The Flying Saucers are Real

CLAIM-600001 · Physical Characteristics

“Mack writes that by far the most common entities reported in his cases were small "grays," generally three to four feet tall, with large pear-shaped heads, long arms, thin torsos and legs, little or no visible external ears, rudimentary nostrils, a slitlike mouth, and very large black eyes.”

CLAIM-600002 · Reported Role in Mack Abduction Accounts

“Mack distinguishes smaller drone- or insectlike workers from a somewhat taller leader or "doctor" type. The workers are described as moving or gliding robotically and performing tasks, while the leader is described as directing procedures.”

CLAIM-600003 · Consciousness & Telepathy

“Mack reports that experiencers commonly described communication with the beings as telepathic or mind-to-mind, without a learned spoken language.”

CLAIM-600004 · Physical Characteristics

“In his overview Mack notes that reptilian creatures were reported by some experiencers, including the Carlos case, and were described as carrying out mechanical functions aboard the reported craft.”

CLAIM-600005 · Physical Characteristics

“Mack states that Nordic-looking blond human-like beings were among the entity forms reported inside craft, alongside greys, luminous beings, reptilian forms, and occasional human helpers.”

CLAIM-600006 · Physical Characteristics

“Mack reports tall or short luminous entities that may appear translucent or not altogether solid.”

CLAIM-600007 · Physical Characteristics

“The overview states that experiencers reported seeing fetuses in containers or incubators and later hybrid babies, children, adolescents, and adults that they understood or were told were connected to them.”

CLAIM-600008 · Cosmic Agenda & Mission

“Mack summarizes the reproductive component as appearing, from the experiencers' standpoint, to involve sperm/egg collection, reported pregnancy procedures and the creation of human/alien hybrid offspring, but explicitly adds that there was no evidence of alien-induced genetic alteration in the strict biological sense.”

CLAIM-600009 · Technology & Spacecraft

“In the overview Mack says experiencers described UFOs ranging from a few feet to several hundred yards across, commonly silver or metallic and including saucer-shaped forms. Strong white, blue, orange, or red light was reported from beneath the craft and from porthole-like openings around the edge.”

CLAIM-600010 · Reported Role in Mack Abduction Accounts

“Mack reports a recurring two-stage transport pattern in some accounts: experiencers first enter a smaller craft, sometimes described as standing on long legs, which then rises to a larger "mother" ship; in other accounts they report direct transport to the larger craft.”

CLAIM-600011 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“The revised paperback preface states that Mack altered language to make clear he was reporting experiences as told to him and was not presuming that everything the experiencers said was literally true.”

CLAIM-600012 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Mack notes that physical findings associated with abduction reports were generally subtle and that, at the time of writing, no physician-documented case established disappearance of a fetus in relation to an abduction.”

CLAIM-600013 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Three disk sightings tracked by scientists with precision instruments at five miles per second.”

CLAIM-600014 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Crowded into the Godman Field Tower, a group of Air Force officers stared up at the afternoon sky. For just an instant, something gleamed through the broken clouds south of the base.”

CLAIM-600015 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“High above the field, three P-51 fighters climbed with swift urgency. Heading south, they quickly vanished.”

CLAIM-600016 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The thing’s starting to climb, Mantell said swiftly. It’s at twelve o’clock high, making half my speed. I’ll try to close in.”

CLAIM-600017 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“At 3:15, Mantell made a hasty contact. It’s still above me, making my speed or better. I’m going up to twenty thousand feet. If I’m no closer, I’ll abandon chase.”

CLAIM-600018 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Minutes later, his fighter disintegrated with terrific force. The falling wreckage was scattered for thousands of feet.”

CLAIM-600019 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The object was described as 'round or oval, larger than a C-47, and traveling in level flight faster than 500 miles per hour.'”

CLAIM-600020 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Observers said it glowed from white to amber, leaving an amber exhaust trail five times its own length.”

CLAIM-600021 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It made motions like an elevator and at one time appeared to touch the ground.”

CLAIM-600022 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“No sound was heard.”

CLAIM-600023 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Finally, the object faded and lowered toward the horizon.”

CLAIM-600024 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force report says whatever Mantell chased—it calls it a 'mysterious object'—is still unidentified.”

