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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
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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
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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
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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
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with the intention of going to Yakima, Washington.

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I flew directly
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after reaching an altitude of about 9,500 feet

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which is the
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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
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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
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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
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of about 170 degrees.

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They, the objects,

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were approaching Mount
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and I merely assumed
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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
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for the sun to strike
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that reflected
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I thought it was very peculiar that I couldn't their tails

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but assumed they were
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I was determined to
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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
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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
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or even a mirage.

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This I know to be
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
tell reporters

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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
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and it took the
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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
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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
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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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00:16:58,569 --> 00:17:02,469
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.

304
00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:16,863
[mysterious percussive music]

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00:17:29,979 --> 00:17:32,534
[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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00:18:23,171 --> 00:18:25,725
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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00:18:39,394 --> 00:18:41,810
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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00:19:01,105 --> 00:19:04,522
and Robert Ellis, after
hearing the broadcast,

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00:19:04,557 --> 00:19:06,179
stopped near a park.

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00:19:06,214 --> 00:19:10,183
Overhead they saw three disks moving at high speed.

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00:19:10,218 --> 00:19:12,185
Neither heard any sound,

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00:19:12,220 --> 00:19:15,119
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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00:19:19,330 --> 00:19:22,609
According to them, the objects moved erratically

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00:19:22,644 --> 00:19:25,302
and changed their
direction of flight.

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00:19:25,336 --> 00:19:28,443
They were in sight
for about 30 seconds.

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00:19:28,477 --> 00:19:31,756
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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00:19:37,176 --> 00:19:41,525
around aviation and
aviation assets.

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00:19:44,355 --> 00:19:48,014
Patrolman Earl Patterson, after hearing the broadcast,

348
00:19:48,048 --> 00:19:51,155
stopped to search
for any of the disks.

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00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:53,847
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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00:19:59,853 --> 00:20:02,166
At first, Patterson
noticed nothing,

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00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,443
but a few seconds later,

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00:20:03,478 --> 00:20:06,239
he saw one object
coming out the west

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00:20:06,274 --> 00:20:09,138
and heading towards
the southwest.

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00:20:09,173 --> 00:20:12,141
He said that the craft seemed to be either aluminum

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00:20:12,176 --> 00:20:16,145
or eggshell white and didn't flash or reflect the sun.

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00:20:17,561 --> 00:20:20,253
He also said that he didn't think they were airplanes

359
00:20:20,288 --> 00:20:21,910
like so many of the others.

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00:20:21,944 --> 00:20:26,259
Their flight path was erratic, wobbling and weaving.

361
00:20:26,294 --> 00:20:28,710
Patterson thought they
were radio-controlled

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00:20:28,744 --> 00:20:31,885
rather than having a
living pilot onboard.

363
00:20:34,681 --> 00:20:37,097
On the far side of
the Columbia River

364
00:20:37,132 --> 00:20:39,341
in nearby Vancouver, Washington,

365
00:20:39,376 --> 00:20:43,414
sheriff's deputies Sergeant John Sullivan, Clarence McKay,

366
00:20:43,449 --> 00:20:47,280
and Fred Krives also heard the alert broadcast

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00:20:47,315 --> 00:20:50,249
and ran outside to
look for themselves.

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00:20:51,457 --> 00:20:53,631
Over Portland three
to five miles away,

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00:20:53,666 --> 00:20:57,325
they saw 20 to 30 disks
that looked to them

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00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,258
like a flight of geese.

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00:20:59,292 --> 00:21:00,949
They heard a low humming sound

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00:21:00,983 --> 00:21:04,953
which might or might not have been related to the objects.

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00:21:08,508 --> 00:21:11,994
Not long after that,
three Harvard patrolmen

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00:21:12,029 --> 00:21:15,204
who had also been monitoring the police radio band

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00:21:15,239 --> 00:21:20,209
stepped outside, Captain
K.A. Prehn, A.T. Austad,

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00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:22,798
and Patrolman K.C. Hoff,

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00:21:22,833 --> 00:21:26,906
saw three to six disks
traveling at high speed.

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00:21:26,940 --> 00:21:29,288
They couldn't get a
good count on the number

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00:21:29,322 --> 00:21:32,808
because of the bright flashes surrounding them.

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00:21:32,843 --> 00:21:34,120
According to witnesses,

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00:21:34,154 --> 00:21:37,330
the objects looked like
huge chrome hubcaps

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00:21:37,365 --> 00:21:39,436
and oscillated as they flew.

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00:21:39,470 --> 00:21:42,508
Sometimes the witnesses
could see a full disk,

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00:21:42,542 --> 00:21:45,856
then a half-moon, and
then nothing at all.

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00:21:45,890 --> 00:21:48,376
They did see a plane
overhead as well,

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00:21:48,410 --> 00:21:49,998
but all the witnesses said

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00:21:50,032 --> 00:21:53,277
that what they were watching was not aircraft.

