ly with
the group that had prepared it.

The study covered several hundred of our most detailed UFO reports.
By a very critical process of elimination, based on the motion of the
reported UFO's, Fournet told the panel how he and any previous
analysis by Project Blue Book had been disregarded and how those
reports that could have been caused by any one of the many dozen
known objects--balloons, airplanes, astronomical bodies, etc., were
sifted out. This sifting took quite a toll, and the study ended up
with only ten or twenty reports that fell into the "Unknown"
category. Since such critical methods of evaluation had been used,
these few reports proved beyond a doubt that the UFO's were
intelligently controlled by persons with brains equal to or far
surpassing ours.

The next step in the study, Fournet explained, was to find out where
they came from. "Earthlings" were eliminated, leaving the final
answer--spacemen.

Both Dewey and I had been somewhat worried about how the panel would
react to a study with such definite conclusions. But when he finished
his presentation, it was obvious from the tone of the questioning
that the men were giving the conclusions serious thought. Fournet's
excellent reputation was well known.

On Friday morning we presented the feature attractions of the
session, the Tremonton Movie and the Montana Movie. These two bits of
evidence represented the best photos of UFO's that Project Blue Book
had to offer. The scientists knew about them, especially the
Tremonton Movie, because since late July they had been the subject of
many closed-door conferences. Generals, admirals, and GS-16's had
seen them at "command performances," and they had been flown to Kelly
AFB in Texas to be shown to a conference of intelligence officers
from all over the world. Two of the country's best military photo
laboratories, the Air Force lab at Wright Field and the Navy's lab at
Anacostia, Maryland, had spent many hours trying to prove that the
UFO's were balloons, airplanes, or stray light reflections, but they
failed--the UFO's were true unknowns. The possibility that the movie
had been faked was considered but quickly rejected because only a
Hollywood studio with elaborate equipment could do such a job and the
people who filmed the movies didn't have this kind of equipment.

The Montana Movie had been taken on August 15, 1950, by Nick
Mariana, the manager of the Great Falls baseball team. It showed two
large br