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ie skiing then ‘to deschibe: vhat eney a 825, Ty bofore’ telling. ‘then: iy “atory, _. in order to avoid suggestion or inference of.a leading nature. -They-. ‘gae thé obfect (from the ground) vhfle I wos on uy second searche --’” ‘oe ‘they belioved the timc to have beon 14:00 houra. “ho object. porforned — -"- $n the saze erratic manner, thay coid, as F observede.00 rT EAT nr | The above is tho extent. of the etory, and Anforaa tion: Soncoining . mygogt is now in ordere eA q ; ot I hsve approxinotely | 2600 “hours of flyizs ‘Hino in ‘oquipmont = = ao ranging from primary trainers to @-288, Of covree, that doca not “In= y<'. erease my povers of ohkcervation except os to those frocticed dally bz gn eirmene It dogs not make my eycsifht any sharper except again. as. . , %o the incidental dozants upon the eyes of & pilot. ---~.5 sven nt: - ‘ht the time of the experience related above, I had flown four-— teen and one-half hours on an assignment to find a disc and if fossible, ' to photograph it. In 911 frankness, I wae tired. I may hove been Syt . guffering, eltbough slishtly, from want of cxysen. 2 6 le a ele, > vo 7 Prior to sighting the odject, I had concluded there wos “no point fin pressing tho eecarch, that I protably woule never seo the disc-like ~ ° obfects referred to b and by of United air Lines. se at all tines during tus secrck, both on that dsy-and the tru “- preceeding daye (porticularly whon I vas with que. itteretiz ff -: talked to nyeoif to kecp boating into my koad that I would not fald. victim to the pover of suggestion or self-hypnosis arising froma _ naturally wery intent dcsire to find a disc ond bring success ‘to the : “assignment given me. I therefore do not believe thet I was the victim of “puggeation. or hypnesis. J an familiar wth the optical illusion of a fixed object - Beginning to move aftor it is vatched a sufficiont length of tine. knos what tricks the qes will play as to movins-bodies, and have & arne Abby a _ of. thie particulnrly durins alcht formation firing. tet I sav the ot joct appear “auédenly. if 1t he soved ‘ine Serky - . fashion (se: it did at firet) for the full length of tice I obsorved it, “I would not be so strong in scyincg thet I zaa sorething not en aircraft, not a balloon, and not a corpuscle moving acrose the retine of eithor eye. The maneuver described ty the object when its edge was presented to me convinces me that I saw an object actually yo rforming in an. . whe cuertion remains, of course, whether 1 sov ite: “Tas ‘motion’ - os --- pheture filg, develonce ‘end processed bx, in the Hastaan ~~ » . Jeboratories 4t 241 Battery Street, San Francisco, shoved no trace of . any object. says that if it was more than a mile distant frox me at the size ‘deceribod, the object would not rave registered suffic- fently on the fils to be shown. Ee said it probably was too far away to be apparent even through great enlargement of the negative, and _. a “E - enlargement in that caso is limited because of the size of the film . 2 ee: the fact I did not have any telescopic equipment on the lIcns, - ‘exposure war £.26, stop set at infinity, at a speed ot 26 framces an Pag S- secomde =. SBD AMI ge Sg 5 og BOER ae PRP es z have sorrise over this patter a ‘great ‘éeel since seeing: ite peeve TD reby mysolf- aside” and said, “come nog don't be stupid.” pe Be + But F cannot bring myself to the point of ng I did not see ony”. oe thing. The impression of the moment was too vivid too realistic #4... 2 knew fin the air wbhon J sax thet partial clow voll i, Go - that J wes not a victim of illusion. -_ or. ‘berrel rol I trust this matter will be of help to those Sovestigeting the ag = . * Faving Siac phenomena which have been reported. chart ie attechod depict in the m movements of the e object as Tr ——etenernteemi > ~—- = ie ot oes se ETE pn ee ee eee AE Te tee ee ae ane et 7 Fe Mc Wumpeneme tee tere