Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956)

1:50 many times in the history of our civilization the introduction of a new thought has brought skepticism even ridiculed despite this there always has remained the duty and inalienable right to tell the people the the motion picture you were about to see is true it is not fiction much of the information in it has never been told you will see it here for the first time on july 29 1952 at the pentagon a press conference was held this is the actual official transcript of that conference among those participating were major general roger m raymie director of operations usaf colonel donald l bauer technical analysis division air technical intelligence center and captain edward j rupelt aerial phenomenon branch air technical intelligence center

2:51 this is major general john a samford director of intelligence united states air force who conducted the conference why was the conference held it all began with an incident which occurred in 1947 on the afternoon of june 24th of that year kenneth arnold made the first report on flying on this day arnold took off from chihalas washington and flew toward the rainier plateau at an elevation between nine and ten thousand feet over mineral washington he observed a formation of very bright objects to the he radioed ahead that they appeared to be close to the mountaintops and traveling at tremendous speed when arnold came in for a landing at pendleton airport personnel and the local press were waiting for him

3:51 arnold counted nine objects in echelon he observed that they had no tails and described them as saucer-shaped objects the story was picked up by the wire services he saw what in the next 24 hours virtually every newspaper in the country ran the story the arnold report precipitated an avalanche of sightings from cities towns villages from every section of the country

4:55 the commercial aspects of the saucer situation were not overlooked alert businessmen and manufacturers came up with all sorts of oddities the practical joker moved in homemade saucers of all kinds and descriptions began to turn up promiscuously within a few months of the original saucer report practically everyone in america was conscious of flying saucers this man in the saucer can you describe well sir he was small and skinny he had a his head was pointed came to a very sharp point he had long green hair his eyes were sort of purplish red he had large ears which were formed like an antenna his teeth were perfect but spread far apart and i noticed too a jacket of some sort of spun glass and bright red but calicus you say this all took place in a few seconds

5:57 mr nagel schmidt can you tell me what color tie i'm wearing i'm sorry sir i didn't notice you mean to say you can remember everything about this man from the spaceship his hair the color of his eyes the clothing he was wearing and yet after all this time you can't tell me the color of my tie but you didn't come out of a flying then at approximately 1400 on january 7 1948 the kentucky state police reported to the fort knox military police that they had cited an unusual aircraft or object flying through the air circular in approximately 200 to 300 feet in moving westward the provo marshal at fort knox called the commanding officer at godman air force base all flight services at right field determine if they have any experimental aircraft in our area we have a report of an unidentified

6:58 aircraft south of the field it was about 13 15 when the tower controller in the godman tower received his instructions from the commanding the pfc continued giving routine instructions to a light plane which was practicing takeoffs and landings captain hopper flight service flight service is a clearinghouse the positions of all military planes are carefully plotted so a minute-to-minute check may be made on their position course altitude and speed flight service to godman tower we have no experimental aircraft in that area however we do have a b-29 and an 826 on photo mission in that area in the meantime lieutenant cowan the and the operations officer had arrived in the tower they were joined by the intelligence officer and the executive officer

8:00 upon hearing the information from flight service the executive officer called colonel hicks the commanding officer at about 1350 the tower controller saw an object south of godman field and directed it to the attention of the lieutenant cowan was the first of the group after the tower controller to locate it he immediately directed it to the attention of the operations officer after observing it for a moment he picked up a telephone and put in a second call to the commanding officer while he was putting the call through colonel hicks arrived in the tower it was now about 14 20. about 14 30 a flight of four f-51s being ferried from marietta georgia to stanford field kentucky was cited south of the base the commanding officer issued an order

9:00 to contact the flight leader and find out who's leading the flightman tower the leader of flight 451 random tower the leader of flight 451 come in captain tower of the unknown victor mansell on the heading of 210 to captain mantel come in overnight investigate an unidentified object in your area your new part two one zero degrees two hundred and ten degrees one of the ships in mantel's formation

10:01 ng 336 piloted by lieutenant hendrix requested permission to land at stanford field to refuel and get oxygen permission was granted captain mantell and the other two planes started to climb toward the object the second pilot made a similar request both wingmen refueled and after getting oxygen equipment took off again captain mantell flying ng-3869 continued out distancing his wingmen at 1445 mantel called the tower nine tell the tower i see it above and ahead of me i'm still climbing a few moments later one of mantel's wingmen was hurt what the hell are we looking for after a moment captain mantel made a man tell the tower the object is directly ahead of and above me now moving at half my speed

11:05 it appears to be a metallic object of tremendous size the object now was in visual view of the tower personnel i'm trying to close in for a better look i'll go to 20 000 feet shortly after this pilot hammond the remaining wingman with mantel called mantel over his radio level off captain until i've regained visual the personnel in godman tower waited tensely for mantel's reply but he made no answer a moment later pilot hammond made another report to the tower mantel seemed to have disappeared mantel had apparently climbed beyond his at 15 25 the remaining wingman broke off and returned to stanford field the object which was in visual sight from the tower as were the f-51s during the chase disappeared at approximately 1550. the f-51s were first lost to view and then the object went behind the cloud

12:17 advised godman tower that mantel had crashed five miles southwest of franklin the crash had occurred at approximately 16 45 captain mantell was killed statements were taken from all who were present in the tower during the mantel the tower controller stated it looked silver or metallic the intelligence officer it appeared to be a bright silver object the executive officer it was circular in the aacs a small white object in the sky the operations officer it appeared brown and white the commanding officer it could be seen plainly with the naked eye the statements were typed up for the necessary signatures as the interrogation concluded

