What was it?  I know a colonel who says it was the same thing that the two Eastern Airlines’ pilots, Clarence Chiles and John Whitted, saw near Montgomery, Alabama, on July 24, 1948, and he thinks that Chiles and Whitted saw a spaceship.

Reports for the month of April set an all-time high.  These were all reports that came from military installations.  In addition, we received possibly two hundred letters reporting UFO’s, but we were so busy all we could do was file them for future reference.

In May 1952 I’d been out to George AFB in California investigating a series of sightings and was on my way home.  I remember the flight to Dayton because the weather was bad all the way.  I didn’t want to miss my connecting flight in Chicago, or get grounded, because I had faithfully promised my wife that we would go out to dinner the night that I returned to Dayton.  I’d called her from Los Angeles to tell her that I was coming in, and she had found a baby sitter and had dinner reservations.  I hadn’t been home more than about two days a week for the past three months, and she was looking forward to going out for the evening.

I reached Dayton about midmorning and went right out to the base.  When I arrived at the office, my secretary was gone but there was a big note on my desk:  “Call Colonel Dunn as soon as you get in.”

I called Colonel Dunn; then I called my wife and told her to cancel the baby sitter, cancel the dinner reservations, and pack my other bag.  I had to go to Washington.

While I’d been in California, Colonel Dunn had received a call from General Samford’s office.  It seems that a few nights before, one of the top people in the Central Intelligence Agency was having a lawn party at his home just outside Alexandria, Virginia.  A number of notable personages were in attendance and they had seen a flying saucer.  The report had been passed down to Air Force intelligence, and due to the quality of the brass involved, it was “suggested” that I get to Washington on the double and talk to the host of the party.  I was at his office before 5:00P.M. and got his report.

About ten o’clock in the evening he and two other people were standing near the edge of his yard talking; he happened to be facing south, looking off across the countryside.  He digressed a bit from his story to explain that his home is on a hilltop in the country, and when looking south, he had a view of the entire countryside.  While he was talking to the two other people he noticed a light approaching from the west.  He had assumed it was an airplane and had casually watched it, but when the light got fairly close, the CIA man said that he suddenly realized there wasn’t any sound associated with it.  If it were an airplane it would have been close enough for him to hear even above the hum of the guests’ conversations.  He had actually quit talking and was looking at the light when it stopped for an instant and began to climb almost vertically.  He said something to the other guests, and they looked up just in time to see the light finish its climb, stop, and level out.  They all watched it travel level for a few seconds, then go into a nearly vertical dive, level out, and streak off to the east.