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nights, as they did at Loring and Wurt- smith, and hover within 100 feet of the nuctear weapons storage areas—all without being identified or forced down—the Air Force spokesman said: “These bases have no air defense ca- pabilities in peacetime.” The Air Force refusal to provide de- tails or to acknowledge investigating such incidents lies in its evident re- luctance to become embroiled again in the UFO controversy. From 1947 to 1969, the Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigated some 12,000...