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His attitude is firmly echoed by Sergeant Bobby Gordon of the Pompton Lakes Police Force, who refused to report his own UFO sighting to the Air Force. Why? "I have enough aggravation on my job, so that I don't have to go outside to get it," Gordon told me. These were common attitudes among people in the Borough of Wanaque, N.J., as I discovered during my stay in the area. Are they valid attitudes? And how does the Air Force explain the abrupt, mysterious appearance of seven helicopters and 10 to 12 high-performance aircraft over the Wanaque Reservoir a mere 15 minutes after the sighting of the strangest UFO ever by Reservoir Police Sergeant sighting? To find an answer, I checked with U.S. Air Force officers in the Pentagon and at Project Blue Book; with officers of the U. S. Navy at Lakehurst, N.J., Floyd Bennett, N.Y., and Willow Grove, Pa., Naval Air State Stations; with the Bureau of Safety of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), both at their Washington, D.C. Headquarters and their installation at JFK International Airport, N.Y.; with the General Aviation District Office of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) at the Teeterboro N.J. Airport: and with the U.S. Coast Guard. The results of all my inquiries were negative. An example of how little the Air Force knows about the Wanaque UFO sightings was a statement made to me by Lt. Colonel George Freeman, Air Force Chief of Community Affairs and Pentagon spokesman for Project Blue Book. Colonel Freeman said: "We keep hearing about those Wanaque sightings and people keep writing to us about them - but we never received any report on them here in the Pentagon." Project Blue Book has no record in their files of interviews with any police officer from the Wanaque Reservoir, the Wanaque Borough or the Pompton Lakes Police Forces. If any of these police officers had been interviewed by an Air Force investigator, he must send a report of the interview in to the Blue Book Office at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio. Lieutenant William Marley of Blue Book made an extensive search of the files for me while I waited on the long-distance telephone for more The only report he could find that referred to the Wanaque sightings was a copy of the standard UFO reporting form filled out by Howard Ball, who was then Suburban Editor of the Paterson Morning News. Ball had requested a copy of the form by telephone. He had never been interviewed in person by an Air Force investigator. Newsman Ball himself told me: "I don't remember any Air Force investigators coming out to interview the police here. I hope they (the Wanaque police officers) aren't mixing up the Air Force with NICAP. The NICAP did send investigators. Ben Thompson? Were these unusual overflights a mere coincidence - or were they somehow related to the UFO than a half-hour. "The Air Force," he continued, "interviewed me by telephone - because I called them. Except for throwing my own story back at me, they were very courteous."