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1 “sightings categorized as ‘unidentified’ are extraterrestrial vehicles” The Air Force Fact Sheet, “Unidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book,” can be found at http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=188. The December 17, 1969, News Release, no. 1077–69, “Air Force to Terminate Project Blue Book,” was issued by the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), Washington, D.C.–20301. See http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/ufo/asdpa1.pdf.
2 Astronautics Committee in its 1968 hearing This is the same hearing discussed in chapter 11 in reference to the testimony of James E. McDonald, held just before the Condon report was issued and Project Blue Book was shut down.
3 “scientific secrets we do not know ourselves” Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,” July 29, 1968 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 1968), pp. 121–24.
4 General Samford in his 1952 press conference See chapter 11 to review details of Samford’s press conference. He stated the percentage of credible reports of UFOs did not represent “any conceivable threat to the United States.”
5 “responsibility for the defense of the United States” UPI, “Air Force Order on ‘Saucers’ Cited; Pamphlet by the Inspector General Called Objects a ‘Serious Business,’” New York Times, February 28, 1960.
6 “UFOs could not be Soviet machines” Statement of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa in the House of Representatives, August 31, 1960. Entered into the Congressional Record, p. 18955.
7 “cause for grave concern to this headquarters” SAC headquarters to Ogden Air Material Area (OOAMA) Hill AFB, Utah, “Loss of Stategic Alert, Echo Flight, Malstrom AFB,” March 17, 1967. Originally classified Secret. The document is reprinted on p. 108 of Robert Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant (privately published, 2004), a book with useful information about the Malmstrom case and other missile UFO incidents from the 1960s. For a more detailed and broader look at such cases, see Robert Hastings, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites (AuthorHouse, 2008).
8 directly injected into the equipment Salas, op. cit., p. 29.
9 have come forward with similar reports Hastings, op. cit.
10 “reports which fall within their responsibilities” C. H. Bolender, Brig. Gen. USAF, memorandum, “Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO),” October 20, 1969. Obtained through the FOIA by Robert Todd in 1979. http://www.nicap.org/directives/Bolender_Memo.pdf.
11 the NORAD log reports 24th NORAD Region Senior Director’s Log, November 1975; NORAD Command Director’s Log, November 1975.
12 the Post reported Ward Sinclair and Art Harris, “UFOs Visited U.S. Bases, Reports Say,” Washington Post, 1979.
13 This highly unusual report JCS Communication Center of the USDAQ Tehran Message 230630Z, September 1976, released in 1977 through the Department of Defense, “Reported UFO Sighting,” 3 pages plus 1 page evaluation. See also Henry S. Shields, “Now You See It, Now You Don’t,” United States Air Force Security Service, MIJI Quarterly Report 3–78, October 1978.
14 “maneuverability was displayed by the UFOs” This list is exactly the way it is in the document, except I’ve put bullets where there were letters (a.–f.) and removed 1) from the first line (“an outstanding report …”) to make it easier to read.
15 Titled “UFO Sighted in Peru” Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff message center, “UFO Sighted in Peru,” June 3, 1980.
CHAPTER 16: “A POWERFUL DESIRE TO DO NOTHING”
1 twelve officers from this department alone had their own sightings Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings (Llewellyn Publications, 1998), p. 81.
2 “as if the ball were trying to measure something” Interview with Heinrich Nicoll for the NBC television series “Unsolved Mysteries,” hosted by Robert Stack.