ss Boston. It appeared to be traveling just a little
faster than the two jets. As they watched they saw that an identical
UFO was following the first one some distance back. The UFO's weren't
leaving vapor trails but, as the man mentioned in his report, this
didn't mean anything because you can get above the vapor trail level.
And the two UFO's appeared to be at a very high altitude. The two
observers watched as the two F-94's searched back and forth far below
the UFO's.
Then there was another report, also made at seven-thirty. An Air
Force captain was just leaving his home in Bedford, about 15 miles
northwest of Boston and straight west of Lynn, when he saw the two
jets. In his report he said that he, too, had looked around the sky
to see if he could see what they were trying to intercept when off to
the east he saw a "silvery cigar-shaped object" traveling south. His
description of what he observed was almost identical to what the
couple in Lynn reported except that he saw only one UFO.
When we received the report, I wanted to send someone up to Boston
immediately in the hope of getting more data from the civilian couple
and the Air Force captain; this seemed to be a tailor-made case for
triangulation. But by July 1 we were completely snowed under with
reports, and there just wasn't anybody to send. Then, to complicate
matters, other reports came in later in the day.
Just two hours after the sighting in the Boston area Fort Monmouth,
New Jersey, popped back into UFO history. At nine-thirty in the
morning twelve student radar operators and three instructors were
tracking nine jets on an SCR 584 radar set when two UFO targets
appeared on the scope. The two targets came in from the northeast at
a slow speed, much slower than the jets that were being tracked,
hovered near Fort Monmouth at 50,000 feet for about five minutes, and
then took off in a "terrific burst of speed" to the southwest.
When the targets first appeared, some of the class went outside with
an instructor, and after searching the sky for about a minute, they
saw two shiny objects in the same location as the radar showed the
two unidentified targets to be. They watched the two UFO's for
several minutes and saw them go zipping off to the southwest at
exactly the same time that the two radar targets moved off the scope
in that direction.
We had plotted these reports, the ones from Boston and the one from
Fort Monmouth, on a map, and without injecti
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