13:18 there was one point on which there was some disagreement not everyone who had been present in the tower had heard man tell when he reported over the radio that he was moving in for a better look the more lurid sections of the press reported that fragments of mantel's plane were found to be radioactive some news sources reported that an autopsy revealed that mantel had been killed by some kind of death ray unknown to our men of science these reports were false because certain publications persisted in using a sensational approach in reporting sightings there were increasing demands from the public for an explanation however the air force had already taken official cognizance of the flying discs headquarters united states air forces issued a directive for a detailed study of flying disc this project received a secret and the code name of sign department of air force and department

14:19 of army letters directed all respective subordinate units to report directly to air material command all information concerning unidentified flying objects and so project sign was implemented trained investigators were dispatched to the exact scenes of the sightings after thorough on-the-spot interrogations the reports were sent on to atic for further analysis utah washington norway sweden denmark south korea ohio new jersey oregon philippine island louisiana alabama tennessee kansas massachusetts as an example of the credible type of sightings reported by reputable trained observers was the report of

15:20 willis sperry what is your full name captain willis sperry how long with american airlines 17 years what was the date of sighting may the 29th 1950 and the time of sighting 9 30 in the evening the origin of sighting 60 miles southwest of washington dc and the nashville tennessee what was the visibility it was unlimited what was your altitude 7 500 feet who of the crew first saw the object the called it to my attention as i had turned to reach for a map the object was flying head-on at us it was 50 times the magnitude of the brightest star i immediately made an abrupt turn to avoid collision as i looked to my left the object appeared to come to a stop can you describe the shape of the object it appeared as a perfectly streamlined object without wings or tail

16:20 as it was silhouetted against the full at all times it had a brilliant shimmering blue light in the nose it was traveling at fantastic speed and although it had passed off our left wing tip it circled us in a matter of seconds and appeared off our right wing there again it stopped and we watched it for several seconds when again it started it reversed its we watched it for several more seconds until it disappeared in the east out of sight have you ever seen any other similar object captain never before or since on january 9 1950 the press reported that project sign was closed from now on the air force stated its only similar activity would be the routine conventional watch for unidentified flying objects this is the daily news building in dayton ohio

17:23 my name is al chop a short time after my discharge from the marine corps i paid a visit to the newspaper where i had previously worked as a reporter for five years well al you've asked glad to see you the editor was a close friend and he tried to convince me to take back my old job on the paper he was very persuasive but for personal it didn't interest me oh but you remember the old days here now it's all different three hours for lunch double time for overtime blind copy girls once he realized that my mind was made up he made another suggestion it was due to this casual suggestion that i walked right into the middle of the flying saucer story ever since a korean situation there's a lot of activity out at air material you could fit right in that public information officer who's the man to see out there friend of

18:23 mine major cross i'll call him now the idea appealed to i'd always been intensely interested in also i liked the idea of settling down in dayton again both d my wife and i had a lot of friends there it would be like coming home again the editor set up an appointment for me at air material command this is what i wanted but a man never knows what he's getting into the next day i went out to amc and talked to the major he seemed satisfied with my newspaper i was interviewed by a personnel official who filled out the necessary papers preliminary to an air force security check full name albert m chop c-h-o-p age 35 married wife's name

19:23 dolores children girl age eleven boy five take us to room d thank you shortly after i went on the amc payroll on the pio desk i soon shook down into the routine of the public information desk there was a wide diversification of projects for which i wrote material most of it was released as newspaper copy with an occasional article published in the magazines i wrote a piece on a portable printing press that could be set up close to the front line these presses printed daily bulletins which proved of great value in sustaining morale of frontline troops i did a few pieces on helicopters which were coming into wide use in korea newsweek magazine printed this and it also appeared in many of the countries leading newspapers then one morning about 10 o'clock i got

20:25 a call from a newspaper editor in boston the boston editor wanted confirmation or official information on a flying saucer report out of sioux city iowa i told the editor that project sign had been officially closed he was insistent so finally i called air technical intelligence center no chop we have no report on sioux city or any other sighting you people on pio desk ought to know we've closed project sign for the next couple of hours calls came in from newspapers all over america gradually i was able to piece the story on the previous evening a commercial airline dc-3 in sioux city iowa had requested clearance from the tower to take off the tower held them up informing the pilot that there was a light in the west that they thought might be a light plane

21:26 the tower stated that they were trying to contact it but were unsuccessful the tower was in contact with another light flame that was coming in for a landing the dc-3 engine's idling stood by at the end of the runway until the light plane landed and taxied off the strip the tower then gave the dc-3 pilot permission to take off as the dc3 climbed for altitude an unidentified light suddenly closed in this was the object that the tower unsuccessfully had tried to contact by the tower observed this and radioed the but the light had already been observed by both the pilot and co-pilot suddenly the light accelerated and made a head-on pass at the plane which swerved to avoid a collision

22:28 it zoomed past them close to their the pilot called the tower and described the object as a p-36 without wings after being observed by several passengers the object suddenly zoomed straight up and disappeared about noon two reporters came in asking for information on the sioux city what's new on this saucer story al we have nothing on it project sign is closed atic is no longer investigating these things how stupid can they get how can they drop an investigation when there are things going on like this sioux city look george i don't make policy around here i've got a job and i take my order just like everybody else they insisted i make another call for verification with atic i indicated to one of the reporters to pick up the extension and listen in so he too could hear yeah hello major i'll chop a couple of reporters here want some information on sioux city

