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The staff of Project Blue Book is assigned to carry out three main functions: 1) to try to find an explanation for all reported sightings of UFO's, 2) to determine whether or not the UFO's pose any security threat to the United States, and 3) to determine if UFO's exhibit any advanced technology which the U.S. could utilize. There is a Blue Book officer stationed at every Air Force base in the nation. He is responsible for investigating all reported sightings and for getting the reports in to Blue Book headquarters at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio. The bulk of its investigations, as interpreted by its field officers, has led Blue Book officials to decide that most people do not see extraterrestrial spacecraft but bright stars, balloons, satellites, comets, fireballs, conventional aircraft, moving clouds, vapor trails, missiles, reflections, mirages, searchlights, birds, kites, spurious radar indications, fireworks, or flares. On the basis of Blue Book reports, therefore, the Air Force has concluded: 1) No UFO has ever given any indication of threat to the national security. 2) There is no evidence that UFO's represent technological developments or principles beyond present day scientific knowledge. 3) There is no evidence that any UFO's are "extraterrestrial vehicles." Neatly arranged evidence and skeptical space scientists to the contrary, many trained observers agree with Donald Keyhoe and the NICAP that the Air Force is not telling all that it knows. The flying saucer story begins on June 24, 1947 when a young businessman named Kenneth Arnold sighted nine discs near Mt. Rainier in the state of Washington. Arnold described the motion of the unidentified flying objects as looking like "a saucer skipping across the water." In subsequent reports and later sightings, the description was condensed to "flying saucers" and the Boise, Idaho businessman had coined a term that would become known in most languages of the world. The Air Force immediately denied that they had any such craft and, at the same time, officially debunked Arnold's claim of spotting unidentified flying objects. The civilian pilot had improperly sighted