"…the term 'flying saucer' was used to describe all disk-shaped objects that
were seen flashing through the sky at fantastic speeds. Before long, reports
were made of objects other than disks, and these were also called flying
saucers. Today the words are popularly applied to anything seen in the sky
that cannot be identified as a common, everyday object.

Thus a flying saucer can be a formation of lights, a single light, a sphere, or
any other shape; and it can be any color. Performancewise, flying saucers
can hover, go fast or slow, go high or low, turn 90-degree corners, or disappear
almost instantaneously.

Obviously the term 'flying saucer' is misleading when applied to objects of
every conceivable shape and performance. For this reason the military prefers
the more general, if less colourful, name: unidentified flying objects.
UFO (pronounced Yoo-foe) for short."

- Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of the United States Air Force
Project Blue Book
The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)

BLUE BOOK LIES

Much less innocent was the LIE told by Secretary of the US Air Force, Donald Quarles, on October 25, 1955, as quoted in an official press release about a large study concerning UFOs. “On the basis of this study, we believe that no objects such as those popularly described as flying saucers have overflown the United States. I feel certain that even the Unknown 3% could have been explained as conventional phenomena or illusions if more complete observational data had been obtained.” That the two supposedly factual statements (3% Unknowns, incomplete observation data), are bald faced LIES is easily demonstrated by this table where the data are compiled from “the study” whose title was NOT given in the press release (“Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14,” Ref. 5) and which was not distributed, though the press release got very wide coverage.

Categorization of UFO Sightings Reports
In Blue Book Special Report # 14

DESIGNATION	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Balloon	450	14.0
Astronomical	817	25.5
Aircraft	642	20.1
Miscellaneous	257	8.0
Psychological Manifestations	48	1.5
Insufficient Information	298	9.3
UNKNOWN	689	21.5
TOTAL	3201	100.0

Note that the UNKNOWNS, rather than making up 3% of the 3201 sightings investigated, comprised 21.5% and that there was a completely separate category “INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION.” The definitions are as follows:

UNKNOWN — This designation in the identification code was assigned to those reports of sightings wherein the description of the object and its maneuvers could not be fitted to the pattern of any known object or phenomenon.

INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION — The identification category was assigned to a report when upon final consideration there was some essential item of information missing…. It is emphasized that this category was not used as a convenient way to dispose of what might be called poor unknowns.”

Here is the quality distribution of the same 3201 sightings. Note especially that the better the quality of the sighting the MORE likely to be listed as an UNKNOWN. A statistical comparison between UNKNOWNS and KNOWNS showed that the probability that the UNKNOWNS were just missed KNOWNS was less than 1%.

QUALITY DISTRIBUTION OF UFO REPORTS
In Blue Book Special Report # 14

Sightings	No.	%	Unknowns	%	Insufficient Info	%
EXCELLENT	308	9.6	108	35.1	12	3.9
Good	1070	33.4	282	26.4	33	3.1
Doubtful	1298	40.5	203	15.6	150	11.6
Poor	525	16.4	96	18.3	103	19.6

It should further be noted that the press release not only didn’t mention the title (surely some reporter would have asked what happened to the other thirteen reports) but did not mention who did the work, namely Battelle Memorial Institute (a very highly respected Research and Development Organization) in Columbus, Ohio. Apparently the press never asked about either the title or the organization. Amazingly, the three-page summary that was released with the press release gave none of the information in the more than 240 charts, tables, graphs and maps that are in the report. Here was a Cosmic Watergate totally ignored by the media.

Another typical Government UFO LIE was uttered by Dr. Donald Menzel, a professor of Astronomy at Harvard. However, I had discovered in his papers at the Harvard Archives after receiving the required permission from three different people to view them, that he had a TOP SECRET Ultra clearance with the CIA and a very long history of work for the National Security Agency, the CIA, and many other companies. He said in Physics Today “All the non-explained sightings are from poor observers.” Menzel was earning his pay as a member of Majestic 12.

I should also point out that subsequent annual USAF Project Blue Book Press releases consistently LIED by using a sneaky tactic of not including those cases still under investigation at the end of the year in their annual tabulation and by suddenly deciding that any one-witness UNKNOWN would have to be dumped in the Insufficient Information category, no matter how competent the witness. Obviously sightings that are still under investigation at the end of the year are more likely to be Unexplainable than those quickly identified. Testimony from one witness has been used to provide the death penalty for a convicted murderer. When the numbers are put back in the tabulations, again the percentage of UNKNOWNS was around 20%. Anybody searching for a cancer cure would be delighted if 20% of the drugs being tested actually did much more good than harm. Anybody with cancer would probably be satisfied if one drug worked.

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