uarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I wanted to find out how
willing ADC was to help us and what they could do. When I arrived I
got a thorough briefing on the operations of ADC and the promise that
they would do anything they could to help solve the UFO riddle.

All of this co-operation was something that I hadn't expected. I'd
been warned by the people who had worked on Project Sign and the old
Project Grudge that everybody hated the word UFO--I'd have to fight
for everything I asked for. But once again they were wrong. The
scientists who visited ATIC, General Samford, Project Bear, and now
Air Defense Command couldn't have been more co-operative. I was
becoming aware that there was much wider concern about UFO reports
than I'd ever realized before.

While I traveled around the United States getting the project set
up, UFO reports continued to come in and all of them were good. One
series of reports was especially good, and they came from a group of
people who had had a great deal of experience watching things in the
sky--the people who launch the big skyhook balloons for General
Mills, Inc. The reports of what the General Mills people had seen
while they were tracking their balloons covered a period of over a
year. They had just sent them in because they had heard that Project
Grudge was being reorganized and was taking a different view on UFO
reports. They, like so many other reliable observers, had been
disgusted with the previous Air Force attitude toward UFO reports,
and they had refused to send in any reports. I decided that these
people might be a good source of information, and I wanted to get
further details on their reports, so I got orders to go to
Minneapolis. A scientist from Project Bear went with me. We arrived
on January 14, 1952, in the middle of a cold wave and a blizzard.

The Aeronautical Division of General Mills, Inc., of Wheaties and
Betty Crocker fame, had launched and tracked every skyhook balloon
that had been launched prior to mid-1952. They knew what their
balloons looked like under all lighting conditions and they also knew
meteorology, aerodynamics, astronomy, and they knew UFO's. I talked
to these people for the better part of a full day, and every time I
tried to infer that there might be some natural explanation for the
UFO's I just about found myself in a fresh snowdrift.

What made these people so sure that UFO's existed? In the first
place, they had seen many of them. One man