Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday. January 3t, 1967 ufos visions or Survey says saucers Are real by Clifford d. Simak third in a series Kenneth Arnold saw his flying saucers Over mount Rainier on june 24, 1347. On sept. 23, the chief of the air technical intelligence Centre Atic wrote to the commanding Gen eral of the then army air Tion was drafted. The estimate said the ufos were interplanetary. It started up through air Force channels and one stopped it until it reached the late Gen. Hoyt s. Vandenberg then of staff. Vandenberg rejected it. Today the air Force denies that such a document Ever document printed on Legal size paper with a Black cover with top secret printed across the of is general to make a preliminary saw Survey of ufos reports. The reply said that after such a preliminary study it appeared the reported Phenomena were real and strongly urged that a permanent project be established. The recommendation As accepted and the project sign the forerunner of today s project Blue Book came into existence. At the time project sign was initiated wrote Edward j. Ruppelt who later served for two years As Blue Book chief there seemed doubt in air Force ranks that ufos actually existed. Matched with this was a Confidence that the answer could be gotten in a few months. The consensus was that they either were secret russian aircraft or were of Interplane-1 tary origin. So seriously did the air Force the situation according to Ruppelt that the ufos Security was tight As Early As july 1947. A Newspaperman who inquired about ufos at that time received approximately the same treatment you would get. Today in you inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stockpiled in the . Atomic what Little is known about the Early history of the ufos investigation by air Force is contained in up belts Book the report on unidentified flying objects published by Doubleday in 1956, three years after its author had left project Blue Book. In the foreword to the Book Ruppelt called t a report except for the style of j writing. Exa Cuy what he would difference the policy have written if he had been. Based of fee premise that asked to write an official report did not cover. After Vandenberg batted it Down most of the copies were burned. All of them were supposed to be but Ruppelt was convinced that a few copies had been kept As souvenirs. It was Well after All of them were supposed to have been con signed to the incinerator that he saw a copy. Dewey j. Fournet jr., who acted As Liaison officer Between Atic and the Pentagon in 1952, confirmed that such a document did exist and said that he saw it. In a letter to maj. Donald Keyhoe director of the National investigations committee on Aerial Phenomena Fournet said however that since it was classified he was not at Liberty to reveal its contents. By. July 1949, Ruppelt wrote air Force policy had changed. The official line now was that ufos did not exist. Ruppelt traces this Back to the Esti mate of the that document had tried to prove that they did exist and had been project grudge was re established oct. 27, 1951. Be cause he had been assigned to review the project Ruppelt was the ufos expert and was assigned As the new project head. His orders do the Best Job he could tracking Down the ufos reports. But make wild speculation. Ruppelt at that time had 10 men on his staff As compared to the three cited in 1966 by the and hoc committee that recommended the formation of the University teams to Aid in ufos studies. The name of the project was changed to Blue Book in March 1352. At that time some sentiment apparently was building up in the air Force for a More serious consideration of the problem. One group of officers Suppelt reported urged official recognition that the ufos were real and that they were not from Earth. They also urged that the Security classification of the project be raised to top secret until the air Force had All the answers at which time the information leased to the would be re Public. The Atti not i recommendation was not acted upon. The air Force convened a panel of scientists on Jan. 12, 1953, to weigh the ufos evidence thus far accumulated. When the panel finished its work conclusion was made Public. Since then two conflicting ver Sions have been put Forward. In 1958, five years after the panel convened the air Force put out a summary of its to of them. Would be carried out. They never were. When he tried to build up his staff personnel was available. Plans for manned tracking stations and for the use of cameras tied in with radar to track the ufos were cancelled. There was a. New policy Don t say anything. No new historian has come Forth to replace Ruppelt so detailed information such As he furnished is lacking after 1953. Since that time the air Force seems Bent on reassuring the i Public that there is nothing to fear from the ufos. For the most part Public relations Are hut not much meaning Ful information is available. This explains the air Force is because there is information. Almost All of. The sightings Are being explained As conventional Phenomena. There Are flying saucers. Critics complain that Many of the explanations that statements explain the without any investigate them. Ruppelt ended his Book by saying that Only time would provide the answer. The ufos h01u pid Beethoven Reb about Gold Cereal ass. Are simply designed to ufos sightings real attempt to unidentified might be in 1953. In 1s59, issued a second 1ui wit it was because project sign had been compromised. Just How it had been compromised one said. But the name change made it still in a revised second edition of his Book published in 1959, Ruppelt either because of Ai change of conviction or perhaps switched his beliefs on ufos. Did e lapsed grud and on dec 27 lg49i exist project into inactivity air press release announced i that the project had been closed switched his beliefs and that a final report would be but the greater part of his Book made still stood unchanged so far As the history of the air Force investigation was concerned. He took Over As head of the project in september 1951 and continued As its head until september 