Chapter Vi : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER VI SHORTLY after my talk with Steele, I flew to the Coast. For three weeks I investigated sightings that had been reported by airline and private pilots and other competent witnesses. At first, the airline pilots were reluctant...
Chapter Xx : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], p. 173 CHAPTER XX AFTER one year's investigation of the flying saucers and Air Force operations, I have come to the following conclusions: 1. The Air Force was puzzled, and badly worried when the disks first were sighted in 1947. 2...
Chapter Xv : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XV IT was early in October 1949 when I finished the reversal of our space-exploration plans. I spent the next two days running down a sighting report from a town in Pennsylvania. Like three or four other tips that had seemed...
Author's Note : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], AUTHOR'S NOTE ON APRIL 27, 1949, the U.S. Air Force stated: "The mere existence of some yet unidentified flying objects necessitates a constant vigilance on the part of Project 'Saucer' personnel, and on the part of the civilian populati...
Chapter Xiv : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XIV THAT EVENING, after my talk with Redell, the question kept coming back in my mind. What were they like? And what were they doing here? From the long record of sightings, it was possible to get an answer to the second questi...
Chapter Xix : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XIX FOR TWO WEEKS after my return to Washington, General Sory Smith held off a final answer about my trip to Wright Field. Meantime, Ken Purdy had called him backing my request to see the Project files. It was obvious to me th...
Chapter Ii : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER II IT HAS BEEN over two years since the puzzling death of Captain Thomas Mantell. Mantell died mysteriously in the skies south of Fort Knox. But before his radio went silent, he sent a strange message to Godman Air Force Base...
Chapter I : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER I IT WAS A strange assignment. I picked up the telegram from my desk and read it a third time. NEW YORK, N. Y., MAY 9, 1949 HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING FLYING SAUCER MYSTERY. FIRST TIP HINTED GIGANTIC HOAX TO COVER UP OFFICIAL SECRET...
Chapter V : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER V FOR MORE than two weeks, I checked on the Godman Field tragedy. One fact stood out at the start: The death of Mantell had had a profound effect on many in the Air Force. A dozen times I was told: "I thought the saucers were...
Chapter Iii : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER III JUST THE idea of gigantic flying disks was incredible enough. It was almost as hard to believe that such missiles could have been developed without something leaking out. Yet we had produced the A-bomb in comparative secrecy...
Chapter Iv : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER IV I WENT to the Pentagon the next morning. I didn't expect to learn much, but I wanted to make sure we weren't tangling with security. I'd worked with Al Scholin and Orville Splitt, in the magazine section of Public Relations...
Chapter Xiii : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XIII BEFORE my date with Redell, I went over all the material I had, hoping to find some clue to the space visitors' planet. It was possible, of course, that there was more than one planet involved. Project "Saucer" had discussed...
Chapter Viii : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER VIII NEXT MORNING, in the broad light of day, the idea of space visitors somehow had lost its menace. If the disks were space ships, at least they had shown no sign of hostility, so far as I knew. Of course, there was Mantell; but...
Chapter Vii : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER VII IT WAS DARK when the airliner limousine reached La Guardia Field. I had intended taking an earlier plane, but DuBarry persuaded me to stay over for dinner. We dropped into the Algonquin, next door to "True's" office building...
Chapter Xvii : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XVII FOR A MOMENT after Boggs's last answer, I had an impulse to end the interview. I had a feeling I was facing a sphinx--a quiet, courteous sphinx in an Air Force uniform. I was sure now why Major Jerry Boggs had been chosen...
Chapter Xii : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XII 'WHEN I called Redell's office I found he had flown to Dallas and would not be back for two days. By the time he returned, I had written a draft of the Gorman case, with my answer to the balloon explanation. When I saw him...
Chapter X : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER X WHEN I reached home, I found a brief letter from Ken Purdy. Dear Don: The Mantell and Eastern cases both look good. I don't see how they can brush them off. It looks more like the interplanetary answer to me, but we won't decide...
Chapter Ix : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER IX THREE DAYS after my meeting with Steve Barrett, I was on a Mainliner 300, starting, a new phase of the saucer investigation. By the time I returned, I hoped to know the truth about Project "Saucer." As the ship droned westward...
Chapter Xi : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XI MY FIRST STEP, in checking on our space plans, was to look up official announcements. I found that on December 29, 1948, Defense Secretary James Forrestal had released this official statement: "The Earth Satellite Vehicle...
Title Page : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL by Donald Keyhoe New York Fawcett Publications, 1950 scanned, proofed and formatted , March 2002, by John Bruno Hare. This book is in the US public domain because it was not renewed in a timely fashion at the US...
Chapter Xvi : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XVI THAT MORNING, at "True", we made the final decisions on how to handle the story. Using the evidence of the Mantell case, the Chiles-Whitted report, Gorman's mystery-light encounter, and other authentic cases, along with...
Chapter Xviii : * "The Flying Saucers Are Real", by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], CHAPTER XVIII THAT NIGHT I went through the Project "Saucer" summary of cases. It was a strange experience. The first report I checked was the Mantell case. Nothing that Boggs had said had changed my firm opinion. I knew the answer was not...
