05-19-2024, 11:57 PM
(05-19-2024, 10:17 PM)VulcanWerks Wrote: If 1/5 citing are unknown given thousands of submissions annually I think saying “they” don’t exist is a hard position to hold.
Yes reckon that's a pretty fair assessment there (whoever they are) and always seem to hear the 5% 'residue' figure bandied about by debunkers on cheesy TV shows.. when think it's fair to say the general consensus from official government UFO studies is far more like a conservative 20%.
Quote:• "The unknowns have varied over the decades from 22 percent in my own civilian files, 30 percent in the University of Colorda Condon Committee scientific studies, to at least 40 percent (recently revised) found in the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book military investigations. This is not acceptable, no matter who is doing the investigations."
George Fawcett, UFO researcher (Ronald Story, Encyclopedia)
Please forgive the posting of more quotes but thought there were some really important ones here from the head of Project Bluebook (particularly the last one).
Quote:• Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book:
• "Of these UFO reports, the radar/visual reports are the most convincing. When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the lights and gets a radar lock only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.
• "UFOs were seen more frequently around areas vital to the defense of the United States. The Los Alamos - Albuquerque area, Oak Ridge, and White Sands Proving Ground rated high. Port areas, Strategic Air Command bases and industrial areas ranked next."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.
• "In June 1952 the Air Force was taking the UFO problem seriously. One of the reasons was that there were a lot of good UFO reports coming in from Korea. Fighter pilots reported seeing silver coloured spheres or disks on several occasions, and radar in Japan, Okinawa, and in Korea had tracked unidentified targets."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.
• "The study was hot because it wasn't official and the reason it wasn't official was because it was so hot."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt on Major Dewey Fournet's 'motion study'.
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• "After the Fort Monmouth, NJ, radar sightings the Air Force held a meeting at the Pentagon. General Cabell presided over the meeting, and it was attended by his entire staff plus Lieutenant Cummings, Lieutenant Colonel Rosengarten, and a special representative from Republic Aircraft Corporation. The man from Republic supposedly represented a group of top U.S. industrialists and scientists who thought that there should be a lot more sensible answers coming from the Air Force regarding UFOs. Every word of the two-hour meeting was recorded on a wire recorder. The recording was so hot that it was later destroyed, but not before I had heard it several times.. it didn't exactly follow the tone of the official Air Force releases - many of the people present at the meeting weren't as convinced that the 'hoax, hallucination and misidentification' answer was quite as positive as the Grudge Report and subsequent press releases made out."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.
• "Every time I get skeptical, I think of the other reports made by experienced pilots and radar operators, scientists and other people who know what they are looking at. These reports were thoroughly investigated and they are still unknowns. We have no aircraft on this earth that can at will so handily outdistance our latest jets.. The pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself, knew what they were talking about. Maybe the Earth is being visited by interplanetary space ships. When four college professors, a geologist, a chemist, a physicist, and a petroleum engineer report seeing the same UFOs on fourteen different occasions, the event can be classified as, at least, unusual. Add the fact that hundreds of other people saw these UFOs and that they were photographed, and the story gets even better. Add a few more facts, that these UFOs were picked up on radar and that a few people got a close look at one of them, and the story begins to convince even the most ardent skeptic."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.
• "The one thing about these briefings that never failed to amaze me, although it happened time and time again, was the interest in UFOs within scientific circles. As soon as the word spread that Project Blue Book was giving official briefings to groups with the proper security clearances, we had no trouble in getting scientists to swap free advice for a briefing. I might add that we briefed only groups who were engaged in government work and who had the proper security clearances solely because we could discuss any government project that might be of help to us in pinning down the UFO. Our briefings weren't just squeezed in either; in many instances we would arrive at a place to find that a whole day had been set aside to talk about UFOs. And never once did I meet anyone who laughed off the whole subject of flying saucers even though publicly these same people had jovially sloughed off the press with answers of 'hallucinations,' 'absurd', or 'a waste of time and money.' They weren't wild-eyed fans but they were certainly interested."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.
• "..and it was up to them to tell us if they (UFOs) were real---some type of vehicle flying through our atmosphere. If they were real, then they would have to be spacecraft because no one at the meeting gave a second thought to the possibility that the UFOs might be a super secret U.S. aircraft or a Soviet development. The scientists knew everything that was going on in the U.S. and they knew that no country in the world had developed their technology far enough to build such a craft that would perform as the UFOs were reported to do."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.
• "We’re ordered to hide sightings when possible, but if a strong report does get out we have to publish a fast explanation - make up something to kill the report in a hurry, and also ridicule the witness, specially if we can’t figure out a plausible answer. We even have to discredit our own pilots. It’s a raw deal, but we can’t buck the CIA. The whole thing makes me sick —I’m thinking of putting in for inactive.”
Captain Edward Ruppelt, first head of project Blue Book - 1953 letter to Major Donald Keyhoe (Ruppelt reassigned upon request the same year).
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