“What about the Chiles-Whitted case?” I asked. “You were quoted as saying they saw a meteor—a bolide that exploded in a shower of sparks.” “That’s right,” said Boggs. “And Gorman was chasing a lighted balloon?” Again the Intelligence major nodded. I pointed, out that all three of the cases mentioned had been listed as unidentified in the April report. “They’d had those cases for months,” I said. “What new facts did they learn?” Boggs said calmly, “They just made a final analysis, and those were the answers.” We looked at each other a moment. Major Boggs patiently waited. I began to realize how a lawyer must feel with an imperturbable witness. And Boggs’s unfailing courtesy began to make me embarrassed. “Major,” I said, “I hope you’ll realize this is not a personal matter. As an Intelligence officer, if you’re told to give certain answers—” He smiled for the first time. “That’s all right—but I’m not hiding a thing. There’s just no such thing as a flying saucer, so far as we’ve found out.” “We’ve been told,” I said, “that Project ‘Saucer’ isn’t closed—that you just changed its code name.” “That’s not so,” Boggs said emphatically. “The contracts are ended, and all personnel transferred to other duty.” “Then the announcement wasn’t caused by _True’s_ article?” Both General Smith and Major Jesse Stay shook their heads quickly. Boggs leaned forward, eyeing me earnestly. “As a matter of fact, we’d finished the investigation months ago—around the end of August, or early in September. We just hadn’t got around to announcing it.” “Last October,” I said, “I was told the investigation was still going on. They said there were no new answers to the cases just mentioned.” “The Press Branch hadn’t been informed yet,” Boggs explained simply. “It seems very strange to me,” I said. “In April, the Air Force called for vigilance by the civilian population. It said the project was young, much of its work still under way.” Jesse Stay interrupted before Boggs could reply. “Don, the Press Branch will have to take the blame for that. The report wasn’t carefully checked. There were several loose statements in it.” This was an incredible statement. I was sure Jesse knew it. “But the case reports you quoted came from Wright Field. As of April twenty-seventh, 1949, all the major cases were officially unsolved. Then in August or early September, the whole thing’s cleaned up, from what Major Boggs says. That’s pretty hard to believe.” No one answered that one. Major Boggs was waiting politely for the next question. I picked up my list. The rest of the interview was in straight question-and-answer style: Q. Do you know about the White Sands sightings in April 1948? The ones Commander R. B. McLaughlin has written up? A. Yes, we checked the reports. We just don’t believe them.