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<title>Aaron J. Boggs</title>
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<p>"Jere" Boggs est un major de l'USAF travaillant au Pentagone de <time>1948/1950</time>, when he played an important
  role in the USAF Intelligence response to the early post-War UFO phenomenon. Major Boggs worked on the "analysis" side
  of the intelligence community rather than the "collection" side, which initially had the job of handling UFO reports.
  When the focus of looking at UFOs shifted to Wright-Patterson AFB and Project SIGN, and once the Pentagon began
  getting feedback from SIGN that they felt that the UFO phenomenon was real and, ultimately, that it might be
  extraterrestrial, Boggs got assigned the job as the Pentagon focus point for what was going on, and what, if anything,
  should be the USAF response. Being on the "Defensive Air" side of Air Force intelligence analysis, and this being a
  possible enemy weapon and even a violation of US airspace, giving this job to someone in "Defensive Air" probably made
  sense. We should always remember, though, that all these Pentagon offices could work together on any problem; the
  location of their "desk" only fixes a "chain of command". When the SIGN project began hinting at a possible
  extraterrestrial "estimate" on UFOs, many in the Pentagon apparently thought that was unwise (to put it mildly), and
  Boggs was assigned (with consultancy from US Naval intelligence) to write an opposing estimate. [ AIR 100-203-79.].
  When the SIGN extraterrestrial estimate formally reached Director of Intelligence General Charles Cabell's office,
  there was a document to challenge it. This occasioned an actual intelligence "shoot-out" of sorts between the two
  camps held in November 1948 at the National Bureau of Standards with Boggs defending his side against SIGN. SIGN lost
  that battle, and the idea that the USAF would proceed with the hypothesis that UFOs were extraterrestrial never was
  the leading theory again ( This includes the "glory days" of 1952, when although some persons in USAF intelligence
  thought that UFOs might well be ET, the organization certainly did not broadcast that as a primary hypothesis on any
  wider scale, as it would have been within the military if the SIGN estimate had prevailed ) . Post this meeting, it
  was generally Boggs' job to write Pentagon responses to things as they emerged in the now-negative Grudge era. Keyhoe
  documents some of this in his Flying Saucers are Real. Ultimately Boggs moved on and this desk became the location of
  a much more UFO-friendly Dewey Fournet [after brief occupancy by a station-keeper].</p>
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