minutes later the pilot of a T-33 jet trainer, carrying
an Air Force major as passenger and flying 20,000 feet over Point
Pleasant, New Jersey, spotted a dull silver, disklike object far
below him. He described it as 30 to 50 feet in diameter and as
descending toward Sandy Hook from an altitude of a mile or so. He
banked the T-33 over and started down after it. As he shot down, he
reported, the object stopped its descent, hovered, then sped south,
made a 120-degree turn, and vanished out to sea.

The Fort Monmouth Incident then switched back to the radar group. At
3:15P.M. they got an excited, almost frantic call from headquarters
to pick up a target high and to the north--which was where the first
"faster-than-a-jet" object had vanished--and to pick it up in a
hurry. They got a fix on it and reported that it was traveling slowly
at 93,000 feet. They also could see it visually as a silver speck.

What flies 18 miles above the earth?

The next morning two radar sets picked up another target that
couldn't be tracked automatically. It would climb, level off, climb
again, go into a dive. When it climbed it went almost straight up.

The two-day sensation ended that afternoon when the radar tracked
another unidentified slow-moving object and tracked it for several
minutes.

A copy of the message had also gone to Washington. Before Jerry
could digest the thirty-six inches of facts, ATIC's new chief,
Colonel Frank Dunn, got a phone call. It came from the office of the
Director of Intelligence of the Air Force, Major General (now
Lieutenant General) C. P. Cabell. General Cabell wanted somebody from
ATIC to get to New Jersey--fast--and find out what was going on. As
soon as the reports had been thoroughly investigated, the general
said that he wanted a complete personal report. Nothing expedites
like a telephone call from a general officer, so in a matter of hours
Lieutenant Cummings and Lieutenant Colonel N. R. Rosengarten were on
an airliner, New Jersey-bound.

The two officers worked around the clock interrogating the radar
operators, their instructors, and the technicians at Fort Monmouth.
The pilot who had chased the UFO in the T-33 trainer and his
passenger were flown to New York, and they talked to Cummings and
Rosengarten. All other radar stations in the area were checked, but
their radars hadn't picked up anything unusual.

At about 4:00A.M. the second morning after they had arrived, the
investigation was compl