23:28 look al the answer is the same the project is closed i told you that before yeah thanks major you heard the man this thing doesn't add up those men saw something up there oh there's probably some simple explanation for it don't tell me you guys believe this saucer bunk you're just sitting on a story al well you believe what you like but personally i think this whole saucer business is pure unadulterated one day shortly after the sioux city incident i went over to get a story on a former german scientist area b was a maximum security section the story appeared in the new york times i had obtained the background on the scientists from the files he was formerly one of the top men at pentamond germany one of the key figures participating in the successful development of the v2 this scientist had succeeded in developing a 98.8 pure aluminum oxide these crucibles were

24:29 vital to our nation's defense they were used to melt super hard metals needed to build turbine blades for our jet aircraft tell me young man what new reports are you getting on unidentified flying objects flying saucers all they keep coming in every once in a while but we don't take them too seriously oh no of course not it must be amusing to a man in your line of work to hear about all these screwball reports it is my firm opinion that these sightings should be investigated most meticulously you don't believe that these flying saucers actually exist to and how can you be so certain they don't mr chump well i i just don't believe it our minds should be open on all subjects wrong conclusions are usually the result of lack of comprehensive analysis

25:30 of course well thank you doctor i won't take up any more of your time and i'll let you read the article before i send it in thank you mr chop i'll be looking forward to it later that same day i paid a visit to the public information officer for air material command it was his job to know everything that was going on i brought up my interview with the scientist he's a top man isn't he as good as they come we got on the subject of saucers he seemed to lend credence to their existence at least he doesn't deny it well he's not alone in that opinion i don't understand colonel but crack scientist thinks they could exist why not the air force al i'm going to let you in on something somehow security was breached on the name sign every news agency knew that project sign meant saucers on top of it we were up to our bustling

26:31 screwball reports serious investigation was all fouled up the serious investigation then the air force is still investigating these sightings we switched the code name to project grudge and the investigations continued and what have they shown nothing conclusive as yet could these sausages be some kind of a secret weapon of ours no if they were air material command would be the first to know how about a device from a foreign country we know they're not what is your opinion i don't have any opinion now a short time later i was promoted to chief of the press section from then on there wasn't a moment when i didn't have at least one reporter hounding me for information on saucer got a question al boys down at the office would like an honest answer project sign is closed right that's has the air force set up a new saucer no thanks al that's all i want to know coming here right away y'all ring put

27:31 some paper blind three colonel goddard's on the phone he's got a hot ufo report i want you to listen in on it okay colonel shoot colonel goddard chief of the air force photo reconnaissance laboratories reported that three of his men flying a b-29 were tracking a weather balloon over georgia suddenly an unidentified flying object appeared and flew alongside the balloon after a few moments the object dived and made a pass at the balloon then proceeded to disappear when the balloon was recovered it had a six foot rent in it colonel goddard's men believed this unidentified flying object made the tear in the balloon goddard vouch for his men making the report stating that they were highly experienced and reliable air force thank you colonel think it could be a lightning bolt carter wouldn't call about a lightning did any of his men have a camera no they were tracking with binoculars that's something i don't get colonel

28:31 wouldn't you think that somebody somewhere would have shot a picture of one of these things oh we've got plenty of photographs but the trouble with still pictures is they're too easily faked what about a motion picture could that be fake trick shots are possible but not without complicated and expensive laboratory highly skilled men even then motion picture experts could easily determine that'll eliminate some joker faking a piece of motion picture film in his he practically impossible get away with that well i guess that's why you have no movies of them colonel as chief of the press desk my work hours my meals my sleep became increasingly disturbed and chaotic i saw little of my wife and chip my son was at this time making periodic visits to a doctor in dayton how's chip i feel more hopeful with a new specialist you look tired since you've gotten this new job the children don't know their

29:33 own father anymore yeah sometimes i wish i were back on the i was talking with mrs collins today she tells me her husband's cousin works with a man who swears he saw a flying saucer uh-uh i thought i told you that term was taboo in this house do you really think they might be from mars or someplace look honey don't you get like the rest of those screwballs that i have in my hair all day every time some kid flies a kite 50 different people see spaceships come on let's get to bed a few days later the colonel and i were talking over routine press releases on a new type transport plane when suddenly the colonel veered off at a tangent by the way there's a magazine fella coming out here from new york to do a i want you to set up appointments with the people you'll want to see right what magazine is you representing what are they after he's going to write a piece about unidentified flying are you serious life is given clearance by the air force commanding general how come when the general staff makes a

30:36 they have the whole picture in view we here at dayton see only a smaller pentagon has its reasons very good ones most likely when the life story breaks we're going to have to fight our way in here through a milling mob of inquisitive reporters no al you won't you won't be here colonel cyril's on the pentagon has requested you by name he wants you to join his staff in colonel it's been swell working with you but under the circumstances i'll be delighted to get out of here upon my arrival in washington i was assigned to air force press desk room 2e 765 in the pentagon my last official act at amc had been to arrange the conferences and briefings for life magazine i was in washington only a short time when look magazine submitted the galley proofs of their saucer article to my

31:38 i put the look article through to security review now i felt free to settle down in my new i checked in with the press section of the united states senate house of representatives and department of state i paid the required visits to the information departments of the army navy and marine corps i covered the civil aeronautics administration and other agencies with whom i would be working in close contact by now i figured i was through with flying saucers for good but the pentagon had other ideas because of my previous experience i was assigned to unidentified flying i was back in the flying saucer business in the activity of setting up housekeeping and getting adjusted to the new job i completely forgot about the life magazine article also i was able to spend more time with my son had been deaf in one ear since infancy and it was difficult for him to play with other children i had settled down to a regulated home