CLAIM-600025 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force contract astronomer told Shallett that even when Venus is at full magnitude you can barely see it in the daytime even when you’re looking for it. It was only half magnitude that day, so it was practically invisible.”

CLAIM-600026 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Sidney Shallett says if it wasn’t Venus, it must have been a balloon.”

CLAIM-600027 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They flew close to the mountaintops, in a diagonal chainlike line.”

CLAIM-600028 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They were flat, like a pie pan, and so shiny they reflected the sun like a mirror.”

CLAIM-600029 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The things appeared to be at least forty thousand feet in the air—perhaps much higher.”

CLAIM-600030 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The disks were seen by pilots and ground officers.”

CLAIM-600031 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It could have been a guided missile, but I never heard of anything like it.”

CLAIM-600032 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The disks are caused by the transmutation of atomic energy.”

CLAIM-600033 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The government is probably conducting some revolutionary experiments.”

CLAIM-600034 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It was too dark to make out the shape behind the light, but all witnesses had agreed on its performance. The thing had climbed at tremendous speed, its upward motion shown by a bright green light.”

CLAIM-600035 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I think they were trying to pin it on a jet fighter, but there weren't any jets near there. Anyway, the thing climbed too fast. It must have been making close to nine hundred miles an hour.”

CLAIM-600036 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“From the way this was hushed up, they seem to be worried about this group of sightings.”

CLAIM-600037 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It was heading southwest, exactly opposite to our course. Whatever it was, it flashed down toward us at terrific speed.”

CLAIM-600038 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The thing was about one hundred feet long, cigar-shaped, and wingless.”

CLAIM-600039 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The exhaust was a red-orange flame, with a lighter color predominant around the outer edges.”

CLAIM-600040 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“An intense dark-blue glow came from the side of the ship.”

CLAIM-600041 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The cabin appeared like a pilot compartment, except for its eerie brilliance.”

CLAIM-600042 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Both he and Whitted agreed it was as bright as a magnesium flare.”

CLAIM-600043 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The snout like a radar pole.”

CLAIM-600044 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The craft was moving at even higher speed.”

CLAIM-600045 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The craft was tracked about fifty miles up.”

CLAIM-600046 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The craft was five hundred feet in diameter.”

CLAIM-600047 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The craft was interplanetary.”

CLAIM-600048 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Earth Satellite Vehicle Program, which is being carried out independently by each military service, has been assigned to the Committee on Guided Missiles for co-ordination.”

CLAIM-600049 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The artificial satellite is to be a large rocket-propelled projectile. In its upward flight, it will have to reach a speed of 23,000 miles an hour, to escape the earth’s pull of gravity.”

CLAIM-600050 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“German scientists had gone far ahead. Their buzz bomb, a low-altitude semi-guided missile, was just the beginning.”

CLAIM-600051 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“One day later, the order creating Project 'Saucer' had been signed.”

CLAIM-600052 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Everything would happen faster than your nerve impulses could register it. Your comprehension would always be lagging a split second behind the space ship’s operation.”

CLAIM-600053 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“According to the reports, Europe, the most populated area, had been more closely observed than the rest of the globe until about 1870.”

CLAIM-600054 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“By this time, the United States, beginning to rival Europe in industrial progress, had evidently become of interest to the space-ship crews.”

CLAIM-600055 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Our atomic-bomb explosions and the V-2 high-altitude experiments might be only coincidence, but I could think of no other development that might seriously concern dwellers on other planets.”

CLAIM-600056 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“More than once, during this investigation, I had been asked: “If the saucers are interplanetary, why haven’t they landed here? Why haven’t their crews tried to make contact with us?””

CLAIM-600057 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The explorers would have no idea of what awaited them. The planet might be uninhabited.”

CLAIM-600058 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If they seemed belligerent or uncivilized, we would probably end our survey and check on the next possibly inhabited planet.”

CLAIM-600059 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If we found they were highly civilized, we would undoubtedly attempt later contact.”

CLAIM-600060 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If a mysterious explosion on Mars, or any other planet, were found of atomic origin, it would cause serious concern on earth.”

CLAIM-600061 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The detailed survey by our space-base observers would probably show that there was no immediate danger to the earth.”

