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This NICAP compilation by Dan Wilson gathers Project Blue Book records on the sighting of 24 February 1959, when American Airlines Flight 139, flying from Newark to Detroit, and two United Airlines crews saw three lights over Pennsylvania and Ohio. It includes the record card, pilot statements, Air Force letters and correspondence with an Akron UFO committee. The Air Force concluded that the lights came from three B-47s refueling from KC-97 tankers. Book excerpts disputing Captain Killian's later claims are also included.
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## UNANSWERED 'WHY'S' WHY has the Air Force concealed an official intelligence report, dated September 23, 1947, stating that flying saucers are real? This report was signed by the Chief of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, approved by all members of ATIC, and submitted via Direct or of Air Force Intelligence to the Commanding General, Army Air Force. WHY has the Air Force kept from the press the official ATIC "estimate of the situation" drawn up in the summer of 1948, which stated that flying saucers were interplanetary space ships? WHY, in the face of the above two documents, did the Air Force, in December 1949, tell the press that flying saucers were hoaxes, mirages, hallucinations and mistakes by pilots? WHY did the Air Force deliberately reject the serious reports and opinions of hundreds of veteran Service and airline pilots, airport tower controllers, radar experts and other trained observers who insisted the saucers were unknown machines under intelligent control? WHY has the Air Force concealed the 1952 Air Force Intelligence analysis of the flying saucers"controlled motion" and its specific conclusion that UFOs were interplanetary space ships? WHY has the Air Force kept secret the recommendations of a panel of top scientists and aviation leaders, arrived at in January, 1953, that the UFO investigation be greatly enlarged and that the American people be given all information on saucers in Air Force possession, including the official conclusions? WHY has the Air Force hidden UFO reports from the public since 1953 -- even those it had previously released? WHY are Service pilots, radar men and other trained observers officially silenced? Official orders are JANAP 146 (Joint-Army-Navy-Air Publication). AFR 200-2 (Air Force Regulation 200-2), the current regulation prohibiting the release of UFO data to news media and the public. Official instructions to personnel of the Civil Aeronautics Administration are based on JANAP 146. WHY, if the flying saucers are imaginary, do armed Air Defense Command jets upon the standing order of ADC continue to chase UFOs? WHY does the Air Force continue to spend the taxpayers' money in a global investigation of flying saucers that involves hundreds of Intelligence officers, the 460-2nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron, and many top-ranking scientists and consultants under secret Air Force contract? WHY did past Secretary of the Air Force, Donald A. Quarles and certain Air Force officers state in the Project Blue Book, Special Report 14 (Project Blue Book is the Air Force investigating body for the acquisition and analyses of UFO data (that no pattern to UFOs had been found, that there had been no indication of intelligent maneuvers, and that there was not enough data to build a working model of a UFO when, in December 1949. ATIC Project Grudge (the USAC center for UFO research which preceded Project Blue Book and succeeded Project Sign) stated that the majority of reports had described UFOs as being disc-shaped objects about one-tenth as thick as its diameter? Why did this Special Report 14, dated October 25, 1955, list several of its weakest sighting reports as being the cream of the crop when actually the Intelligence files contained hundreds of reliably witnessed reports by experienced pilots, guided missiles trackers, and other trained observers? WHY has no official appraisal ever been made of General Douglas MacArthur's statement, published in the New York Times. October 8, 1955, that the world nations will have
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