"When we arrived at CSC [Bentwaters Center for Security Control], we ran into Sgt. Chandler and two or three other security people. They had had negative contact with us for almost three hours, and they had been concerned. I remember saying to Sgt. Chandler, `You're not going to believe tonight.' He said, `Yeah? If it has anything to do with what I saw a little while ago, I would believe you.' "Airman Burroughs and I were then instructed to report to the shift commander's office. The assistant operations officer was there to debrief us. As we stood at attention in his office, he spoke to us in a very steady, calm voice. He said, `Can you gentlemen explain to me what happened out there tonight?' So we explained, very briefly. We didn't tell him any specifics about the symbols or the design of the craft. "After a very long pause, and very calmly, while he was tapping his pencil on the table, he said, `Gentlemen, what you say you experienced tonight is no longer able to be reported through Air Force channels.' He then gave us something of a history lesson on Project Blue Book and that it was terminated in 1969. Basically, he told us that there was no official way to report this up. Then he said, `Some things are best left unsaid.' He asked us to keep quiet about it, to forget it happened. "That mentality, that mindset and thought process, also caused the security controller to delete it from the blotter and retype the blotter entry with a minimal description, something to the effect of `Investigated aircraft crash off base' and three or four brief sentences following. Also, an Air Force Form 1569, an accident and complaint report, was filled out. Later, I learned that that was what stimulated Lt. Col. Halt, when he reviewed the blotter the next morning and after hearing about what really had happened, to insist something about it be put into the blotter."

"Gentlemen, what you say you experienced tonight is no longer able to be reported through Air Force channels."

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