1953. The memorandums and correspondence in the threat to 5 _ capable of and need for revision of current scientific concepts. The panel suggested an integrated program to reassure the Public of the total ack of inimical forces behind in Ruppelt in his Book said that the panel recommended that the project be expanded the investigative Force quadrupled in size and staffed by trained experts that tracking instruments be set up in various parts of the country and that the the report when it came out showed 23 per cent the sightings unidentified. An appendix to the report however attempted to explain most of these away. Within a Short time a letter d correspondence m Pic of Ftp the time he took Over came from the office of the that in the Early years director of intelligence pointing _. I the situation went along prof he Ink of 1347, however comfortably until september the panic had disappeared and 11951, when a report on a Structure could j sighting. Learning during the the bodies of a human Crew. Of de an iwo a up Cit Acy i estimate of the Situa a put the report together. Might be simply objects or they interplanetary ships. That was Doubleday edition of the Book. Ruppelt added three new chapters and in those chapters argued that All ufos could be explained in conventional terms. Why did Ruppelt do it one can know. He died a Short time later. Critics of the air Force cried but that is sheer speculation. No one knows the answer. Next the ufos at Hills Dale Mich. Distributed Trio iter Lster and Tribune Public be told every the investigation detail of daily crossword ,1. Raft tit 5. Traffic sign. S. More delicate in texture 10. Shout 12. Silly 13. Command 14. Greek letter 15. Close 17. Sloth. 18. Begone 19. Employ 20. Court 23. Devil 25. Wicked 26. Departed 27. Liquid measures 29. Abstains from food 30. Wages 31. Hallowed 33. Anci latin 34. Edible bulb 35. Exclamation 38. Lariat 40. Hesitate 42. Of the Sun 43. All 44. Seizes 45. Copen Hagen citizen bows 1. Hindu guitar painting 5. Yells 6. Civil wrong 7. 8. Agreeable 9. Suitable 11. Ascertains bearings 16. Exclamation 18. Dregs 19. Western indians so. Black Vrh its and Cayenne 21. Flight 22. Small 24. Absent 28. Scissors 29. Ran 32. King of Bashan Nickp claimed that the 1953 panel was called by the Central intelligence Agency Al though it had proof of this. This was in line with the belief of some other private ufos investigators that the Cia and possibly other governmental agencies were As interested in the ufos As the air Force. A few months ago it became apparent that the Cia was involved at least in the 1953 panel. At the request of John Lear science editor of saturday review Magazine maj. Hector Quintanilla director of project Blue Book asked declassification of the panel s minutes. The request was granted by the Cia which it then turned out had summoned the panel. The minutes As released were edited. It is impossible to know How much or How Little editing was done. The minutes As declassified made it apparent that the air Force s 1958 summary was a More accurate statement than Ruppelt s. They also made apparent that the panel members were far from unanimous in their assessment of All phases of the situation. A few weeks after the panel i had completed its work Ruppelt said that he got word that the recommendations is version expo to display Fine Craft Charlottetown up examples Canadian Fine Craft to be displayed in the Canadian Pavilion at expo 67 Are being collected by Mon Crieff Williamson director of confederation Centre Art Gal Lery Here. Or. Williamson has chosen 114 articles and is storing them in the gallery s basement. About 40 More remain to be chosen. Nothing like this has been done he says. What i really hard to do was Survey crafts from coast to coast and make selections without the help of guilds who were eager to the categories include ceramics enamels mosaics tapes tries hangings Woven fabrics Fine Metal wares including jewelry and Book bindings. Selections will be limited. Or. Williamson says the col Lection is the most up to Date display of Canadian crafts be cause object is acceptable if was produced earlier than 1964. Part of the pay Chest Hunt England up municipally employed rent collectors in this Hertfordshire town Are to get three shillings 45 cents a week Wear and tear allowances for their pedal cycles. Yesterday s amm 34. Pierce with 37. Abounding a knife 35. Baking chamber 86. In this place in. Ore 39. Rom. Room 41. Ancient burmese capital 3s by w0rk it daily crypt quote a a x each Day the code letters Are different. 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South observed that if the club finesse succeeded he would fee in position shortly to claim his contract. If East held the King of clubs How Ever then ithe Outlook was hopeless unless the opposition faltered. Inasmuch As one discard would do him Good South went All out and played a Small Spade from ithe Dummy. East was in an extremely awkward position. If Declarer had the Lone Jack of Spades it would be fatal to let the Spade trick get away. East accordingly put up the Ace of Spades. South ruffed Drew Trump and discarded two clubs on the King and Queen of Spades. West was the major culprit in our opinion for allowing his opponents to sneak Home safely on the Deal. It should have been obvious held the King of clubs when he let his partner hold the second heart trick for if he had the Ace. Of Spades but not the King of be should overtake the second heart to Cash the Ace of Spades As the Only Chance to defeat the contract even after West failed to make the indicated club he still could have salvaged a profit for his Side by return ing the Jack of Spades instead of a Small one. The defense can hardly expect to take More than one Spade trick and the play of the Jack As sures that Declarer will cover in Dummy. Even Tho East s Ace is ruffed away South obtains Only one stuff and eventually must fall Back on Iha club finesse. Oke favorite dishes was Macaroni and cheese Batman boor lady Bat work you1 r6 Rush to chief it s 5ettih6 of Verj 5ht Embarrass to commissioner Kerry Drake better sit Down rung or or. 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