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Professor Marion: "It seems difficult to envisage a hoax created with a model or other similar device. This is confirmed by the digital analysis (see further)... The existence of the 'lines of force’ is a strong argument against the thesis of a hoax, which would be particularly sophisticated. Moreover, it is unclear why a forger would have bothered to imagine and realize a complex phenomenon, especially since it is not noticeable without sophisticated processing of the slide." Marion, ibid. 1 case summaries involving pilots and their crews Richard F. Haines, "Aviation Safety in America - A Previously Neglected Factor," NARCAP Technical Report 01- 2000, October 15, 2000, _http:/Avww.narcap.org/reports/001/narcap.TR1.AvSaf ety.pdf. I reported on this in "Pilot Encounters with UFOs: New Study Challenges Secrecy and Denial” Providence Journal /Knight Ridder, May 3,2001. 2 unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP See the Introduction to this book, p. 11, for Dr. Haines's definition of the term UAP. rr: Anan: . : ha om tame ad tn October 3 Haines said in a 2009 interview Interview with David Biedny and Gene Steinberg for "The Paracast," April 5, 2009, http:/Avww.theparacast.com/show-archives/. 4 the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena Visit c : www.narcap.org. for more information. 5 Neil Daniels, a United Airlines captain for thirty-five years | met with Daniels at his home outside San Francisco and conducted follow-up interviews by 1 phone. 1 acaptain with Por tug alia Airlines Captain Guerra has 17,000 hours of flight experience, and in 2009 he received an aeronautic science degree from the Lusofona University of Oporto. 2 a report on this incident to Project Blue Book General Ferreira's report of September 4,1957, is available through the Project Blue Book archives. His description bears an uncanny resemblance to that provided by General Parviz Jafari of Iran about the object he was sent to pursue over Tehran, also as an air force pilot, in 1976. Jafari presents his case in chapter 9. The details of Jafari's encounter were filed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, after the close of Project Blue Book. Through an intermediary, I asked General Ferreira if he would speak with me, hoping this would develop into an extensive interview. Being of poor health, he declined. In 1975, Ferreira said publicly, "I think these events should be introduced and studied at the universities, because these kind of phenomena are very far from our present technological performances." It was therefore not surprising—and fortunate for Guerra and his fellow pilots—that as air force Chief of Staff, he released the data to the scientific team from various universities to conduct the study. 3 They concluded that the object remained unidentified. The Portugese study "UFO Daylight Report by Three Portuguese Air Force Pilots, Ota, Portugal” by the National Center for UFO Phenomenon Investigation (CNIFO), has not been translated into English. A summary of the results by J. Sottomayor and A. Rodrigues was published in Flying Saucer Review, vol. 32, no. 2 (1987), pp. 12-13. Now, the Center for Transdisciphnary Study on Consciousness (CTEC), an interdisciplinary academic group at University Fernando Pessoa, has assembled all the files on the UFO phenomena in Portugal, according to its cofounder, Dr. Joaquim Fernandes. For more information, e-mail ctec@ufp.edu.pt. CHAPTER 3: PILOTS CHAPTER 4: CIRCLED BY A UFO