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[soft mysterious music]

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- [Narrator] For 22 years, starting officially in 1948,

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the United States Air
Force was responsible

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for investigating reports of unidentified flying objects.

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That investigation began with a serious high-priority status

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to search for answers.

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About a year later,
those involved created

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an estimate of the situation.

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That was an
intelligence analysis

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of the events that
had taken place.

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The conclusion was
that the flying saucers

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were interplanetary craft.

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The Air Force Chief of Staff, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg,

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rejected the analysis and nearly everyone involved

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in its creation found
themselves reassigned.

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The UFO project, then known as Sign, fell into disarray.

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After a series of officers had been put in charge

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and the name changed first to Grudge, then Blue Book,

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investigations
became a priority.

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They didn't last very long

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and eventually Blue
Book became little more

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than a public
relations operation

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designed to convince the public

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that the Air Force
was doing its job,

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that there was no threat
to national security,

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and that there was nothing to the tales of flying saucers.

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[electronic music]

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[text beeping]

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[tense mysterious music]

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During the Second World War, they were called foo fighters,

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and in 1946 as they
flew over Scandinavia,

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they were known
as ghost rockets.

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It wasn't until Boise, Idaho businessman Kenneth Arnold

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saw them near Mount
Rainier, Washington,

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that they became flying saucers.

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Although the official
investigation

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wouldn't be launched
for another six months,

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the Arnold sighting
was the first one

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to receive major coverage in the United States.

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Army Air Forces
investigations working

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out of the Fourth Air
Force Headquarters

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became deeply involved
in the Arnold sighting.

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Arnold made his sighting
of these strange objects

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flying one behind the other at about 9,500 feet

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at a speed he estimated to be more than 1,500 miles an hour.

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This was something that
clearly wasn't made

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in secret projects hidden in the mountains of New Mexico

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and it wasn't something that was made by the Soviet Union

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as they began to press
for world domination.

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This was something strange that had no ready explanation

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other than it was strange and almost impossible to believe.

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When Arnold landed
later in the afternoon

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on June 24th in
Yakima, Washington,

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he told the assembled reporters what he had seen.

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In the course of
describing the objects,

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he said they moved with a motion

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like that of saucers skipping across the water.

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The shape, however,
according to drawings

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that Arnold completed
for the Army,

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showed objects that were keel-shaped with a blunt nose.

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In later drawings,
Arnold had elaborated,

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showing objects that
were crescent-shaped

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with a scalloped trailing edge

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and even a clear canopy
over the cockpit.

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Later, Arnold would
provide the military

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with a written description of the events

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in a document that was
originally classified

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but that has long
since been released.

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Arnold wrote--

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- [Man] On June 24th,
I'd finished my work.

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At about two o'clock,

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I took off for Chehalis
Washington Airport

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with the intention of going to Yakima, Washington.

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I flew directly
toward Mount Rainier

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after reaching an altitude of about 9,500 feet

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which is the
approximate elevation

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of the high plateau from which Mount Rainier rises.

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There was a DC-4 to the left and to the rear of me

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approximately 15
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and I should judge a
14,000 foot elevation.

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I hadn't flown more than
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on my course when a brightflash reflected on my airplane.

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It startled me as I
thought I was too close

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to some other aircraft.

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I looked every place in the sky

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and couldn't find where the reflection had come from

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until I looked to the left and the north of Mount Rainier

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where I observed a chain of nine peculiar-looking aircraft

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flying from north to the south

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at approximately
9,500 foot elevation

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and going seemingly in
a definite direction

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of about 170 degrees.

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They, the objects,

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were approaching Mount
Rainier very rapidly

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and I merely assumed
they were jet planes.

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Anyhow, I discovered that this

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was where the
reflection had come from

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as two or three of them every few seconds would dip

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or change their course
slightly just enough

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for the sun to strike
them at an angle

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that reflected
brightly on my plane.

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I thought it was very peculiar that I couldn't their tails

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but assumed they were
some type of jet plane.

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I was determined to
clock their speed

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as I had two definite points I could clock them by.

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I watched these objects
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as I had never before
observed airplanes

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flying so close to
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I would estimate their elevationcould've varied 1,000 feet

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one way or another, up or down.

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They flew like many times I have observed geese to fly

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in a rather diagonal
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as if they were linked together.

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Their speed at the time did not impress me particularly

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because I knew that our Army and Air Forces had planes

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that went very fast.

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A number of newsmen
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that I might've been
seeing reflections

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or even a mirage.

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This I know to be
absolutely false

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as I observed these objects not only through the glass

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of my airplane, but turned my airplane sideways

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where I could open my
window and observe them

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with a completely
unobstructed view.

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When these objects were flying approximately straight

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and level, they were
just a black thin line,

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and when they flipped
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I could get a judgment
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- [Narrator] Arnold's
sightings didn't gain

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front-page status immediately.

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Stories about it appeared in newspapers a day or two later,

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usually on page eight or nine, and then with a comment

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about strange objects
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It was, at that time,
the story of an oddity.

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Arnold claimed later that he thought he had seen

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some sort of new jet aircraft and he was a little concerned

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about breaking the
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[dramatic music]

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In the Project Blue
Book files is a note

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about the Arnold case

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which labeled it as
incident number 37.

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The Air Force officers who reviewed the case wrote,

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"The report cannot bear even superficial examination,

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"therefore, must be disregarded.

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"There are strong indications that this report

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"and its attendant publicity is largely responsible

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"for subsequent reports."

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Note content with a negative note in the file.

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The unidentified
officer also wrote,

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"It is to be noted that the observer has profited

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"from his story by selling it to 'FATE Magazine'."

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Here for the first time
were two accusations

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that would be made
about many UFO cases,

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that is, the witnesses
were in it for the money

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and a suggestion that UFO reports were the result

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of the snowball effect.

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It seems to suggest that
Arnold invented his tale

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with an eye to writing a story about it for "FATE".

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There is no evidence
to support this

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and Arnold had not
written any articles

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for any magazines
prior to this sighting.

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The editors of "FATE", and Ray Palmer specifically,

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who would become
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and most vocal proponents of the flying saucers,

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induced Arnold into writing about what he had seen.

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The point then
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The article doesn't seem to have been a motive for Arnold

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but more of a
serendipitous reward

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for seeing and reporting the objects in the first place.

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It seems that thoseinvestigating the flying saucers

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didn't see a link between his sighting and photographs taken

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on July 7th, 1947,
in Phoenix, Arizona.

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William A. Rhodes, a
self-employed scientist

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living in Phoenix,
claimed he had taken

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what might be considered the first good photographs

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of one of the flying saucers.

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Initially puzzled by the case,

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the military did take
the report seriously.

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The investigation
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whose agent asked not to be identified as an FBI agent,

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accompanied the Army
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to interview Rhodes.

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Rhodes would first
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and then various government investigators,

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including those from the FBI

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and the Army's Counter
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that he had been on
his way to his workshop

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at the rear of his house when he heard a distinctive whoosh

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that he believed to be from a P-80 Shooting Star fighter jet

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which was the fastest airplane at that particular moment.

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Overhead he saw something that didn't have the shape

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of a conventional aircraft.

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He hurried to his lab, grabbed his camera from his workbench

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and hurried outside to a small mound in his backyard.

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Rhodes sighted along
the side of his camera

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and it took the
first photograph.

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He estimated that the object was circling in the east.

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He advanced the film
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thinking that he would wait for the object to get closer.

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Worried that it would disappearwithout coming closer,

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he snapped the second picture, finished the film roll,

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and his ability to record the event further.

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Rhodes' story, along with the pictures, appeared

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in the Phoenix newspaper "The Arizona Republic" on July 9th.

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In that article,
men long experienced

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in aircraft recognition
studied both the print

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and the negative from
which they were made

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and declined to make a guess

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on what the flying
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Rhodes said that the object appeared to be elliptical

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in shape and to have a diameter of 20 to 30 feet.

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It appeared to be at 5,000 feet when first seen

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and was traveling
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at 400 to 600 miles per hour.

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It was gray, which
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with the gray overcast
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The object had,
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and a confidential report from the Project Blue Book files,

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what appeared to be a cockpit canopy in the center

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which extended toward the back and beneath the object.

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The cockpit did not protrude from the surface

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but was clearly visible
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Then on August 29th, according to a memorandum

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from the office in charge, George Fugate, Jr,

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a special agent of
the CIC and stationed

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at Fourth Air
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interviewed Rhodes in person.

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Fugate was accompanied
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of the Phoenix FBI Office.

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This interview is importantbecause of some of the confusion

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about location of the
negatives and prints

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of the photograph that
would develop later.

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During the interview, Rhodes again told the story,

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suggesting that he
thought at first

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it might have been the
Navy's Flying Flapjack

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which had been featured
on the May 1947 cover

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of "Mechanix Illustrated".

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He rejected the idea because he saw no propellors

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or landing gear, though
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of the craft matched
that of the Flapjack.

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Later, research by
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both military and civilian, showed that the Navy built

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two Flapjacks but
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outside the Bridgeport,
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The project was canceled in 1947

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as the Navy moved to
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While Rhodes was
being interviewed in
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Arnold, because he
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Lieutenant Frank Brown with Captain William Davidson

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took a B-25 and flew up
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where Arnold was investigating Maury Island.

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They all got together
in Arnold's hotel room

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late in the evening where Arnold showed them the debris

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that had been recovered
on Maury Island

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that Dahl and Crisman
had given him.

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Both Army officers, Brown and Davidson, believed

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that the material was nothing more than smelter slag.

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They were unimpressed but both man respected Arnold.

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They didn't tell
him they believed

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the Maury Island
tale to be a hoax.

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All of this takes
us back to Rhodes.

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According to Early, Arnold asked the two officers

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what Army intelligence
had learned

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about UFOs in the days
after his sighting.

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Davidson sat down and then drew a picture of an object.

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He told Arnold, "This
is a drawing of one

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"of several photographs we consider to be authentic."

