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• About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

  Deke Slayton

  Running, Climbing, Going Away

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• The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science and administrators in universities.

  Peter A. Sturrock

  Normal, Study, Problem

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• I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Earth, Nations, Convinced

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• As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.

  Deke Slayton

  Weather, Feet, Three

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• With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Race, Air, People

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• Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is.

  Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

  Intelligent, Purpose, Flying Saucers

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• More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Majority, Earth, Flying Saucers

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• While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

  Gordon Cooper

  Flying, Germany, Pilots

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• The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.

  Harold E. Puthoff

  Civilization, Principles, Possibility

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• It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.There is no doubt in my mind that these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort. I and my colleagues are confident that they do not originate in our solar system.

  Hermann Oberth

  Real, Space, Flying

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• I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

  Robert Stack

  Ghost Stories, Giving, Mind

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• I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Reflection, Sight, Doubt

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• One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Taken, Spaceships, Theory

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• It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries. I think that they possibly have been sent out to conduct systematic, long-range investigations, first of men, animals, vegetation, and more recently of atomic centers, armaments an centers of armament production.

  Hermann Oberth

  Real, Animal, Intelligent

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• Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.

  Joe W. Kelly

  Country, Military, Air

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• In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

  Robert Stack

  Believe, Air, Wings

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• The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Military, Real, Men

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• In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and it is interesting to try to understand this attitude. Most scientists have never had the occasion to confront evidence concerning the UFO phenomenon.

  Peter A. Sturrock

  Attitude, Interesting, Trying

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• The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.

  Cael Sanderson

  Military, Two, President

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• Russia and the U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So it's quite possible that the first space ships or satellites may encounter other interplanetary machines, manned or otherwise. Our space devices may even be closely approached by such alien machines.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Russia, Space, Encounters

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• Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details of strange flying craft seen over territories of the Soviet Union. This is a serious challenge to science and we need the help of all Soviet citizens.

  Felix Ziegel

  Flying, Challenges, Details

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• Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad.

  Whitley Strieber

  Struggle, Night, Essence

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• Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.

  Jacques Vallee

  Culture, Stories, Voyages

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Truth, Philosophy

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games.

  William J. Clinton

  Space, Games, Aliens

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