Jeremy Corbell

Distribution and discussion approved by DIA because they were all marked highly secret in Soviet markings, Russian markings.

I would say that we... This is contrary to what's out there on the Internet, that we patterned our program after these.

Well, we received them too late in the program to...

to actually pattern anything after the Thread III documents.

We were in the process of studying them, and that's when we were running into rough waters with the program continuing beyond.

And actually, we hadn't planned to do research on them anyway.

That would have been in a third year, fourth year of the program.

So contrary to what people say, we were duplicating the Russian program.

No, we had no knowledge of it at the time.

So, I mean, other than the word Thread 3, we certainly didn't have any translated documents.

It's interesting that both countries were following a similar path using different languages.

I felt they committed to a technology too early, but that's Jim's opinion having read over the Thread 3 documents.

Yes, that's true.

But they didn't do it in the same way.

For example, they were I don't know if they had a

I would call it very organized collection effort by MUFON.

MUFON was very smooth organization when we were dealing with them and they were supplying us the key cases.

We were able to really utilize that properly.

I didn't see where the Russians were making any attempt to do that.

And to lock into certain technology