CLAIM-600062 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If several hydrogen bombs were exploded simultaneously at a high altitude, it could speed up the earth’s rotation or change its orbit.”

CLAIM-600063 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A dramatic picture of what might happen if the earth were forced far out of its orbit is indicated in the much-discussed book Worlds in Collision, by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky.”

CLAIM-600064 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Project 'Saucer' statement: “Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed. We should therefore expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.””

CLAIM-600065 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I spent the next two days running down a sighting report from a town in Pennsylvania.”

CLAIM-600066 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If they are spacemen, they'd probably have a hard time figuring out this country by listening to our broadcasts.”

CLAIM-600067 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Evolution might have produced basic differences in their understanding of life.”

CLAIM-600068 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They might live and think on a coldly intelligent level, without a touch of what we know as emotion.”

CLAIM-600069 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“But in their progress, there must have been struggle, trial and error, some feeling of triumph at success.”

CLAIM-600070 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Perhaps, in spite of some differences, we would find a common bond—the bond of thinking, intelligent creatures trying to better themselves.”

CLAIM-600071 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“For the past 175 years, the earth has been under systematic close-range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet.”

CLAIM-600072 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The intensity of this observation, and the frequency of the visits to the earth’s atmosphere, have increased markedly during the past two years.”

CLAIM-600073 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The vehicles used for this observation and for interplanetary transport by the explorers have been classed as follows: Type I, a small, nonpilot-carrying disk-shaped craft equipped with some form of television or impulse transmitter;”

CLAIM-600074 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The thought of those eight light-years would have a comforting effect on any nervous readers.”

CLAIM-600075 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force has convincingly denied having any evidence that flying saucers exist.”

CLAIM-600076 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Project 'Saucer' had found that they were caused by: 1. Misinterpretation of various conventional objects.”

CLAIM-600077 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Project 'Saucer' had been discontinued, now that all the reports had been explained.”

CLAIM-600078 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Dr. Dean B. McLaughlin, of the University of Michigan, said, 'No one knows what the saucers are as yet.'”

CLAIM-600079 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Dr. Carl F. von Weizacker—that billions of stars may have planets, and many could be inhabited.”

CLAIM-600080 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If gravitation were a manifestation of electromagnetic force, was it possible that an advanced race had found a way—as unique as splitting the atom—to offset gravity and utilize that force?”

CLAIM-600081 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The earth has been under periodic observation from another planet, or other planets, for at least two centuries.”

CLAIM-600082 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“This observation suddenly increased in 1947, following, the series of A-bomb explosions begun in 1945.”

CLAIM-600083 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The observation, now intermittent, is part of a long-range survey and will continue indefinitely.”

CLAIM-600084 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“No immediate attempt to contact the earth seems evident.”

CLAIM-600085 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“There may be some unknown block to making contact, but it is more probable that the spacemen’s plans are not complete.”

CLAIM-600086 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The American people have proved their ability to take incredible things. We have survived the stunning impact of the Atomic Age. We should be able to take the Interplanetary Age, when it comes, without hysteria.”

CLAIM-770001 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“On February 22, 1950, two saucers reported above Key West Naval Air Station were tracked by radar; they were described as maneuvering at high speed fifty miles above the earth.”

CLAIM-770002 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“On March 9, 1950, a large metallic disk was pursued by F-51 and jet fighters and observed by scores of Air Force officers at Wright Field, Ohio.”

CLAIM-770003 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force statements, contradictory as they appear, are part of an intricate program to prepare America—and the world—for the secret of the disks.”

CLAIM-770004 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“NEW YORK, N. Y., MAY 9, 1949”

CLAIM-770005 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Project ‘Saucer’ gave out a hint, but they've never released the transcript.”

CLAIM-770006 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“FLYING SAUCER OVER TUCSON?”

CLAIM-770007 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Two similar glowing objects were seen above Boca Chica Naval Air Station at Key West.”

CLAIM-770008 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“During the bright antarctic night, we saw flying saucers, one above the other, turning at tremendous speeds.”

CLAIM-770009 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A gleaming metallic disk was sighted over Dayton, Ohio.”

CLAIM-770010 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Huge elliptical saucer flying at a low altitude in Pennsylvania.”

