he targets
had been carefully marked, one of the controllers called the tower
and the radar station at Andrews AFB--they also had the unknown
targets.

By 11:30P.M. four or five of the targets were continually being
tracked at all times, so once again a call went out for jet
interceptors. Once again there was some delay, but by midnight two F-
94's from New Castle County AFB were airborne and headed south. The
reporters and photographers were asked to leave the radar room on the
pretext that classified radio frequencies and procedures were being
used in vectoring the interceptors. All civilian air traffic was
cleared out of the area and the jets moved in.

When I later found out that the press had been dismissed on the
grounds that the procedures used in an intercept were classified, I
knew that this was absurd because any ham radio operator worth his
salt could build equipment and listen in on any intercept. The real
reason for the press dismissal, I learned, was that not a few people
in the radar room were positive that this night would be the big
night in UFO history--the night when a pilot would close in on and
get a good look at a UFO--and they didn't want the press to be in on
it.

But just as the two '94's arrived in the area the targets
disappeared from the radarscopes. The two jets were vectored into the
areas where the radar had shown the last target plots, but even
though the visibility was excellent they could see nothing. The two
airplanes stayed around a few minutes more, made a systematic search
of the area, but since they still couldn't see anything or pick up
anything on their radars they returned to their base.

A few minutes after the F-94's left the Washington area, the
unidentified targets were back on the radarscopes in that same area.

What neither Major Fournet nor I knew at this time was that a few
minutes after the targets left the radarscopes in Washington people
in the area around Langley AFB near Newport News, Virginia, began to
call Langley Tower to report that they were looking at weird bright
lights that were "rotating and giving off alternating colors." A few
minutes after the calls began to come in, the tower operators
themselves saw the same or a similar light and they called for an
interceptor.

An F-94 in the area was contacted and visually vectored to the light
by the tower operators. The F-94 saw the light and started toward it,
but suddenly it went out, "like somebody tur