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the object can be identified by an airborne pilot, and instead the FAA will offer a host of weak explanations. If the FAA cannot identify the object within FAA terminology, then it doesn't exist. Another cliche we mm wma within FAA sometimes used: For every problem there is a solution. The FAA seems to believe that the converse is also true: If there is no solution, there is no problem. The Alaska UFO investigation is a case in point. The final FAA report concluded that the radar returns from Anchorage were simply a "split image" due to a malfunction in the radar equipment, which showed occasional second blips that had been mistaken for the UFO. Thus the FAA would not confirm that the incident took place. Yet all three controllers engaged with the pilots during the extended sighting filed statements that contradict this finding. "Several times I had single primary returns where JL1628 reported traffic” wrote one. "I observed data on the radar that coincided with information that the pilot of JL1628 reported," stated another. The FAA spokesman at the time, Paul Steucke, said it was just a "coincidence" that the split image happened to fall at the right distance and the same side of the aircraft where the object was reported visually by the pilot. And the final report simply outright ignored the three visual sightings with all their details and drawings, as if the event really had never happened. Remember, no one flying an aircraft can see a split image. So, who are you going to believe, your lying eyes or the government? CHAPTER 23 OR MYTH? The CIA's directive that "this event never happened," as reported by former FAA official John Callahan, may be familiar to those who have read statements from American military witnesses to UFO events. Many have been told more or less the same thing by their superior officers: Do not speak to anyone about the incident that you just experienced. In later years, some say they still cannot speak publicly because they're bound by security oaths, and no doubt there are many others who, out of fear of breaking such oaths, have not even hinted of their involvement in a UFO event while in the military. But a number of fearless men and women have, years later, spoken out in spite of orders or oaths, without repercussions. This repeated demand for silence, coupled with the overzealous classification of government documents and the furtive misidentifications issued by Project Blue Book, and later the FAA, has led to much speculation about whether government agencies are involved in some kind of cover-up—a widespread, carefully orchestrated policy, hidden from almost everyone, to keep secret "the truth" about UFOs. While publicly ignoring and avoiding the UFO issue, underneath the surface and underneath then it doesn't exist. Another cliche we GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY