Chapter 3 Recent Sightings in the Pacific A notable characteristic of UFO activity is the tendency for appearances to concentrate in particular areas or regions on the earth at different times. It is as though our so-called visitors from outer space have been from time to time over the past dozen years making soundings or surveys of selected areas on this terrestrial globe. This activity may or may not […] Read More
Chapter 2 Report To Congress In June 1960, after examining the accumulated evidence for UFOs, NICAP concluded not only that UFOs are real, and, by majority opinion, probably interplanetary, but also that there are certain potential dangers linked with the secretive Air Force policy. These ideas were embodied in a report to Congress. A digest of the reports follows. (A confidential section, “How Krushchev Could Exploit the UFO Situation,” […] Read More
PART I: THE UFO MYSTERY –Chapter 1 The Challenge “It is the majority opinion of the NICAP Board of Governors and Panel of Special Advisors that the unknown devices reported by reliable observers are intelligently controlled machines from outer space. Joining in this opinion are the following: Board Members Dr. Marcus Bach, Iowa State University The Rev. Albert Bailer, Greenfield, Massachusetts Mr. Frank Edwards, Mutual Broadcasting System Col. Robert […] Read More
INTRODUCTION Accounts of phenomena popularly referred to as “flying saucers,” more dignifiedly labeled “unidentified flying objects” or UFOs, continue to persist in the world news. The reports of these strange phenomena of the skies have been attracting public attention for thirteen years and there is apparently no let-up in sight. Although within a given region on earth long lulls between sightings have been noted, during such local lulls, other […] Read More
FOREWORD The undersigned was requested to write a brief foreword. He has consented to do this for several reasons. He considers it his duty to aid in any reasonable way in the study of a subject for which his own long experience entitles him to express an opinion. Also that the subject of UFOs is one which should be studied scientifically, which it has not been due to suppression […] Read More
Front Pages Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Part I. The UFO Mystery Chapter 1: The Challenge Chapter 2: Report to Congress Chapter 3: Recent Sightings in The Pacific Chapter 4: The Swedish “Ghost Rockets” Part II. A Scientist Looks At UFOs Chapter 1: Scientist Finds Some Saucer Reports Still To Be Satisfactorily Explained Chapter 2: Saucers and Science Chapter 3: An Open Letter To Scientists Chapter 4: The Phenomena […] Read More
Chapter XX AFTER one year’s investigation of the flying saucers and Air Force operations, I have come to the following conclusions: 1. The Air Force was puzzled and badly worried when the disks first were sighted in 1947. 2. The Air Force began to suspect the truth soon after Mantell’s death–perhaps even before. 3. Project “Saucer” was set up to investigate and at the same time conceal from the […] Read More
Chapter XIX For two weeks after my return to Washington, General Sory Smith held off a final answer about my trip to Wright Field. Meantime, Ken Purdy had called him backing my request to see the Project files. It was obvious to me that Wright Field was determined not to open the files. But the General was trying to avoid making it official. “Why can’t you accept my word […] Read More
Chapter XVIII That night I went through the Project “Saucer” summary of cases. It was a strange experience. The first report I checked was the Mantell case. Nothing that Boggs had said had changed my firm opinion. I knew the answer was not Venus, and I was certain Boggs knew it, too. The Godman Field incident was listed as Case 33. The report also touches on the Lockbourne Air […] Read More
Chapter XVII For a moment after Boggs’s last answer, I had an impulse to end the interview. I had a feeling I was facing a sphinx–a quiet, courteous sphinx in an Air Force uniform. I was sure now why Major Jerry Boggs had been chosen for his job, the all-important connecting link with the project at Wright Field. No one would ever catch this man off guard, no matter […] Read More
Chapter XVI That morning, at True, we made the final decisions on how to handle the story. Using the evidence of the Mantell case, the Chiles-Whitted report, Gorman’s mystery-light encounter, and other authentic cases, along with the records of early sightings, we would state our main conclusion: that the flying saucers were interplanetary. In going over the mass of reports, Purdy and I both realized that a few sightings […] Read More
Chapter XV It was early in October 1949 when I finished the reversal of our space-exploration plans. I spent the next two days running down a sighting report from a town in Pennsylvania. Like three or four other tips that had seemed important at first, it turned out to be a dud. When I got back home, I found Ken Purdy had been trying to reach me. I phoned […] Read More
Chapter XIV That evening, after my talk with Redell, the question kept coming back in my mind. What were they like? And what were they doing here? From the long record of sightings, it was possible to get an answer to the second question. Observation of the earth followed a general pattern. According to the reports, Europe, the most populated area, had been more closely observed than the rest […] Read More
Chapter XIII Before my date with Redell, I went over all the material I had, hoping to find some clue to the space visitors’ planet. It was possible, of course, that there was more than one planet involved. Project “Saucer” had discussed the possibilities in its report of April 27, 1949. I read over this section again: Since flying saucers first hit the headlines almost two years ago, there […] Read More