rd was, "Why do all of these radar-
visual sightings occur at night?"

The answer was simple: they don't. On August 1, just before dawn, an
ADC radar station outside of Yaak, Montana, on the extreme northern
border of the United States, picked up a UFO. The report was very
similar to the sighting at Brookley except it happened in the
daylight and, instead of seeing a light, the crew at the radar
station saw a "dark, cigar-shaped object" right where the radar had
the UFO pinpointed.

What these people saw is a mystery to this day.

Late in September I made a trip out to Headquarters, ADC to brief
General Chidlaw and his staff on the past few months' UFO activity.

Our plans for periodic briefings, which we had originally set up
with ADC, had suffered a bit in the summer because we were all busy
elsewhere. They were still giving us the fullest co-operation, but we
hadn't been keeping them as thoroughly read in as we would have liked
to. I'd finished the briefing and was eating lunch at the officers'
club with Major Verne Sadowski, Project Blue Book's liaison officer
in ADC Intelligence, and several other officers. I had a hunch that
something was bothering these people. Then finally Major Sadowski
said, "Look, Rupe, are you giving us the straight story on these
UFO's?"

I thought he meant that I was trying to spice things up a little, so
I said that since he had copies of most of our reports and had read
them, he should know that I was giving them the facts straight across
the board.

Then one of the other officers at the table cut in, "That's just the
point, we do have the reports and we have read them. None of us can
understand why Intelligence is so hesitant to accept the fact that
something we just don't know about is flying around in our skies--
unless you are trying to cover up something big."

Everyone at the table put in his ideas. One radar man said that he'd
looked over several dozen radar reports and that his conclusion was
that the UFO's couldn't be anything but interplanetary spaceships. He
started to give his reasons when another radar man leaped into the
conversation.

This man said that he'd read every radar report, too, and that there
wasn't one that couldn't be explained as a weather phenomenon--even
the radar-visual sightings. In fact, he wasn't even convinced that we
had ever gotten such a thing as radar-visual sighting. He wanted to
see proof that an object that was seen visually was the sa