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phenomenon has built-in discrepancies, then no one will take it seriously. If people in Brazil, Iowa, and Australia all gave exactly the same descriptions, then the scientific and military establishments would have to take the subject far more seriously. Project Blue Book Report No. 14 tackled this problem. Air Force teams ran 434 ‘‘unidentified” reports through a computer, hoping to come up with a basic model. They ended up with 12 very different basic objects. From the thousands of reports compiled since then, it is obvious that there may be 1,200 or 12,000,000 different types. The 12 objects described in Report No. 14 have rarely been seen since 1955. So there may not be any types at all! Our UFO catalog now contains flying cubes, triangles, hexagons, doughnuts, spheres, objects shaped like giant metal insects and transpar- ent flying jellyfish. We’ve got UFOs with wheels, with wings, with antennas, with pointed domes, flat domes, no domes at all. We’ve got objects of every color of the spectrum. There have been giant, multiwin- dowed “‘cigars’’ spitting blue fire from their tails (‘Obviously a space- ship—a mother craft,”’ the cultists tell us). We’ve got wheelless automo- biles cruising along deserted backroads a few inches above the ground. And we have unmarked airplanes and unidentified helicopters and jets flitting about flap areas. We have just about everything except a basic assembly-line model that has appeared consistently in many years and in many places. In other words, we have thousands upon t thousands of UFO sightings abns Conn an en ee. won ee -- ne -- that force two unacceptable answers upon us: 1. All the witnesses were mistaken or lying. 2. Some tremendous unknown civilization is exerting an all-out effort to manufacture thousands of different types of UFOs and is sending all of than. tn Ae Atanne The governments of the world have seized upon variations of the first explanation. The UFO enthusiasts accept the second. I do not accept either one. Yensnn ad Tone nee 2 bt wns ~ Vabtotabas -.- 2 La ant nn Instead, I propose a third alternative. I think that some “‘hard”’ objects definitely exist as Temporary Transmogrifications. They are disk-shaped and cigar-shaped. They leave indentations in the ground when they land. Witnesses have touched them and have even been inside of them. These hard objects are decoys, just as the dirigibles and ghost planes of yesteryear may have been decoys to cover the activities of the multitudi- nous soft objects. My real concern is with these soft objects. They hold one of the keys to the mystery. Unidentified Airplanes / 127 them to our planet. WL wae ne