388
00:21:54,658 --> 00:21:57,488
This would cause Air Force investigations to wonder

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00:21:57,523 --> 00:22:01,354
if aircraft might be a
plausible explanation

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00:22:01,389 --> 00:22:04,840
for the sightings, despite the suggestion by the witness.

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00:22:06,255 --> 00:22:09,293
They thought that something the plane's pilot did,

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00:22:09,328 --> 00:22:12,538
such as tossing shiny
disks from the cockpit,

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00:22:12,572 --> 00:22:14,367
might have caused the confusion.

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00:22:14,402 --> 00:22:17,439
And later in the day,
there was another report

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00:22:17,474 --> 00:22:18,854
with a similar claim.

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00:22:21,581 --> 00:22:24,204
The Air Force files
contained a report

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00:22:24,239 --> 00:22:29,002
that a former Air Corps veteran said the object he saw

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00:22:29,037 --> 00:22:32,627
was unlike any plane
he had ever seen.

399
00:22:32,661 --> 00:22:35,215
He thought it appeared
radio-controlled

400
00:22:35,250 --> 00:22:37,563
because the disk
could change direction

401
00:22:37,597 --> 00:22:40,462
at a 90-degree angle
without difficulty.

402
00:22:42,430 --> 00:22:45,812
Another witness suggested that he had seen three objects

403
00:22:45,847 --> 00:22:49,368
fly east across the
Willamette River.

404
00:22:49,402 --> 00:22:51,991
The objects did not
appear to be very high

405
00:22:52,025 --> 00:22:54,373
but they were
traveling very fast.

406
00:22:54,407 --> 00:22:57,134
He said that they looked
like a metallic disk

407
00:22:57,168 --> 00:22:58,791
glinting in the sun.

408
00:22:58,825 --> 00:23:01,138
He also said that
he and a neighbor

409
00:23:01,172 --> 00:23:04,106
saw a single disk
later that afternoon.

410
00:23:06,902 --> 00:23:11,528
About four p.m., more civilians reported more disks.

411
00:23:11,562 --> 00:23:13,530
A woman called the
police telling them

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00:23:13,564 --> 00:23:15,428
she had watched a single object

413
00:23:15,463 --> 00:23:19,708
as shiny as a new
dime flipping around.

414
00:23:19,743 --> 00:23:21,676
An unidentified
man called to say

415
00:23:21,710 --> 00:23:23,919
that he had seen three disks,

416
00:23:23,954 --> 00:23:27,371
one flying to the east and the two heading north.

417
00:23:27,406 --> 00:23:30,512
They were shining, shaped like flattened saucers,

418
00:23:30,547 --> 00:23:32,480
and were traveling
at high speed.

419
00:23:34,827 --> 00:23:36,829
About an hour later, a man said

420
00:23:36,863 --> 00:23:40,039
that he spotted two
white or silver objects

421
00:23:40,073 --> 00:23:42,731
flying southeast over Portland.

422
00:23:42,766 --> 00:23:45,941
Half an hour later, he
sighted a single disk

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00:23:45,976 --> 00:23:47,460
headed to the northeast.

424
00:23:49,220 --> 00:23:52,465
In Milwaukee, Oregon,
not far from Portland,

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00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,572
Sergeant Claude Cross
reported three objects

426
00:23:55,606 --> 00:23:57,263
flying to the north.

427
00:23:57,297 --> 00:24:01,509
All were disk-shaped, all were moving at high speed.

428
00:24:03,062 --> 00:24:07,307
But disks overhead weren't the only things being reported.

429
00:24:07,342 --> 00:24:10,172
There were objects falling from the sky as well.

430
00:24:10,207 --> 00:24:13,348
Near Eugene, Oregon, a
railroad cashier said

431
00:24:13,382 --> 00:24:16,489
he saw silver
disks being dropped

432
00:24:16,524 --> 00:24:19,216
out of a white plane
flying over the city.

433
00:24:20,562 --> 00:24:22,978
A man in Portland recovered a large piece of paper

434
00:24:23,013 --> 00:24:25,671
he had seen fall
from a great height.

435
00:24:25,705 --> 00:24:30,434
According to reports, the time that the paper fell coincided

436
00:24:30,469 --> 00:24:32,816
with some of the
flying saucer sightings

437
00:24:32,850 --> 00:24:34,990
which might explain
some of them.

438
00:24:43,067 --> 00:24:46,174
The best of the sightings, and the one that was labeled

439
00:24:46,208 --> 00:24:49,626
as unidentified,
occurred about dusk

440
00:24:49,660 --> 00:24:54,113
as a United Airlines flight crew saw a single disk.

441
00:24:54,147 --> 00:24:57,426
Minutes later, they
spotted several others.

442
00:24:57,461 --> 00:25:00,913
Captain E.J. Smith, the
captain of the flight,

443
00:25:00,947 --> 00:25:03,467
explained it this way.

