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   SUBJECT: UNEXPLAINED CASES FROM BLUE BOOK                    FILE: UFO143   
      
   PART 2   
      
       And they are even more numerous in the files of Project Blue   
   Book. The urgency with which Blue Book officials tagged answers   
   onto cases without having done the proper investigation is   
   obvious, though not proven.  But if the Air Force was so eager to   
   label cases "identified", despite the lack of supporting   
   evidence, then those few cases which it labeled "unidentified"   
   presumably withstood every attempt to apply every other kind of   
   label.  And so it may be that those cases are truly   
   unidentifiable in familiar terms.   
      
        Indeed, the Air Force defines "unidentifiable" cases as   
   those which "apparently contain all pertinent data necessary to   
   suggest a valid hypothesis concerning the lack of explanation of   
   the report, but the description of the object or its motion   
   cannot be correlated with any known object or phenomenon."   
      
       To meet such criteria, a report must obviously come from a   
   reputable source, and it must not bear any resemblance to   
   airplanes, balloons, helicopters, spacecraft, birds, clouds,   
   stars, planets, meteors, comets, electrical phenomena, or   
   anything else known to frequent the air, the sky, or nearby   
   space.   
      
        Unfortunately, the Air Force failed to stick to its own   
   rules.  Some of the "unidentifiable" cases most certainly can be   
   correlated with known objects or phenomena.  But most of them   
   cannot.  Moreover, many of the so-called "identified" cases   
   cannot honestly be so correlated.  But we are primarily concerned   
   here with those cases which Project Blue Book openly admits it   
   tried to explain and failed.   
      
       The amount of detail in these cases varies enormously.  Some   
   cases - frequently those which were well publicized at the time   
   of the event - contain considerable information, while others are   
   vague and seriously incomplete.  Project Blue Book generally   
   placed the blame for such incompleteness on the witnesses, but it   
   should take its own share of the responsibility.  'In thousands of   
   cases, there is no completed questionnaire in the Project files,   
   nor even any indication that one was sent to the witness.  And in   
   most of the instances where a questionnaire was filled out, it   
   was never followed up to get more complete answers to questions   
   which the witnesses failed to deal with properly.  For much of   
   the life of Project Blue Book and its predecessors, there was no   
   satisfactory.questionnaire at all.  And one of those used for a   
   lengthy period was so badly organized that a witness should not   
   be held to blame for giving incomplete answers.   
      
         Yet, despite all the roadblocks, many reports are   
   sufficiently complete to tell a pretty clear story of a puzzling   
   experience.  With this data now available, anyone can look at   
   Project Blue Book's "unidentified" UFO reports and make up his   
   own mind.   
      
   July 3, 1947; Harborside, Maine. 2:30 p.m.  EDT. Witness:   
   astronomer John Cole of South Brooksville, Me. Watched 10-15   
   seconds while ten very light objects, with two dark forms to   
   their left, moved like a swarm of bees to the northwest.  A loud   
   roar was heard.   
      
   July 4, 1947; over Emmet, Idaho. 8:17 p.m.  PDT. Witnesses:   
   United Air Lines Capt. E.J. Smith, First Officer Ralph Stevens,   
   Stewardess Marty Morrow. Watched for 12-15 minutes while four   
   objects with flat bottoms and rough tops moved at varying speeds,   
   with one high and to the right of the others.   
      
   July 6, 1947; Fairfield-Suisan Air Base, California. Daytime.   
   Witnesses:  Army Air Forces Capt. and Mrs. James Burniston.   
   Watched for 1 minute while one object having no wings or tail   
   rolled from side-to-side three times and then flew away very fast   
   to the southeast.   
      
   July 8, 1947; Muroc Air Base, California. 9:30 a.m. PDT.   
   Witnesses:  lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt Nauman,   
   Miss Janette Scotte. Watched for an unstated length of time   
   while two disc-shaped or spherical objects--silver and apparently   
   metallic--flew a wide circular pattern, and then one of them   
   later flew a tighter circle.   
   End of part 2   
      
          
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