st be a
simple explanation. He turned off all of his lights--it wasn't a
reflection from any of the airplane's lights because there it was. A
reflection from a ground light, maybe. He rolled the airplane--the
position of the light didn't change. A star--he picked out three
bright stars near the light and watched carefully. The UFO moved in
relation to the three stars. Well, he thought to himself, if it's a
real object out there, my radar should pick it up too; so he flipped
on his radar-ranging gunsight. In a few seconds the red light on his
sight blinked on--something real and solid was in front of him. Then
he was scared. When I talked to him, he readily admitted that he'd
been scared. He'd met MD 109's, FW 190's and ME 262's over Germany
and he'd met MIG-15's over Korea but the large, bright, bluish-white
light had scared him--he asked the controller if he could break off
the intercept.

This time the light didn't come back.

When the UFO went off the scope it was headed toward Fargo, North
Dakota, so the controller called the Fargo filter center. "Had they
had any reports of unidentified lights?" he asked. They hadn't.

But in a few minutes a call came back. Spotter posts on a southwest-
northeast line a few miles west of Fargo had reported a fast-moving,
bright bluish-white light.

This was an unknown--the best.

The sighting was thoroughly investigated, and I could devote pages
of detail on how we looked into every facet of the incident; but it
will suffice to say that in every facet we looked into we saw
nothing. Nothing but a big question mark asking what was it.

When I left Project Blue Book and the Air Force I severed all
official associations with the UFO. But the UFO is like hard drink;
you always seem to drift back to it. People I've met, people at work,
and friends of friends are continually asking about the subject. In
the past few months the circulation manager of a large Los Angeles
newspaper, one of Douglas Aircraft Company's top scientists, a man
who is guiding the future development of the supersecret Atlas
intercontinental guided missile, a movie star, and a German rocket
expert have called me and wanted to get together to talk about UFO's.
Some of them had seen one.

I have kept up with the activity of the UFO and Project Blue Book
over the past two years through friends who are still in
intelligence. Before Max Futch got out of the Air Force and went back
to law school he wrote to me qu