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Brown then added the information

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that tied it to the
Rhodes photograph.

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He said, "It came from Phoenix,Arizona, the other day.

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"We have prints of
it at Hamilton Field

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"but the original negativeswere flown to Washington, D.C."

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It is clear that those
pictures were the ones

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that Rhodes had taken

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since there were no other UFO photographs taken

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in July, 1947, in
Phoenix, Arizona.

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It's interesting that Brown mentioned Hamilton Field

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because Rhodes does
the same thing,

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and Hamilton Field was part of the Fourth Air Force

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in 1947, and Rhodes had communications with officers

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at Fourth Air Force about his photograph as well.

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In the end, the
Air Force decided

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that Arnold had been fooled by mirages created

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as the wind whipped up the snow

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at the highest levels
of the mountain.

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Rhodes had created a hoax, no real evidence of that,

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but when they had no
other explanation,

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they claimed the
sighting was a hoax.

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What they couldn't
explain, and didn't try,

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was how Rhodes could
photograph an object

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that looked like that
reported by Arnold

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without having seen the
Arnold illustrations.

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The belief at the beginning of the official investigation

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was that trained
military personnel

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and law enforcement
officers made the best,

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most credible witnesses.

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Using this criteria, they selected a number of reports

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that seemed inexplicable to them

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and that seemed to suggest that the observed craft

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were beyond the
technical capability

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of any nation on Earth.

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[mysterious percussive music]

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[somber music]

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On July 4th, 1947, there were a series of sightings

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over several Northwest states

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that Air Force officers labeledas either insufficient data

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for a scientific analysis or as unidentified.

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These involved police officers and airline flight crews

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as well as local civilians.

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Many of the reports were independent of one another

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but can be linked by location,

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time of day, and other factors.

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Combined rather than separated,

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they make a powerful statement

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about the nature of
the flying saucers.

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Although the first reports were made by civilians,

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it was just a few
minutes after one p.m.

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that police officer
Kenneth A. McDowell,

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who was near the
Portland Police Station,

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noticed that the pigeons began fluttering as if frightened.

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Overhead he saw five large disks east of the city.

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According to the report he gave to military officers,

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three disks were flying east

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and two were headed
to the south.

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All were flying at high speed

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and all appeared
to be oscillating.

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McDowell alerted other police officers in an all-car alert

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and they immediately broadcast the information

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over the police radio.

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Two other police officers, Walter A. Lissy

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and Robert Ellis, after
hearing the broadcast,

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stopped near a park.

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Overhead they saw three disks moving at high speed.

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Neither heard any sound,

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but both did see
flashes of brightness

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that could've been
sunlight reflecting

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from a metallic surface.

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According to them, the objects moved erratically

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and changed their
direction of flight.

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They were in sight
for about 30 seconds.

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Both men were veterans
of the Second World War

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and both were civilian pilots,

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which suggested they
had some experience

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around aviation and
aviation assets.

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Patrolman Earl Patterson, after hearing the broadcast,

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stopped to search
for any of the disks.

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The broadcast had suggested that the saucers

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were coming out of the sun

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which meant they were coming from the direction of the sun.

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At first, Patterson
noticed nothing,

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but a few seconds later,

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he saw one object
coming out the west

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and heading towards
the southwest.

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He said that the craft seemed to be either aluminum

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or eggshell white and didn't flash or reflect the sun.

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He also said that he didn't think they were airplanes

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like so many of the others.

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Their flight path was erratic, wobbling and weaving.

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Patterson thought they
were radio-controlled

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rather than having a
living pilot onboard.

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On the far side of
the Columbia River

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in nearby Vancouver, Washington,

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sheriff's deputies Sergeant John Sullivan, Clarence McKay,

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and Fred Krives also heard the alert broadcast

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and ran outside to
look for themselves.

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Over Portland three
to five miles away,

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they saw 20 to 30 disks
that looked to them

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like a flight of geese.

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They heard a low humming sound

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which might or might not have been related to the objects.

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Not long after that,
three Harvard patrolmen

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who had also been monitoring the police radio band

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stepped outside, Captain
K.A. Prehn, A.T. Austad,

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and Patrolman K.C. Hoff,

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saw three to six disks
traveling at high speed.

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They couldn't get a
good count on the number

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because of the bright flashes surrounding them.

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According to witnesses,

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the objects looked like
huge chrome hubcaps

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and oscillated as they flew.

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Sometimes the witnesses
could see a full disk,

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then a half-moon, and
then nothing at all.

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They did see a plane
overhead as well,

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but all the witnesses said

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that what they were watching was not aircraft.

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This would cause Air Force investigations to wonder

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if aircraft might be a
plausible explanation

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for the sightings, despite the suggestion by the witness.

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They thought that something the plane's pilot did,

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such as tossing shiny
disks from the cockpit,

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might have caused the confusion.

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And later in the day,
there was another report

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with a similar claim.

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The Air Force files
contained a report

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that a former Air Corps veteran said the object he saw

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was unlike any plane
he had ever seen.

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00:22:32.661 --> 00:22:35.215
He thought it appeared
radio-controlled

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because the disk
could change direction

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at a 90-degree angle
without difficulty.

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Another witness suggested that he had seen three objects

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fly east across the
Willamette River.

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00:22:49.402 --> 00:22:51.991
The objects did not
appear to be very high

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00:22:52.025 --> 00:22:54.373
but they were
traveling very fast.

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He said that they looked
like a metallic disk

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glinting in the sun.

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He also said that
he and a neighbor

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saw a single disk
later that afternoon.

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00:23:06.902 --> 00:23:11.528
About four p.m., more civilians reported more disks.

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A woman called the
police telling them

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she had watched a single object

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as shiny as a new
dime flipping around.

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00:23:19.743 --> 00:23:21.676
An unidentified
man called to say

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that he had seen three disks,

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one flying to the east and the two heading north.

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They were shining, shaped like flattened saucers,

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and were traveling
at high speed.

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About an hour later, a man said

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that he spotted two
white or silver objects

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flying southeast over Portland.

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00:23:42.766 --> 00:23:45.941
Half an hour later, he
sighted a single disk

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headed to the northeast.

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In Milwaukee, Oregon,
not far from Portland,

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Sergeant Claude Cross
reported three objects

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flying to the north.

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All were disk-shaped, all were moving at high speed.

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00:24:03.062 --> 00:24:07.307
But disks overhead weren't the only things being reported.

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There were objects falling from the sky as well.

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00:24:10.207 --> 00:24:13.348
Near Eugene, Oregon, a
railroad cashier said

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00:24:13.382 --> 00:24:16.489
he saw silver
disks being dropped

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00:24:16.524 --> 00:24:19.216
out of a white plane
flying over the city.

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00:24:20.562 --> 00:24:22.978
A man in Portland recovered a large piece of paper

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00:24:23.013 --> 00:24:25.671
he had seen fall
from a great height.

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00:24:25.705 --> 00:24:30.434
According to reports, the time that the paper fell coincided

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00:24:30.469 --> 00:24:32.816
with some of the
flying saucer sightings

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which might explain
some of them.

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The best of the sightings, and the one that was labeled

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as unidentified,
occurred about dusk

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as a United Airlines flight crew saw a single disk.

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00:24:54.147 --> 00:24:57.426
Minutes later, they
spotted several others.

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Captain E.J. Smith, the
captain of the flight,

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00:25:00.947 --> 00:25:03.467
explained it this way.

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- [Man] As our flight
number 105 took off

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00:25:05.849 --> 00:25:09.300
from Boise, Idaho at
four p.m. Pacific time,

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00:25:09.335 --> 00:25:11.199
the tower joshingly warned us

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to be on the lookout
for flying saucers.

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00:25:14.236 --> 00:25:17.101
My co-pilot, Ralph
Stevens, was in control

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00:25:17.136 --> 00:25:18.931
shortly after we
got into the air.

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Suddenly, he switched
on the landing lights.

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He said he thought
he saw an aircraft

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approaching us head-on.

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00:25:25.593 --> 00:25:28.630
I noticed the objects
then for the first time.

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We saw four or five somethings.

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One was larger than the rest, and for the most part,

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kept off the right of the other three or four similar

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but smaller objects.

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00:25:41.298 --> 00:25:44.922
Since we were flying northwest,roughly into the sunset,

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00:25:44.957 --> 00:25:48.167
we saw whatever they were in at least partial light.

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00:25:48.201 --> 00:25:50.031
We saw them clearly.

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00:25:50.065 --> 00:25:52.412
We followed them in a
northwesterly direction

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for about 45 miles.

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00:25:55.277 --> 00:25:56.451
Then I called the attendant

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00:25:56.485 --> 00:25:59.005
at the Ontario,
Oregon radio tower,

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giving an approximate location and course for the objects.

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00:26:02.837 --> 00:26:06.047
The attendant acknowledged our call, went outside to look,

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00:26:06.081 --> 00:26:09.602
but was unable to see anything like what we'd described.

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00:26:09.637 --> 00:26:13.330
Finally the object disappeared in a burst of speed.

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00:26:13.364 --> 00:26:14.607
We were unable to tell

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00:26:14.642 --> 00:26:17.955
whether they outsped
us or disintegrated.

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00:26:19.647 --> 00:26:22.581
We were never able to
catch them in our DC-3.

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Our airspeed at the time
was 185 miles per hour.

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Through the Boise air tower,we radioed another United plane

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to see if it had seen anything.

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00:26:32.763 --> 00:26:35.939
That plane flying
eastbound into the night

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had not sighted them.

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00:26:37.596 --> 00:26:39.321
Because we were
following the objects

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00:26:39.356 --> 00:26:41.254
at roughly the same altitude,

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00:26:41.289 --> 00:26:43.360
we can't say anything
about their shape

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00:26:43.394 --> 00:26:47.191
except they were thin and were smooth on the bottom

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and rough-appearing on the top.

