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“~ wW Tr T , rT. ar fas} ~ * C Orn Y ao en tL ee Engineering Division > VWenorandum Report No, MCREXD=}69l18D 25 April 19h9 > y a hag Me $3 } eo? expert to spot this type of person. Reports will be received tm such persons especially at times when the radio end newspapers carry accounts of strange phenomena, Relatively few of the Cle investigations cone sidered in this report are of this nature, probably because investigators interviewed only the more reliable type of witness. (3) Deliberate Falsifications. It is elways possible that same persons will give false reports. Circulation of false reports hes been a standard psychological warfare techmique from earliest times. Thais procedure micht have some utility in wartime, but it hardly seens likely thet it would be resorted to at this time. Probably, however, sone individuals start false reports of "flyine saucers" for the same reason that they turn in false fire alarms. Sone Consistent Points in the Reports of Unidentified Objects, The following section summarizes sone significant facts that come out of a tabulation of 212 reports of interrogations, by USAF Intelligence Officer, of same of the individuals who reported seeing unidentified flying objects. It is undorstood that these irt errogations covered primarily persons thet were judged to be reliable. Most of the 212 reports were made by pilots, non-flying officers, professional men, covernnent employees, housewives and other supposedly dependable peop 1Ge le Number of objects. About 75% of the people who reported on the number of objects seen said thet they saw only one object. 2, Tim the object remained in sight. About half of the persons specifying time in sight saw the object for 60 seconds or les6e 3, Altitude and distance of the object. Of those who estimated the distance of the object, twoethirds judred it to be more than a mile away. Ninety percent also thought that it was more than 1,000 fest high CONFIDENTIAL 6 Declassification Authority: NND 57565