irplane. The
only time the UFO seriously deviated from this pattern was when the F-
94 got on its tail.

The Michigan sighting was even better, however. In this case there
was a definite reason for every move that the UFO made. It made a 180-
degree turn because the F-94 was closing on it head on. It
alternately increased and decreased its speed, but every time it did
this it was because the F-94 was closing in and it evidently put on
speed to pull out ahead far enough to get out of range of the F-94's
radar. To say that this motion was random and that it was just a
coincidence that the UFO made the 180-degree turn when the F-94
closed in head on and that it was just a coincidence that the UFO
speeded up every time the F-94 began to get within radar range is
pushing the chance of coincidence pretty hard.

The idea of the motion analysis study sounded interesting to me, but
we were so busy on Project Blue Book we didn't have time to do it. So
Major Fournet offered to look into it further and I promised him all
the help we could give him.

In the meantime my people in Project Blue Book were contacting
various scientists in the U.S., and indirectly in Europe, telling
them about our data, and collecting opinions. We did this in two
ways. In the United States we briefed various scientific meetings and
groups. To get the word to the other countries, we enlisted the
gratis aid of scientists who were planning to attend conferences or
meetings in Europe. We would brief these European-bound scientists on
all of the aspects of the UFO problem so they could informally
discuss the problem with their European colleagues.

The one thing about these briefings that never failed to amaze me,
although it happened time and time again, was the interest in UFO's
within scientific circles. As soon as the word spread that Project
Blue Book was giving official briefings to groups with the proper
security clearances, we had no trouble in getting scientists to swap
free advice for a briefing. I might add that we briefed only groups
who were engaged in government work and who had the proper security
clearances solely because we could discuss any government project
that might be of help to us in pinning down the UFO. Our briefings
weren't just squeezed in either; in many instances we would arrive at
a place to find that a whole day had been set aside to talk about
UFO's. And never once did I meet anyone who laughed off the whole
subject of fl