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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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to unite against attack by people from other planets? (The existence of official documents mentioned above has been confirmed publicly by Edward Ruppelt, former head of the Air Force Project Blue Book in his book, "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects".) The aforementioned questions should not remain unanswered by the elected representatives who are obligated to 175 million Americans. These men are the voice of the people They, and no other government body, are in a position to eliminate the secrecy clouding the UFO issue. You may ask yourself, when will all the UFO information be released to the public? This is a difficult question to answer. A solution as to how the release can be achieved may be much simpler. It is a fact the Air Force is sitting on classified UFO records. All UFO organizations should unite. This nationwide UFO unit would then urge a Congressional Investigation of the UFO situation. Only through open hearings in Congress can the public be fully apprised of developments in this'UFO controversy" the greatest enigma of modern times. In summing up the airline case we must conclude that this particular witnessing of strange objects would under most circumstances be substantial evidence in a court of law. Normally, if it were an occurrence in everyday life, no one would question such evidence. But this is not a common, everyday event, nor is there evidence that may be presented in court of law. Rather, this has to do with a subject shaped by the "authorities" into something controversial, a subject which they, themselves, have labored to stifle ridicule, and preempt. Regardless of the overwhelming evidence, they, in their weighted official capacity, and with the cooperation of the "free press", explain away all sightings as being weather balloons, birds, search lights, mirages, hallucinations, temperature inversions, etc., etc., authenticated by false affidavits, fake photography, misinterpreted radar readings, etc., etc. If the evidence as presented in this, and similar UFO reports, cannot be accepted, then of course there is need to doubt and consequently dismiss the validity of human evidence in all phases of human experience. If we do this then we might as well abolish witnesses, judges and juries. All scientific endeavor, research and progress, in the ultimate analysis, depend upon human faculties. Should we therefore abolish human evidence in these fields? If the answer is no, then there is no reason to disregard human evidence in the field of Unidentified Flying objects and the double standard now being utilized should be quickly destroyed. The people of this, and every country, deserve to know all the facts. If an adjustment has to be made, it will be done, as it has been so many times in the past. Had this not been so, our existence on earth would have been brief, indeed. The struggle for truth must continue everywhere - and in all things.
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