32:41 but it was only a lull before the start on april 7th 1952 life hit the newsstands with the saucer story the question if anyone ever had any doubt about it was forcefully answered the public america as a whole had an intense avid interest in the subject of flying saucers the first few days following the life story were chaotic naturally my desk was an exposed point and i was under an incessant barrage by shortly after the life story looks coverage of saucers hit the newsstand

33:41 their story featured a saucer map including a statement by the commanding general u.s air force hoyt vandenberg vandenberg stated the air force is interested in anything that takes place in the air this includes the aerial phenomenon commonly known as flying saucers many of these incidents have been satisfactorily explained others have not project grudge was expanded and augmented the classified name grudge was the new code name for the ufo investigative project was blue book the general appointed captain edward j rupelt of atic at wright-patterson as officer in charge of project blue book group health department was designated as air phenomenon branch air technical at rupaul's disposal was a large staff of distinguished scientists both military and civilian one day major dewey fournette of current intelligence branch sent for me

34:41 will you come in here a minute now major fornay was intelligence technical analyst and ufo monitor thanks captain al i just got a call from captain rupelt a navy photographer named newhouse has made a sighting near tremonton utah he got some ufos on film motion pictures motion pictures this film should prove interesting on a comparative basis comparative with what with the montana film atics had it for some time over at dayton you mean atic has had motion pictures why wasn't i told about it you're being told about it now can i see these films root belt has a new house film it's back at dayton being processed and analyzed but i can show you the montana film this film was shot august the 15th 1950 it was taken in great falls montana by nick mariana immediately after we were notified of the sighting we sent an intelligence man to get a first-hand report my name is nick mariana for the past six

35:42 years i've been the general manager of a minor league baseball club called the we play out of great falls montana and are a farm club of the brooklyn dodgers on august 15 1950 at legion ballpark in great falls montana after a couple of hours in the clubhouse office i went up into the grandstand to call the groundskeeper as i reached the top of the stairway i glanced northward to the tall anaconda copper company smokestack to check the direction of the wind from the white smoke force of habit i suppose because our outfielders use it as an indicator on defensive play as i looked up i saw two silvery objects moving swiftly out of the northwest they appeared to be moving directly the objects were very bright and about ten thousand feet in the air they appeared to be of a bright shiny metal like polished silver both were the same size and were traveling at the same rate of speed which was much slower than the jets which shot by shortly after i filmed the

36:44 suddenly they stopped it was then i remembered the camera in the glove compartment of my car i raced downstairs yelling for my secretary miss virginia ronnie the distance from the top of the stairway to my car is about 60 feet and i must have made that in about six jumps i asked my secretary if she saw anything and she said yes two silvery spheres i unlocked the glove compartment of my car took out the camera turned the telephoto lens on the turret into position set the camera at f 22 picked up the objects in the viewfinder and pressed the trigger the discs appeared to be spinning like a top and were about 50 feet across and about 50 yards apart i could not see any exhaust wings or any kind of fuselage there was no cabin no odor no sound except i thought i heard a whooshing sound when i first saw as the film clicked through the camera i could see the objects moving southeast

37:45 behind the general mills grain building and the black water tank directly south of the ballpark i filmed the objects until they disappeared into the blue sky behind the water tank there's only a few feet of film it'll be over practically before your eyes are focused on it now remember there's only a few feet of film so watch closely i still had my doubts but i must admit i felt an excitement about seeing actual motion pictures of unidentified flying objects for the first time ready ready

38:55 what do you make of it you saw what i what's your opinion i'll run it again you have a transcript on mariana it's a dayton good colonel cyrils wants me to go to dayton that is if you'll give me clearance i'll have you cleared it's a good idea for you to get acquainted with the history of ufos when you get to dayton you'll meet captain rupel the three of us are going to be working closely from here on rhubilt will give you a complete

39:56 briefing on blue book what's the story on him rupeel's an aeronautical engineer he knows about things that fly an excellent man to head up project blue book okay once again what's your opinion of this film as far as i'm concerned i'll have to classify them as unknowns i'll run the film again this time in slow motion this time i strained my eyes to study the film the air force analysts by measuring the angular velocity of the objects and by computing their speed had determined that they were not well there was something up there in that sky and if they were not balloons i don't know what to think

40:57 you better get going to dayton i'll chop to see captain root belt captain's right over there sir thanks captain palp i'm al chop have a seat sir major fernando heard me you're arriving you've got the green light here where would you like to start as a springboard i suggested that he briefed me on the general outline of how the organization handled reports on ufos group health began to fill me in on the baffling saucer problem including a breakdown on the reported sightings supplemented by graphs there were literally hundreds of cases where air defense command pilots had attempted to intercept ufos there were sightings where ufos have been tracked by ground radar airborne radar ground observation and combinations of all these elements i accompanied intelligence officers on

41:59 i witnessed the difficulty in breaking down and gaining the confidence of those who were reluctant to talk about their for fear of personal ridicule and others were cooperative i observed the technique of thorough interrogation used by blue books analysis and investigative in almost every case i heard the same words used to describe the sighting these words were lights and metallic there were reports by reliable competent including high-ranking air force and navy flyers civil engineers and i learned that the staggering total of over three thousand five hundred reports had been received quite a few of these sightings are unsolved approximately 85 percent of sightings are designated as solved according to this document 14.3 percent of all sightings are officially designated as unknown the newsmen keep hitting me with the unsolved cases anyway solved is a big word how do you

