Then there was another report, also made at seven-thirty.  An Air Force captain was just leaving his home in Bedford, about 15 miles northwest of Boston and straight west of Lynn, when he saw the two jets.  In his report he said that he, too, had looked around the sky to see if he could see what they were trying to intercept when off to the east he saw a “silvery cigar-shaped object” traveling south.  His description of what he observed was almost identical to what the couple in Lynn reported except that he saw only one UFO.

When we received the report, I wanted to send someone up to Boston immediately in the hope of getting more data from the civilian couple and the Air Force captain; this seemed to be a tailor-made case for triangulation.  But by July 1 we were completely snowed under with reports, and there just wasn’t anybody to send.  Then, to complicate matters, other reports came in later in the day.

Just two hours after the sighting in the Boston area Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, popped back into UFO history.  At nine-thirty in the morning twelve student radar operators and three instructors were tracking nine jets on an SCR 584 radar set when two UFO targets appeared on the scope.  The two targets came in from the northeast at a slow speed, much slower than the jets that were being tracked, hovered near Fort Monmouth at 50,000 feet for about five minutes, and then took off in a “terrific burst of speed” to the southwest.

When the targets first appeared, some of the class went outside with an instructor, and after searching the sky for about a minute, they saw two shiny objects in the same location as the radar showed the two unidentified targets to be.  They watched the two UFO’s for several minutes and saw them go zipping off to the southwest at exactly the same time that the two radar targets moved off the scope in that direction.

We had plotted these reports, the ones from Boston and the one from Fort Monmouth, on a map, and without injecting any imagination or wild assumptions, it looked as if two “somethings” had come down across Boston on a southwesterly heading, crossed Long Island, hovered for a few minutes over the Army’s secret laboratories at Fort Monmouth, then proceeded toward Washington.  In a way we half expected to get a report from Washington.  Our expectations were rewarded because in a few hours a report arrived from that city.

A physics professor at George Washington University reported a “dull, gray, smoky-colored” object which hovered north northwest of Washington for about eight minutes.  Every once in a while, the professor reported, it would move through an arc of about 15 degrees to the right or left, but it always returned to its original position.  While he was watching the UFO he took a 25-cent piece out of his pocket and held it at arm’s length so that he could compare its size to that of the UFO.  The UFO was about half the diameter of the quarter.  When he first saw the UFO, it was about 30 to 40 degrees above the horizon, but during the eight minutes it was in sight it steadily dropped lower and lower until buildings in downtown Washington blocked off the view.