Project Sign's 'Estimate of the Situation' Rejected by Pentagon
Project Sign was the U.S. Air Force's first official UFO investigation, established in January 1948 at Wright-Patterson AFB under the Air Materiel Command.
Narration
A stamped TOP SECRET document emerges from shadow — the Estimate of the Situation.
Wright-Patterson AFB analysts compile dozens of unexplained aerial encounter reports in 1948.
The Chiles-Whitted and Gorman cases gave Project Sign evidence no explanation could dismiss.
General Vandenberg reviewed the Estimate and rejected it — insufficient proof declared.
Vandenberg ordered every copy destroyed — the typewritten pages bearing Air Force seals vanished.
Captain Ruppelt confirmed he saw the Estimate — a document the Air Force insists never existed.