43:00 solve them there's nothing hit or miss about it i'll show you on december 1st 1952 between 4 30 and 5 o'clock in the morning several major airports in this area report a single round it was flashing first white then white orange then amber it was observed northwest of this central point at an angle of 15 degrees above the horizon remember that 15 degrees it's important reports arrived here from teterboro airport westchester airport newark airport laguardia airfield idlewild and mitchell field this flashing sphere of light was also observed by an eastern airline pilot who radioed in his report various observers at all these airports watched the object through high-power when the report arrived here we checked the weather in that area with air force weather bureau that night at that time there was no temperature inversion we got in touch with navy balloon project center at the university of

44:02 that gave us an exact schedule of balloons released from that center we got similar information from every other point where weather balloons are released to air force balloon plotting center at lowry field denver we contacted air force weather for wind conditions and velocity at the altitude of known balloons a precise computation of balloons in the air and known wind conditions definitely removed balloons from the picture we checked with flight service to determine if any aircraft were in the on the bearing at that time there were no aircraft and still this thing was up there all the time being observed by various personnel from airfields all over that correct and they were seeing it we checked with our contract astronomer at a leading university in locality and gave the astronomer the angle of and bearing of the object remember the object was observed at an angle of 15 degrees above the horizon and i told you that was important it proved to be the conclusive factor our storm reported that at the time of the observation the planet jupiter was 15 degrees above

45:04 the horizon and on the angle of elevation and bearing of the object there is no doubt about it what all these people saw was jupiter what made the light flash atmospheric conditions the same conditions that make the stars appear to twinkle and people really go into these things we try in over 80 percent of the cases we come up with the correct answers we don't get the correct answers in all the cases what about the motion picture made by this navy man new house we're working on that how does it look impressive can i see it it's being analyzed when the film is available will i be able to take a look at it as soon as analysis is completed you'll see it's satisfied yeah how long will that take about a week we're doing an exhaustive check on the new house stuff really putting it through the ringer when we're through we'll forward a printed director of intelligence with a complete report of our analysis fill me in on new house would you consider him a qualified observer he rates as a top flight observer extremely competent one immediately upon getting word of his sighting he dispatched an investigator

46:05 from travis air force base to interrogate new house the exact date of his sighting was july 2nd at 11 a.m mountain standard time i was driving on u.s highway 30 south with my wife and our son delbert and our daughter ann we were on our way from washington dc to portland oregon on vacation before reporting to my new duty station at the aviation supply depot naval supply center oakland california about seven miles after we passed through trey mountain utah my wife noticed a group of objects in the sky but she could not identify i pulled over the side of the road stopped got out looked up and saw the objects there were 12 of them in a rough formation proceeding in a westerly direction they were like nothing i'd ever seen

47:06 before although i've logged some 2000 hours in the air they were identical in appearance how would you describe these objects like two saucers one inverted over the i had no means of judging the altitude it appeared to me to be about the size of v29s at 10 000 feet did you photograph them immediately i watched the objects for a few moments before getting my camera out of the then i lost more time getting film out of his second suitcase annoying the when i first saw the objects they were overhead by the time i had the camera ready to go they had moved to a considerably greater distance what kind of a camera did you use a 16 millimeter bell and howl a film auto load master with the three lens turret i selected a three inch lens and set it on f8 and focused at infinity did you think of using slow motion no the camera was set on 16 frames per

48:07 and in the excitement of the moment i didn't think to shoot at a greater rate that would have improved the coverage i centered the viewfinder on the objects made the first shot then i decided if the sky were darker the objects would show better so i stopped the lens down to f-16 and continued photographing this proved to be a mistake because the quality of the film would have been better and i left it at f8 did these objects remain together in a group at all times no toward the end one object reversed its course and proceeded away from what rest of the group i held the camera still and allowed this single object to pass through the field of view picking it up again later in its course did this single object return to the rest of the group no i allowed it to pass through the field of view of the camera two or three times and then it disappeared in what direction over the eastern horizon what did you do i turned swinging the camera just in

49:09 time to see the rest of the group disappear over the western horizon what was the weather the weather was bright and cloudless visibility good the visibility was how does this film you shot compare with what you saw with your naked eye you have studied the film yes i studied it i'm very disappointed the film falls far short of showing why i saw the naked eye due to the delay in getting the camera started and my error and exposure if i'd had this camera in the seat beside me loaded and ready to go there'd be no need for questions the air force would have the answer what is your full name please delbert clement newhouse and you are on active duty with the navy yes sir i am what is your official navy rank my title is chief photographer and a commissioned warrant officer united states navy how long have you been in the service 21 now is there anything you can add to the description of these objects they had a bright silvery color

50:11 can you describe some particular detail they had a metallic appearance they seem to be made of some kind of polished metal the new house film as i told you is presently under analysis sergeant would you get me the fargo case the fargo sighting was october 1st 1948 a national guard lieutenant thank you a national guard lieutenant was about to land his f-51 at fargo captain rupell gave me the details from the record the pilot after a routine patrol flight was cleared by the tower to land when he asked anything in the way there's a piper cub below you nothing else in the air i see the piper cub i see another light about a thousand yards ahead of me it looks like the taillight of a plane i can see you but i can't see the light

