he aircraft. At Fairfield-Suisun AFB in California a
pilot saw something travel three quarters of the way across the sky
in a few seconds. It, too, was oscillating on its lateral axis.

According to the old hands at ATIC, the first sighting that really
made the Air Force take a deep interest in UFO's occurred on July 8
at Muroc Air Base (now Edwards AFB), the supersecret Air Force test
center in the Mojave Desert of California. At 10:10A.M. a test pilot
was running up the engine of the then new XP-84 in preparation for a
test flight. He happened to look up and to the north he saw what
first appeared to be a weather balloon traveling in a westerly
direction. After watching it a few seconds, he changed his mind. He
had been briefed on the high-altitude winds, and the object he saw
was going against the wind. Had it been the size of a normal
aircraft, the test pilot estimated that it would have been at 10,000
to 12,000 feet and traveling 200 to 225 miles per hour. He described
the object as being spherically shaped and yellowish white in color.

Ten minutes before this several other officers and airmen had seen
three objects. They were similar except they had more of a silver
color. They were also heading in a westerly direction.

Two hours later a crew of technicians on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent
to Muroc Air Base, observed another UFO. Their report went as follows:

On the 8 July 1947 at 11:50 we were sitting in an observation truck
located in Area #3, Rogers Dry Lake. We were gazing upward toward a
formation of two P-82's and an A-26 aircraft flying at 20,000 feet.
They were preparing to carry out a seat-ejection experiment. We
observed a round object, white aluminum color, which at first
resembled a parachute canopy. Our first impression was that a
premature ejection of the seat and dummy had occurred but this was
not the case. The object was lower than 20,000 feet, and was falling
at three times the rate observed for the test parachute, which
ejected thirty seconds after we first saw the object. As the object
fell it drifted slightly north of due west against the prevailing
wind. The speed, horizontal motion, could not be determined, but it
appeared to be slower than the maximum velocity F-80 aircraft.

As this object descended through a low enough level to permit
observation of its lateral silhouette, it presented a distinct oval-
shaped outline, with two projections on the upper surface which might
have been thi