gon I spent the whole day talking to
Major Dewey Fournet and two of his bosses, Colonel W. A. Adams and
Colonel Weldon Smith, about the UFO subject in general. One of the
things we talked about was a new approach to the UFO problem--that of
trying to prove that the motion of a UFO as it flew through the air
was intelligently controlled.

I don't know who would get credit for originating the idea of trying
to analyze the motion of the UFO's. It was one of those kinds of
ideas that are passed around, with everyone adding a few
modifications. We'd been talking about making a study of this idea
for a long time, but we hadn't had many reports to work with; but
now, with the mass of data that we had accumulated in June and July
and August, the prospects of such a study looked promising.

The basic aim of the study would be to learn whether the motion of
the reported UFO's was random or ordered. Random motion is an
unordered, helter-skelter motion very similar to a swarm of gnats or
flies milling around. There is no apparent pattern or purpose to
their flight paths. But take, for example, swallows flying around a
chimney--they wheel, dart, and dip, but if you watch them closely,
they have a definite pattern in their movements--an ordered motion.
The definite pattern is intelligently controlled because they are
catching bugs or getting in line to go down the chimney.

By the fall of 1952 we had a considerable number of well-documented
reports in which the UFO's made a series of maneuvers. If we could
prove that these maneuvers were not random, but ordered, it would be
proof that the UFO's were things that were intelligently controlled.

During our discussion Major Fournet brought up two reports in which
the UFO seemed to know what it was doing and wasn't just aimlessly
darting around. One of these was the recent sighting from Haneda AFB,
Japan, and the other was the incident that happened on the night of
July 29, when an F-94 attempted to intercept a UFO over eastern
Michigan. In both cases radar had established the track of the UFO.

In the Haneda Incident, according to the sketch of the UFO's track,
each turn the UFO made was constant and the straight "legs" between
the turns were about the same length. The sketch of the UFO's flight
path as it moved back and forth over Tokyo Bay reminded me very much
of the "crisscross" search patterns we used to fly during World War
II when we were searching for the crew of a ditched a