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[eerie music]

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00:27:00.342 --> 00:27:02.448
- [Narrator] Smith called the flight attendant,

484
00:27:02.482 --> 00:27:06.417
Marty Morrow, to the cockpit to, in Smith's words,

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00:27:06.452 --> 00:27:09.628
verify they were actually seeing the disks.

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00:27:09.662 --> 00:27:12.665
He saw four or more disks, three clustered together

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00:27:12.700 --> 00:27:16.048
and a fourth flying off in the distance by itself.

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00:27:16.082 --> 00:27:19.465
The objects were in sight for 10 to 15 minutes

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00:27:19.499 --> 00:27:22.986
which means that she was able to get a good look at them.

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00:27:25.367 --> 00:27:26.990
Not everyone was convinced

491
00:27:27.024 --> 00:27:30.165
that the sightings were of unconventional aircraft.

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00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:32.029
Colonel G.R. Dodson,

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00:27:32.064 --> 00:27:34.998
a commander in the
Oregon National Guard,

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00:27:35.032 --> 00:27:38.484
told reporters that he had made an inspection of the area

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00:27:38.518 --> 00:27:42.591
from the air but that he had found nothing suspicious.

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00:27:44.007 --> 00:27:46.906
Solutions were offered by some of the local residents.

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00:27:46.941 --> 00:27:49.115
One thought that the sightings were the result

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00:27:49.150 --> 00:27:52.947
of cottonwood blossoms
drifting on the wind.

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00:27:52.981 --> 00:27:55.363
Another complained
about the news coverage,

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00:27:55.397 --> 00:27:57.917
believing it all to be a hoax.

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00:27:57.952 --> 00:28:00.644
He said that he had seen
an airplane fly over

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00:28:00.679 --> 00:28:03.164
and about a minute later
he saw what he believed

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00:28:03.198 --> 00:28:05.545
to be bits of aluminum foil

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00:28:05.580 --> 00:28:07.962
that might have been
cigarette wrappers.

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00:28:09.411 --> 00:28:12.449
Air Force officers mentioned that radar chaff had been seen

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00:28:12.483 --> 00:28:15.935
in the area but offered no evidence to back up the claim.

507
00:28:17.040 --> 00:28:19.732
The idea that a
private plane pilot

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00:28:19.767 --> 00:28:24.150
was dropping small silver diskstook on greater importance.

509
00:28:28.465 --> 00:28:32.400
In the only news story that might have been of importance,

510
00:28:32.434 --> 00:28:36.266
the Oregon Journal noted that the only known airplanes

511
00:28:36.300 --> 00:28:39.269
in the area at the
time of the reports

512
00:28:39.303 --> 00:28:43.480
were 23 B-29 bombers
near Astoria.

513
00:28:44.688 --> 00:28:47.346
A formation of that size
would've been difficult

514
00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:49.935
to misidentify, not to
mention that the roar

515
00:28:49.969 --> 00:28:51.764
that the engines
would've caused.

516
00:28:53.697 --> 00:28:57.459
Dr. James McDonald, an
atmospheric scientist,

517
00:28:57.494 --> 00:29:00.635
interviewed Smith, the
United Airlines captain,

518
00:29:00.669 --> 00:29:02.326
about his sighting.

519
00:29:02.361 --> 00:29:04.984
In a prepared statement
to United States

520
00:29:05.019 --> 00:29:07.090
House of Representatives
Committee

521
00:29:07.124 --> 00:29:10.093
on Science and
Astronomics' Symposium

522
00:29:10.127 --> 00:29:12.440
of the Unidentified
Flying Objects

523
00:29:12.474 --> 00:29:16.893
in July, 1968,
McDonald reported--

524
00:29:16.927 --> 00:29:18.342
- [Man] Smith emphasized to me

525
00:29:18.377 --> 00:29:20.759
that there were no cloud phenomena to confuse them here

526
00:29:20.793 --> 00:29:22.726
and that they observed these objects long enough

527
00:29:22.761 --> 00:29:25.798
to be quite certain that they were no conventional aircraft.

528
00:29:25.833 --> 00:29:28.836
They appeared flat on the bottom, rounded on the top,

529
00:29:28.870 --> 00:29:31.079
he told me, and he added
that there seems to be

530
00:29:31.114 --> 00:29:34.324
a perceptible roughness
of some sort on top,

531
00:29:34.358 --> 00:29:36.498
though he could not
refine the description.

532
00:29:36.533 --> 00:29:39.087
Almost immediately after they lost sight of the first five,

533
00:29:39.122 --> 00:29:41.262
a second formation of four,

534
00:29:41.296 --> 00:29:43.678
three in a line and a
fourth off to the side,

535
00:29:43.712 --> 00:29:45.335
moved in ahead of
their position,

536
00:29:45.369 --> 00:29:48.165
again traveling westward but at a somewhat higher altitude

537
00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:50.823
than the DC-3's 8,000 feet.

538
00:29:50.858 --> 00:29:53.101
These passed quickly out of sight to the west at speeds

539
00:29:53.136 --> 00:29:56.173
which they felt were far beyond then known speeds.

540
00:29:56.208 --> 00:29:58.589
Smith emphasized that they were never certain of sizes

541
00:29:58.624 --> 00:30:01.213
and distances but that they had the general impression

542
00:30:01.247 --> 00:30:04.250
that these disk-like craft were appreciably larger

543
00:30:04.285 --> 00:30:05.976
than ordinary aircraft.

544
00:30:06.011 --> 00:30:08.565
Smith emphasized that he
had not taken seriously

545
00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:10.084
the previous week's
news accounts

546
00:30:10.118 --> 00:30:13.673
that coined the since persistent term flying saucer

547
00:30:13.708 --> 00:30:15.123
but after seeing this total

548
00:30:15.158 --> 00:30:17.850
of nine unconventional high-speed wingless craft

549
00:30:17.885 --> 00:30:20.715
on the evening of
July 4th, 1947,

550
00:30:20.749 --> 00:30:23.028
he became much more interested in the matter.

551
00:30:23.062 --> 00:30:24.788
Nevertheless, in
talking with me,

552
00:30:24.823 --> 00:30:26.341
he stressed that he
would not speculate

553
00:30:26.376 --> 00:30:28.033
on their real nature or origin.

554
00:30:32.071 --> 00:30:34.246
- [Narrator] These reports were investigated

555
00:30:34.280 --> 00:30:36.696
by Army officers at the time,

556
00:30:36.731 --> 00:30:39.838
though the reports seemed to be fairly superficial.

557
00:30:39.872 --> 00:30:42.910
That is, there were objects seen high in the sky

558
00:30:42.944 --> 00:30:45.257
for seconds or a minute or two.

559
00:30:45.291 --> 00:30:48.260
As part of the Project
Grudge final report

560
00:30:48.294 --> 00:30:52.781
written in 1949, one
of the officers wrote,

561
00:30:52.816 --> 00:30:57.338
"This investigation can offer no definitive hypothesis

562
00:30:57.372 --> 00:31:00.513
"but in passing, would like to note the incidents occurred

563
00:31:00.548 --> 00:31:04.724
"on the 4th of July and that if relatively small pieces

564
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:06.865
"of aluminum foil
had been dropped

565
00:31:06.899 --> 00:31:08.832
"from a plane over the area,

566
00:31:08.867 --> 00:31:11.283
"then any one object
would be visible

567
00:31:11.317 --> 00:31:13.768
"at a relatively short distance.

568
00:31:13.802 --> 00:31:16.909
"Even moderate wind velocities would give the illusion

569
00:31:16.944 --> 00:31:20.119
"that fluttering gyrating disks had gone by

570
00:31:20.154 --> 00:31:22.156
"at great velocities.

571
00:31:22.190 --> 00:31:24.917
"Various observers
would not, of course,

572
00:31:24.952 --> 00:31:28.127
"in this case, have
seen the same objects."

573
00:31:29.542 --> 00:31:33.063
The officer also noted thatthe above is not to be regarded

574
00:31:33.098 --> 00:31:38.103
as a very likely explanation, but only as a possibility.

575
00:31:39.276 --> 00:31:41.175
The occurrence on these
incidents on July 4th

576
00:31:41.209 --> 00:31:43.867
may have been more
than coincidence.

577
00:31:43.902 --> 00:31:46.801
Some prankster might
have tossed such objects

578
00:31:46.835 --> 00:31:48.596
out of an airplane as part

579
00:31:48.630 --> 00:31:50.943
of an Independence
Day celebration.

580
00:31:52.841 --> 00:31:54.843
The thing that the
Air Force did here

581
00:31:54.878 --> 00:31:57.846
was link the case
by date and location

582
00:31:57.881 --> 00:32:02.161
but didn't think of them as a continuation of one sighting.

583
00:32:02.196 --> 00:32:05.440
Once a police officer had alerted his fellow officers

584
00:32:05.475 --> 00:32:08.892
to the object, they,
in different locations

585
00:32:08.927 --> 00:32:12.309
and at different times, went outside or looked up

586
00:32:12.344 --> 00:32:14.553
and were able to spot them.

587
00:32:14.587 --> 00:32:17.349
The descriptions are
of a similar type,

588
00:32:17.383 --> 00:32:21.974
dish-shaped object flying alone or in formations.

589
00:32:22.009 --> 00:32:24.183
That they were
seeing the same thing

590
00:32:24.218 --> 00:32:27.221
from different locations
suggested something

591
00:32:27.255 --> 00:32:30.120
that was very high or
that there was more

592
00:32:30.155 --> 00:32:31.673
than one formation.

593
00:32:34.435 --> 00:32:37.645
The thing to be remembered thateven if the police officers

594
00:32:37.679 --> 00:32:40.751
in the one location were
fooled by something,

595
00:32:40.786 --> 00:32:44.134
those officers observing it from a different perspective

596
00:32:44.169 --> 00:32:46.723
might have been
able to identify it

597
00:32:46.757 --> 00:32:49.864
if there was a
terrestrial explanation.

