all over the
District of Columbia. Besides, the lady in finance told me, my travel
orders to Washington covered only a visit to the Pentagon. In
addition, she said, I was supposed to be on my way back to Dayton
right now, and if I didn't go through all the red tape of getting the
orders amended I couldn't collect any per diem and technically I'd be
AWOL. I couldn't talk to the finance officer, the lady informed me,
because he always left at 4:30 to avoid the traffic and it was now
exactly five o'clock and she was quitting.

At five-one I decided that if saucers were buzzing Pennsylvania
Avenue in formation I couldn't care less. I called Colonel Bower,
explained my troubles, and said that I was through. He concurred, and
I caught the next airliner to Dayton.

When I returned I dropped in to see Captain Roy James in the radar
branch and told him about the sighting. He said that he thought it
sounded as if the radar targets had been caused by weather but since
he didn't have the finer details he naturally couldn't make any
definite evaluation.

The good UFO reports that Lieutenant Flues had told me about when I
called him from Washington had tripled in number before I got around
to looking at them. Our daily take had risen to forty a day, and
about a third of them were classified as unknowns.

More amber-red fights like those seen on July 18 had been observed
over the Guided Missile Long-Range Proving Ground at Patrick AFB,
Florida. In Uvalde, Texas, a UFO described as "a large, round, silver
object that spun on its vertical axis" was seen to cross 100 degrees
of afternoon sky in forty-eight seconds. During part of its flight it
passed between two towering cumulus clouds. At Los Alamos and
Holyoke, Massachusetts, jets had chased UFO's. In both cases the
UFO's had been lost as they turned into the sun.

In two night encounters, one in New Jersey and one in Massachusetts,
F-94's tried unsuccessfully to intercept unidentified lights reported
by the Ground Observer Corps. In both cases the pilots of the radar-
nosed jet interceptors saw a light; they closed in and their radar
operators got a lock-on. But the lock-ons were broken in a few
seconds, in both cases, as the light apparently took violent evasive
maneuvers.

Copies of these and other reports were going to the Pentagon, and I
was constantly on the phone or having teleconferences with Major
Fournet.

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