CLAIM-770011 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Large formation of disks passing high above the city.”

CLAIM-770012 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Fast-flying disk with strange blue-white light.”

CLAIM-770013 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Three disk sightings tracked by scientists with precision instruments at five miles per second.”

CLAIM-770014 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Crowded into the Godman Field Tower, a group of Air Force officers stared up at the afternoon sky. For just an instant, something gleamed through the broken clouds south of the base.”

CLAIM-770015 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“High above the field, three P-51 fighters climbed with swift urgency. Heading south, they quickly vanished.”

CLAIM-770016 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The thing’s starting to climb, Mantell said swiftly. It’s at twelve o’clock high, making half my speed. I’ll try to close in.”

CLAIM-770017 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“At 3:15, Mantell made a hasty contact. It’s still above me, making my speed or better. I’m going up to twenty thousand feet. If I’m no closer, I’ll abandon chase.”

CLAIM-770018 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Minutes later, his fighter disintegrated with terrific force. The falling wreckage was scattered for thousands of feet.”

CLAIM-770019 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The object was described as 'round or oval, larger than a C-47, and traveling in level flight faster than 500 miles per hour.'”

CLAIM-770020 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Observers said it glowed from white to amber, leaving an amber exhaust trail five times its own length.”

CLAIM-770021 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It made motions like an elevator and at one time appeared to touch the ground.”

CLAIM-770022 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“No sound was heard.”

CLAIM-770023 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Finally, the object faded and lowered toward the horizon.”

CLAIM-770024 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force report says whatever Mantell chased—it calls it a 'mysterious object'—is still unidentified.”

CLAIM-770025 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force contract astronomer told Shallett that even when Venus is at full magnitude you can barely see it in the daytime even when you’re looking for it. It was only half magnitude that day, so it was practically invisible.”

CLAIM-770026 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Sidney Shallett says if it wasn’t Venus, it must have been a balloon.”

CLAIM-770027 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They flew close to the mountaintops, in a diagonal chainlike line.”

CLAIM-770028 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They were flat, like a pie pan, and so shiny they reflected the sun like a mirror.”

CLAIM-770029 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The things appeared to be at least forty thousand feet in the air—perhaps much higher.”

CLAIM-770030 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The disks were seen by pilots and ground officers.”

CLAIM-770031 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It could have been a guided missile, but I never heard of anything like it.”

CLAIM-770032 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The disks are caused by the transmutation of atomic energy.”

CLAIM-770033 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The government is probably conducting some revolutionary experiments.”

CLAIM-770034 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Al Scholin took it more or less dead-pan. Splitt looked at me a moment and then grinned.”

CLAIM-770035 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force has spent two years checking into it. Everybody from Symington down will tell you the saucers are bunk.”

CLAIM-770036 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They just got around to releasing it.”

CLAIM-770037 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They know there’s nothing to it.”

CLAIM-770038 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force doesn’t claim it has all the answers. But they’ve proved a lot of the reports were hoaxes or mistakes.”

CLAIM-770039 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I thought the saucers were a joke-until Mantell was killed chasing that thing at Fort Knox.”

CLAIM-770040 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It was the Mantell case that got me.”

CLAIM-770041 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The mysterious object which the flyer chased to his death was first identified as the Planet Venus.”

CLAIM-770042 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The mysterious object had disappeared when Mantell's wingman searched the sky, just after the leader's death.”

CLAIM-770043 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The strange object had completely vanished in those few minutes. A search covering a hundred miles failed to reveal a trace.”

CLAIM-770044 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The identity of the thing remains—officially—a mystery.”

CLAIM-770045 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The saucer seen flying at 500 m.p.h. over Lockbourne Field could not have been a balloon.”

CLAIM-770046 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force says it's still unidentified.”

CLAIM-770047 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The saucer was seen at the same time by people a hundred and seventy-five miles apart.”

CLAIM-770048 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It was too dark to make out the shape behind the light, but all witnesses had agreed on its performance. The thing had climbed at tremendous speed, its upward motion shown by a bright green light.”

CLAIM-770049 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I think they were trying to pin it on a jet fighter, but there weren't any jets near there. Anyway, the thing climbed too fast. It must have been making close to nine hundred miles an hour.”

