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Thence to White Hall garden, where I saw the King in purple mourning for his brother. 18th. This day I heard that the Duke of York, upon the news of the death of his brother yesterday, came hither by post last night. Samford Luellin, Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. 20th.
About midmorning on Tuesday, July 29th, Major General John Samford sent word down that he would hold a press conference that afternoon in an attempt to straighten out the UFO situation with the press. Donald Keyhoe reports on the press conference and the events leading up to it in detail in his book, Flying Saucers from Outer Space.
Samford, as the principal, to be whipped the next day from Newgate to the Old Exchange, and to be kept to hard labour for three months. from the abolished House of Lords. But, after all, what right could this handful of men have to impose a new constitution on the kingdom?
But even though some officers at command levels just a notch below General Samford bought it, the space behind the words "Approved by" was blank no one would stick his neck out and officially send it to the top.
The powers-that-be at ATIC O.K.'d the plan in December and it went to Washington, where it would have to be approved by General Samford before it went to ADC and then back to the Pentagon for higher Air Force official blessing. From all indications it looked as if we would get the necessary blessings.
The enthusiasm of this group took a firm hold in the Pentagon, at Air Defense Command Headquarters, on the Research and Development Board, and many other agencies throughout the government. But General Samford was still giving the orders, and he said to continue to operate just as we had keeping an open mind to any ideas.
The summary of the press conference straightened things out to some extent and our flow of reports got back to normal. I was anxious to start enlisting the aid of scientists, as General Samford had directed, but before this could be done we had a backlog of UFO reports that had to be evaluated. During July we had been swamped and had picked off only the best ones.
He indicates that before the conference started, General Samford sat behind his big walnut desk in Room 3A138 in the Pentagon and battled with his conscience. Should he tell the public "the real truth" that our skies are loaded with spaceships? No, the public might panic. The only answer would be to debunk the UFO's. This bit of reporting makes Major Keyhoe the greatest journalist in history.
Brigadier General Garland, who had been General Samford's Deputy Director for Production and who had been riding herd on the UFO project for General Samford, was now chief at ATIC, having replaced Colonel Dunn, who went to the Air War College. General Garland had long been in favor of trying to get some concrete information, either positive or negative, about the UFO's.
We usually gave the briefings to General Garland and a general from the Research and Development Board, who passed the information on to General Samford, the Director of Intelligence. But this time General Samford, some of the members of his staff, two Navy captains from the Office of Naval Intelligence, and some people I can't name were at the briefing.
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