another part of the country，another odd series of events was taking place，the center of activity was a highly secret area，that can't be named and the recipient of the ufos，which were formations of little lights was the us army。

the series of incidents started when military patrols who were protecting the area，began to report seeing formations of lights flying through the night sky。

at first，the lights were reported every three or four nights，but inside of two weeks，the frequency had stepped up before long，they were a nightly occurrence。

some patrols reported that they had seen three or four formations in one night，the sightings weren't restricted to the men on patrol，one night just at dusk during retreat the entire garrison watched a formation passed directly over the post parade ground。

as usual with u f o reports，the description of the lights varied，but the majority of the observers reported a v formation of three lights，as the formation moved through the sky，the lights changed in color from a bluish white to orange and back to bluish white。

this color cycle took about two seconds，the lights usually traveled from west to east，and made no sound，they didn't streak across the sky like a meteor，but they were going faster than a jet。

the lights were a little bigger than the biggest star，once in a while，while the gis would get binoculars on them，but they couldn't see any more details，the lights just looked bigger from the time of the first sighting reports of the little lights were being sent to the air force through army intelligence channels。

the reports were getting to atic，but the green fireball activity was taking top billing and no comments went back to the army about their little lights，according to an army g ii major to whom i talked in the pentagon。

this silence was taken to mean that no action other than sending in reports was necessary on the part of the army，but after about two weeks of nightly sightings and no apparent action by the air force the commander of the installation，decided to take the initiative and set a trap，his staff worked out a plan in record time。

special ufo patrols would be sent out into the security area，and they would be furnished with citing equipment，this could be the equipment that they normally used for fire control，each patrol would be sent to a specific location。

and would set up a command post operating out of the command post at points where the sky could be observed would be sighting teams each team had sighting equipment to measure the elevation and azimoth angle of the ufo four men were to be on each team an instrument man a timer a recorder and a radio operator all the ufo patrols would be assigned special radio frequencies the operating procedure would be that when one sighting team spotted a ufo the radio operator would call out his team's location the location of the ufo in the sky and the direction it was going all of the other teams from his patrol would thus know when to look for the ufo and begin to site on it。

while the radio man was reporting the instrument man on the team would line up the ufo and begin to call out the angles of elevation and asymouth the timer would call out the time the recorder would write all of this down the command post upon hearing the report of the ufo would callall the next patrol and tell them they too would try to pick it up here was an excellent opportunity to get some concrete data on at least one type of ufo it was something that should have been done from the startspeeds altitudes and sizes that are estimated just by looking at a ufo are miserably inaccurate。

but if you could accurately establish that some type of object was traveling thirty thousand miles an hour or even three thousand miles an hour through our atmosphere the u f o story would be the biggest story since the creation the plan seemed foolproof and had the full support of every man who was to participate for the first time in history every every gi wanted to get on the patrols the plan was quickly written up as a field order approved and memographed。

since the air force had the prime responsibility for the ufo investigation it was decided that the plan should be quickly coordinated with the air force so a copy was rushed to them time was critical because every group of nightly reports might be the last everything was ready to roll the minute the air force said go the air force didn't okay the plan i don't know where the plan was killed or who killed it but it was killed its death caused two reactions many people thought that the plan was killed so that too many people wouldn't find it

out the truth about ufos，others thought somebody was just plain stupid，neither was true，the answer was simply that the official attitude toward ufos，had drastically changed in the past few months，they didn't exist，they couldn't exist，it was the belief at atic，that the one last mystery，the green fireballs，had been solved a few days before，at los alamos，the fireballs were meteors，and project twinkle would prove it any further investigation，by the army，would be a waste of time and effort。

this drastic change in official attitude，is as difficult to explain as it was difficult for many people，who knew what was going on inside project sign to believe，i used the words official attitude，because at this time，ufos had become as controversial a subject as they are today，all through intelligent circles，people had chosen sides，and the two ufo factions that exist，today were born，on one side，was the faction that still believed in flying saucers，these people come hell or high water were hanging on to their original ideas。

some thought that the ufos were interplanetary spaceships，others weren't quite as bold，and just believe that a good deal more should be known about the ufos before，they were so completely written off，these people weren't a bunch of nuts or crackpots either，they ranged down through the ranks from generals and top grade civilians，on the outside，their views were backed up，by civilian scientists，on the other side，were those who didn't believe in flying saucers。

at one time，many of them had been believers，when the u f o reports were pouring in back，in nineteen forty seven in nineteen forty eight，they were just as sure，that the u f o's were real，as the people，they were now scoffing at，but they had changed their minds，some of them had changed their minds because they had seriously studied the ufo reports，and just couldn't see any evidence，that the ufos were real，but many of them could see the i don't believe bandwagon pulling outout in front，and just jumped on。

this change in the operating policy of the ufo project，was so pronounced that i like so many other people wondered if there was a hidden reason，for the change，was it actually an attempt to go underground，to make the project more secretive，was it an effort to cover up the fact that u f o's were proven to be interplanetary。

and that this should be withheld from the public at all cost to prevent a mass panic.

the ufo files are full of references to the near mass panic of october thirtieth nineteen thirty eight.

when orson wells presented his now famous the war of the world's broadcast.

this period of mind changing bothered me.

here were people deciding that there was nothing to this ufo business.

right at a time when the reports seemed to be getting better from what i could see.

if there was any mind changing to be done.

it should have been the other way.

skeptics should have been changing to believers.

maybe i was just playing the front man to a big cover up.

i didn't like it because if somebody up above me knew that u f o's were really spacecraft.

i could make a big fool out of myself if the truth came out.

i checked into this thoroughly.

i spent a lot of time talking to people who had worked on project grudge.

the anti saucer faction was born because of an old psychological trait.

people don't like tobe losers to be a loser.

makes one feel inferior and incompetent.

on september twenty third nineteen forty seven.

when the chief of ati c sent a letter to the commanding general of the army air forces.

stating that u f o's were real intelligence committed themselves.

they had to prove it.

they tried for a year and a half with no success.

officers on top began to get anxious and the press began to get anxious.

they wanted an answer.

intelligence had tried one answer.

the then top secret estimate of the situation that proved that ufos were real.

but it was kicked back.

the people on the ufo project began to think maybe the brass didn't consider them too sharp.

so they tried a new hypothesis.

ufos don't exist in no time.

they found that this was easier to prove and it got recognition.

before if an especially interesting ufo report came in and the pentagon wanted an answer.

all they'd get was and it could be real but we can't prove it.

now such a request got a quick snappy.

it was a balloon and feathers were stuck in caps.

from ati c up to the pentagon.

everybody felt fine.

in early nineteen forty nine.

the term new look was well known.

the new look in women's was the lower hem lines in automobiles.

·it was longer lines in ufo circles.

·the new look was cussum.

·the new look in ufos was officially acknowledged on february eleventh nineteen forty nine.

·when an order was written that changed the name of the ufo project from project sign to project grudge.

·the order was supposedly written because theified name project sign had been compromised.

·this was always my official answer to any questions about the name change.

·i'd go further and say that the names of the projects.

·first sign then grudge had no significance.

·this wasn't true they did have significance.

·a lot of it end of chapter four recording by roger melin.