New Information on Ted Rice, Part 7, From Darkness to Light
The Dark In the global quest to understand the occasional, mysterious lights or floating objects in the sky, we’ve come a long way. Public attention to the topic began in 1947 when pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted what the press later called “flying saucers” skipping across the sky. That was followed up in June by the infamous Roswell incident. Additional public pressure and reports engendered a series of Air Force investigations—Projects Sign and Grudge, Project Blue Book, The Robertson and Condon Reports, and the establishment of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), all to sort out whether those events were swamp gas, weather balloons, or something otherworldly. The military and Pentagon tried hard to dismiss interest in the topic of UFOs, all the while allegedly squirreling away crashed vehicles. The public cried out for “disclosure,” the real truth about the lights in the sky and the odd poltergeist activity that followed close contact. Then there were books about alien abductions. The pu