Soon after this Dr. Craig Hunter, director of a medical supply firm,
reported a huge elliptical saucer flying at a low altitude in
Pennsylvania. He described it as metallic, with a slotted outer rim
and a rotating ring just inside. {p. 13} On top of this sighting,
thousands of people at Farmington, New Mexico, watched a large
formation of disks pass high above the city.

Throughout all these reports, the Air Force refused to admit the
existence of flying saucers. On March 18 it flatly denied they were
Air Force secret missiles or space-exploration devices.

Three days later, a Chicago and Southern airliner crew saw a
fast-flying disk near Stuttgart, Arkansas. The circular craft,
blinking a strange blue-white light, pulled up in an arc at terrific
speed. The two pilots said they glimpsed lighted ports on the lower
side as the saucer zoomed above them. The lights had a soft
fluorescence, unlike anything they had seen.

There was one peculiar angle in the Arkansas incident. There was no
apparent attempt to muzzle the two pilots, as in earlier airline
cases. Instead, a United Press interview was quickly arranged, for
nation-wide publication. In this wire story Captain Jack Adams and
First Officer G. W. Anderson made two statements:

"We firmly believe that the flying saucer we saw over Arkansas was a
secret experimental type aircraft--not a visitor from outer space. . .

"We know the Air Force has denied there is anything to this
flying-saucer business, but we're both experienced pilots and we're