51:14 you're observing the pilot told the tower he could see it and was going to close in and try to make identification i can see it clearly now a small white light keeps blinking on and off as he approached it the blinking light became clear and steady suddenly it pulled into a sharp left i think this thing is going to make a pass on the tower i see it now i see it pilot dived on the light and although he brought his manifold pressure up to 60 he reported i can't seem to catch up with the thing he's gaining altitude and just made an impossible turn a 90 degree turn to the you're right it's gaining altitude on you and it's still in a very tight left by that time they were at 7 000 feet when suddenly

52:14 the light made a 90 degree right turn it straight at me the light passed directly over your canopy at i estimate about 500 feet the object suddenly shot straight into the air pilot followed it to 14 000 feet when his plane went into a power stall the object disappeared the chase had lasted approximately 27 minutes the officer in the tower was the airport traffic controller the lieutenant was an instructor for the french during the second world war he said he was sure there was an intelligence behind the movements of the he stated too that no earth born pilot could have withstood the g factor inherent in the object's turns and speed without blacking out was there radar at the field no there wasn't too bad radar would have made it airtight not necessarily i thought our radar return was indisputable evidence no it isn't are you a radar expert no i'm not but i have one on tap give me extension

53:16 we have a team of three radar analysts here in air phenomenon branch i want to talk to wynn swanson all radar reports received here pass through this radar analysis division swanson i have a man here from the he's cleared wants to know about radar okay feels socked in solid with fog but he'll take you over to gca this is ground control approach with zero visibility gca picks up the aircraft coming in by means of the pips on their scope can talk them into a landing now this scope here gives the aircraft in the area this scope here tells you whether you're the right or the left of the landing and that one there tells you whether you're too high or too low

54:17 now the next scope is the same as this one except that it gives you more right to heading 20 degrees and begin descent to 1 500 feet this is air force 162 steering 20 degrees descending to 1 500 over air force 162 the weather at patterson field is 100 feet ragged visibility one half mile light rain wind southwest six altimeter nine nine if you can see it on radar there can be no question about in this case no these are good solid

55:18 air force one six two steer left to three five turning downwind leg range eight miles south over this is air force sometimes a temperature inversion will cause trouble ionized clouds or equipment malfunction will cause false blips can you tell a false blip from one made by aircraft yes any experienced operator can tell in a minute or so force one six two steer left to heading two one five this will put you on final approach air force 162 this is your final how do you read me over loud and clear air force 162 roger your range is seven miles slow aircraft to descending speed

56:19 make final flap setting maintain of 1200 heading two one five do not acknowledge any further transmission unless unable to comply if you do not hear gca for any five second interval climb to one thousand feet on a heading of one five and contact approach control steer right to heading 210 range five miles you are now approaching glide path start normal rate of descent at 600 feet per minute entry to glide path good steer left to heading 212 range 4 miles go above glide path 10 15 25 feet high increase your rate of descent slightly heading two one two pulling you on the center line holding two feet high on glide path check that descent steer right to

57:21 of two one three range now three miles holding glide path very well cool below glide path 10 20 30 feet level off slightly steer right to heading two one four coming back nicely to glide path 25 20 15 feet low heading 214 had you lined up with the center line range two miles holding 15 feet low on flight path bring it up slightly 10 5 now on glide path range one and a half heading two one four on byte path steer left to heading two one three over the end of runway on center line on glide path as you approach point of touch down in three seconds if you cannot see the runway pull up and climb to one thousand feet heading one two five

58:49 he's safe at home well that's it coffee yes what exactly is your job here i'm one of a group of three radar specialists employed by the air force reports of radar contacts of unidentified objects are sent in to us from all over the world for analysis how long have you been in air force intelligence two years ever come across any cases you couldn't solve we have unsolved cases yes cases where good solid blips appeared and no known objects in the area then two we have cases of fantastic speed exactly what do you mean by fantastic speed i mean speeds greater than any achieved by man how much greater thousands of miles per hour thousands of miles what's your idea what they are all i can say is unknown you must remember that i've been restricted to only radar contacts i have no experience with visual contacts what do you think about the chances of these objects having intelligence behind their control

59:50 all i can say is i have an open mind what do you think about the theory of interplanetary source i have an open mind period i spent a full week in dayton i had hoped to see the new house film before returning to washington but it was still under analysis by the right field photo lab when the analysis was completed the film was taken by an air force courier and hand carried to washington to be viewed by the director general of air force it is all set major yes sir technical intelligence is reported that this film could not be produced under simulated conditions let's go there'll be several feet of blank film before the pictures come on

1:01:38 the film as newhouse had predicted was in bad condition but the chief interest was in movement speed and light source after a moment the general asked to see it again

1:02:51 how about that those were the only words spoken in the room how about that few days later major fournette had some news for me we got the analysis of the new house film from air material command what does it show not birds not balloons not aircraft not faked with the telephoto lens used weather balloons within five miles distance could have been determined on the film at a greater distance in five miles they could not attain the speeds calculated within a five mile range an aircraft a forty foot wingspan could have been clearly determined in excess of five miles the speeds of the objects are greater than aircraft could achieve except in a straight-line speed run no bird is sufficiently reflective has to cause the film to react as strongly as it is done if they're not birds not balloons

1:03:51 or aircraft and the film isn't faked what can these things be the official conclusion is unknowns the new house film was only the a few minutes before 1am july 20th 1952 the curtain on the first act of the washington drama went up the unknowns moved in for the first time over the national capital i had always regarded myself as a man with an intuitive nose for news so through the first washington sighting while the saucers hovered over the city i was in bed sleeping soundly through it when i reached my desk that morning we were flooded with newspaper queries telephones were jangling throughout the day irate editors from all over the country were insistently demanding more specific newsmen from the wire services reporters from local and out-of-town newspapers were hemming me in belaboring me with questions for which i had no answers for the first couple of hours we at the

