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5 might account for the chlorophyll reductions The case was presented in the GEPAN report Note Technique No. 16, Enquete 81/01, “Analyse d’une Trace” (Analysis of Trace Evidence), March 1, 1983.

For more on the Trans-en-Provence case, see “Report on the Analysis of Anomalous Physical Traces: The 1981 Trans-en-Provence UFO Case,” by Jean-Jacques Velasco, p. 27, and “Return to Trans-en-Provence,” by Jacques F. Vallee, p. 19, in Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 4, no. 1, 1990. Both articles can also be found in the excellent book The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence, by Peter A. Sturrock (Warner Books, 1999), pp. 257–97.

Vallee’s paper is noteworthy: The site of the 1981 Trans-en-Provence UFO case was visited again during 1988. Soil samples taken at the time of the initial investigation were analyzed in an American laboratory in an effort to validate the GEPAN/CNES study of the case. The results of the interviews with the witness and his wife and the examination of samples taken at the surface and below the surface of the physical trace support the findings of the CNES team and the truthfulness of the witness’s testimony.

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6 an outstanding independent French investigator Dominique Weinstein, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings—Catalog of Military, Airliner, Private Pilots’ Sightings from 1916 to 2000,” February 2001, 6th edition.

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7 “there is cause for concern” Richard Mandelkorn, Commander, U.S. Navy, “Report of Trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 February 1949,” Subject: Project Grudge, February 18, 1949, p. 4. Project Blue Book file.

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8 “It is felt that these incidents” Memo from Headquarters Fourth Army to Director of Intelligence, “Unconventional Aircraft (Control No. A-1917),” by Colonel Eustis L. Poland. www.project1947.com/gfb/poland.htm.

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9 “the National Defense of the United States” Report concerning a conference held on April 27 and 28, 1949, at Kirtland Air Force Base on unidentified aerial phenomena, for the director of special investigations, USAF, Washington, D.C., May 12, 1949, p. 4. From Project Blue Book files. Richard Mandelkorn, Commander, U.S. Navy, “Report of Trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 February 1949,” Subject: Project Grudge, 18 February 1949, p. 4. Project Blue Book file.

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10 “and return to home base” George E. Valley, “Some Considerations Affecting the Interpretation of Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects,” report for Project Sign, USAF, originally classified Secret.

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11 and Pease AFB (New Hampshire) Larry Hatch, Nuclear Connection Project (1998); also see the book by Robert Hastings, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites (AuthorHouse, 2008), for details of these and other incidents.

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1 “sightings categorized as ‘unidentified’ are extraterrestrial vehicles” The Air Force Fact Sheet, “Unidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book,” can be found at http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=188. The December 17, 1969, News Release, no. 1077–69, “Air Force to Terminate Project Blue Book,” was issued by the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), Washington, D.C.–20301. See http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/ufo/asdpa1.pdf.

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2 Astronautics Committee in its 1968 hearing This is the same hearing discussed in chapter 11 in reference to the testimony of James E. McDonald, held just before the Condon report was issued and Project Blue Book was shut down.

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3 “scientific secrets we do not know ourselves” Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,” July 29, 1968 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 1968), pp. 121–24.

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4 General Samford in his 1952 press conference See chapter 11 to review details of Samford’s press conference. He stated the percentage of credible reports of UFOs did not represent “any conceivable threat to the United States.”