nds Proving Grounds, in the "publicity-mad" military pilots,
and the "tired, old" airline pilots, because in a nationwide poll it
was found that only 6 per cent of the country's 150,697,361 people
agreed with the colonel and said, "There aren't such things."

Ninety-four per cent had different ideas.

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Pentagon Rumbles

On June 25, 1950, the North Korean armies swept down across the 38th
parallel and the Korean War was on--the UFO was no longer a news
item. But the lady, or gentleman, who first said, "Out of sight is
out of mind," had never reckoned with the UFO.

On September 8, 1950, the UFO's were back in the news. On that day
it was revealed, via a book entitled _Behind_ _the_ _Flying_
_Saucers_, that government scientists had recovered and analyzed
three different models of flying saucers. And they were fantastic--
just like the book. They were made of an unknown super-duper metal
and they were manned by little blue uniformed men who ate
concentrated food and drank heavy water. The author of the book,
Frank Scully, had gotten the story directly from a millionaire
oilman, Silas Newton. Newton had in turn heard the story from an
employee of his, a mysterious "Dr. Gee," one of the government
scientists who had helped analyze the crashed saucers.

The story made news, Newton and "Dr. Gee" made fame, and Scully made
money.

A little over two years later Newton and the man who was reportedly
the mysterious "Dr. Gee" again made the news. The Denver district
attorney's office had looked into the pair's oil business and found
that the pockets they were trying to tap didn't contain oil.
According to the December 6, 1952, issue of the _Saturday_ _Review_,
the D.A. had charged the two men with a $50,000 con game. One of
their $800,000 electronic devices for their oil explorations turned
out to be a $4.00 piece of war surplus junk.

Another book came out in the fall of 1950 when Donald Keyhoe
expanded his original UFO story that had first appeared in the
January 1950 issue of _True_ magazine. Next to Scully's book Keyhoe's
book was tame, but it convinced more people. Keyhoe had based his
conjecture on fact, and his facts were correct, even if the
conjecture wasn't.

Neither the seesaw advances and retreats of the United Nations
troops in Korea nor the two flying saucer books seemed to have any
effect on the number of UFO reports logged into ATIC, however. By
official count, seventy-seven came