The Coming of the Saucers by Raymond Palmer Kenneth Arnold

Author:Raymond Palmer Kenneth Arnold [Kenneth Arnold, Raymond Palmer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Global Grey ebooks
Published: 2018-09-25T23:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 7. COMMENTS ON THE "PROJECT SAUCER" REPORT

In reading the fabulous report of Project "Saucer," it is necessary to bear in mind several pertinent facts. First is that apparently the armed forces do not let their left hand know what their right hand is doing. thus, on precisely the same day that the Wright Field Air Materiel Command treated the saucers seriously, and declared they were no "joke," and in effect, admitted that they existed beyond all doubt, but that their nature was undetermined, Intelligence was busy cooking up a two-part article in The Saturday Evening Post (presumable authored by Sidney A. Shallett) which was designed to pooh-pooh the whole business and laugh it all away.

The first portion of this article appeared simultaneously with the Wright Field report, and the impact of an "official" report placed against the "heresay" of the Post article did little to enhance the reputation of either the Post or author, Sidney Shallett. It would be quite impossible for Shallett to look anything but sheepish in the face of such a ringing denunciation.

Lest the statement just made be denied, I quote here a letter signed by Alethea Redfern, Secretary to the Director of Intelligence, and addressed to Mrs. Velma Brown, wife of Frank M. Brown, the flier killed in the Tacoma affair. This is a personal letter, not written on official stationery, and no caution us given to refrain from quoting the letter so no confidence is being violated.

I will try to give you the Colonel's [Colonel Donald L. Springer, in command of the Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, Calif.] viewpoint concerning any articles written about the flying saucers. There have been several magazines published in Chicago, bordering on the sensational and fantastic, which dealt with the flying saucers or flying disks. None of them are authentic but deal only in conjecture and imagination. You are at liberty to say anything you wish concerning the disks, but the Colonel cautions you to base every remark on absolute fact and to be able to substantiate anything you say. You might be required to prove your statements unless you state definitely that you are only assuming - or that you believe, etc.

There was recently published in The Saturday Evening Post a very good article about the disks released by the Air Force.

Confirmation of this fact was secured by Ray Palmer, who spoke personally to Stuart Rose, one of the editors of the Post, who seemed unwilling to discuss the matter after being tricked into admitting the Air Force officers parked all over his office has done little else but annoy him.

It is interesting to note that the Army investigated reports six months before the saucers became headline news. Obviously, then, before the public ever heard of them. Also, the employment of Prof. Joseph A. Hynek indicates the seriousness with which saucer investigation was being made.

When statement is made that "certain inconsistencies" exist in "Arnold's estimates of size, speed, and performance of his saucers" it is noted that these inconsistencies are not listed.

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