Flying Saucers (PUBD Is Unknown)

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

The three ran OCI town entered into its inquiry fully aware that it was coming into a field already charged with partisanship, one in which objectivity had been overridden by numerous national writers, and one in which there are pressures for extravagant explanations as well as for oversimplification. They consulted with a representative of Air Force Special Operations group; discussed the problem with those in charge of the Air Force Project at Wright field; revived a considerable volume of intelligence reports; checked the Soviet press and broadcast indices; and conferred with three of our consultants at MIT, all leaders in their scientific fields.

The present small scale inquiry at ATIC, which thus far has been able only to use the once history approach, examining each incident carefully to determine whether it can be explained or whether it must be put into the "unexplained"

was considered a perfectly valid procedure but one that offered but in opening up explanations regarding the nature of these phenomena, it told us, it would probably be found on the margins or just of our present knowledge in the fields of atmospheres,

taking into account the possibility of a factor to consider. A systematic approach would contemplate a controllably overdetermined number of fronts and involving a variety of