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2 “as if the ball were trying to measure something” Interview with Heinrich Nicoll for the NBC television series “Unsolved Mysteries,” hosted by Robert Stack.

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3 “One came back and the other didn’t” Athens reported Hynek, Imbrogno, and Pratt, op. cit., p. 117.

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4 “probing the water” Ibid., p. 2.

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5 bigger than a football field Ibid., pp. 165–66.

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6 well-documented visits by some kind of phenomenon Hynek’s research on the Hudson Valley wave was collected into the very readable book Night Siege, published after his death, first in 1987 and later reissued, in collaboration with Philip Imbrogno and Bob Pratt.

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7 In a 1985 essay While he was investigating the Westchester County “boomerangs” in New York, Dr. Hynek left this essay on a diskette at the home of his friend Dr. Willy Smith on August 30, 1985. Titled “The Roots of Complacency,” it was meant to be a draft preface for Night Siege. A few weeks after writing the piece, Hynek went into surgery. His health rapidly declined in the ensuing months, and he died in April 1986. This last essay is quite different from the much shorter preface to Night Siege in its passion and intimate, unedited style.

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8 “springboard to mankind’s outlook on the universe” J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report (Dell Publishing, 1977), p. 1.

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1 “until some material evidence becomes available” The working party’s conclusions, titled “Unidentified Flying Objects” and classified Secret Discreet, were presented in a document dated June 1951, bearing the designation DSI/JTIC Report No. 7. Its six pages are posted at http://www.nickpope.net/documents.htm.

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2 had not been released to the public It was later released in 2001 under the title “Unidentified Flying Objects (U.F.O.’s) Report of Sighting, Rendlesham Forest, December 1980.” The key documents are posted at http://www.nickpope.net/documents.htm.

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3 some rapid sketches in his police notebook A detailed account of what happened is provided in Jim Penniston’s contribution to this book, in the next chapter.

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4 one of the most significant UFO sightings ever For a detailed account of the case, see the book by Georgina Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People (Pan Books, 2001).

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5 “repeatedly denied, in precisely those terms” Letter from Lord Hill-Norton to Lord Gilbert, Minister of State, Ministry of Defence, dated October 22, 1997.

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6 “to out-maneuver a UAP during interception” Defense Intelligence Analysis Staff Study, December 2000, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defense Region,” vol. 1, chapt. 5, p. 4. See http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/AB43D483-FF03-44F0-85DE- C4233C7C9F10/0/uap_vol1_ch5_pg4.pdf for the relevant extract.