The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsRuppelt, Edward J.
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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Ruppelt, Edward J.
Unidentified flying objects
During our discussion Major Fournet brought up two reports in which
the UFO seemed to know what it was doing and wasn't just aimlessly
darting around. One of these was the recent sighting from Haneda AFB,
Japan, and the other was the incident that happened on the night of
July 29, when an F-94 attempted to intercept a UFO over eastern
Michigan. In both cases radar had established the track of the UFO.
In the Haneda Incident, according to the sketch of the UFO's track,
each turn the UFO made was constant and the straight "legs" between
the turns were about the same length. The sketch of the UFO's flight
path as it moved back and forth over Tokyo Bay reminded me very much
of the "crisscross" search patterns we used to fly during World War
II when we were searching for the crew of a ditched airplane. The
only time the UFO seriously deviated from this pattern was when the F-
94 got on its tail.
The Michigan sighting was even better, however. In this case there
was a definite reason for every move that the UFO made. It made a 180-
degree turn because the F-94 was closing on it head on. It
alternately increased and decreased its speed, but every time it did
this it was because the F-94 was closing in and it evidently put on
speed to pull out ahead far enough to get out of range of the F-94's
radar. To say that this motion was random and that it was just a
coincidence that the UFO made the 180-degree turn when the F-94
closed in head on and that it was just a coincidence that the UFO
speeded up every time the F-94 began to get within radar range is
pushing the chance of coincidence pretty hard.
The idea of the motion analysis study sounded interesting to me, but
we were so busy on Project Blue Book we didn't have time to do it. So
Major Fournet offered to look into it further and I promised him all
the help we could give him.
In the meantime my people in Project Blue Book were contacting
various scientists in the U.S., and indirectly in Europe, telling
them about our data, and collecting opinions. We did this in two
ways. In the United States we briefed various scientific meetings and
groups. To get the word to the other countries, we enlisted the
gratis aid of scientists who were planning to attend conferences or
meetings in Europe. We would brief these European-bound scientists on
all of the aspects of the UFO problem so they could informally
discuss the problem with their European colleagues.
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