WAYNE COUNTY PRESS
AIR FORCE MEN CHECK LIGHT-IN-SKY STORIES
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VOLUME NINETY-EIGHT MONDAY, AUGUST 12th AIR FORCE TEAM CHECKS OUT "LIGHTS" ------ Investigate 500 Claims A Year, Solve 98 Per Cent of Them. ------ An Air Force team of physicists from Wright - Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, spent the week end in Fairfield investigating the aerial phenomena sighted in Wayne county several nights last week. Here are Lt. Col. Robert J. Friend, Capt. Hector Quintanilla and T/Sgt. Charles R. sharp. Made Interviews The Air Force team interviewed persons who reported sighting strange objects in the Wayne county sky last week, starting with Ronnie Austin and his girl friend, Phyllis Bruce, who were startled by a strange light ob- ject which followed them in the sky near their Hickory Hill town- ship homes last Sunday night. What did the Air Force physic- ists find out? They aren't telling --yet, but Colonel Friend did make the following observations to the Press: --The Air Force investigates 500 claims of strange aerial phenomena a year. --It satisfactorily explains 98 per cent of them, at least in the years since 1956. From 1947, when "Project Bluebook", the Air Force name for investigation of aerial phenomena was started, the Air Force has satisfactorily explained 92 per cent of these sightings. --Each Air Force base investi- gates such sightings nearest its base. He did not explain why Scott Air Base did not handle this investigation. Investigate All The U.S. investigates every such sighting reported. "The one we didn't investigate might be the one which would blow us apart," Colonel Friend explained. --The story told by you Ron- nie Austin and members of his -------------------------------- (Continued on Page 8) SIGHTINGS IN SKY None Reported In County over Are Wayne county's
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