accurate, if Arnold actually did see the UFO's go _behind_ a mountain
peak, and if he knew his exact position at the time, the UFO problem
cannot be lightly sloughed off; but there are always "ifs" in UFO
reports. This is the type of report that led Major General John A.
Samford, Director of Intelligence for Headquarters, Air Force, to
make the following comment during a press conference in July 1952:
"However, there have remained a percentage of this total [of all UFO
reports received by the Air Force], about 20 per cent of the reports,
that have come from credible observers of relatively incredible
things. We keep on being concerned about them."

In warping, twisting, and changing the Arnold incident, the writers
of saucer lore haven't been content to confine themselves to the
incident itself; they have dragged in the crashed Marine Corps' C-46.
They intimate that the same flying saucers that Arnold saw shot down
the C-46, grabbed up the bodies of the passengers and crew, and now
have them pickled at the University of Venus Medical School. As proof
they apply the same illogical reasoning that they apply to most
everything. The military never released photos of the bodies of the
dead men, therefore there were no bodies. There were photographs and
there were bodies. In consideration of the families of air crewmen
and passengers, photos of air crashes showing dead bodies are never
released.

Arnold himself seems to be the reason for a lot of the excitement
that heralded flying saucers. Stories of odd incidents that occur in
this world are continually being reported by newspapers, but never on
the scale of the first UFO report. Occasional stories of the
"Himalayan snowmen," or the "Malayan monsters," rate only a few
inches or a column on the back pages of newspapers. Arnold's story,