598
00:32:49.898 --> 00:32:53.316
Since that didn't
happen, it would seem

599
00:32:53.350 --> 00:32:58.010
that there was something very strange going on here.

600
00:32:58.045 --> 00:33:01.945
Add to this the sighting by Smith and his airline crew

601
00:33:01.980 --> 00:33:04.844
which we can do because
they observed the craft

602
00:33:04.879 --> 00:33:08.572
on the same day and in the same general location.

603
00:33:08.607 --> 00:33:11.713
We have a new
dimension to the case.

604
00:33:11.748 --> 00:33:14.993
Smith's report was
labeled unidentified,

605
00:33:15.027 --> 00:33:17.650
meaning that he and
his crew were able

606
00:33:17.685 --> 00:33:20.722
to give a detailed description of what they had seen.

607
00:33:22.172 --> 00:33:24.657
We have to wonder if that was because they were met

608
00:33:24.692 --> 00:33:26.935
by reporters when he landed.

609
00:33:26.970 --> 00:33:30.318
Had his report not received the attention it did

610
00:33:30.353 --> 00:33:33.459
and had he not provided
the detail he did,

611
00:33:33.494 --> 00:33:37.256
might it have ended up with only a little information

612
00:33:37.291 --> 00:33:41.778
and a label of insufficient data for scientific analysis?

613
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.885
Army Air Force's investigation

614
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.304
which took the reportseriously in the summer of 1947

615
00:33:50.338 --> 00:33:53.652
failed to find a
satisfactory explanation

616
00:33:53.686 --> 00:33:55.619
for these sightings.

617
00:33:55.654 --> 00:33:58.174
It should be remembered
that in this case,

618
00:33:58.208 --> 00:34:01.453
there was nothing other
than witness testimony,

619
00:34:01.487 --> 00:34:04.249
witnesses who were
separated by distance

620
00:34:04.283 --> 00:34:07.355
but who, in some
cases, had been warned

621
00:34:07.390 --> 00:34:11.083
about the flying saucers
by the police radio

622
00:34:11.118 --> 00:34:16.054
and who had claimed to have seen basically the same thing.

623
00:34:16.951 --> 00:34:18.401
These sightings are interesting

624
00:34:18.435 --> 00:34:21.749
and we have to wonder what more might have been learned

625
00:34:21.783 --> 00:34:24.131
had a little more
effort been made

626
00:34:24.165 --> 00:34:25.753
in the investigation of them.

627
00:34:31.138 --> 00:34:34.348
Although it has been said there is a single case

628
00:34:34.382 --> 00:34:38.006
in the Blue Book files
in which alien creatures

629
00:34:38.041 --> 00:34:40.250
were reported that
wasn't labeled

630
00:34:40.285 --> 00:34:43.150
as some sort of
psychological program,

631
00:34:43.184 --> 00:34:46.739
there are several good
cases hidden in there.

632
00:34:46.774 --> 00:34:50.536
Skeptics, disbelievers, and debunkers like to say

633
00:34:50.571 --> 00:34:52.159
that there is no evidence

634
00:34:52.193 --> 00:34:55.610
that alien creatures
have visited the planet.

635
00:34:55.645 --> 00:34:59.614
They ignore, reject,
or are unaware

636
00:34:59.649 --> 00:35:03.342
that the Blue Book files
do contain examples

637
00:35:03.377 --> 00:35:06.690
of physical evidence
that has been recovered.

638
00:35:06.725 --> 00:35:11.039
The best of those cases came from Socorro, New Mexico,

639
00:35:11.074 --> 00:35:14.181
on April 24th, 1964.

640
00:35:16.114 --> 00:35:19.841
Lonnie Zamora, then a police officer in Socorro,

641
00:35:19.876 --> 00:35:21.843
saw a landed object

642
00:35:21.878 --> 00:35:26.020
and two small humanoids
standing near it.

643
00:35:26.054 --> 00:35:30.093
According to Project Blue Book,Zamora was chasing a speeder

644
00:35:30.128 --> 00:35:33.855
when he heard a loud roar and saw a flash of light

645
00:35:33.890 --> 00:35:36.064
in the southwestern sky.

646
00:35:36.099 --> 00:35:39.171
Fearing that a dynamite
shed on the edge of town

647
00:35:39.206 --> 00:35:42.795
might have exploded, Zamora broke off the chase

648
00:35:42.830 --> 00:35:45.557
and headed in that direction.

649
00:35:45.591 --> 00:35:49.630
Captain Hector Quintanilla added more detail to the story

650
00:35:49.664 --> 00:35:54.531
as it was told by Zamora duringthe official investigation.

651
00:35:54.566 --> 00:35:56.533
Quintanilla later wrote--

652
00:35:56.568 --> 00:35:59.743
- [Man] It was off the road to the left in the arroyo,

653
00:35:59.778 --> 00:36:02.988
and at first glance it looked like a car turned over,

654
00:36:03.022 --> 00:36:07.026
but when he drove closer it appeared to be aluminum clay,

655
00:36:07.061 --> 00:36:11.030
not chrome, and oval-shaped like a football.

656
00:36:11.065 --> 00:36:14.551
Zamora drove about 50 feet along the hill crest,

657
00:36:14.586 --> 00:36:16.829
radioing back to the
sheriff's office,

658
00:36:16.864 --> 00:36:21.489
"10-44," meaning accident, "I'll be 10-6,"

659
00:36:21.524 --> 00:36:23.422
meaning busy, out of the car,

660
00:36:23.457 --> 00:36:27.357
"Checking a wreck down in the arroyo," Zamora said.

661
00:36:27.392 --> 00:36:29.635
From this point,
seated in the car,

662
00:36:29.670 --> 00:36:33.467
he could not see the object over the edge of the hill.

663
00:36:33.501 --> 00:36:36.884
As he stopped the car, he was still talking on the radio,

664
00:36:36.918 --> 00:36:40.059
and while he was getting
out he dropped his mic.

665
00:36:40.094 --> 00:36:41.889
He picked it up and put it back

666
00:36:41.923 --> 00:36:44.650
and started down
towards the object.

667
00:36:44.685 --> 00:36:49.690
Zamora then said, "As soon as I saw flames and heard roar,

668
00:36:51.070 --> 00:36:54.315
"ran away from object but did turn, head towards object.

669
00:36:54.350 --> 00:36:56.214
"Object was in shape.

670
00:36:56.248 --> 00:36:59.251
"It was smooth, no
windows or doors.

671
00:36:59.286 --> 00:37:02.703
"As roar started, it
was still on the ground.

672
00:37:02.737 --> 00:37:06.569
[dramatic music] [choir singing menacingly]

673
00:37:06.603 --> 00:37:08.502
- Quintanilla said,
"I was determined

674
00:37:08.536 --> 00:37:11.436
"to solve the case, and
come hell or high water,

675
00:37:11.470 --> 00:37:15.336
"I was going to find the
vehicle or the stimulus.

676
00:37:15.371 --> 00:37:17.821
"I decided that it was imperative for me to talk

677
00:37:17.856 --> 00:37:20.652
"to the base commander at Holloman Air Force Base.

678
00:37:20.686 --> 00:37:23.448
"I wanted to interview the base commander at length

679
00:37:23.482 --> 00:37:26.727
"about special activities from his base.

680
00:37:26.761 --> 00:37:28.901
"I needed help to pull this off

681
00:37:28.936 --> 00:37:33.251
"so I called Lieutenant Colonel Maston Jacks at SAFOI.

682
00:37:34.597 --> 00:37:37.703
"I told him what I wanted to do and he asks,

683
00:37:37.738 --> 00:37:39.809
"'Do you think it
will do any good?'

684
00:37:39.843 --> 00:37:43.261
"I replied, 'Goddammit Maston, if there is an answer

685
00:37:43.295 --> 00:37:48.127
"'to this case, it has to be in some hanger at Holloman.'"

686
00:37:48.162 --> 00:37:50.923
He went to work with his
position at the Pentagon

687
00:37:50.958 --> 00:37:53.926
and the approval for
his visit came through.

688
00:37:53.961 --> 00:37:57.896
Colonel Garman was the base commander during his visit.

689
00:37:57.930 --> 00:38:00.485
"He was most
cooperative and told me

690
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:03.660
"that I could go anywhere and visit any activity

691
00:38:03.695 --> 00:38:05.213
"which interested me.

692
00:38:05.248 --> 00:38:07.664
"I went from one end of
the base to the other.

693
00:38:07.699 --> 00:38:11.323
"I spent four days talking to everybody I could

694
00:38:11.358 --> 00:38:13.498
"and spent almost a whole day

695
00:38:13.532 --> 00:38:15.569
"with the down-range controllers

696
00:38:15.603 --> 00:38:17.950
"at the White Sands
Missile Range.

697
00:38:17.985 --> 00:38:21.851
"I left Holloman dejected and convinced that the answer

698
00:38:21.885 --> 00:38:25.268
"to Zamora's experience
did not originate

699
00:38:25.303 --> 00:38:27.753
"and terminate at this base.

700
00:38:30.066 --> 00:38:33.690
"On my way back to
Wright-Patterson,
I hit upon an idea.

701
00:38:33.725 --> 00:38:36.383
"Why not a lunar
landing vehicle?

702
00:38:36.417 --> 00:38:39.731
"I knew that some research had been done at Wright-Patterson

703
00:38:39.765 --> 00:38:43.493
"so as soon as I got back I asked for some briefings.

704
00:38:43.528 --> 00:38:45.909
"The briefings were
extremely informative,

705
00:38:45.944 --> 00:38:49.327
"but the Lunar Landers
were not operational

706
00:38:49.361 --> 00:38:51.881
"in April of 1964.

707
00:38:51.915 --> 00:38:54.780
"I got the names of
the companies that
were doing research

708
00:38:54.815 --> 00:38:57.921
"in this field and I
started writing letters.

