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 civilian scientists should be alerted and instructed to use every piece of available equipment that could be used to track UFO’s.

And lastly, they said that the American public should be told every detail of every phase of the UFO investigation—the details of the sightings, the official conclusions, and why the conclusions were made. This would serve a double purpose; it would dispel any of the mystery that security breeds and it would keep the Air Force on the ball—sloppy investigations and analyses would never occur.

When the panel’s conclusions were made known in the government, they met with mixed reactions. Some people were satisfied, but others weren’t. Even the opinions of a group of the country’s top scientists couldn’t overcome the controversy that had dogged the UFO for five years. Some of those who didn’t like the decision had sat in on the UFO’s trial as spectators and they felt that the “jury” was definitely prejudiced—afraid to stick their necks out. They could see no reason to continue to assume that the UFO’s weren’t interplanetary vehicles.