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70 During this part of my trip, I also was told that one saucer had fallen into a mountain lake. This came to me secondhand. The lone witness was said to have rushed over to his car to get his camera as the disk approached. When it plunged toward the lake, he was so startled that he failed to snap the picture until the moment it struck. This story sounded so flimsy that I didn't bother to list it. Months later, a Washington newsman confirmed at least part of the lake story. When he first related it, I thought he had fallen for a gag. "I come from Idaho," he told me. "And I happen to know the fellow who took the picture. Maybe it wasn't a disk, but something fell into that lake." {p. 81} "That was long before they clamped down. I was talking to an Air Force officer about this lake thing, and he showed me the picture." "You couldn't tell much about it-just a big splash and a blur where something went under. Maybe a magnifying glass would bring it out, but I didn't get a chance to try it." It was early in 1950 when he told me this. I asked at the Pentagon if this picture was in the Wright Field files, and if so whether I could see it. My inquiries drew blank looks. No one remembered such a photograph. And even if it were in the Project "Saucer" files, I tio couldn't see it. The rest of my interviews during this 1949 trip helped to round out my picture of Project "Saucer" operations. Some witnesses seemed afraid to talk; a few flatly refused. I found no proof of official pressure, but I frequently had the feeling that strong hints had been dropped. Though one or two witnesses showed resentment at investigators’ methods, most of them seemed more annoyed at the loss of time involved. One man had been checked first by "T heard that yarn," I said. "Don't tell me you believe it?" "Did you see the picture?" "Yes, at the Pentagon." At my surprised look, he added, "What did it look like?" This was more than two months after Project "Saucer" had been officially closed and its web ee I Meet secrets presumably all revealed.