d follow a definite pattern--
the UFO reports didn't.

This ended the section of the panel's report that covered their
conclusions. The next section was entitled, "Recommendations." I
fully expected that they would recommend that we as least reduce the
activities of Project Blue Book if not cancel it entirely. I didn't
like this one bit because I was firmly convinced that we didn't have
the final answer. We needed more and better proof before a final yes
or no could be given.

The panel didn't recommend that the activities of Blue Book be cut
back, and they didn't recommend that it be dropped. They recommended
that it be expanded. Too many of the reports had been made by
credible observers, the report said, people who should know what
they're looking at--people who think things out carefully. Data that
was out of the circumstantial-evidence class was badly needed. And
the panel must have been at least partially convinced that an
expanded effort would prove something interesting because the
expansion they recommended would require a considerable sum of money.
The investigative force of Project Blue Book should be quadrupled in
size, they wrote, and it should be staffed by specially trained
experts in the fields of electronics, meteorology, photography,
physics, and other fields of science pertinent to UFO investigations.
Every effort should be made to set up instruments in locations where
UFO sightings are frequent, so that data could be measured and
recorded during a sighting. In other locations around the country
military and civilian scientists should be alerted and instructed to
use every piece of available equipment that could be used to track
UFO's.

And lastly, they said that the American public should be told every
detail of every phase of the UFO investigation--the details of the
sightings, the official conclusions, and why the conclusions were
made. This would serve a double purpose; it would dispel any of the
mystery that security breeds and it would keep the Air Force on the
ball--sloppy investigations and analyses would never occur.

When the panel's conclusions were made known in the government, they
met with mixed reactions. Some people were satisfied, but others
weren't. Even the opinions of a group of the country's top scientists
couldn't overcome the controversy that had dogged the UFO for five
years. Some of those who didn't like the decision had sat in on the
UFO's trial as spectators and they f