ning off a light bulb."
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 more minutes and got 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 came back on the scopes at Washington National.

With the targets back at Washington the traffic controller again
called Air Defense Command, and once again two F-94's roared south
toward Washington. This time the targets stayed on the radarscopes
when the airplanes arrived.

The controllers vectored the jets toward group after group of
targets, but each time, before the jets could get close enough to see
anything more than just a light, the targets 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 minutes, the jets began to
run low on fuel and returned to their base. Minutes later it began to
get light, and when the sun came up all the targets were gone.

Early Sunday morning, in an interview with the press, the Korean
veteran who piloted the F-94, Lieutenant William Patterson, said:

I tried to make contact with the bogies below 1,000 feet, but they
[the radar controllers] vectored us around. I saw several bright
lights. I was at my maximum speed, but even then I had no closing
speed. I ceased chasing them because I saw no chance of overtaking
them. I was vectored into new objects. Later I chased a single bright
light which I estimated about 10 miles away. I lost visual contact
with it about 2 miles.

When Major Fournet finished telling me about the night's activity,
my first question was, "How about the radar targets--could they have
been caused by weather?"

I knew that Lieutenant Holcomb was a sharp electronics man and that
Major Fournet, although no electronics specialist, was a crackerjack
engineer, so their opinion meant a lot.

Dewey said that everybody in the radar room was convinced that the
targets were very probably caused by solid metallic objects. There
had been wea