it is no more valid than turning the hands of a clock ahead to
make time pass faster. Twice before the riddle of the UFO has been
"solved," only to have the reports increase in both quantity and
quality.

I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to what the final outcome of
the UFO investigation will be, but I am sure that within a few years
there will be a proven answer. The earth satellite program, which was
recently announced, research progress in the fields of electronics,
nuclear physics, astronomy, and a dozen other branches of the
sciences will furnish data that will be useful to the UFO
investigators. Methods of investigating and analyzing UFO reports
have improved a hundredfold since 1947 and they are continuing to be
improved by the diligent work of Captain Charles Hardin, the present
chief of Project Blue Book, his staff, and the 4602nd Air
Intelligence Squadron. Slowly but surely these people are working
closer to the answer--closer to the proof.

Maybe the final proven answer will be that all of the UFO's that
have been reported are merely misidentified known objects. Or maybe
the many pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists,
scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, "I wouldn't
have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself," knew what they
were talking about. Maybe the earth is being visited by
interplanetary spaceships.

Only time will tell.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

And They're Still Flying

[Transcriber's Note: The following three chapters were added to the
second edition text in 1960.]

Four years have passed since the first seventeen chapters of this
book were written. During this period hundreds of unidentified flying
objects have been seen and reported to the Air Force. Pilots, with
thousands of hours of flying time are still reporting them; radar
operators, experts in their field, are still tracking them; and
crews on the missile test ranges are photographing them.

UFO's are not just a fad.

The Air Force's Project Blue Book is still very active. Not a week
passes that one of the many teams of its nation wide investigation
net is not in the field investigating a new UFO report.

To pick up the history of the UFO the best place to start is
Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late summer of 1955. For some unknown
reason, one of those mysterious factors of the UFO, reports from this
Hamilton County city suddenly began to pick up. Mass hysteria, the
old crutch, wasn't a