444
00:25:03,502 --> 00:25:05,814
- [Man] As our flight
number 105 took off

445
00:25:05,849 --> 00:25:09,300
from Boise, Idaho at
four p.m. Pacific time,

446
00:25:09,335 --> 00:25:11,199
the tower joshingly warned us

447
00:25:11,233 --> 00:25:14,202
to be on the lookout
for flying saucers.

448
00:25:14,236 --> 00:25:17,101
My co-pilot, Ralph
Stevens, was in control

449
00:25:17,136 --> 00:25:18,931
shortly after we
got into the air.

450
00:25:18,965 --> 00:25:21,727
Suddenly, he switched
on the landing lights.

451
00:25:21,761 --> 00:25:23,970
He said he thought
he saw an aircraft

452
00:25:24,005 --> 00:25:25,558
approaching us head-on.

453
00:25:25,593 --> 00:25:28,630
I noticed the objects
then for the first time.

454
00:25:28,665 --> 00:25:32,082
We saw four or five somethings.

455
00:25:32,116 --> 00:25:35,499
One was larger than the rest, and for the most part,

456
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:39,296
kept off the right of the other three or four similar

457
00:25:39,330 --> 00:25:41,263
but smaller objects.

458
00:25:41,298 --> 00:25:44,922
Since we were flying northwest,roughly into the sunset,

459
00:25:44,957 --> 00:25:48,167
we saw whatever they were in at least partial light.

460
00:25:48,201 --> 00:25:50,031
We saw them clearly.

461
00:25:50,065 --> 00:25:52,412
We followed them in a
northwesterly direction

462
00:25:52,447 --> 00:25:54,345
for about 45 miles.

463
00:25:55,277 --> 00:25:56,451
Then I called the attendant

464
00:25:56,485 --> 00:25:59,005
at the Ontario,
Oregon radio tower,

465
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,802
giving an approximate location and course for the objects.

466
00:26:02,837 --> 00:26:06,047
The attendant acknowledged our call, went outside to look,

467
00:26:06,081 --> 00:26:09,602
but was unable to see anything like what we'd described.

468
00:26:09,637 --> 00:26:13,330
Finally the object disappeared in a burst of speed.

469
00:26:13,364 --> 00:26:14,607
We were unable to tell

470
00:26:14,642 --> 00:26:17,955
whether they outsped
us or disintegrated.

471
00:26:19,647 --> 00:26:22,581
We were never able to
catch them in our DC-3.

472
00:26:22,615 --> 00:26:26,723
Our airspeed at the time
was 185 miles per hour.

473
00:26:26,757 --> 00:26:30,623
Through the Boise air tower,we radioed another United plane

474
00:26:30,658 --> 00:26:32,729
to see if it had seen anything.

475
00:26:32,763 --> 00:26:35,939
That plane flying
eastbound into the night

476
00:26:35,973 --> 00:26:37,561
had not sighted them.

477
00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:39,321
Because we were
following the objects

478
00:26:39,356 --> 00:26:41,254
at roughly the same altitude,

479
00:26:41,289 --> 00:26:43,360
we can't say anything
about their shape

480
00:26:43,394 --> 00:26:47,191
except they were thin and were smooth on the bottom

481
00:26:47,226 --> 00:26:49,366
and rough-appearing on the top.

482
00:26:51,713 --> 00:26:54,233
[eerie music]

483
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,

485
00:27:06,452 --> 00:27:09,628
verify they were actually seeing the disks.

486
00:27:09,662 --> 00:27:12,665
He saw four or more disks, three clustered together

487
00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:16,048
and a fourth flying off in the distance by itself.

488
00:27:16,082 --> 00:27:19,465
The objects were in sight for 10 to 15 minutes

489
00:27:19,499 --> 00:27:22,986
which means that she was able to get a good look at them.

490
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.

492
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,029
Colonel G.R. Dodson,

493
00:27:32,064 --> 00:27:34,998
a commander in the
Oregon National Guard,

494
00:27:35,032 --> 00:27:38,484
told reporters that he had made an inspection of the area

495
00:27:38,518 --> 00:27:42,591
from the air but that he had found nothing suspicious.

496
00:27:44,007 --> 00:27:46,906
Solutions were offered by some of the local residents.

497
00:27:46,941 --> 00:27:49,115
One thought that the sightings were the result

498
00:27:49,150 --> 00:27:52,947
of cottonwood blossoms
drifting on the wind.

499
00:27:52,981 --> 00:27:55,363
Another complained
about the news coverage,

500
00:27:55,397 --> 00:27:57,917
believing it all to be a hoax.

501
00:27:57,952 --> 00:28:00,644
He said that he had seen
an airplane fly over

502
00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:03,164
and about a minute later
he saw what he believed

503
00:28:03,198 --> 00:28:05,545
to be bits of aluminum foil

504
00:28:05,580 --> 00:28:07,962
that might have been
cigarette wrappers.

505
00:28:09,411 --> 00:28:12,449
Air Force officers mentioned that radar chaff had been seen

506
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

508
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.