Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Estimate of the Situation
per  and . Edward J. Ruppelt's book, much cited in the article, is the definitive word on the Air Force's response during the early years of the UFO panic, in the late 40s & early 50s. There was an Air Force document by Project Sign called "Estimate of the Situation" which said that UFO sightings were extraterrestrial; it was submitted and went up the chain of command until Air Force chief of staff General Vandenberg rejected the analysis, and the copies were destroyed or lost. After Ruppelt's book was published in 1956, UFO enthusiasts seized on the mention of the report being destroyed, and started speculating that there was some kind of important information in it that the Air Force was trying to suppress. This went on, as everything in UFO-world does, for decades and decades and is still being discussed today
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