709
00:38:57.956 --> 00:39:00.268
"The companies were
most cooperative,

710
00:39:00.303 --> 00:39:02.926
"but their answers
were all negative.

711
00:39:04.238 --> 00:39:07.931
"I labeled the case unidentified and the UFO buffs

712
00:39:07.966 --> 00:39:11.349
"and hobby clubs had
themselves a field day.

713
00:39:11.383 --> 00:39:13.868
"According to them,
there was proof

714
00:39:13.903 --> 00:39:16.492
"that our beloved
planet had been visited

715
00:39:16.526 --> 00:39:19.149
"by an extraterrestrial vehicle.

716
00:39:19.184 --> 00:39:21.876
"Although I labeled
the case unidentified,

717
00:39:21.911 --> 00:39:26.122
"I've never been satisfied with that classification."

718
00:39:27.434 --> 00:39:30.954
[smooth electronic music]

719
00:39:36.339 --> 00:39:38.583
It has been claimed
that the only case

720
00:39:38.617 --> 00:39:41.620
involving occupants,
creatures associated

721
00:39:41.655 --> 00:39:45.866
with a landed UFO that was labeled as unidentified,

722
00:39:45.900 --> 00:39:48.834
was that from
Socorro, New Mexico.

723
00:39:48.869 --> 00:39:52.355
Although somewhat hidden in the Project Blue Book files,

724
00:39:52.390 --> 00:39:56.255
there is another that took place almost two years later.

725
00:39:57.636 --> 00:40:01.295
Hynek mentioned it in his book, "The Hynek UFO Report",

726
00:40:01.329 --> 00:40:03.159
but he doesn't give a location

727
00:40:03.193 --> 00:40:05.713
and he dates it with
a newspaper clipping

728
00:40:05.748 --> 00:40:08.440
from the "Dallas Times Herald".

729
00:40:08.475 --> 00:40:10.304
Although Hynek suggests the case

730
00:40:10.338 --> 00:40:13.445
is from the Wichita
Falls, Texas, area

731
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:18.070
and the witness, W.E. Laxson, was a civilian employee

732
00:40:18.105 --> 00:40:21.419
at Sheppard Air Force
Base in Wichita Falls,

733
00:40:21.453 --> 00:40:26.354
the government files list the case as Temple, Oklahoma.

734
00:40:26.389 --> 00:40:28.978
The newspaper clipping
cited by Hynek

735
00:40:29.012 --> 00:40:32.947
is dated March 27th, 1966,

736
00:40:32.982 --> 00:40:37.124
but the sighting occurred on March 23rd, 1966.

737
00:40:37.158 --> 00:40:40.438
With the misdirection from Hynek probably as a result

738
00:40:40.472 --> 00:40:43.889
of the classified nature of thecase when he wrote his book,

739
00:40:43.924 --> 00:40:46.547
it took a while to
deduce the facts.

740
00:40:47.893 --> 00:40:50.068
Hynek, using the
newspaper account,

741
00:40:50.102 --> 00:40:52.588
said there was nothing
in it that varied

742
00:40:52.622 --> 00:40:55.591
from what was in
the government file.

743
00:40:55.625 --> 00:41:00.527
That file said, "Observer W.E. Eddie Laxson

744
00:41:00.561 --> 00:41:03.012
"was driving his car
along the highway

745
00:41:03.046 --> 00:41:07.982
"at approximately 5:05 a.m. on the 23rd of March, 1966,

746
00:41:08.983 --> 00:41:10.640
"when he noticed
an object parked

747
00:41:10.675 --> 00:41:12.366
"on the road in front of him.

748
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:14.023
"He stopped the car and got out

749
00:41:14.057 --> 00:41:16.784
"so to get a better
view of the object.

750
00:41:16.819 --> 00:41:20.132
"The object was so parked that it blocked out a portion

751
00:41:20.167 --> 00:41:22.238
"of the road curb sign.

752
00:41:22.272 --> 00:41:25.448
"There were no sharp edges noticed by the observer.

753
00:41:25.483 --> 00:41:28.486
"The object had the appearance of a conventional aircraft,

754
00:41:28.520 --> 00:41:31.868
"a C-124, without
wings or motors.

755
00:41:31.903 --> 00:41:34.250
"There was a Plexiglas
bubble on top

756
00:41:34.284 --> 00:41:36.977
"similar to a B-26 canopy.

757
00:41:38.219 --> 00:41:39.876
"As the observer approached,

758
00:41:39.911 --> 00:41:43.501
"he noticed a man wearing a baseball cap enter the object

759
00:41:43.535 --> 00:41:45.606
"by steps from the bottom.

760
00:41:45.641 --> 00:41:47.435
"After the man
entered the object,

761
00:41:47.470 --> 00:41:49.437
"it began to rise
from the pavement

762
00:41:49.472 --> 00:41:52.233
"and headed on a
southeasterly direction

763
00:41:52.268 --> 00:41:56.134
"at approximately
720 miles per hour.

764
00:41:56.168 --> 00:41:58.377
"The object had
forward and aft lights

765
00:41:58.412 --> 00:41:59.758
"that were very bright.

766
00:42:00.932 --> 00:42:03.141
"As the object rose
from the ground,

767
00:42:03.175 --> 00:42:06.903
"a high-speed drill
type of sound was heard

768
00:42:06.938 --> 00:42:09.941
"plus a sound like
that of a welding rod

769
00:42:09.975 --> 00:42:11.459
"when an arc is struck.

770
00:42:12.771 --> 00:42:14.877
"The object was 75 feet long,

771
00:42:14.911 --> 00:42:17.811
"about eight feet from
the top to the bottom,

772
00:42:17.845 --> 00:42:20.158
"and about 12 feet wide.

773
00:42:20.192 --> 00:42:21.987
"There was some type of supports

774
00:42:22.022 --> 00:42:23.920
"on the bottom of the object.

775
00:42:23.955 --> 00:42:25.577
"After the object disappeared,

776
00:42:25.612 --> 00:42:27.821
"the witness got
back into his car

777
00:42:27.855 --> 00:42:31.790
"and drove approximately 15 miles down the highway.

778
00:42:31.825 --> 00:42:34.275
"At this time, the
original witness stopped

779
00:42:34.310 --> 00:42:36.312
"and talked with
another individual

780
00:42:36.346 --> 00:42:39.108
"who had also stopped
along the roadway

781
00:42:39.142 --> 00:42:41.869
"to watch some
lights over Red River

782
00:42:41.904 --> 00:42:45.873
"which is approximately five or six miles to the southeast.

783
00:42:47.081 --> 00:42:49.601
"Various organizations
were contacted

784
00:42:49.636 --> 00:42:51.879
"around the Temple,
Oklahoma area

785
00:42:51.914 --> 00:42:56.228
"for a possible experimental or conventional aircraft.

786
00:42:56.263 --> 00:42:58.610
"The observer stated that he thought the object

787
00:42:58.645 --> 00:43:02.614
"was some type of Army or Air Force research aircraft.

788
00:43:04.064 --> 00:43:07.481
"All attempts at such an explanation proved fruitless

789
00:43:07.515 --> 00:43:09.621
"since there were no
aircraft in the area

790
00:43:09.656 --> 00:43:11.554
"at the time of the sightings.

791
00:43:11.589 --> 00:43:13.832
"Although there are
numerous helicopter

792
00:43:13.867 --> 00:43:16.594
"and other experimentals
in the area,

793
00:43:16.628 --> 00:43:19.527
"none could be put
in the area of Temple

794
00:43:19.562 --> 00:43:24.567
"at approximately five o'clock on the 23rd of March, 1966.

795
00:43:25.672 --> 00:43:27.846
"Because of this factor,
the case is listed

796
00:43:27.881 --> 00:43:30.918
"as unidentified
by the Air Force."

797
00:43:34.128 --> 00:43:37.442
The second witness who was not interviewed by the Air Force

798
00:43:37.476 --> 00:43:41.032
and who, according
to the government
file, did not fill out

799
00:43:41.066 --> 00:43:45.830
their long and involved
form, was C.W. Anderson.

800
00:43:45.864 --> 00:43:48.246
Anderson confirmed
for the newspaper

801
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:51.007
that he had seen
the craft as well.

802
00:43:51.042 --> 00:43:54.459
He told the reporter, "I know that people will say

803
00:43:54.493 --> 00:43:57.876
"that Laxson is durned crazy, but that's what I say."

804
00:43:58.981 --> 00:44:00.430
Anderson said that he thought

805
00:44:00.465 --> 00:44:03.364
the object had been following him down the road.

806
00:44:03.399 --> 00:44:07.403
He had watched it in his rear view mirror for several miles.

807
00:44:07.437 --> 00:44:09.163
The problem for the Air Force

808
00:44:09.198 --> 00:44:12.339
was that Anderson did
not complete their form.

809
00:44:12.373 --> 00:44:14.962
He didn't see the pilot
or crewmen either.

810
00:44:16.377 --> 00:44:19.829
The drawing of the object made by Laxson resembled that

811
00:44:19.864 --> 00:44:23.557
which Lonnie Zamora had made of the craft he had saw,

812
00:44:23.591 --> 00:44:26.594
which means it was
sort of egg-shaped.

813
00:44:26.629 --> 00:44:30.460
It was certainly longer and was lying on its side.

814
00:44:30.495 --> 00:44:34.879
Like Zamora, Laxson said that he saw symbols on the object,

815
00:44:34.913 --> 00:44:38.054
but unlike Zamora,
he recognized them.

816
00:44:38.089 --> 00:44:41.230
He told the reporter
that, "On the side,

817
00:44:41.264 --> 00:44:46.166
"I made out T-L-A, with the last two figures 38."

818
00:44:47.546 --> 00:44:50.722
In what might be described as a fit of honesty,

819
00:44:50.757 --> 00:44:54.933
the Air Force admitted they had no solution for the case.

