This was more than two months after Project "Saucer" had been
officially closed and its secrets presumably all revealed.


The rest of my interviews during this 1949 trip helped to round out my
picture of Project "Saucer" operations.

Some witnesses seemed afraid to talk; a few flatly refused. I found no
proof of official pressure, but I frequently had the feeling that
strong hints had been dropped.

Though one or two witnesses showed resentment at investigators'
methods, most of them seemed more annoyed at the loss of time
involved. One man had been checked first by the police, then by the
sheriff's office; an Air Force team had spent hours questioning him,
returning the next day, and finally the F.B.I. had made a character
check. What he told me about the Air Force interrogation confirmed one
of Art Green's statements.

"One Intelligence captain tried to tell me I'd seen a weather balloon.
I called up the airport and had them check on release schedules. They
said next day it didn't fit any schedules around this area. Anyway,
the wind wasn't right, because the thing I saw was cutting into the
wind at a forty-five-degree angle."

Other witnesses told me that investigators had suggested birds,
meteors, reflections on clouds, shooting stars, and starshells as
probable explanations of what they had seen. I learned of one pilot
who had been