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149 AFTER one year's investigation of the flying saucers and Air Force operations, I have come to the following conclusions: 1947. before. 3. Project "Saucer" was set up to investigate and at the same time conceal from the public the truth about the saucers. 4. During the spring of 1949 this policy, which had been strictly maintained by Forrestal, underwent an abrupt change. On top-level orders, it was decided to let the facts gradually leak out, in order to prepare the American people. visitors. 6. While I was preparing the article for the January 1950 issue of True, it had been considered in line with the general education program. But the unexpected public reaction was mistaken by the Air Force for hysteria, resulting in their hasty denial that the saucers existed. 7. Because the Air Force feared any closer analysis of the Mantell case, Major Boggs was instructed to publicize the Venus explanation. Although it had been denied, the Air Force knew that most people had forgotten this or had never known it. 8. Major Boggs, having stated this answer publicly (along with the other Chiles-Whitted and Gorman answers), was forced to stick to it, though he knew it was wrong and that the case summaries would prove it. 9. The case summaries were released to a small number of Washington newsmen, to continue planting the space-travel thought; this decision being made after True’s reception proved to the Air Force that the public was better prepared than had been thought. {p. 174) CHAPTER XX 1. The Air Force was puzzled, and badly worried when the disks first were sighted in 2. The Air Force began to suspect the truth soon after Mantell's death--perhaps even 5. This was the reason for the April 27, 1949, report, with its suggestions about space In regard to the flying saucers themselves, I believe