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y Ba. in the Sky Again } Radar Spots More My The_pilot said he wasn't | stery Objects Here, Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights Washington received another | away. jlighted end of a cigaret, or a visit last night from {he uniden- able to close. on them, and tiey cluster of orange and red lights. tified aerial objects similar lo were_ “really moving.” He lost ‘thése reported here last Monday. sight of them two minutes later, At least a dozen of the mys: | ;terious objects were reported to !have been seen glowing in the isky within a 30-mile radius of lthe city. They were all picked | upon the radar screen of the ‘AA Air Route Traffic Control center_at_ Washington National Airport. At 11:25 p. m., two F-94 jet fighters were sent up by the pay Derr nse coring ° inves- tigate the lights. The pilots re- {ported seein T were not able to get any the” lights, but closer showed up first steady white light 10 miles east of Mount Vernon at 11:49 p. m. |The light, about five miles ahead ‘of him, faded in a minute. The interceptors did not sight ‘any more lights after that. Al- ee fhe radar screen still picked up the objects. One | plane landed shortly before mid- | night, and the other about 12:15 a.m. } “Tt was the second time these | have been picked up by Last night’s visitors on the screen objects radar. to them than about 7 Miles. ~~ fat 9:08 p. m. and remaped for | "he jet pilots described ‘the lights as hard to see and track down: cm At 11:33 p. m., One jet pilot observed four lights in the vicin- ‘ity of Andrews Air Force base. The lights were about 500 feet above him and about 10 miles n | VAUGS 192 4) ‘some time. | Airline, private and’ military |pilots all reported seeing them. | Some pilots said they came with- in two or three miles of the ob- jects. They were variously described as looking like blue lights, the The. same pilot observed a) Radar operators plotted their | speed at from 88 to 90 miles per hour, They were not able to de- termine their altitude. Some pilots reported flying over them | and some under them. Before last week's report.of e_mysterious lights, so-called i pe _are__helieved’ never to have been picked up on radar screens, The abects shown on the National Airport lips” on the screen, which, eans contact rather than lights or reflections. A CAA spokesman ‘“d the ob- jects picked up last night gave off blips similar to those of reg- ular aireraft. Kaen The Air Force has been inves- tigating Tast- Week's: objects. said reports of flying Salicers this month have been the h est since 1947, when they were seen. / fr Sey | { ry ral NOT RECORDED Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele. Rm, Holloman LY: ALIN IS V Bie ‘with solid objects, | Times-Herald _ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass—— _—z