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  1. 특파원 하늘의 무언가 1947년 한여름, 유도 미사일과 초음속 항공기 개발, 레이더망 구축, 그리고 해군과의 통합 논쟁과 같은 문제들로 이미 고심하고 있던 미 공군은 또 다른 완전히 다른 골칫거리인 비행접시에 직면하게 되었다. 전국 각지에서 사람들은 엄청난 속도로 하늘을 가로지르는 이상한 물체들을 보고 있었고, 비행기 조종사, 농부, 아이다호 부지사와 같은 숙련된 하늘 관찰자들을 포함한 이 사람들은 자신들이 본 것을 식별할 수는 없었지만, 그것들을 생생하고 잊을 수 없게 묘사할 수 있었다. 신문들은 이 신비한 물체들 중 첫 번째 것을 비행접시라고 불렀는데, 그것을 보았다고 보고하고 접시 같다고 묘사한 사람의 말을 따랐고, 나중에 사람들이 날아다니는 크롬 휠캡, 날아다니는 10센트 동전, 날아다니는 눈물방울, 날아다니는 가스등, 날아다니는 아이스크림 콘, 날아다니는 파이 접시처럼 보이는 것들을 보았다고 보고했음에도 불구하고 그 이름은 붙었다. 하늘에서 점점 더 많은 기이한 것들이 목격되면서, 신중하고 의문스러운 사설들이 신문에 실리기 시작했고, 대통령과 의회 의원들은 설명 요구 편지 세례를 받았다. 많은 편지 작성자들은 그 물체들이 무엇이든 간에 러시아인들이 조종하고 있으며, 곧

    A REPORTER AT LARGE SOMETHING IN THE SKY IN midsummer of 1947, the United States Air Force, already concerned with such problems as the develop- ment of guided missiles and supersonic aircraft, the rigging up of radar networks, and its controversy with the Navy over unification, found itself confronted by another, and completely different, head- ache—the flying saucer. In every section of the country, people were seeing strange objects that streaked across the sky at tremendous speeds, and while these people, who included such prac- ticed students of the heavens as air- plane pilots, farmers, and the Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, were not able to identify the things they had seen, they were able to describe them vividly and unforgettably. The newspapers called the first of these mysterious objects a flying saucer, taking their cue from the man who reported having seen it and who described it as saucerlike, and the name stuck, although later people re- ported seeing things that looked like fly- ing chromium hubcaps, flying dimes, flying teardrops, flying gaslights, flying ice-cream cones, and flying pie plates. As more and more curious things were seen in the skies, cautious, quizzical editorials began to appear in the papers, and the President and members of Con- gress received a deluge of letters de- manding an explanation. Many of the letter writers had concluded that the objects, whatever they might be, were manned by Russians, and that as soon

    A REPORTER AT LARGE SOMETHING IN THE SKY IN midsummer of 1947, the United States Air Force, already concerned with such problems as the develop- ment of guided missiles and supersonic aircraft, the rigging up of radar networks, and its controversy with the Navy over unification, found itself confronted by another, and completely different, head- ache—the flying saucer. In every section of the country, people were seeing strange objects that streaked across the sky at tremendous speeds, and while these people, who included such prac- ticed students of the heavens as air- plane pilots, farmers, and the Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, were not able to identify the things they had seen, they were able to describe them vividly and unforgettably. The newspapers called the first of these mysterious objects a flying saucer, taking their cue from the man who reported having seen it and who described it as saucerlike, and the name stuck, although later people re- ported seeing things that looked like fly- ing chromium hubcaps, flying dimes, flying teardrops, flying gaslights, flying ice-cream cones, and flying pie plates. As more and more curious things were seen in the skies, cautious, quizzical editorials began to appear in the papers, and the President and members of Con- gress received a deluge of letters de- manding an explanation. Many of the letter writers had concluded that the objects, whatever they might be, were manned by Russians, and that as soon

