Part 37 (1/2)

The Air Force had said that there was nothing classified about Project Blue Book yet NICAP hadn't seen every blessed scrap of paper in the Air Force UFO files This was unwarranted censorshi+p!

While Congress was right in the n policy, atoration and a dozen and one other problean to bedevil every senator and representative as polite enough to listen

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease and in November 1957, the United States Senate Co UFO's

I gave my testimony and so did others who had been associated with Project Blue Book

A feeeks later the inquiry was dropped

But NICAP had made its name Of all of the thorns that have been pounded into the UFO side of the Air Force, NICAP drove theirs the deepest

In the midst of all this mess Admiral Fahrney, General Wedened froovernors

Neither the loss of these famous names nor the defeat at the hands of the Air Force has stopped NICAP They continue to forge ahead, undaunted

In many UFO incidents they have actually uncovered additional, and so, infor, being accused of profiteering, trying to make headlines, and other minor social crimes But personally I doubt this Keyhoe is simply convinced that UFO's are fro NICAP-Air Force battle was going on the UFO's were not waiting to see on They were still flying

At Ellington AFB, Texas, a Ground Observer Corps teah the radar crew couldn't pick it up on their sets they saw it visually The lieutenant in charge told investigators how it crossed from horizon to horizon in 45 seconds

On March 9, several passengers on a New York to San Juan, Porto Rico airliner were injured when the pilot pulled the big DC-6 up sharply to reenish white, clearly circular-shaped object”

which was on a collision course with the plane The pilots of several other airliners in the sa

Teeks later jet interceptors were scra to the records, the first report of the brilliant and ht came from a man in the east part of Pasadena But his report was quickly lost in the shuffle as ht crossed the Los Angeles Basin from southeast to northwest hundreds of people saw it

Traffic was tied up on the Rose Parade faet out and look As it neared the Air Defense Command Filter Center in Pasadena the filter center personnel, those that could be spared, went out and looked They saw it Police switchboards lit up a solid red as it crossed the San Gabriel Valley

Near ets near the Oxnard AFB, at Oxnard, California (northwest of Los Angeles), and at alht

This did it, and terful jets, equipped with all weather radar, ca into the area

But it was the saone

Theof May 23rd, when five observers in Kansas City saw four silver, disc-shaped objects flying in forht two of the objects broke formation and veered off but soon rejoined It took the objects only four minutes to cross the sky

There were other reports during the first half of 1957, 250 of theood” But they were nothing compared to those that were to cos broke out in Texas and they had a brand neist To do things up right the powers that guide the UFO picked the town of Levelland only 27 miles west of Lubbock, the hohts”

It ith a tug of nostalgia that I read about these reports because five years before, aled the Air Force, andto the best interpretation of thestories, facts and rus the only positive fact is that there were scattered storht of November 4, 1957 This was unusual for Novey

It was early in the evening, at least early for West Texas on a Saturday night, when Pedro Saucedo, a farm worker, and his friend Joe Salaz, started out in Saucedo's truck toward Pettit, ten miles northwest of Level-land They had just turned off State Highway 116 and were heading north on a country road when the two ht in an adjacent field Saucedo, a Korean War Veteran, and Salaz didn't pay ht at first They only noticed that it was co a little closer all the time,” Saucedo later recalled

Still neither ht They drove on, Saucedo watching the road and Salaz talking

Then it hit