CLAIM-770050 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“From the way this was hushed up, they seem to be worried about this group of sightings.”

CLAIM-770051 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A strange, fast-moving object appeared in the sky, south of the town.”

CLAIM-770052 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A device of the same description appeared, causing panic among soldiers.”

CLAIM-770053 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A dark object high up in the southern sky, described as resembling a balloon.”

CLAIM-770054 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A queer object seen crossing the moon, described as elliptical with a tail.”

CLAIM-770055 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A large, round body seen above the city, moving slowly across the sky.”

CLAIM-770056 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Several brilliantly luminous objects seen at the horizon, moving from east to west.”

CLAIM-770057 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A strange round object seen in the skies over Bermuda.”

CLAIM-770058 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It was heading southwest, exactly opposite to our course. Whatever it was, it flashed down toward us at terrific speed.”

CLAIM-770059 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The thing was about one hundred feet long, cigar-shaped, and wingless.”

CLAIM-770060 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The exhaust was a red-orange flame, with a lighter color predominant around the outer edges.”

CLAIM-770061 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“An intense dark-blue glow came from the side of the ship.”

CLAIM-770062 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The cabin appeared like a pilot compartment, except for its eerie brilliance.”

CLAIM-770063 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Both he and Whitted agreed it was as bright as a magnesium flare.”

CLAIM-770064 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The snout like a radar pole.”

CLAIM-770065 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The craft was moving at even higher speed.”

CLAIM-770066 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The craft was tracked about fifty miles up.”

CLAIM-770067 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The craft was five hundred feet in diameter.”

CLAIM-770068 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The craft was interplanetary.”

CLAIM-770069 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I was on a Mainliner 300, starting, a new phase of the saucer investigation.”

CLAIM-770070 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I had several leads, and True had arranged some interviews for me.”

CLAIM-770071 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I had called the Pentagon again and asked to talk with some of the Project officers.”

CLAIM-770072 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I had met an airline official and two commercial pilots.”

CLAIM-770073 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I had hoped by this time to know the truth about Project 'Saucer'.”

CLAIM-770074 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I was still trying to figure it out when my plane let down for the landing at Washington.”

CLAIM-770075 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Mantell and Eastern cases both look good. I don’t see how they can brush them off.”

CLAIM-770076 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Gorman case again!”

CLAIM-770077 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Gorman case again!”

CLAIM-770078 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Give me enough money and I’ll build you one. It might have to be a model because the fuel would be a problem.”

CLAIM-770079 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The object could outturn and outspeed the F-51, and was able to attain a much steeper climb and to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of the Air Force fighter.”

CLAIM-770080 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The mystery was cleared up when the object was identified positively as a cluster of cosmic-ray research balloons.”

CLAIM-770081 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Earth Satellite Vehicle Program, which is being carried out independently by each military service, has been assigned to the Committee on Guided Missiles for co-ordination.”

CLAIM-770082 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The artificial satellite is to be a large rocket-propelled projectile. In its upward flight, it will have to reach a speed of 23,000 miles an hour, to escape the earth’s pull of gravity.”

CLAIM-770083 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“German scientists had gone far ahead. Their buzz bomb, a low-altitude semi-guided missile, was just the beginning.”

CLAIM-770084 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“One day later, the order creating Project 'Saucer' had been signed.”

CLAIM-770085 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Everything would happen faster than your nerve impulses could register it. Your comprehension would always be lagging a split second behind the space ship’s operation.”

CLAIM-770086 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I think that's correct analysis.”

CLAIM-770087 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The thing was about fifty miles up. And it was making over fifteen thousand miles an hour!”

CLAIM-770088 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Even to have been seen at all from both places, it would have to have been huge—much larger than two hundred and fifty feet in diameter.”

CLAIM-770089 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“To power a hundred-foot wingless ship, especially at those speeds, would take enormous force.”

CLAIM-770090 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“There’s no other possible answer. It was a huge space ship—perhaps the largest ever to come into our atmosphere.”

CLAIM-770091 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The way I’d have to soup it up, it would be a damned dangerous ship to fly.”

CLAIM-770092 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I’ve heard that idea before, but it won’t hold up.”

CLAIM-770093 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I don’t know any engineer who would even attempt it.”