  2. 충분히, 그들은 핵폭탄을 싣고 돌아올 것이라고 결론지었다. 다른 사람들은 지구가 다른 행성에서 온 우주선에 의해 방문되고 있다고 생각했다. 또 다른 사람들은 우리 공군이 비밀리에 새로운 형태의 항공기를 시험하고 있다고 의심했다. 그러나 모든 사람들은 우리 하늘의 수호자로서 공군이 비행 물체들을 설명하고, 필요하다면 격퇴해야 한다고 동의했다. 그 결과 1948년 1월 22일 공군에 의해 특별 조사가 시작되었는데, 이 조사는 수많은 결론에 도달했음에도 불구하고 여전히 진행 중이며 아직 대중의 마음을 안심시키지 못하고 있다. 초조한 대중을 안심시키려는 희망 외에도, 공군은 이 사업에 착수하면서 세 가지 중 하나 또는 전부를 염두에 두었던 것으로 보인다. 공군은 러시아가 보고된 현상과 관련하여 무엇을 할 수 있는지에 대한 민간의 우려를 공유했을 수 있으며, 철저한 조사를 보장하기 위해 행성 간 여행 시대가 도래했고 지구가 태양계 다른 곳에서 온 여행의 목적지가 되었다고 잠시 가정하는 것이 전혀 해롭지 않다고 느꼈을 수도 있다. 또는—그리고 이것이 처음 두 가지 고려 사항을 반드시 배제하지는 않을 것이다—공군은 국가 안보를 위해 극소수의 구성원만이 알고 있는 자체 실험 비행 물체의 비밀을 보호하기 위한 연막을 치고 있었을 수도 있다. 그 목적이 무엇이든, 내가 때때로 접촉해 온 이 조사는 겉보기에는 철저했다. 원래 이 조사에 배정된 공군 인력은 나중에 천문학자, 심리학자, 물리학자, 기상학자, 의사, 그리고 F.B.I. 대표자들에 의해 보강되었다. 곧 대중적으로 프로젝트 소서(Project Saucer)로 알려지게 된 이 조사는 처음에는 공군 군수 사령관인 벤자민 W. 치들로(Benjamin W. Chidlaw) 중장이 이끌었으며, 그 기지는 오하이오주 데이턴의 라이트 필드(Wright Field)에 있었고 지금도 그렇다. 이 프로젝트의 임무는 구식 탐지, 과학적 분석, 홍보, 그리고 광범위한 심리 상태 연구의 혼합을 포함하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 1949년 12월, 2년 동안 하늘의 침입자에 대한 375건의 보고서를 확인한 후, 공군은 공개적으로 포기했지만, 프로젝트 소서가 실제로 해체된 것은 아니었다. 공군은 비행접시가 환영이라면, 그것은 모두 일반적인 물체를 인식하지 못했거나, 속임수였거나, 가벼운 형태의 집단 히스테리 때문이라고 발표했다. 그러나 공군은 그 문제를 거기서 멈추지 않았다. 프로젝트 소서의 명백한 종말 직후, 나는 워싱턴에서 당시 공군 정보국장이었던 어니스트 무어(Ernest Ernest Moore) 준장과 대화를 나누었는데, 그 과정에서 그는 내가 이전에 여러 번 했을 것이라고 확신하는 네 가지 단정적인 진술을 했다. 뉴요커에서 발췌 1952년 9월 6일 64페이지부터 82페이지까지 62페이지

