tions, harbors, and critical manufacturing areas. Our studies
showed that such vital military areas as Strategic Air Command and
Air Defense Command bases, some A-bomb storage areas, and large
military depots actually produced fewer reports than could be
expected from a given area in the United States. Large population
centers devoid of any major "technically interesting" facilities also
produced few reports.

According to the laws of normal distribution, if UFO's are not
intelligently controlled vehicles, the distribution of reports should
have been similar to the distribution of population in the United
States--it wasn't.

Our study of the geographical locations of sightings also covered
other countries. The U.S. by no means had a curb on the UFO market.

In all of our "Unknown" reports we never found one measurement of
size, speed, or altitude that could be considered to be even fairly
accurate. We could say only that some of the UFO's had been traveling
pretty fast.

As far as radar was concerned, we had reports of fantastic speeds--
up to 50,000 miles an hour--but in all of these instances there was
some doubt as to exactly what caused the target. The highest speeds
reported for our combination radar-visual sightings, which we
considered to be the best type of sighting in our files, were 700 to
800 miles an hour.

We had never picked up any "hardware"--any whole saucers, pieces, or
parts--that couldn't be readily identified as being something very
earthly. We had a contract with a materials-testing laboratory, and
they would analyze any piece of material that we found or was sent to
us. The tar-covered marble, aluminum broom handle, cow manure, slag,
pieces of plastic balloon, and the what-have-you that we did receive
and analyze only served to give the people in our material lab some
practice and added nothing but laughs to the UFO project.

The same went for the reports of "contacts" with spacemen. Since
1952 a dozen or so people have claimed that they have talked to or
ridden with the crews of flying saucers. They offer affidavits,
pieces of material, photographs, and other bits and pieces of junk as
proof. We investigated some of these reports and could find
absolutely no fact behind the stories.

We had a hundred or so photos of flying saucers, both stills and
movies. Many were fakes--some so expert that it took careful study by
photo interpreters to show how the photos had been faked. Some were
the