w that no country in the world had developed
their technology far enough to build a craft that would perform as
the UFO's were reported to do. In addition, we were spending billions
of dollars on the research and development and the procurement of
airplanes that were just nudging the speed of sound. It would be
absurd to think that these billions were being spent to cover the
existence of a UFO-type weapon. And it would be equally absurd to
think that the British, French, Russians or any other country could
be far enough ahead of us to have a UFO.

The scientists spent the next two days pondering a conclusion. They
reread reports and looked at the two movies again and again, they
called other scientists to double-check certain ideas that they had,
and they discussed the problem among themselves. Then they wrote out
their conclusions and each man signed the document. The first
paragraph said:

We as a group do not believe that it is impossible for some other
celestial body to be inhabited by intelligent creatures. Nor is it
impossible that these creatures could have reached such a state of
development that they could visit the earth. However, there is
nothing in all of the so-called "flying saucer" reports that we have
read that would indicate that this is taking place.

The Tremonton Movie had been rejected as proof but the panel did
leave the door open a crack when they suggested that the Navy photo
lab redo their study. But the Navy lab never rechecked their report,
and it was over a year later before new data came to light.

After I got out of the Air Force I met Newhouse and talked to him
for two hours. I've talked to many people who have reported UFO's,
but few impressed me as much as Newhouse. I learned that when he and
his family first saw the UFO's they were close to the car, much
closer than when he took the movie. To use Newhouse's own words, "If
they had been the size of a B-29 they would have been at 10,000 feet
altitude." And the Navy man and his family had taken a good look at
the objects--they looked like "two pie pans, one inverted on the top
of the other!" He didn't just _think_ the UFO's were disk-shaped; he
_knew_ that they were; he had plainly seen them. I asked him why he
hadn't told this to the intelligence officer who interrogated him. He
said that he had. Then I remembered that I'd sent the intelligence
officer a list of questions I wanted Newhouse to answer. The question
"What did the UFO's