be explained away as ordinary occurrences which have been
misrepresented as a result of these human errors.

Near the end of the last page, a paragraph summed tip the report.

"The 'Saucers' are not a joke. Neither are they cause for alarm to the
population. Many of the incidents already have answers. Meteors.
Balloons. Falling stars. Birds in flight. Testing devices, etc. Some
of them still end in question marks."

From what I had learned on this trip, I strongly doubted the answer
suggested. All but the "testing devices." What did they mean by that?
It could be a hint at guided missiles; they had already mentioned
guided-missile research activity in another spot.

But if that was what lay behind this elaborate project,

{p. 86}

they would hardly be hinting at it. If the answer was space travel,
then such hints made sense, They would be part of the cover-up plan.
Everyone--including the Soviet Union--knew we were working on guided
missiles. It would do no harm to use this as one of the "myriad
explanations" for the flying saucers.

I was still trying to figure it out when my plane let down for the
landing at Washington. I had hoped by this time to know the truth
about Project "Saucer." Instead, it was a deeper mystery than ever.

True, I had found out how they operated--outside of Wright Field. Some