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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Chapter 13

CHAPTER 13, HOAX OR HORROR?: To the military and the public who weren’t intimately associated with the higher levels of Air Force Intelligence during the summer of 1952 – and few were – General Samford’s press conference seemed to indicate the peak in official interest in flying saucers. It did take the pressure off Project Blue Book – reports dropped from fifty per day to ten a day inside of a week – but behind the scenes the press conference was only the signal for an all out drive to find out more about the UFO. Work on the special cameras continued on a high priority basis, and General Samford directed us to enlist the aid of top ranking scientists. During the past four […] Read More

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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Chapter 6

The presses roll – the Air Force shrugs: The Grudge Report was supposedly not for general distribution. A few copies were sent to the Air Force Press Desk in the Pentagon and reporters and writers could come in and read it. But a good many copies did get into circulation. The Air Force Press Room wasn’t the best place to sit and study a 600 page report, and a quick glance at the report showed that it required some study – if no more than to find out what the authors were trying to prove – so several dozen copies got into circulation. I know that these “liberated” copies of the Grudge Report had been thoroughly studied because nearly every writer who came to […] Read More

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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Chapter 17

What Are UFO’s? While the scientists were in Washington, D.C., 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 minutes before midnight on January 28, 1953, when a message flashed into Wright-Patterson for Project Blue Book. It was sent “Operational Immediate,” so it had priority handling; I was reading it by 12:30 A.M.. A pilot had chased a UFO. The report didn’t have many details but it did sound good. It gave the pilot’s name and said that he could be reached at Moody AFB. […] Read More