I am here to discuss the so-called flying saucers. Air Force interest in this
problem
has been due to our feeling of an obligation to
identify and analyze to the best of our ability, anything in the air
that may have the possibility of threat or menace to the United States. In
pursuit of this obligation
since 1947, we have received and analyzed between one and
two thousand reports that have come to us from all kinds of sources
Of this great mess of reports
we have been able adequately to explain
the great bulk of them, explain them to our own
satisfaction we've been able to explain them as
hoaxes, as erroneously identified friendly aircraft,
as meteorological or electronic phenomena,
or as light aberration
however, there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports that have been
made by
credible observers of relatively
incredible things. It is this group of observations
that we now are attempting to resolve. Our basic difficulty in dealing with
these is that there is no
measurement of them that makes it possible for us to put them in any
pattern
that would be profitable for a
deliberate custom sort of analysis to take the next step. We have as a date
come to only one firm conclusion
with respect to this remaining percentage
and that is that it does not
contain any pattern or purpose or of
consistency that we can relate with any to any conceivable threat to the United
States
is that (inaudible)
we can say that the recent sightings are in no way connected
with any secret development by any department of the United States (inaudible)
we can say that the recent sightings are in
no way connected with any secret development
by any agency of the United States
I'll start when you throw down
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yeah
Major Keyhoe, as author of the book "Flying Saucers are Real,"
what is your opinion of these new sightings of unidentified object?
With all due respect to the Air Force, I believe that some of them will prove to be
of interplanetary origin. During a three-year investigation I found that
many powers have described objects of substanc and high-speed
one case filed this report another plane was buffeted by an object with
an estimated five hundred miles an hour
obviously this was a solid object and I believe it was from outer space