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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010003-8 FLYING SAUCERS continued Air Force lethargy? The National Investigations-Committee on - Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) is a nonprofit” ‘otganization incorporated in the District of Columbia. Its main purposes are scientific investigation and research of reported uni- dentified flying objects, and encouragement of full reporting to the public by responsible authorities of all information that the Gov- > ernment has accumulated on this subject. The U.S. Air Force is charged with the of- ficial investigation of UFOs. NICAP contends ‘that the Air Force has practiced a question- able degree of secrecy, keeping the public in the dark about thé amount and possible sig- ~ nificance of evidence it has been given. ~ There have been thousands of sightings throughout the world by. Air Force pilots, navigators; by military personnel:in ,the Army, Navy and Marine Corps; by commer- © cial pilots, aviation experts and private citi- zens. One of the many current myths about uros is that no ‘trained observers have report: ed seeing them. Skeptics ask: ‘If UFOs are eal, why haven't astronomers seen them?” . | They have, on many occasions. But a'signifi- cant number of scientists. have told NICAP cide for them to discuss the subject openly. FROM NIGAP REPORT. BY PERMISSION. journey. The object continued its unpredictable movement. The Hills. stopped briefly several “times. At one of thé-steps, a'few miles north-of * Cannon Mountain, Betty said, “Barney, if you think that’s a satellite, or a star, you're being ab- solutely ridiculous.” “It’s.a:commercial plane,”’ Barney now con- .cluded. ‘‘Probably on its :way to Canada.” Around 12 o'clock, they approached the enormous and somber silhouette of Cannon Mountain. Barney parked the car in a. picnic area that commanded a wide view to the west. ‘He looked again at the strange moving light and noted that it swung suddenly from its northern flight pattern, turned to the west, then com- pleted its turn- and’ headed back directly toward them. The Hills got out of the car. - ‘It’s gottobea plane,’ Barney said. ““Acom-. mercial liner.” me : - “With a crazy course like that?” Betty asked, _ following him with Delsey. “" “Then it’s a Piper Cub. With some hunters -’ who might be lost.” “It’s not the hunting season,” Betty said, as Barney took the binoculars from’ her. ““And I don’t hear a sound.” Neither did Barney. “It might be a helicopter,” he said as he looked through the binoculars. He was sure that it wasn’t, but was reaching for any kind of expla- nation that would make sense. ‘““The wind might be carrying the sound in the other direction.” “There is no wind, Barney.” ~ Through the binoculars, Barney now made outa shape like the fuselage of a plane, although he could see’no wings. He also saw a series of lights along the fuselage, blinking in an alter- nating pattern. - whe When Betty took the glasses, the object passed in front of the moon, in silhouette. It 46 Look 10-4-66 _ privately that it would be professional sui-%| perience. The initial budget would be $300,- colored lights. The object itself appeared cigar shaped'to her. It had increased its speec ' . “Maybe a military plane. A search plane. Maybe . Betty tended to believe the story. Barney resisted _ the idea that such objects existed. ‘ a . -— = ) ~ a ba ’ A + —— . . ~ ~ being observed, that the object was actually at- tempting to circle them. Getting back into the - car, he:told Betty that he felt the craft had seen them and was playing games with them. They drove slowly on toward Cannon Moun- tain, catching glimpses of the object as it moved erratically in the sky. As they approached the base of the mountain, the object suddenly swung be- hind the dark silhouette of trees and disappeared. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, chairman of the Depart- -ment_of Astronomy of Northwestern Uni- versity, has no connection whatsoever with -NICAP.. He'was in charge of the optical satel- — lite tracking program of the Smithsonian AstrophysicalObservatory,Cambridge;Mass., © For 18 years, he has been scientific consultant ~ to the Air Force on_uFos and has screened over 10,000 cases in their files, investigating many of them personally. ° “uros demand serious“ and immediate scientific attention,” hetold a meeting of sci- entists recently. ““The myth is not put to rest, - and the scientific fraternity must now take cognizance of them. We can no longer. dis- miss the subject. When I started to investigate this phenomenonin 1948, Ithoughtthe whole - thing would go up in smoke. It has taken‘ till now for serious scientists to begin to look at the phenomenon with care and caution.” In August, the Air Force said it hoped to contract with a leading university to under- ‘~ take a program of intensive investigation of certain UFO reports. Teams would include at least one scientist familiar with atmospheric physics, and a psychologist with clinical ex-.