820
00:44:54.968 --> 00:44:59.731
The description of the alien was more human than humanoid

821
00:44:59.766 --> 00:45:02.769
and he seemed to be dressed in conventional clothing,

822
00:45:02.803 --> 00:45:04.874
right to the mechanic's hat.

823
00:45:05.944 --> 00:45:08.636
Investigations revealed
a second witness

824
00:45:08.671 --> 00:45:11.294
and that might have influenced the Air Force,

825
00:45:11.329 --> 00:45:14.056
especially since the
men had never met

826
00:45:14.090 --> 00:45:15.954
prior to the sighting.

827
00:45:15.989 --> 00:45:20.062
In the end, they labeled the case as unidentified.

828
00:45:28.795 --> 00:45:32.177
[tense electronic music]

829
00:45:34.076 --> 00:45:36.492
In a review of
government records,

830
00:45:36.526 --> 00:45:41.531
another case, also labeled as unidentified, was found.

831
00:45:42.705 --> 00:45:44.500
This one took place
in Pittsburg, Kansas.

832
00:45:44.534 --> 00:45:49.022
The case is a single witness and has gone nearly unreported

833
00:45:49.056 --> 00:45:50.920
for more than 60 years.

834
00:45:52.888 --> 00:45:55.407
William Squires was
on his way to work

835
00:45:55.442 --> 00:45:59.170
along Highway 160 about eight miles from Pittsburg

836
00:45:59.204 --> 00:46:03.588
when he sighted an unknown object hovering over a field.

837
00:46:03.622 --> 00:46:08.179
It was about 27 feet in length at about 12 feet high.

838
00:46:08.213 --> 00:46:11.596
Squires thought it had the appearance of an airfoil.

839
00:46:11.630 --> 00:46:15.013
He said that he saw smallpropellors around the perimeter.

840
00:46:15.048 --> 00:46:17.257
They were about a
foot in diameter.

841
00:46:17.291 --> 00:46:20.018
There were also a number
of windows in the craft

842
00:46:20.053 --> 00:46:22.883
and through one of them,
Squires could see a man

843
00:46:22.918 --> 00:46:25.403
who seemed to be
controlling the object.

844
00:46:25.437 --> 00:46:28.958
He was facing forward to
the edge of the object.

845
00:46:28.993 --> 00:46:31.340
The windows were
described as blue,

846
00:46:31.374 --> 00:46:34.205
becoming darker as time passed.

847
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.345
This seems to be
the type of sighting

848
00:46:36.379 --> 00:46:39.520
the Air Force would dismiss as psychological,

849
00:46:39.555 --> 00:46:42.592
which would be a nice way of saying that it was a hoax

850
00:46:42.627 --> 00:46:45.216
and there was something
wrong with the witness.

851
00:46:45.250 --> 00:46:48.702
However, there was some physical evidence left behind

852
00:46:48.736 --> 00:46:50.393
according to the
government file.

853
00:46:51.774 --> 00:46:54.950
The object reported as hovering over an open field

854
00:46:54.984 --> 00:46:56.814
used for cattle grazing,

855
00:46:56.848 --> 00:47:00.265
general area under the exact location was pressed down

856
00:47:00.300 --> 00:47:03.855
and formed a round 60-foot-diameter impression

857
00:47:03.890 --> 00:47:07.963
with the grass in arecognizable concentric pattern.

858
00:47:07.997 --> 00:47:10.897
Loose grass lay on
top of the impression

859
00:47:10.931 --> 00:47:13.209
as if drawn in by suction

860
00:47:13.244 --> 00:47:16.903
when the object ascended vertically at a high speed.

861
00:47:16.937 --> 00:47:19.526
Vegetation and grass
approximately three

862
00:47:19.560 --> 00:47:20.976
to four inches high.

863
00:47:21.010 --> 00:47:23.944
Area was extremely
dry at present.

864
00:47:23.979 --> 00:47:26.878
Grass showed where
Squires had walked in

865
00:47:26.913 --> 00:47:29.053
to a fence and stopped.

866
00:47:29.087 --> 00:47:34.092
L.V. Baxter and D. Whitener, local employees of KOMA,

867
00:47:35.231 --> 00:47:38.407
went to the place of
the sighting, 11:35 CST,

868
00:47:38.441 --> 00:47:42.514
with Squires and confirmed his path to the fence

869
00:47:42.549 --> 00:47:46.794
and the 60-foot-diameter impression in the tall grass.

870
00:47:46.829 --> 00:47:50.281
Robert E. Greens
visited the site at 1600

871
00:47:50.315 --> 00:47:53.491
on the 25th of August of 1952,

872
00:47:53.525 --> 00:47:57.460
with source and reports that the vegetation was laid down

873
00:47:57.495 --> 00:48:01.982
in concentric circles but with the impression less distinct

874
00:48:02.017 --> 00:48:05.606
than reported by
Whitener and Baxter.

875
00:48:05.641 --> 00:48:08.161
Green obtained grass
and soil samples

876
00:48:08.195 --> 00:48:11.233
at the immediate area where the impression was made

877
00:48:11.267 --> 00:48:13.752
and also gathered
control samples

878
00:48:13.787 --> 00:48:16.859
200 yards removed from the site.

879
00:48:16.894 --> 00:48:20.173
He is sending some to the Air Technical Intelligence Center,

880
00:48:20.207 --> 00:48:22.175
airmail, special delivery.

881
00:48:23.728 --> 00:48:26.489
What is strange about
this case is the fact

882
00:48:26.524 --> 00:48:28.698
that there seemed to
be little interest

883
00:48:28.733 --> 00:48:31.080
in the pilot of the craft.

884
00:48:31.115 --> 00:48:34.256
Although there is another point where he was discussed,

885
00:48:34.290 --> 00:48:37.362
there's no real addition
to the information.

886
00:48:37.397 --> 00:48:41.884
Clearly, based on
these descriptions,
that alien was human,

887
00:48:41.919 --> 00:48:46.268
or human enough to beindistinguishable from a human.

888
00:48:46.302 --> 00:48:49.685
Squires did suggest that the occupant seemed to be frenzied

889
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.067
in his activities
inside the craft.

890
00:48:53.447 --> 00:48:56.830
Although this case is essentially single-witness,

891
00:48:56.864 --> 00:49:00.385
there was the physical evidence left by the craft.

892
00:49:00.420 --> 00:49:04.942
Others, Baxter, Whitener, and Green, did see the impressions

893
00:49:04.976 --> 00:49:07.875
in the ground left by the craft.

894
00:49:07.910 --> 00:49:10.637
Eventually this sort of evidence would become known

895
00:49:10.671 --> 00:49:13.709
as a saucer nest, meaning simply

896
00:49:13.743 --> 00:49:18.576
that the crushed vegetation left by a UFO on the ground

897
00:49:18.610 --> 00:49:22.787
had somewhat similar features to other parts of the country

898
00:49:22.821 --> 00:49:24.996
and other parts of the world.

899
00:49:25.031 --> 00:49:28.586
The ultimate description would be of a crop circle.

900
00:49:29.759 --> 00:49:32.314
Here, rather than
an elaborate design,

901
00:49:32.348 --> 00:49:36.559
it was a simple circle of crushed or flattened grass.

902
00:49:36.594 --> 00:49:38.389
The soil samples taken by Green

903
00:49:38.423 --> 00:49:40.529
were analyzed by the Air Force.

904
00:49:40.563 --> 00:49:43.463
In a short report of
a single paragraph,

905
00:49:43.497 --> 00:49:46.638
the technician said they
had found no radiation,

906
00:49:46.673 --> 00:49:49.641
burning, or stress of any kind.

907
00:49:49.676 --> 00:49:52.127
In other words, there was nothing to the sample

908
00:49:52.161 --> 00:49:55.440
to distinguish those taken from the landing area

909
00:49:55.475 --> 00:49:58.305
or from those taken
200 yards away.

910
00:49:59.651 --> 00:50:01.964
There's one final
aspect to the case

911
00:50:01.999 --> 00:50:04.311
that is mildly interesting.

912
00:50:04.346 --> 00:50:07.211
In a couple of the letters from the government files,

913
00:50:07.245 --> 00:50:11.732
there is a notation that reminds all of paragraph seven

914
00:50:11.767 --> 00:50:14.149
which is a paragraph
in the regulations

915
00:50:14.183 --> 00:50:19.016
that requires unidentified cases be classified.

916
00:50:19.050 --> 00:50:21.466
Those who have information about the case

917
00:50:21.501 --> 00:50:23.744
are not allowed to
discuss it with those

918
00:50:23.779 --> 00:50:27.196
who do not have the
proper clearances.

919
00:50:28.646 --> 00:50:32.063
J. Allen Hynek, writing in "The Hynek UFO Report",

920
00:50:32.098 --> 00:50:34.514
provides a glimpse
into the thinking

921
00:50:34.548 --> 00:50:37.551
at Blue Book at the
time of this sighting.

922
00:50:37.586 --> 00:50:41.728
He wrote, "My skepticism was so great at that time

923
00:50:41.762 --> 00:50:45.973
"that I was quite willing todismiss it as a hallucination."

924
00:50:48.010 --> 00:50:52.049
Even with that admitted
bias against the case

925
00:50:52.083 --> 00:50:54.741
which never received
wide exposure,

926
00:50:54.775 --> 00:50:56.812
there's another which
the witness said

927
00:50:56.846 --> 00:51:00.954
that he had seen the pilot of an unidentified craft

928
00:51:00.988 --> 00:51:05.200
and that was left as unidentified by the Air Force.

929
00:51:05.234 --> 00:51:07.961
In their zeal to label cases,

930
00:51:07.995 --> 00:51:10.929
this seems to be another
that they missed.

931
00:51:10.964 --> 00:51:14.209
They could've easily labeled it as psychological,

932
00:51:14.243 --> 00:51:17.281
if not for the darned
landing traces.