1:04:53 press desk had a terrible time getting the story straight ourselves but bit by bit i managed to piece it there had been both visual and radar contacts andrews field the air force installation had radar returns similar to those on the caa radar jets had been scrambled in an attempt to make an intercept to the ufos but they had not been successful the week after the washington saucer sighting was a mad chaotic one the story was headlined from coast to as the pio man assigned to answer saucer i had been under an incessant barrage of inquiries day and night by newsmen i could get no sleep no rest at all among other things the washington daily news published an interview with harry g barnes senior air traffic controller civil aeronautics administration barnes stated there is no other conclusion i can reach but that for six hours on the morning of the 20th of july there were at least 10 unidentifiable objects moving above

1:05:55 they were not ordinary aircraft i could tell that by their movement on the scope i can safely deduce that they perform gyrations which no known aircraft could perform by this i mean that our scope showed that they could make right angle turns and complete reversals of flight or in my opinion could any natural phenomena account for these spots on our then exactly a week later it really broke loose it was the night of july 26 1952 at 10 30 p.m i received a phone call from ray nathan at caa radar is picking up unknowns over the capital don't wait up at 11 10 pm major four day received a

1:06:57 call from lieutenant colonel thomas air force intelligence duty officer at the pentagon informing him of what was going on at washington national as i raced to the airport i kept glancing up through the windshield expecting to see the things but everything seemed normal am i glad to see you they tell us we need you're okay to get into the radar room you can't get in boys i'm sorry we want some pictures of that scope al you can't photograph the scope why not it's under security measures classified wavelength classified code names here we are in the biggest story in history and you're keeping us out sorry but that's the way it's got to be then we're going over your head al colonel dick cyrils you can reach him

1:07:59 at metropolitan eight nine eight nine eight another one look at them go one of them is an airline it's a slightly different shape did you alert the air force i call their defense command what'd they say they're scrambling a couple of jets same as last week could this be caused by temperature inversion inversion that is an inversion and it's different than the ground clutter we pick up did you call the air force command post at pentagon no we work through filter center i'd better call them get me the pentagon air force command this is al chop i'm at washington have you heard about the unknowns here tonight we've been alerted there's a

1:08:59 blue flight on the way there right now okay washington control to flight 639 come in flight 639 the washington control over washington control to flight 639 you're approaching traffic on your left can you see it over anders tower to washington control we show an unknown just to the left of flight to 639 flight 639 to washington control we can see that traffic on our left over washington control to flight 639 what does the traffic look like over flight 639 to washington control it's a a blue green light over washington control to flight 639 can you make out what type of craft it is over flight 639 control no we can just see a light a blue green over washington control to flight 639

1:10:03 roger out this is bluebird 1 to washington control come in the jets are coming on now washington control the bluebird 1 change course to 225 degrees bluebird 2 holds your course over bluebird 1 to washington control will go out bluebird 2 to washington control will go out shortly after the jets appeared do you still have any of the unknowns over washington control to andrew's the same thing happened here out washington control to bluebird one all the unknowns had disappeared you say those returns are the same as those you got last week the same as last week at this point major fournette arrived with a navy electronics intelligence gone like that as soon as the jets came

1:11:04 on the scope the unknowns left bluebird one to washington control we're going back to the base and refuel can't see anything around up here visibility is good over washington control to bluebird one roger out were they good returns good returns as the set been checked for malfunctions the radar equipment is in perfect operating order they're back andrews tower to washington they're back just as they just left our scope they dropped back in again out of you got them over those blips are solid they're good and solid washington controlled to andrew's tower same thing happened here give me the pentagon command post they're all over the scope two in the northeast quadrant four in southeast three in southwest quadrant three in northwest quadrant over this is major four nay calling from washington control radar is picking up 14 unknowns again the chief controller tells me the

1:12:04 unknowns disappeared from the scope as soon as the jets came in and were picked up again when the jets left the navy electronics intelligence officer confirms that the unknown blips are good and solid i recommend a couple more jets be sent up immediately to investigate yes sir andrew's tower to washington that's the way we had him one just moved from the northwest quadrant into the southeast quadrant it stopped over the white house they're scrambling a couple more jets washington control to anders tower roger on the change now it's moving back do you get it over it's back in the northwest quadrant over washington control to anders tower roger we've got a scramble out what are slight temperature inversion you can see the difference in the returns one strong the other weak these unknowns are solid objects red dog one to washington control we're approaching the area over washington control to red dog 2

1:13:07 changed course to 265 degrees washington control to red dog 1 changed course to 114 degrees over red dog one to washington control out about 4 30 a.m major fournette received a long distance telephone call from robert gina of life magazine he wanted permission for his people to interview the pilots of the first scramble at newcastle major four day decided that under the circumstances it would be wise for him to take the call washington control to red dog one changed cars to 315 degrees over red dog one to washington control will go out washington control to red dog one come red dog one to washington control over andrew tower to washington control our scope shows red dog one is right in the middle of the unknowns

1:14:08 washington control to red dog one can you see anything on either side or to the front of you over red dog one to washington control can't see anything wait a minute i see him yeah i see them they're all around me they're moving in on me they're coming closer

1:15:23 they're coming right at me hold it they're moving off i'm at maximum speed they're going away they're gone i can't see them red dog one to washington control

