a highly erratic
flight path near the Army's secret White Sands Proving Ground. And on
May 28 the crew of an Air Force C-47 had three UFO's barrel in from
"twelve o'clock high" to buzz their transport.

On July 21 a curious report was received from the Netherlands. The
day before several persons reported seeing a UFO through high broken
clouds over The Hague. The object was rocket-shaped, with two rows of
windows along the side. It was a poor report, very sketchy and
incomplete, and it probably would have been forgotten except that
four nights later a similar UFO almost collided with an Eastern
Airlines DC-3. This near collision is Volume II of "The Classics."

On the evening of July 24, 1948, an Eastern Airlines DC-3 took off
from Houston, Texas. It was on a scheduled trip to Atlanta, with
intermediate stops in between. The pilots were Clarence S. Chiles and
John B. Whitted. At about 2:45 A.M., when the flight was 20 miles
southwest of Montgomery, the captain, Chiles, saw a light dead ahead
and closing fast. His first reaction, he later reported to an ATIC
investigation team, was that it was a jet, but in an instant he
realized that even a jet couldn't close as fast as this light was
closing. Chiles said he reached over, gave Whitted, the other pilot,
a quick tap on the arm, and pointed. The UFO was now almost on top of
them. Chiles racked the DC-3 into a tight left turn. Just as the UFO
flashed by about 700 feet to the right, the DC-3 hit turbulent air.
Whitted looked back just as the UFO pulled up in a steep climb.

Both the pilots had gotten a good look at the UFO and were able to
give a good description to the Air Force intelligence people. It was
a B-29 fuselage. The underside had a "deep blue glow." There were
"two rows of windows from which bright lights glowed," and a "50-foot
trail of orange-red flame" shot out the back.

Only one passenger was looking out of the window at the time. The
ATIC investigators talked to him. He said he saw a "strange, eerie
streak of light, very intense," but that was all, no details. He said
that it all happened before he could adjust his eyes to the darkness.

Minutes later a crew chief at Robins Air Force Base in Macon,
Georgia, reported seeing an extremely bright light pass overhead,
traveling at a high speed. A few days later another report from the
night of July 24 came in. A pilot, flying near the Virginia-North
Carolina state line, reported that he had seen a "bright