“Then somebody high up must not think it’s bunk,” I said.
Splitt laughed. “Have it your own way.”
Before I left, I told them I was working with True.
“I want to be on record,” I said, “as having told you this. If there’s any security involved—if you tell me it’s something you’re working on—naturally I’ll lay off.”
Al Scholin said emphatically, “It’s not an Air Force device, if that’s what you mean.”
“Some people think it’s Russian.”
“If it is, I don’t know it,” said Al, “and neither does the Air Force.”
After I left the magazine section, I tried several officers I knew. Two of them agreed with Splitt. The third didn’t.
“I’ve been told it’s all bunk,” he said, “but you get the feeling they’ve trying to convince themselves. They act like people near a haunted house. They’ll swear it isn’t haunted—but they won’t go near it.”
Later, I asked a security major for a copy of the Project “Saucer” report.