The UFO Evidence: (unidentified Flying Objects)

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National Investigtions Committee on Aerial Phenomena, 1964 - Unidentified flying objects - 184 pages
 

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Page 11 - an integrated program designed to reassure the public of the total lack of evidence of inimical forces behind the phenomena.
Page 10 - Policy Governing the Custody, Use and Preservation of Department of Defense Official Information which Requires Protection in the Public Interest," March 22, 1967,1 is hereby cancelled.
Page 11 - It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another planet.
Page 11 - The special study which resulted in this report (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects, 5 May 1955) started in 1953. To provide the study group with a complete set of files, the information cut-off date was established as of the end of 1952. It will accordingly be noted that the statistics contained in all charts and tables in this report are terminated with the year 1952. In these charts, 3201 cases have been used. As the study progressed, a constant program was maintained for the purpose...
Page 13 - Congressional investigations have been held and are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest. . .Since most of the material presented to the Committees is classified, the hearings are never printed.
Page 19 - ... there is not a single reliable report of an observation which is not attributable to the cosmic balloons.
Page 8 - We first saw a flash of light in the field to our right, and we didn't think much about it— then it rose up out of the field and started toward us, picking up speed. When it got nearer, the lights of my truck went out and the motor died. I jumped out and hit the deck as the thing passed directly over the truck with a great sound and a rush of wind. It sounded like thunder, and my truck rocked from the blast. I felt a lot of heat.
Page 88 - Dr. Baker reports that no definite conclusion could be reached, but "the evidence remains rather contradictory and no single hypothesis of a natural phenomenon yet suggested seems to completely account for the UFO involved.
Page 10 - I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source.
Page 15 - ... outline. From film analysis report: The UFOs "often seem clustered in constellations, or formations which are recognizable for as long as 17 seconds. . . [they] seem to cluster in groups of two's and three's. . . the edges of the images are sharp and clear on many of the properly exposed frames. . . their pattern of motion is essentially a curvilinear milling about. . . sometimes the objects appear to circle about each other.

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