the United States Air Force in
discharging its responsibility for the
Aerospace defense of the nation is
called upon to investigate reports of
unidentified flying objects
two Air Force officers have over the
years been very closely associated with
this activity it's an attorney Colonel
Lauren stacker was formerly the chief
spokesman for the Air Force on the
matter
the major Hector Quintanilla is now the
chief of Project Blue Book
major Quintanilla what are the
objectives of project people you have
checked this is a program of two phones
they're the same as the Hamptons since
1953 in the regulations
first of all to try to determine if the
useful phenomena presents a threat to
the security of the United States
in seconds to determine if the useful
phenomena exhibits any technological
Advance is typically challenging device
what's the record so far today we have
over 10 000 cases of flight Patterson
Air Forces of what 646 of these remain
in the benefits
that's not to say that we could not have
identified more cases if we had gotten
to the observing quickly and checked the
local activities the Air Force has been
accused from time to time of hiding
information about UFO what do you have
to say to that kind of happened whose
charges are absolutely untrue actually
the United States Air Force releases
statistics on the UFO phenomena through
the Department of Defense trespass
periodically and we've always honored
accredited media when they wanted to
investigate a given specific sighting
there's nothing to hide there's nothing
to hide at all is there anything in the
files either classified or unclassified
that would indicate that there may be
extraterrestrial visitors over here
first of all he tried to just completely
on the classes
and there's nothing in the records that
can indicate that we have been visited
by any Italian civilization
how does the Air Force look upon people
who make reports of UFO so they look on
them as qualified of service yes they do
look on them as qualified observers
actually most people who report a UFO
sightings are patriotic citizens who
have been mystified by something that
they've seen and through a patriotic
sense reported to the local law
enforcement officials or through the
United States Air Force base near them
what would you consider as a person
qualified to interpret what he sees well
I consider astronomers uh
genuinely expert in ethereum first of
all they have a tremendous advantage
over the other physical scientists and
that is that they have powerful
telescopes and photographic equipment to
confirmative
do astronomical Laboratories make any
contribution to the UFO children in a
negative way they do because I've never
received a UFO report from an
observatory not a one I'm not a single
one well how about the tracking and
detection facilities of the Air Force
itself how does this fit control well
actually to begin with the United States
Air Force is charged by an act of
Congress with the air defense of the
United States and the North American Air
Defense command and the Air Defense
command have space tracking facilities
which are constantly on the alert 24
hours a day we're interested in anything
that flies in our atmosphere well how
about UFO reports in other countries how
are they handled the UFOs actually are
current worldwide however the United
States is the only country in the world
uh places of much emphasis on the
tsunami
other countries place a burden of proof
on the Observer and not on the Earth
that would make your job a lot easier if
they did that yeah
thank you Federal Taxi major point in
Miller
I would like to close by reading a very
brief excerpt from the report of the Air
Force's scientific Advisory Board which
they made recently upon completing a
detailed review of the subject of UFO
this is a statement
the committee concluded that in the 19
years since the first UFO was cited
there has been no evidence that
unidentified flying objects are a threat
to our national security