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would require tremendous jet power to keep it in the air. Even our Purdy had given me. One wingless ship was supposed to have
latest jet bombers could not begin to approach its performance. been seen three or four days before the Chiles Whitted sighting;
Going back over the Project Saucer preliminary report, I like the thing they reported, the unidentified craft was a double-
found strong evidence that the Air Force was worried. In their decked space ship but moving at even higher speed. At first I
investigation, Project teams had screened 225 military and ran into a stone wall trying to check this story. Then I found a
civilian flight schedules. After nine months, they reported that lead confirming that this was a foreign report. It finally proved
the mysterious object was no conventional aircraft. to be from The Hague.
On April 27, 1949; the Air Force admitted that Project The tip had been right. This double-decked, wingless ship had
Saucer had failed to find the answer. The space ship was been sighted on July 20, 1948 - four days before the Eastern case.
officially listed as unidentified. But Wright Field is still working Witnesses had reported it at a high altitude, moving at fantastic
on it, an Air Force officer told me. Both Chiles and Whitted speed.
are responsible pilots, and McKelvie has a reputation for making While working on this report, I verified another tip. We
careful statements. Even without the Robbins Field confirmation, had heard a rumor of a space-ship sighting at Clark Field, in
no one could doubt that they saw something. the Philippine Islands. Although I didn t learn the date, I found
The Chiles-Whitted space ship was not the first of this type that there was such a record (in the final Project Saucer report,
to be reported. Another wingless aircraft was sighted in August the attempt to explain away this sighting was painfully evident).
1947, by two pilots for an Alabama flying service. It was at Bethel, Analyzing this case, Number 206, the Air Force said:
Alabama, just after sunset, when a huge black wingless craft
swept across their course. Silhouetted against the evening sky. it If the facts are correct, there is no astronomical explanation.
loomed larger than a C-54. The pilots saw no wings, motors, or A few points favor the daytime meteor hypothesis - snow-
jet exhausts. white color, speed faster than a jet, the roar, similarity to
Swinging in behind the mystery ship, they attempted to follow. sky-writing and the time of day. But the tactics, if really
But at their speed of 170 m.p.h. they were quickly outdistanced. performed, oppose it strenuously: the maneuvers in and out
Careful checking showed there were no other planes nearby that of cloud banks, turns of 180 degrees or more. Possibly these
could have been mistaken for this strange craft. were illusions, caused by seeing the object intermittently
through clouds. The impression of a fuselage with windows
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could even more easily have been a figment of imagination.
a case in New Mexico, and I think a Navy destroyer tracked a
saucer up in the North Atlantic.
With this conjecture, Project Saucer listed the sighting
What did they find out? said Charley Planck.
as officially answered. The Hague space-ship case was
Steve shrugged. I don t know all the answers. Whatever they
unexplained.
are, the things can go like hell.
In following up the Jackson and Bethel reports, I talked with
I had a hunch he was holding back, I waited until he bad
two officials in the Civil Aeronautics Administration. One of
finished with Charley, and then went down the hall with him.
these was Charley Planck who handled public relations. I found
You think the saucers are guided missiles?, I said.
that the pilots concerned had good records; C.A.A. men who
If I thought so, I wouldn t be talking, he said flatly. That s
knew them discounted the hoax theory.
not a dig at you. But I was cleared last year for some secret
Charley, there s a rumor that airline pilots have been ordered
electronics work, and it might be used in some way with guided
not to talk, I told Planck. You know anything about it?
missiles.
You mean ordered by the Air Force or the companies? he
I didn t know that, Steve.
said.
It s O.K., he said. I don t mind talking, because I can t
The Air Force and the C.A.A.
believe the saucers are guided missiles. Maybe a few of the things
If the C.A.A. s in on it, it s a top-level deal, said Charley.
sighted out in the Southwest have been our test rockets, but that
I think it s more likely the companies-with or without a nudge
doesn t explain the radar reports in Canada and Japan.
from the Air Force.
I d already heard about a radar case in Labrador, I told
While we were talking, an official from another agency came
Steve.
in. Because the lead he gave me was off the record, I ll call him
He looked at me quickly. Where d you pick that up?
Steve Barrett. I knew Steve fairly well. We were both pilots with
True passed it on to me, I said.
service training; our paths had crossed during the war, and I saw
They ve had some trouble tracking the things, they maneuver
him now and then at airports around Washington.
so fast, said Steve. It sounds crazy, but I ve been told they hit
When the saucer scare first broke, Steve had been disgusted.
more than ten thousand miles an hour.
Damn fools trying to get publicity, he snorted. The way
You believe it?
Americans fall for a gag! Even the Air Force has got the jitters.
Well, it s not impossible. Those saucers were tracked about
So I was a little surprised to find he now thought the disks were
fifty miles up, where there s not much resistance.
real.
The elevator door opened. Steve waited until we were outside
What sold you? I asked.
of the Commerce Building. There s one other thing that gets
The radar reports, said Steve. I know of half a dozen cases
me, he said. Unless the radar boys are way off, some of those
where they ve tracked the things. One was in Japan. The thing
saucers are enormous. I just can t see a guided missile five hundred
was climbing so fast no one believed the radarmen at first. Then
feet in diameter. He stopped for a moment. I suppose this will
they got some more reports. One was up in Canada. There was
sound screwy to you-
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You think they re interplanetary, I said.
Steve was quickly on the defensive. I haven t bought it yet,
but it s not as crazy as it sounds.
Without mentioning names, I told him about the aircraft
designer and the airline pilots.
They re in good company, said Steve. You know the Air
Institute?
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