In this same document there appears a confidential analysis of Air
intelligence reports.[2] It is this summary that contains the official
suggestion Of. space visitors' motives. After stating that such a
civilization would obviously be far ahead of our own, the report adds:

"Since the acts of mankind most easily observed from a distance are
A-bomb explosions, we should expect some relation to obtain between
the time of the A-bomb explosions, the time at which the space ships
are seen, and the time required for such ships to arrive from and
return to home base."

(In a previous report, which alternately warned and reassured the
public, the Air Force stated that space travel outside the solar
system is almost a certainty.[3])

Since 1949 there has been a steady increase in saucer sightings. Most
of them have been authentic reports, which Air Force denials cannot
disprove. In January, mystery

[1. Air Force press release 629-49, December 27, 1949.

2. Air Force Project "Saucer" December 30, 1949.

3. Air Force report M-26-49, Preliminary Studies on Flying saucers,
April 27, 1949.]

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disks were reported over Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, and
several other states. On the Seattle Anchorage route, an air freighter