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Washington on May 23 alone, and that each night there were sightings the temperatureinversions were never strong enough to affect radar, and that many of the nights on whichthose inversions occurred there were no objects sighted at all. There was clearly norelationship.""But didn't Ruppelt eventually agree that there was nothing to the phenomenon?"asked Brian."In 1956 Ruppelt left BLUEBOOK and published what many consider to be theauthoritative work on UFOs from a military insider, entitled The Report on UnidentifiedFlying Saucers. It was an expose of the internal chess game and was supportive of theextraterrestrial hypothesis. Two years later he recanted in a letter to NICAP, and addedthree new chapters to his book repudiating his original conclusions. He died two yearsafter that. Keyhoe was convinced Ruppelt had been pressured by CIA to change hisposition. He had been, too. One of my superiors during my tenure in this whole area ofconcern was one of those who assisted the Air Force in discrediting Ruppelt's work andthreatening to cut off his retirement benefits, including his health insurance and pension.""How thoughtful," cracked Deidre."It was necessary. Once Ruppelt was gone, there was no opposition from withinto a complete CIA takeover of government UFO investigation. Which brings me to ourfirst certifiable extraterrestrial threat.""Let me guess_aliens infiltrated the CIA," deadpanned Malcolm."You know, Dr. Bradley," the major said calmly, "you're even more irritatingthan your reputation. Unless you want to suspend the laws of physics as you've beentaught them, you'll want to agree that earth was indeed visited, or rather, surveiled, by analien presence in 1953. You can follow along you have each of the articles I'll cite, so youknow I'm not making this up.""Let's hear it," droned the scientist."I do so anticipating the pleasure of ignoring your apology a few minutes fromnow," the officer said curtly. "In 1953 the Air Force became aware that there were twogiant objects orbiting earth near the equator at a speed of roughly 18,000 miles per hour.Naturally, the idea was so preposterous that Air Force personnel made repeated checks ofboth their equipment and its data. As astounding as it sounds, everything checked out.There were indeed objects of tremendous size orbiting the earth 600 miles out. Althoughthey were being tracked on radar, the Defense Department immediately began anemergency detection system to monitor the objects. The scientist in charge was Dr. ClydeTombaugh. Do you recognize the name, Dr. Bradley?""Isn't that the astronomer who discovered Pluto?""One and the same," he confirmed. "The tracking project was put under theauspices of Army Ordnance Research. Army Ordnance officials at White Sands, NewMexico, issued a press release stating that the purpose of the project was a search formoonlets that had come from space and were orbiting the earth.""Where are you getting this?" Malcolm asked skeptically. "Look in your notes,"he said smugly. "You'll see the article from the March 15, 1954 edition of Timemagazine. It says quite clearly that Dr. Tombaugh was looking for objects orbiting theearth besides our moon. It even gives readers tips on spotting them themselves at varioustimes of the day. Tombaugh, however, steadfastly refused to be interviewed and answerany questions on the project, directing inquirers to his superiors. There was a thick veil ofsecrecy surrounding every aspect of the monitoring project. A year later in the May 1955149