CLAIM-770094 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“To carry that much gear, it would take a fair-sized plane.”

CLAIM-770095 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The same principle applies to all the other light reports I’ve heard.”

CLAIM-770096 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“That thing was guided from some interplanetary ship, hovering at a high altitude.”

CLAIM-770097 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I haven’t any idea what source of power it used.”

CLAIM-770098 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Since flying saucers first hit the headlines almost two years ago, there has been wide speculation that the aerial phenomena might actually be some form of penetration from another planet.”

CLAIM-770099 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Actually, astronomers are largely in agreement that only one member of the solar system beside Earth is capable of supporting life. That is Mars.”

CLAIM-770100 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The possibility of intelligent life also existing on the planet Venus is not considered completely unreasonable by astronomers.”

CLAIM-770101 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The theory is also employed that man represents the average in advancement and development. Therefore, one-half the other habitable planets would be behind man in development, and the other half ahead.”

CLAIM-770102 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The most likely star was Wolf 359—eight light-years away.”

CLAIM-770103 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The first British types had been developed secretly in England, according to this account.”

CLAIM-770104 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The first tests showed a dangerous lack of control; the disks streaked up to high altitudes, hurtling without direction.”

CLAIM-770105 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The British then had shifted operations to Australia, where a guided-missile test range had been set up.”

CLAIM-770106 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The first tests of the new disks was in the spring of 1947, his informant had told him.”

CLAIM-770107 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The disks’ range and speed had been greatly increased.”

CLAIM-770108 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The British had arranged a simple detonator system, operated either by remote control or automatically under certain conditions.”

CLAIM-770109 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Mantell case and the others we’ve discussed.”

CLAIM-770110 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I think that’s where they first got the idea of trying out oval and circular airfoils.”

CLAIM-770111 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The rotation idea uses the same principle as the helicopter, but nobody had even followed that through.”

CLAIM-770112 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I think they realized these space ships were using some great source of power we hadn’t discovered on earth. I believe that’s what they were after—that power secret.”

CLAIM-770113 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If they’d succeeded, they’d have owned the world. As it was, that space project caused them to leap ahead of everybody with rockets.”

CLAIM-770114 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Probably cosmic rays hold the answer. Their power would be even greater than atomic power.”

CLAIM-770115 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“There’s another source I’ve heard mentioned, but most people scoff at it. That’s the use of electromagnetic fields in space.”

CLAIM-770116 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“According to the reports, Europe, the most populated area, had been more closely observed than the rest of the globe until about 1870.”

CLAIM-770117 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“By this time, the United States, beginning to rival Europe in industrial progress, had evidently become of interest to the space-ship crews.”

CLAIM-770118 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Our atomic-bomb explosions and the V-2 high-altitude experiments might be only coincidence, but I could think of no other development that might seriously concern dwellers on other planets.”

CLAIM-770119 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“More than once, during this investigation, I had been asked: “If the saucers are interplanetary, why haven’t they landed here? Why haven’t their crews tried to make contact with us?””

CLAIM-770120 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The explorers would have no idea of what awaited them. The planet might be uninhabited.”

CLAIM-770121 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If they seemed belligerent or uncivilized, we would probably end our survey and check on the next possibly inhabited planet.”

CLAIM-770122 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If we found they were highly civilized, we would undoubtedly attempt later contact.”

CLAIM-770123 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If a mysterious explosion on Mars, or any other planet, were found of atomic origin, it would cause serious concern on earth.”

CLAIM-770124 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The detailed survey by our space-base observers would probably show that there was no immediate danger to the earth.”

CLAIM-770125 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If several hydrogen bombs were exploded simultaneously at a high altitude, it could speed up the earth’s rotation or change its orbit.”

CLAIM-770126 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“A dramatic picture of what might happen if the earth were forced far out of its orbit is indicated in the much-discussed book Worlds in Collision, by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky.”

CLAIM-770127 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Project 'Saucer' statement: “Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed. We should therefore expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.””

CLAIM-770128 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I spent the next two days running down a sighting report from a town in Pennsylvania.”

CLAIM-770129 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If they are spacemen, they'd probably have a hard time figuring out this country by listening to our broadcasts.”

