Part 36 (1/2)
Shortly before hted, teardrop shaped, blob of light” ”prongs, or streaht, sprayed doard fro, about the size of a 200 watt light bulb
As the group of ht continued to drift and for many minutes it moved vertically and horizontally over a wide area of the sky Then it faded away
As one of the o; I was pooped”
The nextand describing After all these years of talk they'd actually seen one Several photos, showing the big blob of light, were shown around, and two fishermen readily admitted they'd packed up their poles and tackle boxes and headed ho of hundreds of Kansans when he said: ”I have tended to discount the stories about flying objects, but, brother, I am now a believer”
What was it? First of all it was confusion Early the next_the_ questions: ”What size was it in comparison to a key or a diht bulb?” ”Was there any noise?”
As soon as they left, the military tersely announced that no radar had picked up any target and no B-47's had been sent out Then they pulled the plugs on the inco phone lines The confusion mounted when newsmen tapped their private sources and learned that a B-47 _had_ been sent into the area
A few days later the Air Force told the Kansans what they'd seen: The reflection froas torches in a local oil field
This was greeted with the Kansan version of the Bronx Cheer
Nineteen hundred fifty-six was a big year for Project Blue Book
According to an old friend, Captain George Gregory, as then Chief of Blue Book, they received 778 reports And through a lot of sleepless nights they were able to ”solve” 978 of theh the reports for 1956, outside of the ones already , California, Ground Observer Corps spotters watched a ”balloon-like object ular circuits around the town” In Plyht yellow object which left a trail, sih altitude” At Rosebury, Oregon, State Police receivedslowly around a television transmitter tower And in Hartford, Connecticut, two ah a 4-inch telescope, were distracted by a bright light Turning their telescope on it they observed a ”large, whitish yellow light, shaped like a ten gallon hat” Many other people evidently saw the same UFO because the local newspaper said, ”reports have been pouring in”
In Miami, a Pan American Airlines radar operator tracked a UFO at speeds up to 4000 miles an hour Five of his skeptical fellow radar operators watched and were confirmed
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citizen and his wife captured an 18-inch saucer by putting a headlock on it They started to the local police station, but put the saucer down to cli off to the hinterlands of space
The 27th Air Defense Division that guards the vast aircraft and ht of Septe an approach to Los Angeles International Airport, the Ground Observer Corps, and nu slowly across the Los Angeles basin When the big defense radars on San Cleet in the sa reported two F-89 jet interceptors were scraators learned that a 2765 weather balloon had caused the many thousand dollars' worth of excite interceptors has been a sore point with the UFO business for a long time Many people believe that the mere fact the Air Force will send up two, three, or even four aircraft that cost 2000 an hour to fly is proof positive that the Air Force doesn't believe its own story that UFO's don't exist
The official answer you'll get, if you ask the Air Force, is that they scraet as a et a different answer They write the UFO scraet so ainst an unidentified light isholes in the air”
If appropriations are ever cut to the point where training must be curtailed, and Heaven forbid, there will be nosaucers
And the colonel who told me this was e announce dry spell of UFO news
At a press conference in Washi+ngton, DC, Retired Admiral Delmer S
Fahrney made a statement Newspapers across the country carried it complete, or in part, and people read the statement with interest because Adeable uided ram back in the days when people who talked of ballistic ht for their beliefs
First, Adanization, the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenoate UFO reports He would be chairovernors and his board would consist of such potent names as: