[BLANK] reported disc saucer observation — December 6, 1951

Place an "A" on the curved line to show how high the object was above the horizon (skyline) when you first saw it. Place a "B" on the same curved line to show how high the object was above the horizon (skyline) when you last saw it. In the following larger sketch place an "A" at the position the object was when you first saw it, and a "B" at its position when you last saw it. What were the weather conditions at the time you saw the object? Was anyone else with you at the time you saw the object? AIR FORCE TECHNICAL INFORMATION SHEET (SUMMARY DATA) In order that your information may be filed and coded as accurately as possible, please use the following space to write out a short description of the event that you observed. Questionnaires and work sheets completed here must therefore be put in duplicate before sighting reports matching these questionnaires and work sheets are returned to WPAFB in return for unprocessed sighting reports. Samples of the "Kansas" soil and the vegetation will be returned to WPAFB in the near future. Both papers presented a series of well-worn statements as to how jet fighters, meteors, reflections from balloons and aircraft, and optical effects, such as sundogs and mirages, could give rise to "flying saucer" reports. Hynek, in essence, was to the effect that flying saucers represented a science-public relations problem that when a sighting is made by several people, at least one of whom is an experienced observer, the mutually corroborated reports are entitled to a scientific hearing, rather than ridicule. Air Force program for investigating unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The sighting reports for 1947 and 1948 were returned from Harvard University on November 20.