of every phase of the UFO investigation--the details of the sightings, the official conclusions, and why the conclusions were made This would serve a double purpose; it would dispel any of the mystery that security breeds and it would keep the Air Force on the ball--sloppy investigations and analyses would never occur

When the panel's conclusions were overnment, they met with mixed reactions Some people were satisfied, but others weren't Even the opinions of a group of the country's top scientists couldn't overcoed the UFO for five years Some of those who didn't like the decision had sat in on the UFO's trial as spectators and they felt that the ”jury” was definitely prejudiced-- afraid to stick their necks out They could see no reason to continue to assume that the UFO's weren't interplanetary vehicles

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

What Are UFO's?

While the scientists were in Washi+ngton, DC, pondering over the UFO, the UFO's weren't just sitting idly by waiting to find out what they were--they were out doing a little ”lobbying” for the cause-- keeping the interest stirred up

And they were doing a good job, too

It was just a few e flashed into Wright-Patterson for Project Blue Book It was sent ”Operational I it by 12:30AM A pilot had chased a UFO

The report didn't have ave the pilot's name and said that he could be reached at Moody AFB I put in a long-distance call, found the pilot, and flipped on et his story word for word

He toldan F-86 on a ”round-robin”