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explanations. into the open. Shortly after the Air Force's analysis, which attributed the Michigan incidents to "marsh gas," Donald E. Key-hoe, head of NICAP, repeated his charges to newsmen that the Pentagon has a top level policy of discounting all UFO reports. On Wednesday, March 30th, a spokesman for the Air Force called a press conference to state that the Pentagon had "an open mind about UFO's" and "made no attempt to hush talk about flying saucers." Pooh-poohing allegations that the Air Force tried to squelch saucer sightings, the spokesman continued: "In the first place, we'd be utterly foolish to try to keep people from telling about something they've seen with their own eyes. Our job is to explain what is seen - not necessarily to change anybody's mind." That same week, Roscoe Drummond, in his nationally syndicated column, re-echoed House Republican Leader Ford's suggestion that a "Warren Commission-type panel ... seems to be in order." Drummond called for a "more credible and detached appraisal of the evidence than we are now getting" from what the columnist termed the "expert unbelievers." The Washington columnist expressed the frustration of an entire nation when he wrote: "You can't dismiss the possibility that some of the unidentified flying objects ... which so many people have sighted in so many different places - are real, not imaginary. "There are, of course UFO buffs who seem to want to believe everything and discount all kinds of logical "But Air Force officials assigned to check up on these sightings seem so bored and totally skeptical that many here have the impression that they think the public would go panicky if all the facts were brought "The time has come for either the President or Congress to name an objective and respected panel to investigate, appraise and report on all present and future evidence about what is going on.