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331 East Little eek Ros orfolk, Virginia, cerning the investigati j flying objects. The correspondence was referred to General Musgrave of the Legislative Liaison Office of the Air Force. I received a reply from Colonel Carl M. Nelson, a copy of which was forwarded to Mr. Maccubbin. I have now received another communication from Mr. Mac- cubbin along with a copy of an affidavit which alleges to refute statements made by Colonel Nelson. This affidavit relates specifi- cally to the reporting of an UFO in the Poquoson area of Virginia. If the affidavit is accurate, this indicates extremely poor h…

Honorable Porter Congress of the Uni House of Represe: 3 Washington, D. Cc. Dear Sir: Thank you for your letter of April 4, 1960, and for the Air Force letter enclosed with it. However, Colonel Carl M, Nelson's statements were completely unsatisfactory. Concerning the 1948 top secret report, which concluded that UFOs were real, Colonel Nelson says that no such report exists. Perhaps that report no longer exists but there is no question that it did exi in 1948. Colonel Nelson continues, "By 'real' it is assumed Mr. Maccubbin means the objects from another planet as he mentions elsewhere in his …

Honorable 206 April 19, 1960 . , "When the estimate was completed, typed, and approved, 1t started up through Channels to higher-command echelons. It drew considerable comment but no one Stopped it on its way oO oy hy Then followed several Daravraphs cone rning a UFO sighting in which a Nationsl Cunard Pilot, Lieutenant Teorge F, Gorman, had had a "“dog-fientn With a URC. : to continues: hile the peop!e on Project Sion (the forerunner to Project Bluebook--Lpy) were pondering over Lieutenant Gorman's dogfight with the Oe hha Top Secret Estimate of the Situation was working its e2y UD Ante sth. …

Harry Barnes ano ey 5 gees roar y latatatwhal atl ECNU GM We a as Ali or cthe ren SOM  paGaie. Al sightings, e: fally 1 iny epeyegaen: nighy only 2 degrees. | AS confi ad by outside experts, including Dr. Jonn ah ae head of Project unguard, it would require at least a 10-degree inversion to cause the fake blips. Not only that, any trained radar operator would distinguish them instantly from bldps of solid objects. Inversion billps would mou appear to maneuver intelligently nor would they account for the visual observations. Despite all this, the Air Force Director of Intelligence, Major Genera…

sighting, witnessed by hundreds of people, by simply reading a one-pacseé, ‘ouble-snaced report submitted by ONE observer and then checkirg a few Air Force records. Why didn't At Porce officials interrogate personally the crews of several or all of tne six airliners? shy weren't the crews consulted about the refueling ixplanaticen vO ret thelr opinion? Is this what the Air Force wou. term an Nadequate, thorough, and honest" investization? Sinc t is obvious that no true investigation of this siegmtins wae made, one wonders, and rightly so, if the refueling explanation csiven by Colonel telson i…

- 5 - o. | 19, 1960 were in fact "scientific fiction", the Air Force would gain tremendously. The mystcry would have ended once and for all. The truth 1s that public hearines,.df.they included the testimony and aprearance of veteran pilots and other trained observers, who have sightel UFCs, 7 e the reality of the. Urds, AG Well as the ofticiaivAlr Boreas secrecy concerning them, and, poSsiBhy, tne resson- ic ES USeCrRecy.. This letter in itself should be proof enough that the UFOs exist and that the A-erican people are not setting the straight facts about them from the Air Force. For<tnis rea …

I, the uadersigned , do solemnly Swear that on October 23, I telephoned the Group eperations Lamgley dir Force a ° Lacy of that office of an unidentified fi 19, 1959; that case and keep me > that later in the day Sgt. R. M. Merk) . angley's 4505th dir Refu my interest in the ¥ 27, 195 tion Officer and taken in the ne Cert Mail #589576 e of t 4505th; that that P.I.0. aid my letter eae reins hendled in accordance with the provisions ree - lation $200-2. This affidavit @ testimony that the Air Porce was sare of the DAaILy PRESS news artiele 21, 1959, and did in fact query me, & civilian sults of …

D arcst-6p | © ® / id AFOSI-6D 24=185-21 /capt Johnson/mb/4718/19 Jan 60 ait me MeN UNCLASSIFIED APCIN-4 1. Reference is made to letter, this Directorate, dated 12 November 1958, subject and file same as above. 2. During the months of October and November 1959, Bryant made several unsuccessful attemts to solicit information by telephone from various personnel at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia concerning an alleged Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sighting which reportedly occurred in October 1959. 3. On 12 November 1959, Captain Wesley R. Williams, Information Services Officer (I80), ley Air…