Part 23 (2/2)

The F-94 crew continued their run and soon got a radar lock-on, but it was broken in a few seconds as the target apparently sped away

The fighter stayed in the area for several ot two more lock-ons, only to have them also broken after a few seconds

A few minutes after the F-94 over Newport News had the last lock-on broken, the targets caton National

With the targets back at Washi+ngton the traffic controller again called Air Defense Coain two F-94's roared south toward Washi+ngton This tiets stayed on the radarscopes when the airplanes arrived

The controllers vectored the jets toward group after group of targets, but each ti ets had sped away Then one stayed put The pilot saw a light right where the ARTC radar said a target was located; he cut in the F-94's afterburner and went after it, but just like the light that the F-94 had chased near Langley AFB, this one also disappeared All during the chase the radar operator in the F-94 was trying to get the target on his set but he had no luck

After staying in the area about twenty an to run low on fuel and returned to their base Minutes later it began to get light, and when the sun ca, in an intervieith the press, the Korean veteran who piloted the F-94, Lieutenant Williaies below 1,000 feet, but they [the radar controllers] vectored us around I saw several bright lights I was atspeed I ceased chasing the thele bright light which I estimated about 10 miles away I lost visual contact with it about 2ht's activity, ets--could they have been caused by weather?”

I knew that Lieutenant Holcoh no electronics specialist, was a crackerjack engineer, so their opinion meant a lot

Dewey said that everybody in the radar rooets were very probably caused by solid ets on the scope too, he said, but these were coton area and the controllers were paying no attention to the at 100 ht to myself

I didn't ask Dewey any et to bed

Monday ence officer at ATIC, and I left for Washi+ngton, but our flight was delayed in Dayton so we didn't arrive until late afternoon On the way through the ter papers Every headline was about the UFO's:

FIERY OBJECTS OUTRUN JETS OVER CAPITAL--INVESTIGATION VEILED IN SECRECY FOLLOWING VAIN CHASE

JETS ALERTED FOR SAUCERS--INTERCEPTORS CHASE LIGHTS IN DC SKIES

EXPERT HERE TO PUSH STUDY AS OBJECTS IN SKIES REPORTED AGAIN

I jokingly co who the expert was In a half hour I found out--I was When Major Gregory and I walked into the lobby of the Roger Sraphers rose from the easy chairs and divans like a covey of quail They wantedto tell nor would I pose for pictures while I wasn't telling anything Newspaper reporters are a deter ran interference and we reached the elevator without even a ”no comment”

The next day was one of confusion After the first Washi+ngton sighting the prevailing air in the section of the Pentagon's fourth floor, which is occupied by Air Force Intelligence, could be described as excitement, but this day it was confusion There was a reed that both sightings should be thoroughly investigated, but nobody did anything

Major Fournet and I spent the entire ” Every ti would coadier General Landry, called intelligence at President Truot the call I told General Landry that the radar target could have been caused by weather but that we had no proof

To add to the already confused situation, new UFO reports were co in hourly We kept theht away, or even confirm the facts And anted to confirh they were from military sources, were difficult to believe

Prior to the Washi+ngton sightings in only a very few of the ets had the targets themselves supposedly been seen visually Radar experts had continually pointed out this fact to us as an indication that ets were caused by freak weather conditions ”If people had just seen a light, or an object, near where the radar showed the UFO target to be, you would have a lot more to worry about,” radar technicians had told ets that the radars were picking up, and not just at Washi+ngton

On the sa we had a really good report froet and an F-94C had been scraet, the radar operator in the '94 locked-on to it, and as the airplane closed in the pilot and RO saw that they were headed directly toward a large, yellowish- orange light For several round and the radar in the F-94 showed that as soon as the airplane would get ale of the UFO it would suddenly pull away at a terrific speed Then in a h to let the F-94 catch it again

When I talked to the F-94 crew on the phone, the pilot said that they felt as if this were just a big aerial cat-and-ht the cat ht have pounced

Needless to say, this was an unknown