1:16:26 i've been given permission to return to over washington control to red dog one roger out at six a.m that same morning i called lieutenant william patterson the pilot of red dog one who had made visual contact with the unknowns he could add nothing more to what he had reported to us over the intercom later that same morning the white house placed a call to the pentagon captain rupault who had flown in from wright patterson and who was only beginning his analysis of the sighting got the call from the white house yes sir and the prayers have been caused by temperature inversion yes sir we've had cases where radar blips have been caused by temperature this was captain rupaul's report to president truman but captain rupell had not been present at the washington sighting it wasn't until later that he learned there had been both visual and radar contact with the unknowns on that night on monday morning an avalanche of calls from newspapers throughout the nation

1:17:26 jammed the trunk lines at the pentagon the relentless pressure continued we admitted radar contacts from the three surrounding airfields when did the saucers first appear 9 pm how long were they under observation 6 how many were there 14. could the pilot see any details in an interview which appeared in the washington times herald lieutenant patterson pilot of red dog one said he concentrated on one of the bright lights but it outran him i tried to make contact with the bogeys below one thousand feet patterson said i saw several bright lights i chased a single bright light i was at my maximum speed i ceased chasing it because i saw no chance of

1:18:27 overtaking it under the insistent demands from the nation's press and the accumulating pressure of the public the chief of staff set up a press conference at the pentagon i was present when general sanford spoke for the newsreel cameras air force interest in this problem has been due to our feeling of an obligation to identify and analyze to the best of our ability anything in the air that may have the possibility of threats or minutes to the united states in pursuit of this obligation since 1947 we have received and analyzed between one and two thousand reports that have come to us from all kinds of of this great massive reports we have been able adequately to explain the great bulk of explain them to our own satisfaction we've been able to explain them as as erroneously identified friendly

1:19:30 as meteorological or electronic or as light aberration however there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports that have been made by credible of relatively incredible things it is this group of observations that we are attempting to resolve we have as of come to only one firm conclusion with to this remaining percentage and that is it does not contain any pattern of or of consistency that we can relate with any to any conceivable threat to the united states we can say that the recent sightings are no way connected with any secret by any agency of the united states

1:20:31 when i left the pentagon that evening general samford's words kept running through my mind credible observers of relatively incredible things the theories of the skeptics could not stand up to the actual experiences of high-ranking military personnel radar experts airline pilots and other responsible witnesses referred to by general sanford as credible observers i started to walk through the streets of washington the words remaining with me credible observers of relatively i recall when i first joined the project at amc how i regarded with disbelief the whole subject of flying saucers but piece by piece the evidence had until now in my opinion there was no doubt as to their existence now so far as i was concerned it was no

1:21:33 longer a question of whether or not there were unknown objects flying in our for me the only questions that remained what are these objects where do they come from to me the evidence indicated intelligence behind their control and by now the belief that their source was interplanetary was no longer incredible

1:23:34 this is the montana film projected exactly as it was photographed the objects are moving against a 25 to 28 mile an hour wind this is the film in double frame or slow a slight bounce in the movement of the objects as well as the towers this is due to the handheld camera the film analyzed frame by frame shows the movement of the objects to be and steady we will now vary the action and size of the objects and also stop the action from time to time for your study we have just made a jump cut in the film to an enlarged size and reverse the action you are now seeing the objects exactly as they were photographed but from a closer perspective

1:24:39 analysis reveals that the objects are not balloons nor any kind of known aircraft the images are very different from those produced by any kind of birds at any the shape brightness speed rectilinear path steady motion and separation rule out various forms of optical atmospheric mirages or cloud reflections comprehensive analysis has eliminated meteors and other known natural the possibility of airplane reflection has been carefully studied and ruled out this is the utah film as it was originally photographed the image structure and maneuvers definitely eliminate any kind of known

1:25:40 this is where chief photographer newhouse and his excitement changed he believed that by changing density and giving the film more contrast he could clarify the objects the single object that reversed its the bounce is due to handheld camera now we study the action of one section of the film we stop the action we move in within a five mile range aircraft could be determined in excess of five miles the speeds are greater than aircraft can achieve except in straight line speed runs the movement here follows an elliptical or circular pattern microscopic examination reveals that the objects are well focused their size varies from one-sixth to one-tenth the size of the moon as it appears to the naked eye their form is circular and sometimes

1:26:41 elliptical this fits the commonly used flying saucer description observe the object in the upper left we move in to study the action the object upper left will go out of frame on widescreen projection observe the motion of the two objects upper right as we rock them back and now we move over and up on the frame to make a closer study of the object in the upper left corner examine this object closely compared with those objects you saw in the montana film these films were taken approximately two years apart hundreds of miles apart

1:27:44 we drop back to the original perspective and resume now the section of the film or photographer new house changed exposure weather conditions together with the persistence and motion of the formations eliminate the possibility of atmospheric photogrammetric experiments have shown that the images cannot be associated with any kind of birds at any distance now forward again we drop back to original perspective now once again and for the last time the utah film

1:28:48 the objects cannot be associated with any known balloon observations for the last time the montana film the motion picture you have just seen is it is substantiated by documentation eyewitness accounts supported by and official government reports the evidence has been presented to you with integrity and objectivity to establish the fact that unidentified flying objects commonly known as flying saucers do some kind of flying objects have been photographed in the sky if they cannot be identified as objects known to man what are they if they are not man-made who made them if they are not from this

1:29:49 where are they from