    ciently, they would return loaded with atomic bombs. Others thought the earth was being visited by space ships from another planet. Still others suspected that our own Air Force was secretly testing some new form of aircraft. Everyone agreed, however, that it was up to the Air Force, as the cus- todian of our welkin, to explain the flying objects and, if necessary, to repel them. The result was the launching by the Air Force, on January 22, 1948, of a special investigation, an investiga- tion that, though it has reached num- erous conclusions, is still under way and has yet to put the public mind at rest. It appears that, aside from the hope of reassuring a jittery populace, the Air Force, in embarking upon this under- taking, had any or all of three things in mind. It may well have shared the civilian concern over what, if anything, the Russians might have to do with the reported phenomena, and it may even have felt that to insure a thoroughgoing investigation there was certainly no harm in assuming for the moment that the era of interplanetary travel had arrived and the earth had become an objective for journeys from elsewhere where in the solar system. Or—and this would not necessarily exclude the first two considerations—the Air Force may have been setting up a smoke screen to protect, in the interest of national secu- rity, the secret of some experimental fly- ing objects of its own that only a trusted few of its members knew about. What- ever its purpose, the investigation, with which I have been in touch from time to time, has seemingly been exhaustive. The Air Force personnel originally assigned to it was later augmented by astronomers, psychologists, physicists, meteorologists, physicians, and repre- sentatives of the F.B.I. The investiga- tion, which soon became popularly known as Project Saucer, was first headed by Lieutenant General Benja- min W. Chidlaw, Commanding Gen- eral of the Air Matériel Command, and its base was, and is, at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. The project's task turned out to involve a mixture of old-fashioned detection, scientific analysis, public rela- tions, and the study of a widespread state of mind. In December, 1949, after checking, over a period of two years, three hundred and seventy-five reports of intruders in the sky, the Air Force publicly called it quits, but Project Saucer was not actually disbanded. Na- tional security, the Air Force announced if flying saucers were apparitions, it was all attributable either to a failure to recognize conventional objects, to hoaxes, or to a mild form of mass hys- teria. The Air Force, however, did not let the matter rest there. Not long after the apparent demise of Project Saucer, I had a talk in Wash- ington with Brigadier General Ernest Moore, then chief of Air Force In- telligence, in the course of which he made four categorical statements that I felt sure he had made many times be- Clipped from The NEW YORKER September 6, 1952 pages 64 through 82 page 62

    ciently, they would return loaded with atomic bombs. Others thought the earth was being visited by space ships from another planet. Still others suspected that our own Air Force was secretly testing some new form of aircraft. Everyone agreed, however, that it was up to the Air Force, as the cus- todian of our welkin, to explain the flying objects and, if necessary, to repel them. The result was the launching by the Air Force, on January 22, 1948, of a special investigation, an investiga- tion that, though it has reached num- erous conclusions, is still under way and has yet to put the public mind at rest. It appears that, aside from the hope of reassuring a jittery populace, the Air Force, in embarking upon this under- taking, had any or all of three things in mind. It may well have shared the civilian concern over what, if anything, the Russians might have to do with the reported phenomena, and it may even have felt that to insure a thoroughgoing investigation there was certainly no harm in assuming for the moment that the era of interplanetary travel had arrived and the earth had become an objective for journeys from elsewhere where in the solar system. Or—and this would not necessarily exclude the first two considerations—the Air Force may have been setting up a smoke screen to protect, in the interest of national secu- rity, the secret of some experimental fly- ing objects of its own that only a trusted few of its members knew about. What- ever its purpose, the investigation, with which I have been in touch from time to time, has seemingly been exhaustive. The Air Force personnel originally assigned to it was later augmented by astronomers, psychologists, physicists, meteorologists, physicians, and repre- sentatives of the F.B.I. The investiga- tion, which soon became popularly known as Project Saucer, was first headed by Lieutenant General Benja- min W. Chidlaw, Commanding Gen- eral of the Air Matériel Command, and its base was, and is, at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. The project's task turned out to involve a mixture of old-fashioned detection, scientific analysis, public rela- tions, and the study of a widespread state of mind. In December, 1949, after checking, over a period of two years, three hundred and seventy-five reports of intruders in the sky, the Air Force publicly called it quits, but Project Saucer was not actually disbanded. Na- tional security, the Air Force announced if flying saucers were apparitions, it was all attributable either to a failure to recognize conventional objects, to hoaxes, or to a mild form of mass hys- teria. The Air Force, however, did not let the matter rest there. Not long after the apparent demise of Project Saucer, I had a talk in Wash- ington with Brigadier General Ernest Moore, then chief of Air Force In- telligence, in the course of which he made four categorical statements that I felt sure he had made many times be- Clipped from The NEW YORKER September 6, 1952 pages 64 through 82 page 62