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"I'm concerned about those who see flying saucers," said Dr. Edward C. Walsh. "So many airline pilots report seeing them. That's why | take the tram." Dr. Campbell called the UFO's a "mechanism for escaping from more earthly troubles and worries. People are anxious to believe that there is intelligent life on other planets. They see flying saucers because they want to see them." Astronomer Hall became a bit whimsical when he wondered, for the benefit of the assembled newsmen, why a civilization with technology so advanced that it could send a manned and maneuverable space ship a distance of at least three light years, would have that spaceship hover over swamps in Michigan or cross-roads in Oklahoma. "They could be peek-a-booing Paris, New York, or London!" The Air Force has a special public relations office which answers thousands of letters a year from people who want to know more about UFO's. School children, corporate officials, housewives, flying saucer club members, and foreign citizens are only a few of the representative groups of the inquisitive. Last year it sent out 3,717 replies to queries about UFO's. The count for January and February, 1966 had already exceeded 800 requests for information or explanations, even before the deluge that poured in after the recent Michigan sightings. Some Air Force replies practically constitute a form letter which says that the Air Force has no pictures of flying saucers, that it does not censor or keep secret reports about flying saucers, and that Congress has not yet seen fit to conduct an investigation into the matter of UFO's. Nearly all requests for materials are accompanied by an annual report of Project Blue Book. "I've looked at the records of nearly every UFO case back to 1947," Major Hector Quintanella, Jr., a physicist who heads Project Bluebook, said recently. "And my feeling is that the vast majority have involved simple misinterpretation of natural phenomena." Project Blue Book, started in 1947, has produced what the Air Force considers a satisfactory explanation for 9,501 of a total of 10,147 sightings reported through 1965. Of the 646 unexplained UFO incidents, the official statement is: "The description of the object or its motion cannot be correlated with any known object or phenomenon."