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“It looked similar to a star, but bigger and brighter,” and then, “it was flashing with intense red, green, orange and blue light so bright that I was not able to see its body … The sequence of flashes was extremely fast, like a strobe light.” The next phase is chillingly consistent in the two encounters. Ferreira says that the pilots saw “first one small circle of yellow light coming out of the larger object, then three others,” and that these were considerably smaller than the scintillating, main object. Jafari states later in this chapter that he saw “a round object” leave the larger object and head toward him, looking like “a brightly lit moon coming out over the horizon.” And he, too, witnessed not just one of these round lights ejected from the brilliant one, but a series of them. Both incidents involved multiple Air Force witnesses. Jafari’s case was reported in a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency document in great detail, as described later in this book.

It is unusual enough for pilots to get such extended close views of UFOs while in the air; for detailed reports to be filed about them; and for the primary witness to later be promoted to the rank of general. But when the details are so strikingly similar—even though they were seen nineteen years apart over two different continents—it is reasonable to wonder whether the two groups of pilots were witnessing the same, or almost identical, phenomena.

2 for an examination and more blood tests Exposure to radiation can reduce the production and/or aggregation of blood platelets, which are essential for coagulation. Perhaps this explains Jafari’s problem, but we don’t know. He does not have copies of the medical records.

CHAPTER 10: CLOSE COMBAT WITH A UFO

1 On April 11, 1980 The first draft of this piece was translated from Spanish by Andrea Soares Berrios and Oscar Zambrano, who also translated during follow-up communications and further development of the piece. I worked on the final edits with Comandante Santa María in English.

CHAPTER 11: THE ROOTS OF UFO DEBUNKING IN AMERICA

1 assigning a security classification and code name to it General Nathan F. Twining to Commander, Air Material Command, “AMC Opinion Concerning ‘Flying Discs,’” September 23, 1947 (contained in Edwin U. Condon, project director, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, 1969), pp. 894–95.

2 and given the code name “Sign” Directive—Major General L. C. Craigie to Commanding General Wright Field (Wright-Patterson AFB), Disposition and Security for Project Sign, December 30, 1947 (contained in Edwin U. Condon, project director, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, 1969) p. 896.

3 repeated attempts using the Freedom of Information Act Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday & Company, 1956), pp. 62–63. Ruppelt was the first chief of Project Blue Book, from early 1951 until September 1953. David Michael Jacobs, The UFO Controversy in America (Indiana University Press, 1975), p. 47. Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” Journal of UFO Studies, n.s. 7 (2000), pp. 27–64, http://www.ufoscience.org/history/swords.pdf.

4 “from another nation in this world” W. P. Keay, FBI memorandum, “Flying Saucers,” July 29, 1952 (contained in Bruce Maccabee, UFO FBI Connection (Llewellyn Publications, 2000).

5 “seriously considering the possibility of planetary ships” W. P. Keay, FBI memorandum, “Flying Saucers,” October 27, 1952 (Maccabee, ibid.).

6 “any conceivable threat to the United States” The press conference was filmed and General Samford’s opening statement has been shown in numerous documentaries. It can be seen in the James Fox film I Know What I Saw and on this 1952 news clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utX5HvMO0PM.

7 “or known types of aerial vehicles” H. Marshall Chadwell, memorandum for Director of Central Intelligence, December 2, 1952.

8 “to minimize risk of panic” H. Marshall Chadwell, memorandum for Director of Central Intelligence, “Flying Saucers,” September 11,