Swan Jay Gourley

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- Page 6 The Day Naval Intelligence Established ‘Contact’ by Jay Gourley O n July 6, 1959, Robert Friend, an Air Force major and acting chief of the Aerial Phenomenon Divi- sion (Project Blue Book) at Wright- Patterson AFB in Ohio, received a call from another part of the intelligence community requesting that he evaluate a ‘discovery’ by Navy Intelligence. Three days later Friend flew to Wash- ington D.C. and met with two Navy commanders and_ several CIA in- telligence officers. They began by...