Liar,Liar, Pants on Fire!

The following is just one example - and glaring one - of the way that records and reports of UFO's were manipulated in the Air Force files of Project Blue Book.

The case is from January 4, 1959, when a medical clinic technician, two other adults and 2 children were heading home to Albuquerque, NM along US Route 285. The incident occurred 10 miles east of Cline's Corner (at the intersection of US Route 66 and 285).

Take note of how the incident was reported on the card summary form because it will be the basis for illustrating how taking the data from that page alone can present false data and flagrant misrepresentation of the witness statements and facts gathered from the investigation.

The report stated 1 object seen, moving from the west to the east, object was the size of a grapefruit (held at arm's length), object was BLUE to GREEN in color, Object would move out at fast speed, halt, move out again. Had lights flaring from tail end. Picked up speed and flew out of sight.

The comments section said "Probable star SPICA. Sighting possessed of the characteristics of an astronomical body with distortion and apparent motion due to atmospheric conditions...observed while traveling in a car. Pont first observed 75 miles from point where object was first observed."

There, anyone reading that would say, ah, silly witness just a star and got carried away. Nothing to see here, moving right along....

When reading the forms inside - with the descriptions of the witness - it becomes clear the facts as presented in the comments section constitute cherry picked data to conform to predetermined explanation, in this case the star SPICA.

SPICA, is a fairly bright object set off alone from the Big Dipper and , according to the webpage EarthSky, "From all of Earth, Spica rises earlier each evening so that – by the end of August – Spica can be viewed only briefly in the west to west-southwest sky as darkness falls. Here’s how you can find Spica. First look for the Big Dipper in the northern sky..." Note, this does not seem to correlate to the elements of the statement about. It is about 15th on the scale of bright night objects but is often low on the horizon (See -https://theskylive.com/sky/stars/spica-alpha-virginis-star).

The witness said: its color was cold green changing to blue and then to orange
The witness said: It passed over the road in front of the car
The witness said: It kept crossing back and forth
The witness said: He had stopped the car and had gotten out to observe the object through binoculars
The witness said: the object had a red light at the rear end
The witness said: the object was moving slowly and toward the observer