The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsRuppelt, Edward J.
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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Ruppelt, Edward J.
Unidentified flying objects
After I got out of the Air Force I met Newhouse and talked to him
for two hours. I've talked to many people who have reported UFO's,
but few impressed me as much as Newhouse. I learned that when he and
his family first saw the UFO's they were close to the car, much
closer than when he took the movie. To use Newhouse's own words, "If
they had been the size of a B-29 they would have been at 10,000 feet
altitude." And the Navy man and his family had taken a good look at
the objects--they looked like "two pie pans, one inverted on the top
of the other!" He didn't just _think_ the UFO's were disk-shaped; he
_knew_ that they were; he had plainly seen them. I asked him why he
hadn't told this to the intelligence officer who interrogated him. He
said that he had. Then I remembered that I'd sent the intelligence
officer a list of questions I wanted Newhouse to answer. The question
"What did the UFO's look like?" wasn't one of them because when you
have a picture of something you don't normally ask what it looks
like. Why the intelligence officer didn't pass this information on to
us I'll never know.
The Montana Movie was rejected by the panel as positive proof
because even though the two observers said that the jets were in
another part of the sky when they saw the UFO's and our study backed
them up, there was still a chance that the two UFO's could have been
the two jets. We couldn't prove the UFO's were the jets, but neither
could we prove they weren't.
The controversial study of the UFO's' motions that Major Fournet had
presented was discarded. All of the panel agreed that if there had
been some permanent record of the motion of the UFO's, a photograph
of a UFO's flight path or a photograph of a UFO's track on a
radarscope, they could have given the study much more weight. But in
every one of the ten or twenty reports that were offered as proof
that the UFO's were intelligently controlled, the motions were only
those that the observer had seen. And the human eye and mind are not
accurate recorders. How many different stories do you get when a
group of people watch two cars collide at an intersection?
Each of the fifty of our best sightings that we gave the scientists
to study had some kind of a loophole. In many cases the loopholes
were extremely small, but scientific evaluation has no room for even
the smallest of loopholes and we had asked for a scientific evaluation.
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