was paced for five minutes by a night-flying saucer. When the pilots
tried to close in, the strange craft zoomed at terrific speed. Later,
the airline head reported that Intelligence officers had quizzed the
pilots for hours.

"From their questions," he said, "I could tell they had a good idea of
what the saucers are. One officer admitted they did, but he wouldn't
say any more."

Another peculiar incident occurred at Tucson, Arizona, on February 1.
Just at dusk, a weird, fiery object raced westward over the city,
astonishing hundreds in the streets below. The Tucson Daily Citizen
ran the story next day with a double-banner headline:

FLYING SAUCER OVER TUCSON?

B-29 FAILS TO CATCH OBJECT

Flying saucer? Secret experimental plane? Or perhaps a scout craft
from Mars? Certainly the strange aircraft that blazed a smoke
trail over Tucson at dusk last night defies logical explanation.
It was as mystifying to experienced pilots as to groundlings who
have trouble in identifying conventional planes.
Cannonballing through the sky, some 30,000 feet aloft, was a fiery
object shooting westward so fast it was impossible to gain any
clear impression of its shape or size. . . .
At what must have been top speed the object spewed out light
colored smoke, but almost directly over Tucson it appeared to
hover for a few seconds. The smoke puffed out an angry black and
then be came lighter as the strange missile appeared to gain