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127 name." "That's not so," Boggs said emphatically. "The contracts are ended, and all personnel transferred to other duty." Both General Smith and Major Jesse Stay shook their heads quickly. Boggs leaned forward, eyeing me earnestly. "As a matter of fact, we'd finished the investigation months ago--around the end of August, or early in September. We just hadn't got around to announcing it." "Last October," I said, "I was told the investigation was still going on. They said there were no new answers to the cases just mentioned." "It seems very strange to me," I said. "In April, the Air Force called for vigilance by the civilian population. It said the project was young, much of its work still under way." "Don, the Press Branch will have to take the blame for that. The report wasn't carefully checked. There were several loose statements in it." "But the case reports you quoted came from Wright Field. As of April twenty-seventh, 1949, all the major cases were officially unsolved. Then in August or early September, the whole thing's cleaned up, from what Major Boggs says. That's pretty hard to believe." No one answered that one. Major Boggs was waiting politely for the next question. I picked up my list. The rest of the interview was in straight question-and-answer style: Q. Do you know about the White Sands sightings in April 1948? The ones Commander R. B. McLaughlin has written up? {p. 150} Q. One of the witnesses was Charles B. Moore, the director of the Navy cosmic-ray project at Minneapolis, He's considered a very reputable engineer. Did you know he "We've been told," I said, "that Project 'Saucer' isn't closed--that you just changed its code "Then the announcement wasn't caused by True’s article?" "The Press Branch hadn't been informed yet," Boggs explained simply. Jesse Stay interrupted before Boggs could reply. This was an incredible statement. I was sure Jesse knew it. A. Yes, we checked the reports. We just don't believe them.