WAYNE COUNTY PRESS, Monday August 12, 1963
CLAIM AIR FORCE
KEEPS
LID ON UFOS
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Representatives From Private Or-
ganizatlon Here Checking Fly-
ing Object Stories.
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A claim that the U.S. Air Force
is surpressing evidence about Un-
identified Flying Objects was
made by a three-man team from
the National Investigations Com-
mittee on Aerial Phenomena here
Saturday night.
"We have documentary evidence
that the Air Force is not releas-
ing all its information on the un-
identified flying objects which
have been sighted in this country,"
according to Francis Ridge, chair-
man of a subcommittee from In-
diana Unit No. 1 of the NICAP.
Three Men Here
Here with Mr. Ridge were Phillip
Stuttler, assistant chairman, and
Jim Catt, communications division.
The three interviewed Chan Up-
hoff and L.A. (Mike) Hill con-
cerning the strange lights they
saw in the eastern sky last Wed-
nesday night
The National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena
was started by an ex-Marine ma-
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jor, Donald Edward Keyhoe, who
has 'been with True Magazine. It
is a private organization.
According to the Vincennes,
Ind., trio, the Air Force has files
on 6,300 cases of UFO sightings,
many of the reports still top
secret.
"Inherently Dangerous"
The NICAP board of directors
feels that the Air Force censor-
ship and withholding of UFO re-
ports "is inherently dangerous."
The private group wants open
congressional hearings on UFO's
Lt. Col. Robert J. Friend, an
Air Force investigator here over
the weekend, denied the Air
Force hides information on the
"flying saucers." Said Colonel
Friend, "we investigate all these
claims and let the chips fall where
they may. To date the Air Force
has no information there are fly-
ing saucers."
A public release from NICAP
tells of a Trans-World Airline pi-
lot dodging an unidentified flying
object to avoid a head-on collision,
a CAA control tower operator
tracing four UFO's at 3600 miles an
hour, one over an Air Force base,
and an F-86 jet pilot chasing a
huge saucer in the Far East.
Wanted
No Publicity
The NICAP group almost got
into trouble with police here Sat-
urday night after a city police
radio operator complained the
group had represented themselves
as being from military intelligence,
in a telephone conversation with
him Saturday afternoon. The three
denied this. At first they declined
to give their names to a Press re-
porter, saying they wanted no pub-
licity. Finally, at police insistence,
they identified themselves.
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