it was going like hell. Fast as a jet, anyway."

"Did he say what it looked like?"

{p. 18}

"The Air Force boys said it was as big as a C-47," said Jack. "Maybe
bigger. It had a reddish-orange exhaust streaming out behind. They
could see it for miles."

"If you hear any more, let me know," I said. Jack promised he would.

"What do you think they are?" he asked me.

"It's got me stumped. Russia wouldn't be testing missiles over here.
Anyway, I can't believe they've got anything like that. And I can't
see the Air Force letting pilots get killed to hide something we've
got."

One week later, I heard that a top-secret unit had been set up at
Wright Field to investigate all saucer reports. When I called the
Pentagon, they admitted this much, and that was all.

In the next few months, other flying-disk stories hit the front pages.
Two Eastern Airline pilots reported a double-decked mystery ship
sighted near Montgomery, Alabama. I learned of two other sightings,
one over the Pacific Ocean and one in California. The second one, seen
through field glasses, was described as rocket-shaped, as large as a
B-29. There were also rumors of disks being tracked by radar, but it
was almost a year before I confirmed these reports.