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26 July 1952 Mamorandum for Record Subject: Trip to Washington, D, C. 1. On 21 July 1952, Col D, L, Bower and Capt B, J, Ruppelt went to MATS Hq at Andrews AFB, Maryland, to discuss the possibility of the MATS Air Weather Service and Flight Service assisting in Project Blue Book. Gol was contacted, He called in Major from the Director of Intelligence Office of Hq MATS. The proposition that these people could help us in Project Blues Book was presented, The Air Weather Service could help us by assisting the reports that we receive for possible balloons and Flight Service could help us by attemp…

@alled in. The problem of identifying these objects as aircraft was discussed. it was previously known that it ia a difficult job to trace aircraft back to a given position in the U.S, or merely using flight plan reports, etc. However there is a possibility of working something out, ‘Several suggestions were offered, (1) that ATIC would furnish personnel so that there will be one person at each Flight Service Center throughout the U.5, merely to handle unidentified aerial object reports, In this way as soon as a report comes in it could be easily checked. The possibility of having a roving rep…

serial objects. Dished in with this was a great deal of confusion on the recent sighting by radar over Washington Municipal Airport on Saturday night. 5. The first thing in the morning Col Bower and Capt Ruppelt visited the Digest Office, The visit was rather brief and they proceeded to the office of Lt Gol Peaberg, in the office of the Deputy for Estimates. Col Peaberg stated that under the reorganization of the Directorate of Intelligence, Major Fournet at AFOIN-2B3 would no longer be the contact man in Washington for unidentified object reports, A new agency handling this coordination is un…

requested by Mr. Chop to call the newspaper. He answered several questions none of which were used in the subsequent news story. One thing that he did stress was that he was not in Washington specifically for the recent sighting. 7. A telephone call was also received,.fron.aGenLandryts-secre tar, . mone. SE Mle at AE, had requested Gen Landry to find.out the. details of... the sighting that had occurred in Washington on Saturday night, She was advised that ATIC had the report and was working on it and that an evaluation would be forthcoming. 8, While visiting Air Weather Service and Flight Ser…