the nose had been taken out, so it
was like sitting in a large picture window--except you just can't get
this kind of a view anyplace else. The major was enjoying it. He was
leaning forward, looking down, when he saw an extremely bright
circular-shaped object under and a little behind the airplane. It was
so bright that it seemed to have a mirror finish. He couldn't tell
how far below him it was but he was sure that it wasn't any higher
than 6,000 feet above the ground, and it was traveling fast, faster
than the B-29. It took only about six seconds to cross a section of
land, which meant that it was going about 600 miles an hour.

The major called the crew and told them about the UFO, but neither
the pilot nor the copilot could see it because it was now directly
under the B-29. The pilot was just in the process of telling him that
he was crazy when one of the scanners in an aft blister called in; he
and the other scanner could also see the UFO.

Being a photo ship, the RB-29 had cameras--loaded cameras--so the
logical thing to do would be to take a picture, but during a UFO
sighting logic sometimes gets shoved into the background. In this
case, however, it didn't, and the major reached down, punched the
button on the intervalometer, and the big vertical camera in the aft
section of the airplane clicked off a photo before the UFO sped away.

The photo showed a circular-shaped blob of light exactly as the
major had described it to the RB-29 crew. It didn't show any details
of the UFO because the UFO was too bright; it was completely
overexposed on the negative. The circular shape wasn't sharp either;
it had fuzzy edges, but this could have been due to two things: its
extreme brightness, or the fact that it was high, close to the RB-29,
and out of focus. There was no way of telling exactly how high it was
but if it were at 6,000 feet, as the major estimated, it would have
been about 125 feet in diameter.

Working with people from the photo lab at Wright-Patterson, Captain
Hardin from Project Blue Book carried out one of the most complete
investigations in UFO history. They checked aircraft flights,
rephotographed the area from high and low altitude to see if they
could pick up something on the ground that could have been reflecting
light, and made a minute ground search of the area. They found
absolutely nothing that could explain the round blob of light, and
the incident went down as an unknown.

Like all good "Unkn