rd time it
came back, heading toward the air base.

This time one of the tower operators picked up a microphone, called
the pilot of a C-54 that was crossing Tokyo Bay, and asked if he
could see the light. The pilot didn't see anything unusual.

At 11:45P.M., according to the logbook in the tower, one of the
operators called a nearby radar site and asked if they had an
unidentified target on their scopes. They did.

The FEAF intelligence officers who investigated the sighting made a
special effort to try to find out if the radar's unidentified target
and the light were the same object. They deduced that they were
since, when the tower operators and the radar operators compared
notes over the telephone, the light and the radar target were in the
same location and were moving in the same direction.

For about five minutes the radar tracked the UFO as it cut back and
forth across the central part of Tokyo Bay, sometimes traveling so
slowly that it almost hovered and then speeding up to 300 miles an
hour. All of this time the tower operators were watching the light
through binoculars. Several times when the UFO approached the radar
station--once it came within 10 miles--a radar operator went outside
to find out if he could see the light but no one at the radar site
ever saw it. Back at the air base the tower operators had called
other people and they saw the light. Later on the tower man said that
he had the distinct feeling that the light was highly directional,
like a spotlight.

Some of the people who were watching thought that the UFO might be a
lighted balloon; so, for the sake of comparison, a lighted weather
balloon was released. But the light on the balloon was much more
"yellowish" than the UFO and in a matter of seconds it had traveled
far enough away that the light was no longer visible. This gave the
observers a chance to compare the size of the balloon and the size of
the dark, shadowy part of the UFO. Had the UFO been 10 miles away it
would have been 50 feet in diameter.

Three minutes after midnight an F-94 scrambled from nearby Johnson
AFB came into the area. The ground controller sent the F-94 south of
Yokohama, up Tokyo Bay, and brought him in "behind" the UFO. The
second that the ground controller had the F-94 pilot lined up and
told him that he was in line for a radar run, the radar operator in
the rear seat of the F-94 called out that he had a lock-on. His
target was at 6,000 yards, 10 degrees t