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INDEX 217 USS. Air Force Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 54 Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S., 27 Corona crash, involvement in, xiv, 21, 74 photographs of, 103-105, 113 Eighth Air Force, 3, 10-11, 79, 110- 111,135 intelligence report, 23-26 objectives of UFO investigations, 35- 36 press conference (1952), 29-30 509th Bomb Group, xiv, 16 UFO sightings, position on, 22-24, 37-38, 98-109, 148 see also Government suppression of UFO information see also specific projects, e.g., Project Blue Book Vandenberg, Hoyt, 26, 62, 196 Very Large Array, 171 von Braun, Wernher, 50 von Neuman, John, 50, 51 Wang, Eric Henry, 51 War of the Worlds (Welles], 6 Washington Post, 150 Weather balloon explanations of UFOs, 79, 80-82, 103, 121, 136, 144- 145, 150-151, 158, 197 Weisberg(Dr.|, 50 Welles, Orson, 6 Wescott, Roger W, 61 White, John, x-xi White Sands, New Mexico, 11 Whitmore, Walt C, 76, 80-81, 112 Whitmore, Walt (Jr.), 73 Wilcox, George, 74-75, 80, 98, 110, 121, 130 Wilcox, Inez, 75 Wreckage from UFO crashes alternative explanations, 141- 147 American secret weapon, 145-146 American test rocket, 142-143 Japanese bomb-carrying balloon, 143-144 Soviet secret weapon, 146-147 weather balloons, 144-145, 150- 151, 158, 197 at Corona, xv, 71-86, 99 disposition of, 110-113, 120-126, 158-159 materials described, 100- 101, 124, 126, 159-160 at San Agustin disposition of, 108-109 study of, 162-163 Washington destination, 111 Wright Field. See Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 11, 28, 53, 111-112, 158 Yeager, Chuck, 146 Zamora, Lonnie, 33