n in New York at the radar laboratory, and he had
heard about the UFO reports. He had personally checked into them
because he knew that the people at the lab were some of the sharpest
radar engineers in the world. When he found out that these people had
already contacted us and had prepared a report for us, he offered to
hand-carry it to Wright-Patterson.

I can't divulge how high these targets were flying or how fast they
were going because it would give an indication of the performance of
our latest radar, which is classified Secret. I can say, however,
that they were flying mighty high and mighty fast.

I turned the letter over to ATIC's electronics branch, and they
promised to take immediate action. They did, and really fouled it up.
The person who received the report in the electronics branch was one
of the old veterans of Projects Sign and Grudge. He knew all about
UFO's. He got on the phone, called the radar lab, and told the chief
(a man who possibly wrote all of the textbooks this person had used
in college) all about how a weather inversion can cause false targets
on weather. He was gracious enough to tell the chief of the radar lab
to call if he had any more "trouble."

We never heard from them again. Maybe they found out what their
targets were. Or maybe they joined ranks with the airline pilot who
told me that if a flying saucer flew wing tip to wing tip formation
with him, he'd never tell the Air Force.

In early February I made another trip to Air Defense Command
Headquarters in Colorado Springs. This time it was to present a
definite plan of how ADC could assist ATIC in getting better data on
UFO's. I briefed General Benjamin W. Chidlaw, then the Commanding
General of the Air Defense Command, and his staff, telling them about
our plan. They agreed with it in principle and suggested that I work
out the details with the Director of Intelligence for ADC, Brigadier
General W. M. Burgess. General Burgess designated Major Verne
Sadowski of his staff to be the ADC liaison officer with Project
Grudge.

This briefing started a long period of close co-operation between
Project Grudge and ADC, and it was a pleasure to work with these
people. In all of my travels around the government, visiting and
conferring with dozens of agencies, I never had the pleasure of
working with or seeing a more smoothly operating and efficient
organization than the Air Defense Command. General Chidlaw and
General Burgess, along w