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138 "Barring hallucination, these two incidents and 17, 75 and 84 seem the most tangible from the standpoint of description, of all those reported, and the most difficult to explain Case 17, I found, was that of Kenneth Arnold. But in spite of the above admission that this case cannot be explained away, it is officially listed as answered. Case 75 struck a familiar note. This was the strange occurrence at Twin Falls, Idaho, on which True had had a tip months before. A disk moving through a canyon at tremendous speed had whipped the treetops as if by a violent hurricane. The report was brief, but one sentence stood out with a startling effect: "Twin Falls, Idaho, August 13, 1847," the report began. "There is clearly nothing astronomical in this incident. ... Two points stand out, the sky-blue color, and the fact that the trees 'spun around on top as if they were in a vacuum." Was this a slip? Or had the Air Force deliberately left this report in the file? If they had, what was back of it {p. 162} I skimmed through the rest as quickly as possible looking for other clues. Here are a few of the things that. caught my eye: possible... . Case 122. Holloman Air Force Base, April 6, 1948. [This was the Commander McLaughlin White Sands report.] No logical explanation. .. . explanation. . . . But even in these sketch reports, I found some odd hints, clues to what Project officials cet att might really be thinking. After an analysis of two Indianapolis cases, one investigator reports: away as sheer nonsense." Then came the sentence that made me sit up in my chair. "Apparently it must be classed with the other bona fide disk sightings." The other bona fide sightings! --what was back of releasing all of these telltale case summaries? Case 10. United Airlines report . . . despite conjectures, no logical explanation seems Case 124. North Atlantic, April 18, 1948 . . . radar sighting . . . no astronomical