The Flying Saucers are RealKeyhoe, Donald E. (Donald Edward)
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The Flying Saucers are Real
Keyhoe, Donald E. (Donald Edward)
Unidentified flying objects
“Barring hallucination, these two incidents and 17, 75 and 84 seem the
most tangible from the standpoint of description, of all those
reported, and the most difficult to explain away as sheer nonsense.”
Case 17, I found, was that of Kenneth Arnold. But in spite of the above
admission that this case cannot be explained away, it is officially
listed as answered.
Case 75 struck a familiar note. This was the strange occurrence at Twin
Falls, Idaho, on which _True_ had had a tip months before. A disk
moving through a canyon at tremendous speed had whipped the treetops as
if by a violent hurricane. The report was brief, but one sentence stood
out with a startling effect:
“Twin Falls, Idaho, August 13, 1847,” the report began. “There is
clearly nothing astronomical in this incident. . . . Two points stand
out, the sky-blue color, and the fact that the trees ‘spun around on
top as if they were in a vacuum.’”
Then came the sentence that made me sit up in my chair.
“Apparently it must be classed with the other bona fide disk
sightings.”
_The other bona fide sightings!_
Was this a slip? Or had the Air Force deliberately left this report in
the file? If they had, what was back of it—what was back of releasing
all of these telltale case summaries?
I skimmed through the rest as quickly as possible looking for other
clues. Here are a few of the things that. caught my eye:
Case 10. United Airlines report . . . despite conjectures, no logical
explanation seems possible. . . .
Case 122. Holloman Air Force Base, April 6, 1948. [This was the
Commander McLaughlin White Sands report.] No logical explanation. . . .
Case 124. North Atlantic, April 18, 1948 . . . radar sighting . . . no
astronomical explanation. . . .
Case 127. Yugoslav-Greek frontier, May 7, 1948 . . . information too
limited. . . .
Case 168. Arnheim, The Hague, July 20, 1948 . . . object seen four
times . . . had two decks and no wings . . . very high speed comparable
to a V-2. . . .
Case 183. Japan, October 15, 1948. Radar experts should determine
acceleration rates. . . .
Case 188. Goose Bay, Labrador, October 29, 1948. Not astronomical . . .
picked up by radar . . . radar experts should evaluate the sightings .
. . .
Case 189. Goose Bay, Labrador, October 31, 1948 . . . not astronomical
. . . observed on radarscope. . . .
Case 196. Radarscope observation . . . object traveling directly into
the wind. . . .
Case 198. Radar blimp moving at high speed and continuously changing
direction. . . .
Case 222. Furstenfeldbruck, Germany, November 23, 1948 . . . object
plotted by radar DF at 27,000 feet . . . short time later circling at
40,000 feet . . . speed estimated 200-500 m.p.h. . . .
Case 223 . . . seventeen individuals saw and reported object . . .
green flare . . . all commercial and government airfield questioned . .
. no success. . . .
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