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official dismissals. terrestrial origin. nature." above average." (i.e. planets and stars and swamp gas) which he is observing; and 3) even if they do exist they are absolutely unimportant and unworthy of study. Obviously the Air Force is very much aware of the UFO - aware and actively investigating - in spite of The Washington, D.C. based National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena accuses the Air Force of doing much more than issuing official disclaimers. NICAP's position is that the Air Force rigorously censors UFO news and suppresses facts that would indicate the saucers to be of extra- NICAP does not seek its members from the lunatic fringe of saucer-watchers. Headed by Donald Keyhoe, a retired Marine Corps major, the Committee welcomed former C.I.A. head R. H. Hillenkoetter to its board of directors. Dewey J. Fournet Jr., a former UFO expert for the Air Force is a member, and so are Dr. Charles P. Oliver, professor emeritus of astronomy, University of Pennsylvania; Albert Chop, a NASA official at Manned Spacecraft Headquarters in Houston; Rear Admiral H. B. Knowles, (U.S.N. Ret.); and J. B. Hartranft Jr., head of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, to name but a few others. On the one hand, then, there is the NICAP charging the Ah" Force with censorship and supplying their own 184-page report entitled The UFO Evidence, which concludes that the flying saucers are "most likely spaceships" of an extra-terrestrial origin that "appear to be intelligently controlled," and on the other we have Major Hector Quintanella Jr., head of Project Blue Book, who summarizes the Air Force's position by saying: "There is nothing to indicate that any of these phenomena are extraterrestrial in Dr. J. Allen Hynek, director of Northwestern University's Dearborn Observatory and former director of Project Blue Book, has gone on record as saying that he believes that there must be something to at least some of the UFO sightings. "The level of intelligence of the observers and reporters of UFO's is certainly at least average and, in many cases, decidedly above average. In some cases, embarrassingly After the Michigan sightings this March, Dr. Hynek told reporters that "when good solid citizens report something puzzling, | believe we have an obligation to do as good a job as we can. | regard our