Amazingly, this Earth-shaking news would never reach the ears
of the American public. In fact, there's evidence that it was
intentionally buried by Pentagon officials. According to one
story floating on the Internet, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, who was
the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff during that time, ordered
that the report be destroyed, because there was no physical
proof to substantiate the report's conclusions. Vandenberg
then had Project Sign discontinued. My guess is that the real
reason why Vandenberg terminated Project Sign, wasn't because
there was no physical proof, but rather because the Air Force
was desperate to suppress the truth that Project Sign had in
fact concluded that UFO's were probably the product of alien
technology. Perhaps the US military was concerned that making
such knowledge public might result in widespread panic; or
maybe they had other motives.

If we accept the previous point as being true, then it makes
it easier to understand why the next US Government-sponsored
UFO study project, which was dubbed "Project Grudge", which
lasted from late 1948 to the end of 1951, concluded that all
UFO's had logical explanations; such as misidentifications,
naturally-occurring phenomenon such as marsh gas, meteors,
comets, etc. This was precisely what some of the Air Force
top brass wanted to hear.

But not all USAF officials were content with the conclusions
reached by Project Grudge. Thus, as we've already discussed,
under the direction of Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, Project Blue
Book was initiated in early 1952.

As a point of reference, it was also in July of 1952 that the
startling Washington, D.C. UFO waves occurred. This UFO flap
was observed by a wide range of people in both a professional
and non-professional capacity; including radar personnel at
Andrews and Bolling Air Force Bases, the pilots of several
Air Force F-94 interceptor jets, at least three Air Traffic
Controllers, and a civilian pilot. This UFO event was heavily
reported in the American news media, and in other countries
as well. Publications carried all kinds of eye-popping, bold
headlines, such as "'Saucer' Outran Jet, Pilot Reveals", "ET
Armada Over Washington DC", "Saucers Swarm Capital", "Jets
Chase D.C. Sky Ghosts", and "Aerial Whatzits Buzz D.C.
Again!".

One man who has gone on record concerning the Washington, DC
UFO flap of 1952, is Dr. Bruce Maccabee. A physicist employed
by the U.S. Navy, and also a well-known researcher within UFO
circles, Maccabee is convinced that the UFO's which flew over
Washington, DC were solid objects, and not just the result of
temperature inversion, as the Air Force had been insisting.
Dr. Maccabbee stated:

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"They [the U.S. Air Force] proved in their own study that
there wasn't enough temperature inversion to cause this
effect. The Washington sightings cannot be explained as a
radar mirage."

"And I think those solid objects were not made by us; and by
us, I mean human beings."

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In the end, as concerned as they were about not knowing what
the UFO's were, the Air Force brass took a rather confusing,
neutral stand, and stated to the American news media:

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"We have no evidence they are flying saucers. Conversely, we
have no evidence they are not flying saucers. We don't know
what they are."

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However, the following afternoon, a Tuesday, even though no
one, not even President Truman, had any idea what the objects
were, the Air Force decided to pull a public relations stunt.
Major General John Samford, who was the Air Force's Director
of Intelligence at the time, called a press conference at the
Pentagon. According to the memoirs of Edward J. Ruppelt, who,
as you may recall, headed the newly-formed Project Blue Book,
Samford rambled on for over an hour, offering an explanation,
and the military's rebuttal, but never really saying anything
substantial. In the end, some reporters left the conference
convinced that the objects were not really alien spacecrafts,
but merely the result of temperature inversion; and that is
what they chose to print.

The Air Force's explanation certainly flies in the face of
what other first-hand witnesses to the DC event were saying.
Mr. Harry G. Barnes, who at the time headed the Air Traffic
Controllers at the Washington National Airport, being the
chief of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, also went on
record and stated:

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"For six hours . . . there were at least ten unidentifiable
objects moving above Washington. They were not ordinary
aircraft."

"They acted like a bunch of small kids out playing. It was
helter-skelter, as if directed by some innate curiosity. At
times, they moved as a group or cluster, at other times as
individuals."

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Howard Cocklin was one of several Air Traffic Controllers
working on the glass-enclosed top floor of the Washington
National Airport control tower that night in July of 1952.
Even though so many years have passed, he remains convinced
that what he saw in the sky was a real UFO. He states:

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"I saw it on the screen and out the window. It was a
whitish-blue object; not a light; a solid form; an object; a
saucer-shaped object."

". . . round with no distinguishing marks such as wings or a
nose or a tail . . . like a saucer."

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That same night, Captain S.C. "Casey" Pierman, an experienced
pilot with seventeen years of experience under his belt, was
conducting Capital Air Flight 807 from Washington, D.C. to
Detroit. During a fourteen minute period, he observed a total
of six objects streak across the night sky at an incredibly
high rate of speed. He described them as ". . . like falling
stars without tails".

At this time, I should mention that there were two major UFO
waves over Washington, DC in July, 1952. The first of these,
which we have been discussing, occurred on the night of July
19th; and the second one occurred a week later on the night
of July 26th. In addition to these primary UFO waves, other
secondary sightings also occurred in the general vicinity of
Washington, D.C., from about July 13th to July 29th. These
secondary sightings, which were observed by both civilians,
and by government and military personnel, involved one or a
few UFO's, whereas the larger UFO flaps involved as many as
eight to twelve objects in a single sighting.

One of the U.S. Air Force pilots who flew a F-94 interceptor
jet on the night of July 26th was William Patterson. He tried
to pursue one of the strange objects, but it was to no avail.
In describing his unusual experience, he later related to the
investigators:

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"I tried to make contact with the bogies below 1,000 feet. I
was at my maximum speed but . . . I ceased chasing them
because I saw no chance of overtaking them."

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As you can imagine, Captain Ruppelt and other serious members
of Project Blue Book were both flabbergasted and disappointed
by the silly yarn that Major General John Samford had spun
that day at the Pentagon. Aside from the unanswered question
of what really flew over Washington, DC during those weeks in
July of 1952, what really intrigues me, and undoubtedly many
others as well, is that in his 1956 memoir, "The Report On
Unidentified Flying Objects", Captain Ruppelt shares a very
interesting incident which occurred just a few days prior to
the first UFO wave over Washington. According to Ruppelt, he
interviewed a government scientist, whom he doesn't identify,
who made a rather startling prediction. In his own words,
Captain Ruppelt wrote:

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"Within the next few days," the unidentified scientist said,
banging his hand on his desk for emphasis, "you're going to
have the granddaddy of all UFO sightings. The sighting will
occur in Washington or New York -- probably Washington."

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