The scientists spent the next two days pondering a conclusion.  They reread reports and looked at the two movies again and again, they called other scientists to double-check certain ideas that they had, and they discussed the problem among themselves.  Then they wrote out their conclusions and each man signed the document.  The first paragraph said: 

We as a group do not believe that it is impossible for some other celestial body to be inhabited by intelligent creatures.  Nor is it impossible that these creatures could have reached such a state of development that they could visit the earth.  However, there is nothing in all of the so-called “flying saucer” reports that we have read that would indicate that this is taking place.

The Tremonton Movie had been rejected as proof but the panel did leave the door open a crack when they suggested that the Navy photo lab redo their study.  But the Navy lab never rechecked their report, and it was over a year later before new data came to light.

After I got out of the Air Force I met Newhouse and talked to him for two hours.  I’ve talked to many people who have reported UFO’s, but few impressed me as much as Newhouse.  I learned that when he and his family first saw the UFO’s they were close to the car, much closer than when he took the movie.  To use Newhouse’s own words, “If they had been the size of a B-29 they would have been at 10,000 feet altitude.”  And the Navy man and his family had taken a good look at the objects—­they looked like “two pie pans, one inverted on the top of the other!” He didn’t just think the UFO’s were disk-shaped; he knew that they were; he had plainly seen them.  I asked him why he hadn’t told this to the intelligence officer who interrogated him.  He said that he had.  Then I remembered that I’d sent the intelligence officer a list of questions I wanted Newhouse to answer.  The question “What did the UFO’s look like?” wasn’t one of them because when you have a picture of something you don’t normally ask what it looks like.  Why the intelligence officer didn’t pass this information on to us I’ll never know.

The Montana Movie was rejected by the panel as positive proof because even though the two observers said that the jets were in another part of the sky when they saw the UFO’s and our study backed them up, there was still a chance that the two UFO’s could have been the two jets.  We couldn’t prove the UFO’s were the jets, but neither could we prove they weren’t.

The controversial study of the UFO’s’ motions that Major Fournet had presented was discarded.  All of the panel agreed that if there had been some permanent record of the motion of the UFO’s, a photograph of a UFO’s flight path or a photograph of a UFO’s track on a radarscope, they could have given the study much more weight.  But in every one of the ten or twenty reports that were offered as proof that the UFO’s were intelligently controlled, the motions were only those that the observer had seen.  And the human eye and mind are not accurate recorders.  How many different stories do you get when a group of people watch two cars collide at an intersection?