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other RCAF intelligence officers I found out that their plans for an
RCAF-sponsored project failed. A quasi-official UFO project was set
up soon after this, however, and its objective was to use instruments
to detect objects coming into the earth's atmosphere. In 1954 the
project was closed down because during the two years of operation
they hadn't officially detected any UFO's. My sources of information
stressed the word "officially."

During the time that I was chief of the UFO project, the visitors
who passed through my office closely resembled the international
brigade. Most of the visits were unofficial in the sense that the
officers came to ATIC on other business, but in many instances the
other business was just an excuse to come out to Dayton to get filled
in on the UFO story. Two RAF intelligence officers who were in the
U.S. on a classified mission brought six single-spaced typed pages of
questions they and their friends wanted answered. On many occasions
Air Force intelligence officers who were stationed in England,
France, and Germany, and who returned to the U.S. on business, took
back stacks of unclassified flying saucer stories. One civilian
intelligence agent who frequently traveled between the U.S. and
Europe also acted as the unofficial courier for a German group--
transporting hot newspaper and magazine articles about UFO's that I'd
collected. In return I received the latest information on European
sightings--sightings that never were released and that we never
received at ATIC through official channels.

Ever since the fateful day when Lieutenant Jerry Cummings dropped
his horn-rimmed glasses down on his nose, tipped his head forward,
peered at Major General Cabell over his glasses and, acting not at
all like a first lieutenant, said that the UFO investigation was all
fouled up, Project Grudge had been gaining prestige. Lieutenant
Colonel Rosengarten's promise that I'd be on the project for only a
few months went the way of all military promises. By March 1952,
Project Grudge was no longer just a project within a group; we had
become a separate organization, with the formal title of the Aerial
Phenomena Group. Soon after this step-up in the chain of command the
project code name was changed to Blue Book. The word "Grudge" was no
longer applicable. For those people who like to try to read a hidden
meaning into a name, I'll say that the code name Blue Book was
derived from the title given to col