eted, Cummings later told. He and Lieutenant
Colonel Rosengarten couldn't get an airliner out of New York in time
to get them to the Pentagon by 10:00A.M., the time that had been set
up for their report, so they chartered an airplane and flew to the
capital to brief the general.

General Cabell presided over the meeting, and it was attended by his
entire staff plus Lieutenant Cummings, Lieutenant Colonel
Rosengarten, and a special representative from Republic Aircraft
Corporation. The man from Republic supposedly represented a group of
top U.S. industrialists and scientists who thought that there should
be a lot more sensible answers coming from the Air Force regarding
the UFO's. The man was at the meeting at the personal request of a
general officer.

Every word of the two-hour meeting was recorded on a wire recorder.
The recording was so hot that it was later destroyed, but not before
I had heard it several times. I can't tell everything that was said
but, to be conservative, it didn't exactly follow the tone of the
official Air Force releases--many of the people present at the
meeting weren't as convinced that the "hoax, hallucination, and
misidentification" answer was

The first thing the general wanted to know was, "Who in hell has
been giving me these reports that every decent flying saucer sighting
is being investigated?"

Then others picked up the questioning.

"What happened to those two reports that General ------ sent in from
Saudi Arabia? He saw those two flying saucers himself."

"And who released this big report, anyway?" another person added,
picking up a copy of the Grudge Report and slamming it back down on
the table.

Lieutenant Cummings and Lieutenant Colonel Rosengarten came back to
ATIC with orders to set up a new project and report back to General
Cabell when it was ready to go. But Cummings didn't get a chance to
do much work on the new revitalized Project Grudge--it was to keep
the old name--because in a few days he was a civilian. He'd been
released from active duty because he was needed back at Cal Tech,
where he'd been working on an important government project before his
recall to active duty.

The day after Cummings got his separation orders, Lieutenant Colonel
Rosengarten called me into his office. The colonel was chief of the
Aircraft and Missiles branch and one of his many responsibilities was
Project Grudge. He said that he knew that I was busy as group leader
of my regular g