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38 2. So what if none of Blue Book's UNIDENTIFIED cases is said to represent evidence of advanced technology? It all de- pends on its never-specified definition of "technological de- velopments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge." No claim is made that sightings catego- rized as other than UNIDENTIFIED represent advanced tech- nology, and it is certainly possible that one or more classified investigations use other terms to describe such reports. One is left wondering exactly what it would take to convince the Air Force that within the 585 UNIDENTIFIED reports there is evidence beyond present-day knowledge? Do they think disc-shaped, cylindrical and spherical aircraft are within present-day knowledge? That silent supersonic flight can be achieved using what is known about aerodynamics? That long- term hovering followed by astounding acceleration is fully understood by aeronautical engineers? On the contrary, these achievements are far beyond the state of the art, and the big aerospace firms would kill to know how to build aircraft capa- ble of such flight! 3. As for no sightings representing extraterrestrial vehicles ... perhaps this can be supported. But how about crashes?. Maybe you can't see into a UFO as it flies by to check out the physical characteristics of its crew. But when you find one on the ground, it's another matter. Such cute fiddling with the language may conceal matters of cosmic importance. There is no evidence that anyone connected with Project Blue Book or its predecessors bothered to study the "uniden- tified" cases as a group, to see if they amounted to more than a hodgepodge of unrelated anecdotes. Had anyone bothered to make such a study, he certainly would have found distinct patterns of both appearance and behavior displayed by the almost-600 UNIDENTIFIED cases, as well as hundreds more that should have been called "unidentified." This, in turn, would have led straight to the conclusion that the men who looked at the very first "flying disc" reports in the summer of 1947 were correct when they concluded that "something is really flying around." CRASH AT CORONA