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From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 17:02:20 -0700 Fwd Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:20:32 -0400 Subject: -[For The Record]- P-1947: Cabell on Flying Saucers Greetings List, Here is the entry on flying saucers by MG Cabell on page 246 of his memoirs, 'A Man of Intelligence' -- Jan Aldrich Project 1947 P. O. Box 391, Canterbury, CT 06331, USA Telephone: (860) 546-9135 ========== Before I came into Air Intelligence, the "Flying Saucer" reports had begun to flow in. Good work had been done in establishing at the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, a project to study and evaluate those reports. They were completely mystifying and, at times, became very numerous and wide spread. A near mass-hysteria developed from time to time. For those of us in Air Intelligence who were officially responsible for the evaluation of reports, they caused a vast amount of work and puzzlement. In order to keep this subject in perspective, let it be remembered that it was not until December 1969 that the Air Force felt justified in ruling out any substance of a harmful nature in the mass reports of "Flying Saucers," or "Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)," as they were later called. Until this time in 1969, twenty-two years after the first reporting no one in the government felt confident that the reports could be set aside. It took all of those years, the efforts of several boards of very learned men, and above all, the sophisticated knowledge that came from our space program, including a successful landing on the moon, to give this confidence. We in Air Intelligence in the early days, had little to go on. We enlisted scientists, engineers, psychologists and just about every area of knowledge that might have relevance to assist us, I reminded our people that their jobs were to prove that the "Flying Saucers" *did* exist, because the alternative method, that something does not exist, approaches impossible. Our problem over the years was grossly enlarged because of the antics of cranks and unscrupulous ones among those who made a career out of the propagation of "Flying Saucer" stories.
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