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a. a -advisers 2... in th” Stes ces of vistors from claewhere, 9 « @ ph the ky continuously, but they a reported ne saucers. “The General was reminded that many of the people who had told of secing the most spectacular things were considered the most reliable. He rephed that he had nu intention of discrediting them, hut the fact remained that nan of them had offered data of the kind a scientist would find useful) An Air Force offver whom Gencral Sam- ford personally knew to be a com- petent witness had told him of scing a saucer in the Middle East. This man, too, had been unable to obtain ace curate measurements. “We have many reports from credible observers of in- credible things,” the General remarked, Like General Muore, his predecessor in Project Saucer days, General Sam- ford denied that the Air Force was at- tempting to cover up secret experiments. When he was asked if the saucers might be the guided missiles of a foreign coun- try, he replied that he didn’t see how, on the basis of their weird performances, they could he untess “spmeone” had achicved a means of developing unlim- ited power—“power of such fantastic hizher Jimits that it is a thearctival un- Jimited; it’s not anything that we can understand” —gnd utilizing it under conditions in which no mass is invelved. As for the litter, the General told the press, drawing a daugh, “You know, what ‘no mass means is that there's nothing there.” HILE General Samford's inter- view probably reassured the pub- lic as evidence that the Air Force was still on the job, it did nothing te lessen the nation’s saucer-consciousness. The reporters had hardly thanked the Gen- cral for his comments when, on Aue wust Ist, a Coast Guard photographer produced a picture shawing faur bizarre lights burning brilliantly in a daylight sky. He said he had taken it over Salem, Miesichusett.. “he next day, a Flar- vard astrophysicist called the photograph worthless becuse it wis accompanied hy neo wootifie data, suchas temperatare distribution and alunade, Ou Aagust 6th, au Army physicist at Fart Belvoir, Virginia, created the equivalent of fying saucers in his Jaboratory by introducing molecules of ionized air into a partial vacuum in a bell jar, and three days later an internationally known authori- ty on alinospheric conditions said of the physicist’s experiment, “I know of no conditions of the carth’s atmosphere, high or Jow, which would duplicate cee ame OD gee te o# : TT ll tng pare 81, 82