CLAIM-770130 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Evolution might have produced basic differences in their understanding of life.”

CLAIM-770131 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They might live and think on a coldly intelligent level, without a touch of what we know as emotion.”

CLAIM-770132 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“But in their progress, there must have been struggle, trial and error, some feeling of triumph at success.”

CLAIM-770133 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Perhaps, in spite of some differences, we would find a common bond—the bond of thinking, intelligent creatures trying to better themselves.”

CLAIM-770134 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“For the past 175 years, the earth has been under systematic close-range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet.”

CLAIM-770135 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The intensity of this observation, and the frequency of the visits to the earth’s atmosphere, have increased markedly during the past two years.”

CLAIM-770136 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The vehicles used for this observation and for interplanetary transport by the explorers have been classed as follows: Type I, a small, nonpilot-carrying disk-shaped craft equipped with some form of television or impulse transmitter;”

CLAIM-770137 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The thought of those eight light-years would have a comforting effect on any nervous readers.”

CLAIM-770138 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Air Force has convincingly denied having any evidence that flying saucers exist.”

CLAIM-770139 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Project 'Saucer' had found that they were caused by: 1. Misinterpretation of various conventional objects.”

CLAIM-770140 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Project 'Saucer' had been discontinued, now that all the reports had been explained.”

CLAIM-770141 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Dr. Dean B. McLaughlin, of the University of Michigan, said, 'No one knows what the saucers are as yet.'”

CLAIM-770142 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Dr. Carl F. von Weizacker—that billions of stars may have planets, and many could be inhabited.”

CLAIM-770143 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“If gravitation were a manifestation of electromagnetic force, was it possible that an advanced race had found a way—as unique as splitting the atom—to offset gravity and utilize that force?”

CLAIM-770144 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I haven’t asked them, so I couldn’t say.”

CLAIM-770145 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They’d had those cases for months, “I said. “What new facts did they learn?””

CLAIM-770146 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“They just made a final analysis, and those were the answers.”

CLAIM-770147 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“There’s just no such thing as a flying saucer, so far as we’ve found out.”

CLAIM-770148 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The contracts are ended, and all personnel transferred to other duty.”

CLAIM-770149 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“We’ve been told, “That’s not so,” Boggs said emphatically.”

CLAIM-770150 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The Press Branch hadn’t been informed yet.”

CLAIM-770151 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“There were a few more—something over four hundred. I don’t know the exact figure.”

CLAIM-770152 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It’s all up to the local commanders now.”

CLAIM-770153 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“I’m not sure about the senior officer, “General Smith answered. “He may have been detached already.”

CLAIM-770154 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“That case got me, at first.”

CLAIM-770155 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It must be, if Wright Field says so.”

CLAIM-770156 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“There’s just no such thing as a flying saucer, so far as we’ve found out.”

CLAIM-770157 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Detailed attention should be given to any possible astronomical body or phenomenon which might serve to identify the object or objects.”

CLAIM-770158 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Detailed attention should be given to any possible astronomical body or phenomenon which might serve to identify the object or objects.”

CLAIM-770159 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Detailed attention should be given to any possible astronomical body or phenomenon which might serve to identify the object or objects.”

CLAIM-770160 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Detailed attention should be given to any possible astronomical body or phenomenon which might serve to identify the object or objects.”

CLAIM-770161 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Detailed attention should be given to any possible astronomical body or phenomenon which might serve to identify the object or objects.”

CLAIM-770162 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Detailed attention should be given to any possible astronomical body or phenomenon which might serve to identify the object or objects.”

CLAIM-770163 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The earth has been under periodic observation from another planet, or other planets, for at least two centuries.”

CLAIM-770164 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“This observation suddenly increased in 1947, following, the series of A-bomb explosions begun in 1945.”

CLAIM-770165 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The observation, now intermittent, is part of a long-range survey and will continue indefinitely.”

CLAIM-770166 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“No immediate attempt to contact the earth seems evident.”

CLAIM-770167 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“There may be some unknown block to making contact, but it is more probable that the spacemen’s plans are not complete.”

CLAIM-770168 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The American people have proved their ability to take incredible things. We have survived the stunning impact of the Atomic Age. We should be able to take the Interplanetary Age, when it comes, without hysteria.”