933
00:51:22.182 --> 00:51:24.909
Keeping with their tradition of labeling cases

934
00:51:24.943 --> 00:51:28.775
but not solving them, the Air Force officers decided

935
00:51:28.809 --> 00:51:32.123
that witnesses had
psychological problems

936
00:51:32.158 --> 00:51:34.712
if they claimed to
have seen the beings

937
00:51:34.746 --> 00:51:36.714
outside of their craft.

938
00:51:36.748 --> 00:51:40.131
There's no need to investigate if the witness is unreliable

939
00:51:40.166 --> 00:51:43.548
or under the influence of some kind of mental problem.

940
00:51:45.171 --> 00:51:49.244
In the Pittsburg, Kansas case, there is the same problem.

941
00:51:49.278 --> 00:51:51.867
Here was a case in which
the object interacted

942
00:51:51.901 --> 00:51:53.455
with the environment.

943
00:51:53.489 --> 00:51:55.112
True, it was a single witness,

944
00:51:55.146 --> 00:51:57.459
but it left marks on the ground.

945
00:51:57.493 --> 00:52:00.600
Rather than send in someone to review it carefully,

946
00:52:00.634 --> 00:52:05.156
the Air Force allowed samples to be gathered by a civilian.

947
00:52:05.191 --> 00:52:07.917
They may have provided
some guidance,

948
00:52:07.952 --> 00:52:11.507
but it would seem that anexpert with the proper training

949
00:52:11.542 --> 00:52:15.339
should have been sent if the Air Force was serious

950
00:52:15.373 --> 00:52:17.927
about investigating UFOs.

951
00:52:20.206 --> 00:52:22.691
There is another
aspect to this case

952
00:52:22.725 --> 00:52:24.900
and that is that
a military officer

953
00:52:24.934 --> 00:52:27.316
did gather some of the data.

954
00:52:27.351 --> 00:52:29.974
Green was apparently
a second lieutenant

955
00:52:30.008 --> 00:52:31.355
in the Army Reserve.

956
00:52:31.389 --> 00:52:34.427
He is the man who
collected the samples.

957
00:52:34.461 --> 00:52:36.014
But this is not to suggest

958
00:52:36.049 --> 00:52:38.983
that his military training had covered that,

959
00:52:39.017 --> 00:52:42.883
but his membership in the Reserve caused one problem.

960
00:52:42.918 --> 00:52:46.163
The report he filed with
his chain of command

961
00:52:46.197 --> 00:52:50.270
made its way eventually
to the Air Force,

962
00:52:50.305 --> 00:52:51.409
but they delayed it.

963
00:52:53.791 --> 00:52:56.242
Zamora seemed to
be a single witness

964
00:52:56.276 --> 00:52:58.830
but there was physical
evidence left behind.

965
00:52:58.865 --> 00:53:01.212
Here, the Air Force
responded quickly,

966
00:53:01.247 --> 00:53:04.560
gathering evidence, and
analyzed the situation.

967
00:53:04.595 --> 00:53:07.011
They found no answer
that satisfied them.

968
00:53:08.426 --> 00:53:12.223
There is the possibility that there were two witnesses.

969
00:53:12.258 --> 00:53:14.156
They appeared after the fact

970
00:53:14.191 --> 00:53:16.227
but are not from
the Socorro area,

971
00:53:16.262 --> 00:53:19.196
and their stories seem
to have been embellished

972
00:53:19.230 --> 00:53:21.991
with facts from news reports.

973
00:53:22.026 --> 00:53:23.821
In fact, in all the cases,

974
00:53:23.855 --> 00:53:26.927
there was some physical
evidence to be examined.

975
00:53:26.962 --> 00:53:29.240
The cases did not rest solely

976
00:53:29.275 --> 00:53:31.622
on the testimony
of the witnesses.

977
00:53:31.656 --> 00:53:34.349
If there wasn't some kind of physical evidence,

978
00:53:34.383 --> 00:53:37.731
there was another witness to corroborate the sightings.

979
00:53:40.665 --> 00:53:44.669
The Cisco Grove occupantreport is just one more example

980
00:53:44.704 --> 00:53:47.431
of an opportunity
that was missed,

981
00:53:47.465 --> 00:53:50.986
or rather, one that seems to have been missed.

982
00:53:51.020 --> 00:53:53.091
There was some
corroborative testimony

983
00:53:53.126 --> 00:53:54.610
from the other hunters.

984
00:53:54.645 --> 00:53:56.647
There was the
damage to the arrows

985
00:53:56.681 --> 00:53:58.649
and then there was the report

986
00:53:58.683 --> 00:54:01.030
that the area had been cleaned.

987
00:54:02.204 --> 00:54:04.241
What we don't know
is who had been out

988
00:54:04.275 --> 00:54:06.277
in the forest cleaning the areas

989
00:54:06.312 --> 00:54:10.557
in which the witness claimed to have seen the alien beings.

990
00:54:10.592 --> 00:54:12.594
Just who could have done that?

991
00:54:14.527 --> 00:54:17.288
There is evidence
that not all sightings

992
00:54:17.323 --> 00:54:19.256
made it to Project Blue Book

993
00:54:19.290 --> 00:54:23.363
even though the regulations seemed to require that.

994
00:54:23.398 --> 00:54:27.505
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who was a scientific consultant

995
00:54:27.540 --> 00:54:30.094
to Project Blue
Book for many years,

996
00:54:30.128 --> 00:54:34.409
often said that the really good cases didn't make it

997
00:54:34.443 --> 00:54:36.928
into the Blue Book files.

998
00:54:36.963 --> 00:54:40.380
He suspected another
reporting system

999
00:54:40.415 --> 00:54:42.727
but he couldn't prove
that there was one.

1000
00:54:47.732 --> 00:54:51.046
Hints about this
other investigation

1001
00:54:51.080 --> 00:54:54.291
came from Brigadier
General Arthur Exon

1002
00:54:54.325 --> 00:54:55.982
who was the base commander

1003
00:54:56.016 --> 00:55:00.227
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the mid 1960s.

1004
00:55:00.262 --> 00:55:03.334
Exon said that while
he was base commander,

1005
00:55:03.369 --> 00:55:06.820
he would periodically
receive telephone calls

1006
00:55:06.855 --> 00:55:09.823
which ordered him to
prepare an aircraft

1007
00:55:09.858 --> 00:55:14.207
for a mission outside the local Wright-Patterson area.

1008
00:55:15.450 --> 00:55:20.282
Exon himself described
this in May 19 of 1991

1009
00:55:20.317 --> 00:55:22.042
in a recorded interview.

1010
00:55:22.077 --> 00:55:25.149
He said, "I know that
while I was there,

1011
00:55:25.183 --> 00:55:28.359
"I had charge of all the
administrative airplanes

1012
00:55:28.394 --> 00:55:31.880
"and had to sign priority airplanes to the members

1013
00:55:31.914 --> 00:55:35.642
"who would go out andinvestigate reported sightings.

1014
00:55:35.677 --> 00:55:39.059
"I remember several out
in Wyoming and Montana

1015
00:55:39.094 --> 00:55:43.063
"and that area in the
'60s, '64 and '65.

1016
00:55:43.098 --> 00:55:46.135
"I knew there were
certain teams of people,

1017
00:55:46.170 --> 00:55:49.242
"they're representing
headquarters United
States Air Force

1018
00:55:49.276 --> 00:55:51.244
"as well as the
organizations there

1019
00:55:51.278 --> 00:55:54.834
"at Wright-pat, and so on.

1020
00:55:54.868 --> 00:55:57.940
"When a crew came back, it was their own business.

1021
00:55:57.975 --> 00:56:00.426
"Nobody asked any questions."

1022
00:56:00.460 --> 00:56:02.497
He expanded on this, saying,

1023
00:56:02.531 --> 00:56:05.741
"The way this happened to me is that I would get a call

1024
00:56:05.776 --> 00:56:08.744
"and say that the crew
or team was leaving.

1025
00:56:08.779 --> 00:56:11.954
"There was such and such a timeand they wanted an airplane

1026
00:56:11.989 --> 00:56:16.096
"and pilots to take X number of people to wherever.

1027
00:56:16.131 --> 00:56:18.720
"They might be gone
two or three days

1028
00:56:18.754 --> 00:56:20.929
"or might be gone a week.

1029
00:56:20.963 --> 00:56:24.035
"They would come back and that would be the end of it."

1030
00:56:24.070 --> 00:56:28.039
Asked about the overall controlof the teams, Exon said,

1031
00:56:28.074 --> 00:56:31.560
"I always thought they were part of that unholy crew

1032
00:56:31.595 --> 00:56:35.633
"in Washington that startedkeeping the lid on this thing."

1033
00:56:36.807 --> 00:56:40.258
Everything said to
this point suggests

1034
00:56:40.293 --> 00:56:43.710
that the operation
was run from FTD,

1035
00:56:43.745 --> 00:56:47.783
the parent organization to Blue Book at Wright-Patterson,

1036
00:56:47.818 --> 00:56:50.579
but in an interview conducted about a month later

1037
00:56:50.614 --> 00:56:55.619
on June the 18th of 1991, Exon clarified what he had meant.

1038
00:56:57.068 --> 00:57:00.417
Asked if these teams of eight to 15 people were stationed

1039
00:57:00.451 --> 00:57:03.350
at Wright-Patterson,
he said, "They were."

1040
00:57:03.385 --> 00:57:05.698
"They would come
from Washington, D.C.

1041
00:57:05.732 --> 00:57:08.252
"They'd ask for an airplane tomorrow morning

1042
00:57:08.286 --> 00:57:11.048
"and that would give the guys a chance to get there,

1043
00:57:11.082 --> 00:57:14.016
"Wright-Patterson, by
commercial airline.

1044
00:57:14.051 --> 00:57:16.743
"Sometimes they'd be
gone for three days

1045
00:57:16.778 --> 00:57:19.781
"and sometimes they'd
be gone for a week.

