General John A. Samford

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  John A. Samford, Director of Air

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  John A. Samford, Director of Air Force Intelligence, offered full cooperation. (28) At the same time, Chadwell looked into British efforts in this area.

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  John Samford, the Air Force's director of intelligence.But Samford called a press conference at the Pentagon at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.It was the largest Pentagon press conference since World War II, Ruppelt wrote, and Samford's performance proved to be a brilliant demonstration of the art of bureaucratic balderdash.
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  When reporters asked about the Washington sightings, Samford told a story about radar picking up a flock of ducks in Japan in 1950.When they asked if radar at National and Andrews had seen the same blips simultaneously, he speculated about the definition of the word "simultaneously."When they asked if the UFOs could be material objects, he mused about the definition of the word "material."When they asked if the F-94 pilot who chased the strange light was a qualified observer, he wondered about the meaning of the word "qualified."
  
  Speaking about what that pilot saw, Samford uttered a sentence that ought to have a place in the Bureaucratic Gibberish Hall of Fame: "That very likely is one that sits apart and says insufficient measurement, insufficient association with other things, insufficient association with other probabilities for it to do any more than to join that group of sightings that we still hold in front of us as saying no."
  
  Along the way, Samford mentioned the "temperature inversion" theory -- that a layer of hot air in the sky might have caused radar to mistake things on the ground for flying objects.First, he said it was a "possibility."Later, he said it was "about a 50-50 proposition."Then he said it was a "probable" explanation.
  
  He talked until 5:20, then the reporters dashed back to their offices to meet their deadlines.Sifting through notebooks full of gobbledygook, they seized on temperature inversion.It was an irresistible concept for newspapermen.The UFOs, they wrote, were caused by Washington's famous "hot air."
  
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  Samford hadn't really explained anything, but whatever he had done, it worked.

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  John A. Samford, Director of Air Force Intelligence, offered full cooperation.

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  John A. Samford, director of air force intelligence, discounted any theory that the Washington area is being menaced by unknown aerial vehicles from abroad or from other worlds.
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  Samford and fellow air force officers told a press conference, called especially to answer questions about the recent goings-on, that they are personally satisfied there was a natural cause.

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  However, when that opportunity arose during a large press conference in late July, 1952, instead of admitting that the Air Force couldn't explain all sightings and that some "high officials" were seriously considering the "interplanetary hypothesis," the Air Force, represented by General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence, said that everything could be explained as natural phenomena, effectively slamming the lid down on the UFO subject.

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  CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs: 1947-1990 - [Cached Version]
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  John A. Samford, Director of Air Force Intelligence, offered full cooperation. (28)

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  John Samford , director of Air Force Intelligence , and Maj.Gen.

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  John Samford, director of Air Force Intelligence, and Maj. Gen.

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  At its height in July 1952, radars at both Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base picked up UFOs and there were so many witness accounts that questions started to be asked at The Pentagon, culminating in a press conference being held on July 29th at which a reporter asked the Director of Air Force Intelligence, General John Samford, "Is it some very highly secret new weapon that we're working on that's causing these flying saucer reports?"to which Samford replied "We have nothing that has no mass and unlimited power!"

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