Created: October 2006
Updated: 20 August 2016
(NICAP.org)
The whole article:
“Fran Ridge:
In October of 2006 Jan Aldrich brought up the ‘Ten
Lost Documents’. Item #1 was the Fournet Motion Study. Brad Sparks had already
found the CIA documents that were the key to the puzzle and had identified two
of the motion study cases right off. This, then, is the directory for the
famous ‘motion study’ by Maj. Dewey Fournet. This study is significant and it is
similar to the earlier 1948 ‘Estimate of the Situation’ and illustrates once
again the reason why the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis was seriously considered.
And as always, the study was not stopped as it went up, but was rejected at the
top. As we identify the cases used in the MS we will provide links to them at
the bottom of this directory. But first, the history of the Motion Study begins
with Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, at that time the head of the Air Force Project
Blue Book. (See link below) By March 23, 2009 I had begun work on the UFO
Intelligence Summary for the Motion Study cases, the current copy is the end
result of that search. This is an on-going project to identify and document all
17 cases listed.
This following formations chart is a new CIA release
in 2001 of a better copy of the same chart released by CIA in poor shape in
1978.
Mike Swords:
22 Oct 2006
I came across page 5 and there was part of Dewey
Fournet’s famous but not seen ‘motions study’ of UFOs as presented to the
Robertson Panel. According to what one can reasonably assume by looking at the
page, Dewey presented 17 cases [from which he deduced that UFOs were guided by
intelligence and the flight characteristics indicated that the intelligence was
beyond ‘us’.] This number rings true as Ed Ruppelt says that Dewey sifted his
cases down to between ten and twenty. The page shows arrangements of UFOs in
the chosen cases, and given the strong likelihood that most if not all of them
were 1952 cases on Dewey’s watch, they might be specifically identifiable. #6
is, for instance, almost certainly, Nash-Fortenberry. Ruppelt gives two of the
cases in his book, and a third in the draft copy pre-cutting. These probably
could be matched up, too. Has this document already been seen for what it is?,
and has someone already identified the 17 cases? .
Jan Aldrich:
Someone should try to identify the cases from the
illustrations [which is what we did above - Fran Ridge]. I would expect that
one should try to fit modern ones first. Fournet had something is his briefcast
call Operation Interloper. Whatever it was it represented cases that he
encountered on his own and were not AF cases or were published in other sources
like the African Airlines case at Mt Kilaminjaro (sp?). The case count for
Operation Interloper was over 20, but Fournet’s briefcase only contain a few of
them. Some of the Interloper cases were pre 1947. Fournet told Keyhoe that he
should request a complete list of 1952 unknown cases from the AF, he would find
best evidence there.”
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Major Dewey J. Fournet, Jr.,
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