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During recent years, there has been a mistaken belief that the Air Force has been hiding

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from the public information concerning unidentified flying objects.

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Nothing could be further from the truth.

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And I do not qualify this statement in any way.

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The activities of the International Geophysical Year, which is serving to focus more trained

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eyes on the skies than ever before, climaxes 10 years of Air Force investigation of UFO

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sightings.

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All but a small percentage of these reports have been definitely attributed to natural

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phenomena that are neither mysterious nor dire.

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A report of a special scientific panel on UFOs assembled at the request of the United

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States government concludes that the evidence shows no indication that these phenomena constitute

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a direct physical threat to national security.

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They find no evidence that UFOs are capable of hostile acts.

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They find no evidence that UFOs indicate a need for revision of current scientific concepts.

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And finally, they recommend that the subject be stripped of the aura of mystery it has

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unfortunately acquired.

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The panel's findings coincide completely with the announced position of the Air Force.

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There is no evidence at hand that objects popularly known as flying saucers actually

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exist.

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Not a single speck of material evidence, not a fragment of a flying saucer has ever been

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found.

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This does not mean that the Air Force can or will be complacent about UFO reports.

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We will continue our program of detailed investigation of all UFO sightings and invite everyone who

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observes an object in the sky he sincerely cannot identify or explain to report it immediately

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to the nearest Air Force activity.