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SUBJECT: UNEXPLAINED CASES FROM BLUE BOOK FILE: UFO143
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PART 2
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And they are even more numerous in the files of Project Blue
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Book. The urgency with which Blue Book officials tagged answers
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onto cases without having done the proper investigation is
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obvious, though not proven. But if the Air Force was so eager to
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label cases "identified", despite the lack of supporting
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evidence, then those few cases which it labeled "unidentified"
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presumably withstood every attempt to apply every other kind of
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label. And so it may be that those cases are truly
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unidentifiable in familiar terms.
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Indeed, the Air Force defines "unidentifiable" cases as
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those which "apparently contain all pertinent data necessary to
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suggest a valid hypothesis concerning the lack of explanation of
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the report, but the description of the object or its motion
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cannot be correlated with any known object or phenomenon."
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To meet such criteria, a report must obviously come from a
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reputable source, and it must not bear any resemblance to
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airplanes, balloons, helicopters, spacecraft, birds, clouds,
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stars, planets, meteors, comets, electrical phenomena, or
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anything else known to frequent the air, the sky, or nearby
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space.
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Unfortunately, the Air Force failed to stick to its own
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rules. Some of the "unidentifiable" cases most certainly can be
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correlated with known objects or phenomena. But most of them
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cannot. Moreover, many of the so-called "identified" cases
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cannot honestly be so correlated. But we are primarily concerned
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here with those cases which Project Blue Book openly admits it
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tried to explain and failed.
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The amount of detail in these cases varies enormously. Some
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cases - frequently those which were well publicized at the time
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of the event - contain considerable information, while others are
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vague and seriously incomplete. Project Blue Book generally
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placed the blame for such incompleteness on the witnesses, but it
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should take its own share of the responsibility. 'In thousands of
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cases, there is no completed questionnaire in the Project files,
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nor even any indication that one was sent to the witness. And in
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most of the instances where a questionnaire was filled out, it
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was never followed up to get more complete answers to questions
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which the witnesses failed to deal with properly. For much of
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the life of Project Blue Book and its predecessors, there was no
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satisfactory.questionnaire at all. And one of those used for a
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lengthy period was so badly organized that a witness should not
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be held to blame for giving incomplete answers.
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Yet, despite all the roadblocks, many reports are
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sufficiently complete to tell a pretty clear story of a puzzling
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experience. With this data now available, anyone can look at
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Project Blue Book's "unidentified" UFO reports and make up his
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own mind.
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July 3, 1947; Harborside, Maine. 2:30 p.m. EDT. Witness:
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astronomer John Cole of South Brooksville, Me. Watched 10-15
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seconds while ten very light objects, with two dark forms to
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their left, moved like a swarm of bees to the northwest. A loud
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roar was heard.
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July 4, 1947; over Emmet, Idaho. 8:17 p.m. PDT. Witnesses:
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United Air Lines Capt. E.J. Smith, First Officer Ralph Stevens,
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Stewardess Marty Morrow. Watched for 12-15 minutes while four
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objects with flat bottoms and rough tops moved at varying speeds,
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with one high and to the right of the others.
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July 6, 1947; Fairfield-Suisan Air Base, California. Daytime.
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Witnesses: Army Air Forces Capt. and Mrs. James Burniston.
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Watched for 1 minute while one object having no wings or tail
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rolled from side-to-side three times and then flew away very fast
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to the southeast.
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July 8, 1947; Muroc Air Base, California. 9:30 a.m. PDT.
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Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt Nauman,
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Miss Janette Scotte. Watched for an unstated length of time
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while two disc-shaped or spherical objects--silver and apparently
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metallic--flew a wide circular pattern, and then one of them
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later flew a tighter circle.
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End of part 2
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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