o our knowledge existed. All
recommendations for the reorganization of Project Grudge were based
solely upon the fact that there were many incredible reports of UFO's
from many very reliable people. But they were still just flying
saucer reports and couldn't be considered scientific proof.

Everyone present at the meeting agreed--each had read or had been
briefed on these incredible reports. In fact, two of the people
present had seen UFO's.

Before the meeting adjourned, Colonel Dunn had one last question. He
knew the answer, but he wanted it confirmed. "Does the United States
have a secret weapon that is being reported as a UFO?"

The answer was a flat "No."

In a few days I was notified that my plan had been given the green
light. I already had the plan written up in the form of a staff study
so I sent it through channels for formal approval.

It had been obvious right from the start of the reorganization of
Project Grudge that there would be questions that no one on my staff
was technically competent to answer. To have a fully staffed project,
I'd need an astronomer, a physicist, a chemist, a mathematician, a
psychologist, and probably a dozen other specialists. It was, of
course, impossible to have all of these people on my staff, so I
decided to do the next best thing. I would set up a contract with
some research organization who already had such people on their
staff; then I would call on them whenever their services were needed.

I soon found a place that was interested in such a contract, and the
day after Christmas, Colonel S. H. Kirkland, of Colonel Dunn's staff,
and I left Dayton for a two-day conference with these people to
outline what we wanted. Their organization cannot be identified by
name because they are doing other highly secret work for the
government. I'll call them Project Bear.

Project Bear is a large, well-known research organization in the
Midwest. The several hundred engineers and scientists who make up
their staff run from experts on soils to nuclear physicists. They
would make these people available to me to assist Project Grudge on
any problem that might arise from a UFO report. They did not have a
staff astronomer or psychologist, but they agreed to get them for us
on a subcontract basis. Besides providing experts in every field of
science, they would make two studies for us; a study of how much a
person can be expected to see and remember from a UFO sighting, and a
statistical