Project Blue Book Head Talks About Roswell

By the end of July 1947, the UFO security lid was clamped down tight. The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing got the same treatment that you would get today if you inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stockpiled in the U.S. atomic arsenal … At ATIC [the Air Technical Intelligence Center in Dayton, OH where the Roswell crash remains were taken], confusion was almost to the point of panic...

… of all the books that have been published about flying saucers, [BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS by Frank Scully (1950), that told the story of an alleged UFO crash in New Mexico in the late 1940s] was the one that gave us the most headaches, because it was the closest to the truth.

Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, U.S.A.F. Director, Project Blue Book [1951-53] From: Report on Unidentified Flying Objects New York, Doubleday, 1956

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