individuals who collect data on saucers. Whenever we found a
visual report that correlated with a radiation peak we checked it
against weather conditions, balloon tracks, astronomical reports, etc.

As soon as the data had all been assembled, I arranged for a group
of Air Force consultants to look it over. I got the same old answer--
the data still aren't good enough. The men were very much interested
in the reports, but when it came time to putting their comments on
paper they said, "Not enough conclusive evidence." If in some way the
UFO's could have been photographed at the same time that the
radiation detectors were going wild, it would have been a different
story, they later told me, but with the data I had for them this was
the only answer they could give. No one could explain the sudden
bursts of radiation, but there was no proof that they were associated
with UFO's.

The board's ruling wrote finish to this investigation. I informed
the colonel, and he didn't like the decision. Later I passed through
the city where the scientist was working. I stopped over a few hours
to brief him on the board's decision. He shook his head in disbelief.

It is interesting to note that both the colonel and the scientist
reacted in the same way. We're not fools--we were there--we saw it--
they didn't. What do they want for proof?

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

The Hierarchy Ponders

By early January 1953 the scientists who were to be members of our
panel of experts had been contacted and had agreed to sit in judgment
of the UFO. In turn, we agreed to give them every detail about the UFO.

We had our best reports for them to read, and we were going to show
them the two movies that some intelligence officers considered as the
"positive proof"--the Tremonton Movie and the Montana Movie.

When this high court convened on the morning of January 12, the
first thing it received was its orders; one of three verdicts would
be acceptable:

All UFO reports are explainable as known objects or natural
phenomena; therefore the investigation should be permanently
discontinued.

The UFO reports do not contain enough data upon which to base a
final conclusion. Project Blue Book should be continued in hopes of
obtaining better data.

The UFO's are interplanetary spacecraft.

The written verdict, the group was told, would be given to the
National Security Council, a council made up of the directors of all
U.S. intelligence agencies, and thence