suggest that we leave, Major Sadowski
repeated his original question--the one that started the whole
discussion--"Are you holding out on us?"

I gave him an unqualified "No." We wanted more positive proof, and
until we had it, UFO's would remain unidentified flying objects and
no more.

The horizontal shaking of heads illustrated some of the group's
thinking.

We had plans for getting more positive proof, however, and I said
that just as soon as we returned to Major Sadowski's office I'd tell
them what we contemplated doing.

We moved out onto the sidewalk in front of the club and, after
discussing a few more sightings, went back into the security area to
Sadowski's office and I laid out our plans.

First of all, in November or December the U.S. was going to shoot
the first H-bomb during Project Ivy. Although this was Top Secret at
the time, it was about the most poorly kept secret in history--
everybody seemed to know all about it. Some people in the Pentagon
had the idea that there were beings, earthly or otherwise, who might
be interested in our activities in the Pacific, as they seemed to be
in Operation Mainbrace. Consequently Project Blue Book had been
directed to get transportation to the test area to set up a reporting
net, brief people on how to report, and analyze their reports on the
spot.

Secondly, Project Blue Book was working on plans for an extensive
system to track UFO's by instruments. Brigadier General Garland, who
had been General Samford's Deputy Director for Production and who had
been riding herd on the UFO project for General Samford, was now
chief at ATIC, having replaced Colonel Dunn, who went to the Air War
College. General Garland had long been in favor of trying to get some
concrete information, either positive or negative, about the UFO's.
This planned tracking system would replace the defraction grid
cameras that were still being developed at ATIC.

Thirdly, as soon as we could we were planning to gather together a
group of scientists and let them spend a full week or two studying
the UFO problem.

When I left ADC, Major Sadowski and crew were satisfied that we
weren't just sitting around twiddling our UFO reports.

During the fall of 1952 reports continued to drop off steadily. By
December we were down to the normal average of thirty per month, with
about 20 per cent of these falling into the "Unknown" category.

Our proposed trip to the Pacific to watch for UFO's during th