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
8. Major Boggs, having stated this answer publicly (along with the
other Chiles-Whitted and Gorman answers), was forced to stick to it,
though he knew it was wrong and that the case summaries would prove it.
9. The case summaries were released to a small number of Washington
newsmen, to continue planting the space-travel thought; this decision
being made after _True’s_ reception proved to the Air Force that the
public was better prepared than had been thought.
In regard to the flying saucers themselves, I believe that in the
majority of cases, space ships are the answer:
1. The earth has been under periodic observation from another planet,
or other planets, for at least two centuries.
2. This observation suddenly increased in 1947, following, the series
of A-bomb explosions begun in 1945.
3. The observation, now intermittent, is part of a long-range survey
and will continue indefinitely. No immediate attempt to contact the
earth seems evident. There may be some unknown block to making contact,
but it is more probable that the spacemen’s plans are not complete.
I believe that the Air Force is still investigating the saucer
sightings, either through the Air Materiel Command or some other
headquarters. It is possible that some Air Force officials still fear a
panic when the truth is officially revealed. In that case, we may
continue for a long time to see routine denials alternating with new
suggestions of interplanetary travel.
The education problem is complicated by two imperative needs. We must
try to learn as much as we can about the space ships’ source of power,
and at the same time try to prevent clues to this information from
reaching an enemy on earth,
If censorship is suddenly imposed on all flying-saucer reports, this
will be the chief reason. This would also help solve a minor problem
where partial censorship now exists. A few test missiles launched from
a southwest base have been seen by citizens at a distance from the
proving grounds. In some cases, their reports have got into local
papers, though the wire services did not carry them.
These missile tests are peculiarly different from the general run of
flying-saucer reports. Contrasted with the Chiles-Whitted, Mantell, and
other space-ship sightings, they stand out with a certain pattern, easy
to recognize. News or radio reports of these tests might accidentally
give an enemy clues to the type, speed, and range of this particular
missile, once he learned the pattern. Periodic censorship, or even a
complete blackout of sighting reports, may be enforced during the next
year or so.
For the purposes mentioned, such action would be justified. But
whenever such censorship is lifted, the complete truth about space
visitors should be told at the same time: the full details of all the
major cases, the size of the Godman Field space ship, any attempted
landings or other efforts at contact by interplanetary visitors, and
all other details that now are official secrets.
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