“No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve... there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds.”
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In a press conference of January 16, 1957, retired Rear Admiral Delmer S. Fahrney of the US Navy who has become Board Chairman of the NICAP called a press conference to speak out in defense of the reality UFOs and the reality of an intelligent control behind them. News media all over the country quoted his statements, which were give in the Associated Press newsbrief reproduced below and also used in Press articles like in The New York Times. |
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WASHINGTON AP - Retired Rear Adm. Delmer S. Fahrney, once head of the Navy's guided missile program, said Wednesday reliable reports indicate that “there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds. Fahrney told a news conference that ”no agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radar and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve.”
Fahrney said he never has seen a flying saucer but has talked with a number of scientists and engineers who reported seeing strange flying objects. He added there are signs that “an intelligence” directs such objects “because of the way they fly. They are not entirely actuated by automatic equipment,” he said. “The way they change position in formations and override each other would indicate that their motion is directed.”
An Air Force spokesman said that service is still investigating all reports but has found absolutely no concrete evidence that there are flying saucers. He said that a majority of the reports are found upon checking to have some logical explanation, but that a percentage remains unexplained.
Fahrney called a news conference following an organizational meeting of a new private group. the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, of which he is board chairman.
Fahrney told reporters he has no information or preconceived ideas as to whether the unidentified flying objects are from outer space, but believes they involve “a tremendous amount of technology of which we have no knowledge,” and that their development must have taken a long period of time.
