Part 39 (1/2)

Attempts were made to start the car and when this was unsuccessful they becaot out of the car They put the car between them and the object and watched for approximately 30 to 45 seconds The object then seeht and both men felt heat on their faces Then there was heard a loud noise and the object began rising vertically The object beca and its shape could not be seen as it rose It disappeared in five to ten seconds

”After the object disappeared, the car was started and they turned it around and drove to where a phone was located and contacted the Towson Police Department Two patrolmen were sent to meet them The two men told the patrol sensation on their faces and became concerned about possible radiation burns They went to a Baltimore Hospital for an examination Both witnesses were advised by the doctor that they had no reason for concern

”An extensive investigation wasthis incident

However, no valid conclusion could beand it remains unidentified”

So ended 1958 and in its final tally of sightings for the year Project Blue Book added a new space age touch--earth satellites had accounted for eleven UFO reports

Nineteen hundred fifty-nine caood one We used to call these reports ”Ground-air-visual-radar” sightings and they

At Duluth, Minnesota, in March, it's dark by five o'clock in the evening It's cold The temperature hovers around zero and it's so clear you have a feeling you can almost reach up and touch the stars

It was this kind of a night on March 13, 1959, and as the officers and hter squadron at the Duluth Municipal Airportslowly because the heavy parkas and arctic clothing they ere heavy

Then cas speeded up

At 5:20PM, exactly, the operations officer noted the tihted an unidentified flying object off to the north Word flashed around the squadron and as people rushed out of buildings to look they were joined by those already outside

And there it was: big, round and bright, and it was reenish,” others ”reddish,”

but it was sorees froht and it became even ht back the word that they had just picked up a target on a bearing of 300 degrees fro scope photos

In the alert hangar, the two pilots standing the alert had been listening to a running account of the sighting so when the scra they took off for their airplanes like a couple of sprinters

As the two big alert hangar doors swung up the whining screech of the jet starters, followed by thunder of the engines, filled the airfield The atmosphere around the Duluth Municipal Airport was closely akin to Santa Anita the instant the starting gates open

I've been around when jet interceptors scraer

As the people on the ground watched they could first see the flaht Then the jet's navigation lights faded out on a bearing of 300 degrees

At the radar site they still had the target and there were e scopes as two little bright points of light began to close on a bigger blob of light

Then the pilots gave the ”Tally-ho”--they were in visual contact

But the ”Tally-ho” had no an to pull away frohters and was soon off the scope

The pilots kept visual contact, though, and the radio provided the details of the chase to the now blind crew in the radar room

The two jets bored north, with afterburner on, and the needles on their machmeters passed the ”10” mark But still the UFO was just as far away as it had ever been

The chase went on for a few minutes more before the pilots pulled their throttles back into the cruise position, turned, and came home