QUOTES IN CONTRAST

August 1952.

General Hoyt Vanderberg, Air Force Chief of Staff. Quoted Aug. 1, 1952, after the summer "flap" that included a fly by in Washington D.C. - according to radar and some visuals.

"I don't believe there are flying saucers...However, there are apparently physical phenomena which makes people think they have seen them.,, I don't like the continued occurrence of mass hysteria about flying saucers."

"Inside Washington: March of Events" , a column of Washington D.C. news, printed Aug. 4, 1952.

"You too can be a saucer spotter. How to Observe, Report on Saucer. "Now everyone can get in on the act of spotting flying saucers. The United States Air Force has made it official by asking anyone who thinks he saw a saucer, or any other strange object in the sky, to report it to the nears Air Force field....The Air Force hastens to add that its call for information is not an official "alert" and professes not to be excited over presistent reports of the phenomena. But the new attitude is a reversal from a little over a year ago, when the whole idea of saucers was pooh-poohed by the higher ups."

Or in the case of these quotes, a reversal in a matter of days. 

Dec. 1969. Comments in response to the closing of the Project Blue Book investigation by the U.S. Air Force.

Dr. Donald H. Menzel. Harvard University Astronomer, Project Blue Book Consultant. Alleged to have had connections to the NSA and CIA. Debunker.

"Scientists of the 21st century will look back on UFO's as the greatest nonsense of the 20th century."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Northwestern University Astronomer, Project Blue Book Consultant. Founder of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), Chicago, Ill. 

"We in the 20th century may be as far away from a solution to the UFO problem as the 19th century physicist was from an interpretation of the Aurora Borealis..."