every sector of the scope and had flown through the prohibited flying
areas over the White House and the Capitol.

Several times during the night the targets passed close to
commercial airliners in the area and on two occasions the pilots of
the airliners saw lights that they couldn't identify, and the lights
were in the same spots where the radar showed UFO's to be. Other
pilots to whom the ARTC radar men talked on the radio didn't see
anything odd, at least that's what they said, but the senior
controller knew airline pilots and knew that they were very reluctant
to report UFO's.

The first sighting of a light by an airline pilot took place shortly
after midnight, when an ARTC controller called the pilot of a Capital
Airlines flight just taking off from National. The controller asked
the pilot to keep watch for unusual lights--or anything. Soon after
the pilot cleared the traffic pattern, and while ARTC was still in
contact with him, he suddenly yelled, "There's one--off to the right--
and there it goes." The controller had been watching the scope, and a
target that had been off to the right of the Capitaliner was gone.

During the next fourteen minutes this pilot reported six more
identical lights.

About two hours later another pilot, approaching National Airport
from the south, excitedly called the control tower to report that a
light was following him at "eight o'clock level." The tower checked
their radar-scope and there was a target behind and to the left of
the airliner. The ARTC radar also had the airliner and the UFO
target. The UFO tagged along behind and to the left of the airliner
until it was within four miles of touchdown on the runway. When the
pilot reported the light was leaving, the two radarscopes showed that
the target was pulling away from the airliner.

Once during the night all three radars, the two at Washington and
the one at Andrews AFB, picked up a target three miles north of the
Riverdale Radio beacon, north of Washington. For thirty seconds the
three radar operators compared notes about the target over the
intercom, then suddenly the target was gone--and it left all three
radarscopes simultaneously.

But the clincher came in the wee hours of the morning, when an ARTC
traffic controller called the control tower at Andrews AFB and told
the tower operators that ARTC had a target just south of their tower,
directly over the Andrews Radio range station. The tower operators
looked and th