that were pouring in each week required many hours of
overtime work, but when a report came out with the final conclusion,
"Unknown," we were sure that it was unknown.

To operate Project Blue Book, I had four officers, two airmen, and
two civilians on my permanent staff. In addition, there were three
scientists employed full time on Project Bear, along with several
others who worked part time. In the Pentagon, Major Fournet, who had
taken on the Blue Book liaison job as an extra duty, was now spending
full time on it. If you add to this the number of intelligence
officers all over the world who were making preliminary
investigations and interviewing UFO observers, Project Blue Book was
a sizable effort.

Only the best reports we received could be personally investigated
in the field by Project Blue Book personnel. The vast majority of the
reports had to be evaluated on the basis of what the intelligence
officer who had written the report had been able to uncover, or what
data we could get by telephone or by mailing out a questionnaire. Our
instructions for "what to do before the Blue Book man arrives," which
had been printed in many service publications, were beginning to pay
off and the reports were continually getting more detailed.

The questionnaire we were using in June 1952 was the one that had
recently been developed by Project Bear. Project Bear, along with
psychologists from a midwestern university, had worked on it for five
months. Many test models had been tried before it reached its final
form--the standard questionnaire that Blue Book is using today.

It ran eight pages and had sixty-eight questions which were booby-
trapped in a couple of places to give us a cross check on the
reliability of the reporter as an observer. We received quite a few
questionnaires answered in such a way that it was obvious that the
observer was drawing heavily on his imagination.

From this standard questionnaire the project worked up two more
specialized types. One dealt with radar sightings of UFO's, the other
with sightings made from airplanes.

In Air Force terminology a "flap" is a condition, or situation, or
state of being of a group of people characterized by an advanced
degree of confusion that has not quite yet reached panic proportions.
It can be brought on by any number of things, including the
unexpected visit of an inspecting general, a major administrative
reorganization, the arrival of a hot piece of intel