In 1969, Project Blue Book closed itself and wrote: We looked at 13,000 cases, but no UFO case evaluated by the Air Force has shown itself to be a national security threat. Nor have we found evidence of technology beyond current developments on Earth.
This is kind of a sobering statement if you accept that this branch of the service surely had access to information gathered at Roswell. On Dec 17, 1969, the Secretary (Commander) of the Air Force said the Air Force would not be getting involved in such investigations again. Howard Blum, p 68 Blum then writes the Secretary's statement "was never intended to be honored." It may be fair to conclude that its conclusions about lack of nonEarth technology weren't intended to be the whole truth?
A long series of hints that someone or something did in fact possess flying abilities beyond current Earth developments was just a few years in the future. In 1975 UFOs--literally things in the air that were tough to identify--began dicking around, err, encroaching on the Air Force's nuclear supply depots, shown by alerts called in from bases in the northern US. In Maine a report told, "Twice an unidentified helicopter has been observed ...in the near vicinity." They couldn't identify it. Had the best machines money could build and couldn't catch a helicopter? Some helicopter.
The same week in Great Falls, Montana came a Flash: "At 405 EST [we] saw one object accelerate and climb rapidly [high enough] it became indistinguishable with the stars." Some helicopter. When I collapse, I want that company to fly me in.
Two weeks later came a report from a SAC facility in Minot, ND. As my best friend in southern Utah says, "Why not Minot?" That's what these "pilots" or "drones" or ? thought. A bright starlike object was seen in the west, moving east, about the size of a car and passed over the radar station about 1120, flying 1-2000 feet high. A helicopter's about the size of a car, but this one zipped across too fast for the world's best Air Force to catch up. Serious helicopter.
Blum, p. 70, writes "similar sightings continued for eight months." Eyewitness testimony kept mounting. One person said he saw something about the size of 2 1/2 ton truck. One more of those next-generation helicopters. Norad's commander wrote that at Malmstrom Air Base something sounded like a jet but there were no jets in the area. F-106 jets were sent up to run the thing down. Ground personnel saw the F-106s approach some lights, which went out until the jets passed and then came on again. And why didn't the jets' radar hone them in on the target? Maybe more winked out than the lights? Stealth next generation?
Did the Blue Book conclusion just plain lie? Well, there were I think 701 "unexplained" sightings. Is that "no evidence" of tech better than ours, or circumstantial evidence, or repeated hints, or a disturbing pattern or . . .?
And the brass--they were kinda bored by the whole thing? Well, No. The Norad commander wrote that we need to learn what this is before the news blows it out of proportion. Whatever-the----- this is, I want you men on the site to do your job and shoot these things down before they do more than just invade our air space at will. Nobody bagged a single Russian.
Then the sightings over restricted bases stopped. That was it. The Air Force could never explain how these objects vanished without a trace or why the sightings ended.
Where does this take us? It tells us military personnel have seen objects described as being as big as a truck without being able to catch up with or identify them. Whoever it was had helicopters faster than our jets. But we don't know who--or what.
Lots of questions. Lots of hints. No answers.
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