---. . moved past the blackness of the Old Man of the Mountains, the object appeared again, gliding - silently, leisurely, parallel to the car. It appeared to be only a few hundred feet to the-right, above the car. Earlier, ithad seemed to be spinning; now, it was still, and the former blinking, multicolored * lights gave off a steady, white glow. Through the binoculars, Betty saw a double row of windows. It was clearly a structured craft of enormous dimensions—just how large she couldn’t determine because both distance and ared light Came.out on the left side of the object, followed by a similar one on the right. You've never seen anything like this in your life.” Helooked through the windshieldand could see it.plainly now.-It was not more than 200 feet fe inthe air, he thought, and coming closer. 000 to cover an 18-month period. fs _ Barney stopped the car at Indian Head, took seemed to be flashing thin pencils-of different slowed down again as it crossed the face of the moon. The lights were flashing persistently, red, © amber, green and blue. Betty turned éo her hus- band and asked him to take another look. “It’s got to be a plane,” Barney insisted. , ing pancake. . ; “Do you see it? Do you see it?”’ Betty called. Her voice was rising. Later, Batney admitted __> frankly that he was scared, yet he walked a few feet forward and looked again. ~’ _ Ashe did so, the object—as wide in diameter. as the distance between three telephone poles along the road—swung in a silent arc across the road, not more than a hundred feet from him. ~. The double row of windows was now clear. it’s a plane that’s lost.” He was irritated by Betty’s refusal to accept any natural’ explanation. Several years earlier, Betty’s sister and family had told about seeing an unidentified flying object in Kingston, N.H., and ‘The dachshund: was whining and cowed. - mysterious object: The enormous disc was raked Betty gave the binoculars to Barney and took Del- a sey back to the car. Barney focused the glasses on the object and strained to hear a sound: the throb of a.propeller-driven plane or the whir of a jet. He heard none. For the first time, he felt-he was on either side were sliding out, each with a red lighton it. The windows curved aroundthe perim- eter of the thick, pancakelike disc, glowing with brilliant white light. Still, there was no-sound.. -. What is a humanoid? The term is anthropological, indicating a the mouth itself. I could not describe the Barney increased his speed, and as the car. altitude -were hard to. judge. As she’ watched, ~ “Barney,” she said, “stop the carand look! ~ the binoculars and got out. Thé motor was still. , running. The object was hovering silently in the air, not more than’a short city block away, not | more than ‘two treetops high. Its full shape was Apparent tor the first ume: that Of a large, glow?” For a reason he cannot yet explain, Barney ~ found himself moving across the road into the ~ field, then across the field, directly toward the on an angle toward him. Two finlike projections - creature with some, but not all, of the facial . and physical.characteristics of human beings _as we know them. Barney Hill, who was “‘ab- “ducted” by humanoids and taken aboard their flying ship, remembers that, ‘’The men had rather odd-shaped heads, witha largecranium, diminishing in size as it got toward thé chin.-- And the eyes continued around to the sides of their heads, so that it appeared that they could:see several degrees beyond: the lateral extent of our vision. And something that I remembered, after listening to the tapes, is mouth. But it was much like when you draw one horizontal line, with a short.péerpendic- ular line on each end. This horizontal_line would represent the lips without the muscle that we have. And it would part slightly as they made this murnumumihing sound. The texture of the skin, as.I remember it from this quick glance, was grayish, almost metallic looking. I didn’t notice any hair~or any head- gear either for that matter. Also, I didn’t no- tice any nose, there just seemed to be two slits that represented the nostrils.” - i