Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001
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| INT: | Oh. Well that's a good one. | |
| PM: | You've talked with Tom? | |
| INT: | Yeah. | |
| PM: | Yeah, that's his bailiwick. I'm not a jamming expert, but that was his stock in trade, and he'd be the guy to answer that. | |
| INT: | Following the incident and following the debriefing, I mean, was it a topic of discussion? | |
| PM: | To answer your question directly—I was in—not the Division Commander's Headquarters, but our squadron Headquarters at some point after this—very close proximity to that day, but within a day or two probably, or a week, but certainly within a week of this. They brought in people from Washington. | |
| INT: | Oh, they did? | |
| PM: | You know, somebody from a higher Headquarters. Nobody identified them as Project Bluebook, but there were people that were brought in supposedly to investigate what was going on, and I remember—I was allowed to see the actual film. They brought us in and they showed us—and this was on like a microfiche viewer, you know. You turn the crank and— | |
| INT: | Oh, just go scope photo to scope photo— | |
| PM: | Yeah, right. They're showing us these things. | |
| INT: | How many photos were on— | |
| PM: | Oh, there was a bunch. I mean 10-15 minutes worth of stuff. And it's that that they used to calculate the speed. That's where I found out what the speed was during that session. They said, "We figured the speed was—," and I forget. It was a phenomenal amount—it was a phenomenal speed. And what's important about that is not the speed, but the fact that they could instantaneously go from one speed to the next, and then instantaneously resume the prior speed. That was more impressive to me than the actual speed, although that was impressive enough. And after viewing the film, there I remember there was a full Colonel and he had his blues on. Very casual. I think he had his blues unbuttoned. And I remember asking him—my impression being that he was one of these people from Washington or from higher that was investigating these |
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