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Language: eng
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Something Closer This Way Comes

to determine from the words used in the interview. The term was “as big as a basketball” in apparent size, but whether Wright meant “at arm’s length” (which is the normal way of relating this) or at some greater distance (such as the tip of the wing), we cannot say. Either way, Wright and his crew felt that the object had some significant size. Through much of this time, the crew tried to get into contact with ground stations but was unable to do so. Once in range of Lubbock, the object broke away and flew off on a straight-line course in about twelve seconds.

Upon landing, Wright and the crew demanded to talk immediately to the base intelligence officers and make their report. While they were doing so, the trailing B-25 landed, and its excited crew rushed in, asking, “Did you see what we saw?” Wright said that the second crew seemed to have been followed by an identical, blinking light source, but that it was probably a second object. Reports plus the code notes were taken all around, and a B-25 was refueled, outfitted with some of the same crews and intelligence agents, and went up to look for the object or objects. Four hours later, having found nothing, the airmen returned. All this is interesting enough. What Blue Book did with the case adds a little bitter flavor. They evaluated the case as “insufficient data.” The only material in their file was a bare-bones telegraphic description—no full interviews, no pages of code, no mention of the radio compass effects! Where did all this material go? Was it stopped at Air Defense Command (ADC) headquarters? Was it lost at Blue Book? However one views it, the adequacy of the UFO project looks worse and worse. The details that are available come from the fortunate circumstance that things like this became very puzzling and interesting to Colonel Wright, and when he had the opportunity he told Donald Keyhoe and later had even more extensive interviews with Dr. James McDonald. One wonders what could have been learned, even in terms of physical forces, about the phenomenon if people had been paying attention.

March 9, in the Atlantic Ocean North/South commercial flight lane:33 As usual, commercial airliners were strung out all along the route between New York City and Miami. At about 4:30 a.m. one of the Pan-Am flights saw an object ahead, which had a greenish-blue perimeter and a bright white center. The light seemed to be at their level and coming directly forward. Then the thing seemed to veer, pass by to starboard while descending, and then “go out.” A piece of the object, red in color, seemed to fall off before the light went out.

The next plane was another Pan-Am, piloted by Captain M. Van Winkle, and flying well to the rear of the first airliner. This time the initial observation was of something orange. It, too, seemed to be moving very fast and on a collision course with Van Winkle’s plane.

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