] that-th .t \d le th info~m:uion t!lc1
give 1,1e may be mad1•:1t their
amcs nc\"er will be." ~ n . case,,
Captain Ruppelt said, in\"estigation
'las ~hown that the people he has inter
viewed had been deceived by thing,
that have been decei\"lng others all
;dong-balloons, planes, meteor:;, and
,o on-but a nettling residue of around
twenty per cent of the ca-.e, ha\'e wound
up in that exasperating old pigeonhole
labelled "Unidcntific.:d." X othing, for
l'\ample, could be fou nd to account
tor the ''...omuhing sih-er} directl}
overhead" reported by a mystified Civil
•\ eronautics Administra tion inspector at
T erre H aute. A commercial pilot who,
tlring near Ba ttle C reek, l\,Jich1gan,
•potted "an O\"al-shaped ,il\'er object"
,thead of his ship, po~ed a simila rly un
lved problem, as did a highly respected
naval officer, stationed a t the dirigible
ba,;e a t L akehurst, New J ersey, who re
ported that he had stared through his
binoculars a t a brilliant image making
turns tha t were far too tight for an}
known aircraft.
Twenty-five per cent of the observ
cn, interrogated by the Aerial P henom
ena Officer in the last two and a half
} ears have been milita ry pilots. E ight
per cent have been commercial pilots,
,om e with as much as twenty yea rs' ex
perience in the air, and at one stage in
the current phase o f the investigation,
nen a few physicists at L os Alamos,
'\Tew M exico, men who make a feti~h
of objecti\·ity, were interviewed after
they reported ha\ ing seen puzzling
li~hts hovering above their ato mic
energy laboratorie:-. " If you took
any one of these inciden ts by itself,
it might not mean much," Captain
Ruppclt said. " But in view of the
number and calibre of the informants,
rou couldn't help ta king their cla11n s
'"nou~Ir."
In February, 195 1, D r.
L1ddel, a nuclear physicist attached to
the Office of l\'a\"al Research, at '\Va,h
ington, D.C ., declared that at last,
"thank~ to the lifting of certain --ecurity
rc~trict1011s, he could provide the solution
to che mptcr} of the lh 1nJ ,·mcc.:rs:
T hey were ''sk} hooks," he said-hal
ins a hundred feet ·11 diameter, wluch
the Navy had secretly been sendin~ up
for the pa,t four years in order to
study cosmic rap. D r. L iddel's ru-,cr
rion w:i~ immediately disputed hr D r .
.-\nthon} 0 . \ Iirarchi, who, a:; f. rmcr
head of the Air F orce's A tmospheric
Compo<t1on Bure.tu, h td a~,1sted m the
diagnosis of Project Saucer reports. D r.
,\Iir re-hi sa'd he the ught the ~:rnccn,
mig ht he m is,iles from some foreign
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