1046
00:57:19.815 --> 00:57:22.473
"I know they went to
Montana and Wyoming

1047
00:57:22.508 --> 00:57:25.200
"and the northwest
states a number of times

1048
00:57:25.234 --> 00:57:26.995
"in a year and a half.

1049
00:57:27.029 --> 00:57:29.998
"They went to Arizona
once or twice."

1050
00:57:30.032 --> 00:57:34.451
He also said, "Our contact was a man, a telephone number.

1051
00:57:34.485 --> 00:57:36.798
"He'd call, he'd
set the airplane up.

1052
00:57:36.832 --> 00:57:40.940
"I just knew there was
an investigative team."

1053
00:57:42.355 --> 00:57:45.392
What all this boils
down to is an attempt

1054
00:57:45.427 --> 00:57:47.498
to cover the activity.

1055
00:57:47.533 --> 00:57:51.744
The team, whoever they were, would fly into Dayton, Ohio,

1056
00:57:51.778 --> 00:57:55.575
on commercial air and then drive out to the base.

1057
00:57:55.610 --> 00:57:58.440
If a reporter attempted
to trace the movements

1058
00:57:58.475 --> 00:58:00.925
of the team after it
had been deployed,

1059
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:03.583
the trail led back
to Wright-Patterson.

1060
00:58:03.618 --> 00:58:06.241
After that, it just disappeared.

1061
00:58:08.036 --> 00:58:11.384
This team, or those
teams, was made up

1062
00:58:11.418 --> 00:58:14.387
of eight to 15
individuals at a time

1063
00:58:14.421 --> 00:58:16.631
when Project Blue
Book was composed

1064
00:58:16.665 --> 00:58:21.636
of two Air Force officers, an NCO, and a secretary.

1065
00:58:21.670 --> 00:58:23.810
They were stationed
at Wright-Patterson

1066
00:58:23.845 --> 00:58:27.676
but these other teams were assigned somewhere else

1067
00:58:27.711 --> 00:58:29.782
and there is no reason to assume

1068
00:58:29.816 --> 00:58:34.683
that all members of a teamwere assigned at the same base.

1069
00:58:34.718 --> 00:58:36.720
They would come
together as needed.

1070
00:58:43.105 --> 00:58:46.074
On October 20th, 1969,

1071
00:58:46.108 --> 00:58:50.975
Brigadier General C.H. Bolenderprovided the documentation

1072
00:58:51.010 --> 00:58:55.773
to prove that there was
another investigation.

1073
00:58:55.808 --> 00:58:59.915
In paragraph four of his
memo, Bolender wrote,

1074
00:58:59.950 --> 00:59:04.955
"As early as 1953, the Robertson Panel concluded

1075
00:59:06.404 --> 00:59:09.442
"that the evidence presented on unidentified flying objects

1076
00:59:09.476 --> 00:59:12.652
"shows no indication
that these phenomena

1077
00:59:12.687 --> 00:59:16.967
"constitute a direct physical threat to national security.

1078
00:59:17.001 --> 00:59:20.833
"In spite of this finding, the Air Force continued

1079
00:59:20.867 --> 00:59:24.906
"to maintain a special
reporting system.

1080
00:59:24.940 --> 00:59:27.356
"There is still,
however, no evidence

1081
00:59:27.391 --> 00:59:29.566
"that Project Blue Book reports

1082
00:59:29.600 --> 00:59:32.948
"have served any
intelligence function.

1083
00:59:32.983 --> 00:59:36.607
"Moreover, reports of unidentified flying objects

1084
00:59:36.642 --> 00:59:40.335
"which could affect national security are made

1085
00:59:40.369 --> 00:59:43.718
"in accordance with JANAP 146,

1086
00:59:43.752 --> 00:59:47.273
"the Joint Army, Navy,
Air Force Publication,

1087
00:59:47.307 --> 00:59:50.690
"or Air Force Manual 55-11,

1088
00:59:50.725 --> 00:59:54.073
"and are not part of
the Blue Book system."

1089
00:59:55.384 --> 00:59:59.250
In other words, the suspicions of Hynek and Exon

1090
00:59:59.285 --> 01:00:03.427
were confirmed by this documentfrom the government files.

1091
01:00:03.461 --> 01:00:07.707
This organization dealt with matters of national security

1092
01:00:07.742 --> 01:00:09.985
and the sightings at Malmstrom

1093
01:00:10.020 --> 01:00:11.987
because of the missile shutdown

1094
01:00:12.022 --> 01:00:14.334
and it was a matter
of national security.

1095
01:00:15.681 --> 01:00:18.511
Those sightings and theinformation collected about them

1096
01:00:18.545 --> 01:00:21.825
would not be part of
the Blue Book system

1097
01:00:21.859 --> 01:00:25.138
and therefore would
not be in the files.

1098
01:00:25.173 --> 01:00:29.487
That they are missing is
the significant point.

1099
01:00:33.733 --> 01:00:37.461
In the beginning, in
the summer of 1947,

1100
01:00:37.495 --> 01:00:40.360
the military was concerned about the sightings

1101
01:00:40.395 --> 01:00:42.155
of flying saucers.

1102
01:00:42.190 --> 01:00:43.881
They didn't know what they were.

1103
01:00:43.916 --> 01:00:46.263
But the reports from
military pilots,

1104
01:00:46.297 --> 01:00:50.267
civilian pilots, and police officers concerned them.

1105
01:00:50.301 --> 01:00:53.235
They believed the
reports to be accurate

1106
01:00:53.270 --> 01:00:56.031
and thought they represented an advancement

1107
01:00:56.066 --> 01:00:59.794
in technology by our competitors in the world.

1108
01:00:59.828 --> 01:01:02.486
Alien visitation,
though discussed,

1109
01:01:02.520 --> 01:01:04.419
was not the top explanation.

1110
01:01:06.214 --> 01:01:08.388
When the official investigation,

1111
01:01:08.423 --> 01:01:10.908
known officially
as Project Sign,

1112
01:01:10.943 --> 01:01:15.016
the officers assigned
were motivated to
find an explanation.

1113
01:01:16.293 --> 01:01:19.503
In July, 1948, they
produced a document

1114
01:01:19.537 --> 01:01:22.851
known as the estimate
of the situation.

1115
01:01:22.886 --> 01:01:24.784
According to Ed Ruppelt,

1116
01:01:24.819 --> 01:01:27.407
one-time chief of
Project Blue Book,

1117
01:01:27.442 --> 01:01:30.410
that situation
was flying saucers

1118
01:01:30.445 --> 01:01:34.794
and the conclusion was that they were from another world.

1119
01:01:36.623 --> 01:01:41.352
The Air Force chief of staff, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg,

1120
01:01:41.387 --> 01:01:45.391
rejected the estimate and those who had been responsible

1121
01:01:45.425 --> 01:01:48.187
found themselves with new jobs.

1122
01:01:48.221 --> 01:01:50.879
The fire went out of
the investigation.

1123
01:01:50.914 --> 01:01:54.503
No longer did they worry
about the explanation.

1124
01:01:54.538 --> 01:01:58.093
They just worried about
providing solutions
for the cases.

1125
01:01:59.543 --> 01:02:02.684
Sign eventually
evolved into Grudge

1126
01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:05.100
and then Project Blue Book.

1127
01:02:05.135 --> 01:02:08.828
For a brief period, Blue
Book was more interested

1128
01:02:08.863 --> 01:02:12.280
in the truth than
in explaining cases

1129
01:02:12.314 --> 01:02:14.731
regardless of the facts.

1130
01:02:14.765 --> 01:02:17.630
An explanation of
the Blue Book files,

1131
01:02:17.664 --> 01:02:20.633
a reinvestigation of
many of the cases,

1132
01:02:20.667 --> 01:02:23.256
reveals the flaws in them.

1133
01:02:23.291 --> 01:02:26.984
There are radar cases,
physical evidence cases,

1134
01:02:27.019 --> 01:02:29.538
photographic cases,
landing cases,

1135
01:02:29.573 --> 01:02:31.713
and reports of
humanoid creatures

1136
01:02:31.748 --> 01:02:36.407
that have no solid terrestrial explanations.

1137
01:02:36.442 --> 01:02:39.997
The truth is that for
most of its existence,

1138
01:02:40.032 --> 01:02:43.207
Blue Book was a public
relations operation

1139
01:02:43.242 --> 01:02:45.244
designed to convince people

1140
01:02:45.278 --> 01:02:50.042
that there were no flying saucers, no alien visitation,

1141
01:02:50.076 --> 01:02:54.494
and finally, no reason
for continued research.

1142
01:02:55.841 --> 01:02:58.464
Blue Book ended in 1969

1143
01:02:58.498 --> 01:03:01.812
after the University of
Colorado accepted more

1144
01:03:01.847 --> 01:03:05.747
than a half million dollars to investigate UFOs.

1145
01:03:07.197 --> 01:03:10.131
There were three caveats: they must say something positive

1146
01:03:10.165 --> 01:03:12.443
about the Air Force
investigation,

1147
01:03:12.478 --> 01:03:14.791
they must conclude
their investigation

1148
01:03:14.825 --> 01:03:19.002
the way the Air Force wanted, and then must show

1149
01:03:19.036 --> 01:03:22.522
that there was no national security threat.

1150
01:03:24.248 --> 01:03:28.632
With these three goalsaccomplished, the Air Force said

1151
01:03:28.666 --> 01:03:31.842
they were through investigating flying saucers.

1152
01:03:31.877 --> 01:03:36.847
Like so much else, that statement was also untrue.

1153
01:03:39.022 --> 01:03:42.853
[mysterious electronic music]

1154
01:03:59.628 --> 01:04:01.596
[eyelids thudding]

1155
01:04:01.630 --> 01:04:02.873
[dramatic music]

1156
01:04:02.908 --> 01:04:06.808
- [Announcer] 10, nine,
ignition sequence start,

1157
01:04:06.843 --> 01:04:10.329
six, five, four, three,

1158
01:04:10.363 --> 01:04:11.640
two, one, zero.