12-04-2024, 11:15 AM
(11-27-2024, 08:17 PM)AlienSun Wrote: The Air Force did that already back in the 60s. The put the equipment on some fighter planes. It was reported in the classic book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, by Capt. Edward Ruppelt, the head of Project Bluebook for awhile in those days.
Yes mate well said, there's a nice 1952 news article below from Barry Greenwood's archive stating that a new type of camera that photographs luminous phenomena has been ordered and 'will be distributed to jet plane pilots as soon as they become available' - it also mentions the Air Force is receiving new reports of flying saucers at the rate of 100 a month and that jets have been ordered to 'shoot them down'.
(11-27-2024, 08:17 PM)AlienSun Wrote: New copies of that book are/were available very cheaply on Amazon a year ago or so. I guess the CIA had them republished to help cover their butts, but reading between (or around some) official obviously approved) words can be insightful
Ha yes you definitely want the first edition and not the second one with the bizarrely 'edited' ending.
There does seem to be some confusion as the new book 'revision' was released in an extremely unusual way with the date publication omitted so the foreword made the new edition appear to be the original.
No wonder Ruppelt resigned from Bluebook after the Robertson Panel issued its 'conclusions' (which they'd already arrived at one year before) - the CIA strike again lol.