The Estimate of the Situation.
Greetings. The Estimate of the Situation. "Sign's [Project] pro-extraterrestrial faction, including its director, Capt. Robert R. Sneider, was convinced it had the proof it was seeking, and by fall it had prepared a Top Secret Estimate of the Situation and sent it up the chain of command. At the Pentagon it ignited a fierce controversy. No copy of the document has surfaced, but one Air Force officer who saw it later, Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, said it recounted the DC-3 encounter and other reports by credible observers and declared that the evidence pointed to interplanetary visitation. When the Estimate got to him, the Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, rejected it on the grounds that it had not proven its case. In a few months it was declassified and all copies were ordered burned, though some are said to have been kept secretly. For years the Air Force would deny that any such report ever existed." Quote from Jerome Clark's "The UFO Book: Encyc...