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longer be investigating UFOs for the following reasons: No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security. There has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge. There has been no evidence indicating the sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles [1] Did this Air Force "fact sheet" really give us the facts at the time, and is it applicable today? In contrast to other government agencies that are represented in this book, a look behind the scenes at how the American government really has behaved toward UFOs since the close of Blue Book - despite its public positioning shows continuing official duplicity and leaves many questions unanswered about what was actually going on. In examining the fact sheet, the second point can be disputed simply by credible, multiple-witness case studies on record at the time, and many others that have occurred since, such as those of General Parvis Jafari and Comandante Oscar Santa Maria Huertas. Dr. James Harder, a University of moe e e 1 wadia m4 a California professor of civil engineering, told the House Science and Astronautics Committee in its 1968 hearing [2]: "On the basis of the data and ordinary rules of evidence, as would be applied in civil or criminal courts, the physical reality of UFOs has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt." UFOs have demonstrated "scientific secrets we do not know ourselves." [3] The question of extraterrestrial origin, the third point, remains an unproven hypothesis, but there was enough evidence at the time to keep this possibility in the running, and certainly no justification for dismissing it altogether. The first point, a claim that UFOs have never threatened national security, however, is the one most relevant to any government, because it absolves agencies charged with defending the nation from any responsibility for paying attention to unidentified objects in the sky. However, this first point is simply false. No UFO, not even one, has ever impacted national security? "Threat" may be too strong a word, and it could be that the choice of that particular word, as uttered by General Samford in his 1952 press conference, [4] is what allowed the Air Force to get by with the statement that no UFO has ever given even an indication of threat to national security. We still have not observed hostile or aggressive behavior from a UFO. But there is no question that in the years leading up to this statement, UFOs had shown themselves to be of defense or national security concern, impacting our defense capabilities and causing alarm during the Cold War. Despite the Robertson Panel intent to diminish public focus on UFOs for national security reasons, former CIA director Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first director of the CIA, who served until 1950, did not agree with the 1953 CIA position that UFOs should be ridiculed in the