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HANGAR 18 the world. 29 documentary; and no matter how credible Hynek or I could be in terms of our backgrounds in the subject, the government had the capability to release that information at any time through much more powerful channels. The National Academy of Sciences, for instance, could hold a formal press conference in Washington to announce this discovery to Robert Emenegger answered my concern with what I thought was a rather shaky argument. His unnamed contacts felt that their "evi- dence" should be leaked carefully, as part of something else. He was about to meet with two executives from the Defense Audiovisual Agency (DAVA) to discuss the plan further. I took extensive notes during this period, because a chronology ap- peared to be important. These notes show that on Sunday, March 10, 1985, I spoke with Emenegger again following a meeting at his house, which was attended by Dr. Hynek and his Arizona team and by DAVA's deputy director, General Glenn E. Miller. One of the ques- tions Miller asked Hynek was: "How would you photograph a UFO?" Although he said nothing specific, he left the impression that the Pentagon did have solid physical evidence. Bob Emenegger told me that, fascinated as he was with these ac- counts, he would not pursue them if he was alone. He would "need someone to prod him" if he were to do another UFO documentary. If Hynek and I had a "new angle" and were willing to go out on a limb with a firm statement about our own work on the physical reality of UFOs, and if the statement was convincing enough for the Air Force, then the Pentagon might put the crowning touch on the production and release the final proof. Naturally, after a hasty phone conference, Hynek and I decided we would do nothing of the kind. As far as I was concerned, either the Pentagon believed it had genuine physical evidence, in which case it should be brought out for everyone to see, or someone was playing games, in which case I was not going to be used as a pawn, like those who had been eager to propagate every rumor, no matter how uncor- roborated or absurd. Hynek agreed. "We should not be a party to deliberate misleading of the public," he said to me, "and we will not