approaching. But the tower operators did, and as
soon as the DC-3 was airborne, they called and told the pilot to be
careful. The copilot said that he saw the light and was watching it.
Just then the tower got a call from another airplane that was
requesting landing instructions and the operators looked away from
the light.

In the DC-3 the pilot and copilot had also looked away from the
light for a few seconds. When they looked back, the bluish-white
light had apparently closed in because it was much brighter and it
was dead ahead. In a split second it closed in and flashed by their
right wing--so close that both pilots thought that they would collide
with it. When it passed the DC-3, the pilots saw more than a light--
they saw a huge object that looked like the "fuselage of a B-29."

When the copilot had recovered he looked out his side window to see
if he could see the UFO and there it was, flying formation with them.
He yelled at the pilot, who leaned over and looked just in time to
see the UFO disappear.

The second look confirmed the Mid-Continent crew's first impression--
the object looked like a B-29 without wings. They saw nothing more,
only a big "shadowy shape" and the bluish-white light--no windows, no
exhaust.

The tower had missed the incident because they were landing the
other airplane and the pilot and the copilot didn't have time to call
them and tell them about what was going on. All the tower operators
could say was that seconds after the UFO had disappeared the light
that they had seen was gone.

When the airliner landed in Omaha, the crew filed a report that was
forwarded to the Air Force. But this wasn't the only report that was
filed; a full colonel from military intelligence had been a passenger
on the DC-3. He'd seen the UFO too, and he was mighty impressed.

I thought that this was an interesting report and I wondered what
the official reaction would be. The official reaction was a great
big, deep belly laugh.

This puzzled me because I'd read that the Air Force was seriously
investigating all UFO reports.

I continued to eavesdrop on the discussions about the report all day
since the UFO expert was about to "investigate" the incident. He sent
out a wire to Flight Service and found that there was a B-36
somewhere in the area of Sioux City at the time of the sighting, and
from what I could gather he was trying to blame the sighting on the B-
36. When Washington called to get the resu