to
recognize them and knows that they are caused by weather. They are
not UFO's. But overnight something changes and now this same
temperature inversion causes only one or two targets. The operator
isn't used to seeing this and the targets are now UFO's.

Many times we'd stumble across the fact that after the first report
of a UFO being tracked on radar the same identical type of target
would be tracked again, many times. But by this time the operator
would have learned that they were caused by weather and it wouldn't
be reported to us.

It is interesting to note that, to my knowledge, there has never
been a radar sighting classed as "unknown" when radarscope photos
were taken. The reason is simple. The radar operator can take ample
time to re-examine what he had to interpret in seconds during the
actual sighting. Also, more experienced radar operators have a chance
to examine the scope presentation.

Mixed in with the fact that there are few really qualified observers
on this earth is the power of suggestion. About the time someone
yells "UFO!" and points, all powers of reasoning come to a screeching
halt.

We saw this happen day after day.

Few people I ever talked to, once they had decided they were looking
at a UFO, stopped to calmly say to themselves, "Now couldn't this be
a balloon, star, planet, or something else explainable?"

In one instance I traveled halfway across the United States to
investigate a report made by a high ranking man in the State
Department. An experienced observer. It was evening by the time I got
to talk to him and after he'd excitedly told me all the pertinent
facts, how this bright fight had "jumped across the sky," he said,
"Want to see it? It's still there but it's not jumping now."

We went outside and there was Jupiter.

Then, there was the UFO over Dayton, Ohio, in the summer of 1952.

I first heard about it at home. It was about six in the evening when
the phone rang and it was one of the tower operators at Patterson
Field.

The tower operators at Lockbourne AFB in Columbus, Ohio, 60 miles
east of Dayton, had spotted "three fiery spheres flying in a V-
formation" over their base. Two F-84's had been scrambled to
intercept and they were in the air right now. So far, the tower
operator told me, the intercept had been unsuccessful because the
objects were traveling "two to three thousand miles an hour" and were
too high for the old F-84's.

He was monitoring the two jets