"I've no report on that. But I know some of them carry photographic
equipment."

Two days later an airline pilot from the Coast told me that some
fighters had been armed and the pilots ordered to bring down the disks
if humanly possible. That same day, Wright Field admitted it was
checking stories of disk-shaped missiles seen recently in the Pacific
northwest and in Texas.

Following this was an A.P. story, dated July 7, quoting an unnamed Air
Force official in Washington:

"The flying saucers may be one of three things:

"1. Solar reflection on low-hanging clouds. [A Washington scientist,
asked for comment, said this was hardly possible.]

"2. Small meteors which break up, their crystals catching the rays of
the sun. But it would seem that they would have been spotted falling
and fragments would have been found.

"3. Icing conditions could have formed large hailstones, and they
might have flattened out and glided a bit, giving

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the impression of horizontal movement even though falling vertically."

By this time everyone was getting into the act.