FTR, Brad, what DID happen to PBBSR 13? I want to post
this so everybody will know.
Fran
My best estimate is that Report 13 was the initial draft of
Battelle's study dated March 17, 1954. Vallee was the first to
find that date in the BB files and noted it in one of his early books
but I don't think he saw the actual document (which is not in the BB
files we have today). I have seen a document or two in the BB
files that cites the March 17, 1954, date but I don't recall where, and
that is probably where Vallee got it from. I am the one
suggesting that this first draft Battelle report was Rpt 13. The
timing more or less fits. Report 12 was Sept 30, 1953, status
reports were becoming more sporadic with the end of the Korean War and
the consequent return to civilian life of a lot of military personnel
such as Ruppelt and Olsson in BB, etc.