pilots have routine instructions to report unusual items."

"They had fighters alerted on the Coast, when the scare first broke,"
I reminded him. "Are those orders still in force?"

He shook his head. "No, not that I know of." After a moment he added,
"All I can tell you is that the Air Force is still investigating. We
honestly don't know the answer."

As I went out the Mall entrance, I ran into Jack Daly, one of
Washington's veteran newsmen. Before the war, Jack and I had done
magazine pieces together, usually on Axis espionage and communist
activity. I told him I was trying to find the answer to Mantell's
death.

"You heard anything?" I asked him.

"Only what was in the A.P. story," said Jack. "But an I.N.S. man told
me they had a saucer story from Columbus, Ohio--and it might have been
the same one they saw at Fort Knox."

"I missed that. What was it?"

"They sighted the thing at the Air Force field outside of Columbus. It
was around sundown, about two hours after that pilot was killed in
Kentucky."

"Anybody chase it?" I asked.

"No. They didn't have time to take off, I guess. This I.N.S. guy said